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John Alexander with his painting Sailing on the Edge, 2015. On The Cover: Weathered Flag.

By Bridget LeRoy

John Alexander: The Work Lives On

John Alexander, whose art graces the cover of this week’s Independent, was born in Beaumont, Texas. In the late 70s, Alexander left Texas for New York. The artist currently divides his time between New York City and Amagansett. John Alexander has exhibited

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extensively in the United States and around the world with major retrospectives at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. His work is included in the permanent collections at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., the Dayton Institute in Ohio, the Dallas Museum of Art,

the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Guild Hall in East Hampton, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles among others, as well as many distinguished public and private collections worldwide. He also created and designed the skull-shaped bottle for Crystal Head vodka, which is now selling in 60 countries around the globe.

If you weren’t blessed with artistic talent, what might you have ended up pursuing? In college, I minored in geology. I love the study of lost civilizations. But even as a little kid, all I ever wanted to be was an artist. In the

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Lee Krasner in her bedroom, with Tony Vaccaro reflected in the mirror.

Vaccaro’s East End Art World At Pollock-Krasner House

were staying in Leo Castelli’s house that summer. Images of Willem de Kooning dancing with Hedda Sterne are included in the exhibit. After six decades, the contact sheets and negatives for these images were discovered during a move. The exhibition features 20

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Vaccaro also photographed the other artists during his time in The Hamptons in their studios and in social settings. The de Koonings Ga

The Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in Springs presents the never-before-seen photographs of distinguished photojournalist Tony Vaccaro with the show “East End Art World, August 1953: Photographs by Tony Vaccaro.”

to shoot Pollock and Krasner. The feature story was killed, but he held on to the images. These images appeared at the Pollock-Krasner House in an exhibit in 2010.

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His subjects: Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Harold and May Rosenberg, Fairfield Porter, Hedda Sterne, Wilfrid Zogbaum, Larry Rivers, Alfonso Ossorio, Costantino Nivola, and John Graham.

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My annual guide to the joys of summer It’s summer and you have been invited to a three-month-long party as your reward for living through another lousy winter. Here’s what to expect for the next 99 or so days:

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Incredibly fresh, sweet corn from that little farmstand on Sagg Main just south of Loaves & Fishes …

Jimmy Buffett singing “Cheeseburger in Paradise” on your car radio … Margaritas …

Eating at Estia’s in Sag Harbor, featuring the best breakfast in The Hamptons served by the nicest

The incredible sliced steak at Bobby Van’s in Bridgehampton. Charred on the outside, rare on the inside – it’s the best steak in The Hamptons …

A great way to enjoy a scrumptious Friday dinner in Bridgehampton is to go to Pierre’s for their savory Bouillabaisse Marseillaise …

You can’t go wrong eating at the East Hampton Grill, Nick & Toni’s or the Highway Restaurant & Bar in East Hampton, and the Dockside Bar & Grill or Beacon in Sag Harbor …

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If you have a yen for great Japanese food then you have a yen for Sen, a Sag Harbor restaurant favorite … And when you get yourself to Sag Harbor, go into tiny Cavaniola’s Gourmet Cheese Shop. It’s the best cheese selection in The Hamptons …

Browse for a great summer book at BookHampton in East Hampton. We need all the bookstores in The Hamptons to thrive. Buy a book for your kids, too. For crying out loud, take that cellphone out of your ear and put some knowledge into your head. Want to read a wonderful book about a great man? Pick up a copy of Dinner with DiMaggio: Memories of An American Hero by my great friend, Dr. Rock Positano … Nasty hedge fund guys hopping off their own planes with a jaunty, arrogant strut. They have so, so much – why don’t they look happy? …

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Bay Street’s Comedy Club Presents Colin Quinn

By Jessica Mackin-Cipro

Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts will host Colin Quinn for a stand-up comedy show for Bay Street’s Comedy Club. The series opener will be held on Saturday at 8 PM. Colin Quinn is a stand-up comedian from Brooklyn. From MTV’s “Remote Control” to “Saturday Night Live” to Comedy Central’s “Tough Crowd,” Quinn is sure to give a memorable performance. Quinn has become known for his comedic one-man shows, on and off-Broadway, that offer his unique takes on history and growing up in New York City. As of 2015, he has written and starred in five shows: Irish Wake, My Two Cents, Long Story Short, Unconstitutional, and The New York Story, two of which he collaborated on with Jerry Seinfeld as director.

Quinn began performing standup comedy in 1984, and first achieved fame in 1987 as the sidekick announcer of “Remote Control,” which lasted five seasons. In 1989, he hosted the A&E stand-up showcase “Caroline’s Comedy Hour,” and wrote and acted in the comedic short/music video “Going Back to Brooklyn” with Ben Stiller. It was a parody of LL Cool J’s “Going Back to Cali.”

Quinn became a writer and featured player on “SNL” in 1995 and became a full cast member in 1997. Recurring characters and segments included “Lenny the Lion,” “Joe Blow,” “Colin Quinn Explains The New York Times,” and “Weekend Update.” Quinn had the recurring role of Hermie on HBO’s “Girls,” he played opposite Amy Schumer in Judd Apatow’s Trainwreck. He can be seen in Sandy Wexler with Adam Sandler on Netflix. Colin Quinn The New York Story (directed by Seinfeld) and Colin Quinn Unconstitutional are now streaming on Netflix and his

web series “Cop Show” can be seen on lstudio.com. His first and last book The Coloring Book is now out from Grand Central Publishing.

Ticket prices range from $55 to $75 and are available online at www.baystreet.org or by calling the Bay Street Theater box office at 631-725-9500, open Tuesday through Saturday, 11 AM to 5 PM.

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POWs he encountered, a man of true fortitude. “Decades later I voted for him for president which he would have won if not for Sarah Palin,” he says, laughing. “I sure didn’t like when Donald Trump made his disparaging comments about McCain’s sacrifices as a POW. If he knew what these men sacrificed, he’d never knock any POW.”

Laspesa says he often wonders what happened to those poor men whose homecoming was worse than their imprisonment. “On Memorial Day I will be thinking about them and my uncle and the sacrifices all our fighting men made for the rest of us.”

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“We had converted one building to a psych ward,” he says. “And my

job was to sort the men who would need psychological observation after shrinks gave them bad news about their home lives. Some had lost parents and siblings. Some had wives who’d left them. One POW stands out because he learned that his entire family of five had died in a fire.”

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Others from Operation Homecoming, Laspesa says, endured the cruelties of the Hanoi Hilton only to be crushed by darker forces at home.

“We were all swept up in the emotions of these POWs coming home,” says Laspesa. “Some of them imprisoned since 1966.”

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On this Memorial Day Laspesa says he will sit by the pool, open a beer and eat a hot dog and then he will remember February 12, 1973, when the first POWs from the notorious Hanoi Hilton arrived aboard a C-141A Starlifter transport jet at Clark AFB.

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“We were leading three POWs into a hospital unit and a bossy nurse was telling them what to do and where to go. It was odd because at first the men were so used to being prisoners that they just followed the nurse’s commands. Then one of them stopped. Turned. Walked to her, and said, ‘C’mere you SOB. I’m an American. And I don’t have to listen to anyone telling me what to do anymore. You understand?’ The nurse just nodded. Speechless. I’ll remember him for sure on Memorial Day.”

“After graduating from New York Institute of Technology in 1972, rather than getting drafted into the army, I joined the Air Force,” he says. “Because I had a college degree I was assigned to a medical administrative unit at a MASH unit at Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines.”

“I will think of my uncle, Lieutanent Arthur Browngardt who was killed in action in WWII in the Philippines on Jan. 7, 1945. He was a captain in the US Army Air Corps, flying a B-25 bomber that he’d named the ‘Sag Harbor Express’ and was shot down over Angeles City and crashed into Luzon Cathedral, about 10 miles from where, coincidentally, I was later stationed.”

Independent / Courtesy James Laspesa POW WOW: Plaque commemorating 1973 Operation Homecoming for Vietnam POWs landing at Clark Air Force base in Philippines from the notorious Hanoi Hilton prison.

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Laspesa has some vivid memories of our Vietnam era POWs.

“I will go down to Chelberg & Battle American Legion Post 388 and pitch in,” says Laspesa, 68, who served in the United States Air Force at the tail end of the Vietnam War.

Laspesa’s uncle is one of 18 men from Sag Harbor who made the ultimate sacrifice in WWII, their names enshrined -- with 423 others who served -- on a brass plaque fixed to a granite rock as rugged as the men it memorializes in Marine Park.

Laspesa says that one incident that day in 1973 stands out as a testament to the unbreakable American spirit.

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When James Laspesa rises on Memorial Day in his native Sag Harbor home he will not be thinking of holiday store sales, a three-day weekend getaway from his architect business, or flaming barbecues celebrating the kickoff of another East End summer.

On the waterside of a towering flag pole from which Old Glory snaps toward the sailboats of the harbor there is a second memorial to those who served in Korea and Vietnam. Flying beneath the Stars and Bars in the salty spring breeze is the black and white flag that reminds us daily of our MIAs and POWs.

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Judy, my wife, to all the fashion events and openings,” Gerson explained.

“Being a part of the whole fashion scene, I found it so exciting to become acquainted with American fashion personnel and stars.”

In the past, Gerson’s paintings were displayed at the Judith Leiber showrooms. When the buyers, many of whom were moversand-shakers in the fashion world, would come to see the new Judith Leiber collection, “They would see Mr. Leiber’s paintings,” said Ann Fristoe Stewart, director and curator of the Leiber Collection. Many would become collectors themselves.

It’s hard not to love the bags. They are, after all, some of the handbag industry’s finest creations. She is famous for her crystal minaudières, evening purses made of a metal shell often encrusted with Swarovski crystals. Plated with silver or gold, the creations can come in many forms, such as baby pigs, slices of watermelon, cupcakes, peacocks, penguins, and snakes.

Collectors around the world of Judith Leiber handbags have been taking note. Many have been celebrating with their own events to honor the bags. Currently another collector is mounting an exhibit in Phoenix in celebration of the show. “All of these collectors are the satellites of the center, the star right there,” said Gerson, referencing his wife, who sat across from him in their living room in Springs. The accolades he offered came with a great sense of pride.

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Also on display will be “Fashion Series,” a collection of paintings and prints Gerson created in the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s. The exhibit will feature a “fairly small group of prints that I created. I accompanied

Gerson designed charming and intricate gardens that surround the museum. They were created to elicit the vibes of an English garden. The museum itself is a Renaissancestyled Palladian edifice. With great attention to detail and design, the museum and gardens provide the perfect backdrop to display the acclaimed bags and paintings.

Like many artists, the two ended up falling in love with the hamlet of Springs in the 1950s. Gerson would paint and work on the garden while Judith would design patterns for her handbags. “We were invited on a weekend, we liked it so much... Of course at that point this was the hub of abstract expressionism. de Kooning, and Jackson Pollock, and so on. What

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This weekend the museum opens for the season, and will be hosting its Opening Celebration Garden Tea Party, on Saturday from 2 to 5 PM. The new exhibition is titled “Magnificent Obsession - Fashion, Passion and Collection.” Located in the main gallery, the exhibit will showcase the collections of three Judith Leiber collectors: Kelly Elliman, Saini Kannon, and Susan Ga

One of the best kept secrets in town, the collection was assembled in 2005 when Gerson and Judith Leiber built the space to house their works of art, offering visitors a retrospective of the works they have created throughout their illustrious careers.

When you envision the most artful handbag, Judith Leiber should come to mind. To own a Judith Leiber handbag is to own a piece of history. Luckily for East Enders, more than 150 of the creations brought to life by the iconic designer are on permanent display at the Leiber Collection in Springs.

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“It was a very natural decision at the museum to include those [paintings] with the collectors’ handbags. Two really important fashion ideas from the two of them are coming together in one place,” she continued.

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of the Hungarian Nazi-run ghettos, where they lived in a basement with 60 other people. The two met while Gerson was a sergeant in the US Army and Judith was making purses for the secretaries of the American Legation in Budapest.

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Because Hungarian currency wasn’t worth much, the dollar went a long way in Budapest. “We were all paid in dollars; we were very wealthy,” Gerson recalled. In an impressive move, he took Judith to the opera, which she loved. “It was so cheap for us with our dollar. We had a box.”

“I was standing with a buddy. Born in Budapest in Two girls came 1921, Judith became up to us and the first woman to began to talk join the Hungarian to us,” Gerson Handbag Guild. recalled. “It To avoid Nazi seemed that one persecution during of the girls had a the Holocaust, her room in a nearby family escaped to a – Gerson Leiber apartment house set aside for house, the Swiss citizens. Her windows were not broken, and they father, a Hungarian Jew, was able wanted to find an American to rent to obtain a Swiss schutzpass, a it to,” he continued. Judith was one document that gave the bearer safe of the two girls. passage.

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Her process for designing the bags was a very intricate one, with a fine attention to detail. “If I didn’t like it, I destroyed it,” said Judith. Samples were made in Italy and brought back to Manhattan for manufacturing.

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In 1946 they married. They moved to New York City shortly after.

designer for a few other companies, Leiber founded her own business in 1963.

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“Our story was a good one. There were so many bad ones,” said Gerson.

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In the flat where Judith survived the war, 26 people were housed. Her family was later placed in one

“It was very good. We were very lucky we met each other. That was 71 years ago,” Judith added, recalling the fond memories.

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Their love story is truly amazing and spans decades. Judith and Gerson have been married for 71 years. “She’s the perfect wife,” stated Gerson in a video on the Leiber Collection website.

was there not to like? I was an art student! It was just a natural for us,” Gerson declared.

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In The Hamptons With Holly Peterson

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political statements here, but I am showing how people are ignored or mistreated all over the place. I don’t much like books just about fancy people, I like the upstairs/ downstairs element as well…that’s why I tell anyone to think of this as “Downton Abbey” in bikinis.

It Happens In The Hamptons is the much anticipated third novel from New York Times bestselling author Holly Peterson (The Manny, The Idea of Him). The summer beach read follows Katie Doyle as she moves across the country to The Hamptons, hoping to find summer employment, new friends for her son, and a chance to explore a new love affair with George, a dazzling investor. What she finds is a strange cocktail of classes, and discovers Southampton isn’t all that it seems to be on the surface. The novel has been praised by author Jay McInerney as “A sizzling beach read with all the right ingredients: sex, romance, class warfare, bikinis, and a mysterious man.”

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I love Flying Point Surf Shop most of all. I go there almost every day for sunscreen or surfing equipment or a sweatshirt or flip-flops. I like the Crow’s Nest in Montauk or Navy Beach in Montauk on weekday nights for dinners with families and kids. I always drop into the Aerin store on Main Street in Southampton because I get near that store and feel like a slob and hope Aerin Lauder can help with a great lipstick or fabulous basket for my files. I tend to cook at home all the time, so I don’t go out on weekends for food, but I love take-out from La Parmigiana, especially the chicken parm…when I’m writing a book and alone in my house over three days in bunker mode, I get three chicken parms, keep them in the fridge and keep noshing on them cold in little bites all day…thinking since I’m having such small portions I must be dieting! Of course, nothing is better than cold pizza from Sam’s Pizza in East Hampton. For a little more upscale fare, I like Tutto il Giorno in Southampton for lunch or dinner with a girlfriend. They make a mean martini. If I down one, I leave my car in town and taxi home for sure. I make so much grilled fish and fresh vegetables from the gem-stone colored farm

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What inspired you to write a novel based in The Hamptons?

I wanted to write a book that moves faster than the G-5 learjets that roar into East Hampton airport on a Friday. I’ve been a journalist at Newsweek and ABC News for more than twenty years

Tell us a little about your new book It Happens In The Hamptons:

in Technicolor in any summer community…whether it be mountain, lake, or oceanside area where one-percenters roll in like an invading army from June to August. The cocktail of classes in the Hamptons…preppy old money, brash new money, and the vibrant local population is something I wanted to write about. Tensions are the life blood of any author and the mixing it up of all these groups creates hilarious situations that were very fun to “fictionalize.” I like to document these worlds as a journalist, that’s why you’ll read such intense attention and detail on the food, clothing, cars, and expressions of the three worlds I depict. But I do think the “lighter” topics like cars and fashion are housed in something much more substantive which is the divisions and inequality in this country. I’m not really making bold n

We caught up with Peterson to find out more about her new book and how she enjoys The Hamptons.

and I love accurately depicting scenes and situations. The Hamptons are filled with much to fill a dozen novels: romance, illicit sexual situations, enormous egos, gorgeous natural settings that lure everyone in like Paradise, old world families claiming the land and their preppy, tattered way of life like frontiersmen, new money people acting like insane martians from a .0001% planet, landing in Uber helicopters called Blade (if not their own custom designed ones), hostesses having parties that cost six figures, fashion, sports cars, and intense posing and competition for all of the above.

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You can find Peterson on Saturday at Exhale Spa in Bridgehampton from 8 to 11:30 AM and at Pottery Barn Southampton from noon to 4 PM. On Sunday she will be at Harbor Books in Sag Harbor from 11 AM to 1 PM for muffins and mimosas. On June 3 you can catch her at Southampton Books from 5 to 7 PM and at BookHampton in East Hampton on June 16.

What are some of your favorite Hamptons spots?

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(Left) The Nat Geo series “Genius” stars Johnny Flynn and Geoffrey Rush. (Right) Executive producer Sam Sokolow with author Walter Isaacson at the Rainbow Room, following the Nat Geo series’s premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.

It’s All Relative: Sam Sokolow And “Genius”

By Bridget LeRoy

When, as a nine-year-old, Sam Sokolow pitched in a series of softball games with some of his parents’ friends in Sag Harbor’s Mashashimuet Park, he wasn’t thinking about his future -pitching projects as a producer. “I was just excited to be playing,” he said. It never occurred to him that one day he and the game’s

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shortstop, author and journalist Walter Isaacson, would be collaborating on “Genius,” the 10-part scripted series about Albert Einstein, starring Geoffrey Rush and currently airing on the National Geographic channel.

Of course, the game in question was Sag Harbor Softball, founded by John Leo in the mid-’70s, and one of the earlier incarnations of

the East Hampton Writers and Artists Charity Softball Game, which will host its 69th game at Herrick Park in August.

“In hindsight, it was a pretty remarkable experience for a kid,” said Sokolow, executive producer of “Genius” and president of EUE/ Sokolow Entertainment. “But you’re a kid. You’re not thinking, ‘Wow, my catcher is the guy who

broke Watergate,’ you’re thinking, ‘Wow, my parents are letting me play softball!’”

Sam’s parents, Mel and Diane, were Bridgehampton residents and film and television producers. “It’s difficult to have such fun, fabulous parents and not follow in their footsteps,” Sokolow said. Mel passed away in 1992, and the house Continued On Page 75.

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Joel Moens: A Single Image Is Worth Thousands More

By Nicole Teitler

In our highly technological society, supersaturated with images off the internet, Belgian artist Joel Moens de Hase began using computers for digital works in 2011. The observer is sure to be intrigued, perhaps even aroused, by a single perspicuous image that when closely analyzed includes the use of thousands of provocative shrunken down images – squares of butts, lingerie, waistlines, and so forth. In an effort to express his view of the digital era, Moens keeps a database of 70,000 images from the internet on file. He then transforms between 5000 and 15,000 of these images into a single mosaic, after adjusting the color to fit the larger picture. His artistic expression allows for dual interpretation, the whole or the fragment. Beauty, lust, and innocence remain very much in the eye of the beholder. Moens procures his inspiration from the mystery of women, his work being a tribute to all the aspects that make up the beautiful complexities of the gentler sex. At the heart of it all, the symbiosis between man and woman is what fuel Moens’s creative process; the passionate desire and innate human condition of that sense of longing between the two beings. Human nature aside, it’s also the Woman, with a capital ‘W,’ a divine creator that is both independent and full of the love he adores.

Moens procures his inspiration from the mystery of women.

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Serenity and Dizziness is part of his new beach series recently exhibited at the Monika Olko Gallery located at 95 Main Street in Sag Harbor.

Moens met local gallery owner Monika Olko four years ago through a mutual friend. Ever since

As a painter for several years prior to the switch in artistic style, Moens decided to use the tools

His creative motto, “Develop your creativity, it brings happiness and it is the future of humanity,” bring his concept of a self-portrayal design saying, “I would be the musical instrument the model is holding.”

With an international following, he maintains a liberated spirit that is futuristic in nature.

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Scenes of the female form and rendition tributes of classical artworks are primarily what comprise Moens’s collection. Right now he is working on a collaboration with a major group of European galleries, to be announced at a later time, that he hopes will bring his career to a higher level.

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their introduction he has been visiting The Hamptons seasonally, with plans to explore the North Fork and Montauk this summer.

emotional uniqueness of a model that attracts his attention most.

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Patrick’s Pages

by Patrick McMullan

Summer is coming 1.

Hey kids-it’s ON. Summer is coming.

Lots of things have been happening though. The first Monday in May brings the Met Gala for one, which I sent one of my top PMc photographers to cover. Also, that night, I was at the Kips Bay Boys and Girls Club show house opening where my friend, Richard Mishaan, designed the first floor drawing room. It was absolutely gorgeous as was his wife, Marcia Mishaan. Many grown-up boys and girls stopped by that night to ooh and ahh the fabulous mansion. John McEnroe and wife, singer Patty Smyth arrived first. I seated them on the couch for a photo but realized soon that the couch was off limits -sorry Richard. Everything in the room was tres valuable.

Dinner followed at Vaucluse (in the private room), with a Mishaancentric group including Nicole Miller with husband Kim Taipale, Dennis Basso, Andrew Zaro, Tracey and Brian Snyder, Lisa Jackson, Bettina Zilkha, George Farias, with not even one reality 18

treat yourself to this book! 2. Susan Silver’s memoir signing celebration was held at Michael’s on Thursday, April 20. 1. John Demsey, Susan Silver, 2. Louise Sorel.

TV star although we did have a genuine Emmy award winner, Fran Drescher. Many toasts were made and much fun was had. I particularly enjoyed Dennis and Fran talking, those voices are so fun to hear. They should have a radio show together.

Speaking of TV, Estee Lauder’s John Demsey hosted a party for Susan Silver and her memoir Hot Pants in Hollywood at Michael’s Restaurant. The book is fun and she talks about her time writing for “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” as well as Hollywood in the 1960s and on. Susan is a wonderful person -

At the party, I saw John LeBoutillier, Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, David Patrick Columbia, Kate Betts, Richard Johnson, Michael Gross and Barbara Hodes, Judy Twersky, Ed Klein, Diane Dimond with Michael Schoen, Rob Shuter, Susan Magrino, Diane Cleghorn. The only one I didn’t see was Michael himself. Michael McCarty and his artist wife Kim McCarty were off on a private adventure. Everyone needs a day off I suppose!

Trish McEvoy’s book The Makeup of a Confident Woman was more of a society event with a lot of very confident women like Sondra Mack, Denise LeFrak, Bonnie Strauss, Phyllis Mack, Rita Bronfman Janet Hershaft, Margo MacNabb Nederlander, Geri Emmet, Claire Mercuri, Judy Licht, Continued On Page 82.

4. Richard Mishaan’s “Well Traveled Room” at the Kips Bay Boys and Girls show house opening night preview was held on Monday, May 1. Nicole Miller, Marcia Mishaan, Fran Drescher, Bettina Zilkha, 2. Patty Smyth, John McEnroe, 3. Martha Stewart, 4. Irene Ho.

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7. The 2017 TIME 100 gala was held at Jazz at Lincoln Center on Tuesday, April 25. 1. John Legend, 2. Margot Robbie, 3. Naomi Campbell, 4. Lindsey Vonn, Charlie Rose, 5. Tammy Reynolds, Ryan Reynolds, 6. Kate Couric, John Molner, 7. Harvey Weinstein, Blake Lively.

2017 Hot Pink Party “Super Nova” presented by the Breast Cancer Research Foundation was held at Park Avenue Armory on Friday, May 12. 1. Elizabeth Hurley, 2. Donna Karan, Victoria Beckham, 3. Shirin von Wulffen, Coralie Charriol Paul, 4. Tracy Anderson, Nick Riley, 5. Chris Taylor, Sandra Lee, 6. Kyle MacLachlan, Desiree Gruber, 7. June Ambrose, 8. Laura Lauder.

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Tri-Club Dinner Photos by Richard Lewin

The Tri-Club dinner was held at East Hampton Point in Springs last Thursday night, bringing together the local Lions, Rotary, and Kiwanis clubs. The organizations celebrated “A Salute to Service,” honoring Ben and Bonnie Krupinski as the Lions Club Citizens of the Year. On hand were East Hampton Lions Club president Tina Piette, Rotary Club president Joe Hren, III, Montauk Lions Club president Gene Prohaske, and Kiwanis president Henry Uihlein.

i-tri Bikes East Hampton Street Fair Photos by Elizabeth Vespe

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Rick White, president of the Kiwanis Club of East Hampton, presented the Kiwanis’ gift of 18 bikes to the i-tri girls from East Hampton Middle School during a brief ceremony at Maidstone Park in Springs Saturday. Other Kiwanians at the ceremony: Diana Weir, Laura Weir, Bill Sagal, Gerry Schneider, Tim Yardley, Lucy Yardley, Sean Murphy, George Hear, and Bob Savage. The bikes were presented in honor of avid biker and Kiwanian member, Cliff Bekkedahl, who recently passed away. His wife Vicki and three of his four daughters – Barbara, Alison and Carolyn – were there for the ceremony.

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Paws In The Park Photos by Morgan McGivern

Hosted by the Southampton Animal Shelter Foundation at Red Creek Park in Hampton Bays, the annual Paws in the Park dog walk Saturday brought together pups and their people for picnicking, a doggie fashion show, music by New Life Crisis, and tasty food truck treats.

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Lucia’s Angels Photo by Nicole Teitler

The annual Reconstructed Bra fashion show and auction, held last Thursday at the Southampton Social Club, benefitted Lucia’s Angels and the Coalition for Women’s Cancers at Southampton Hospital. Models hit the runway in wearable works of art crafted by area artists.

Muskets, Meigs & History Photos by Elizabeth Vespe

The 240th anniversary of Meigs Raid was celebrated by the Third New York Regiment of 1775 and the Sixth Connecticut Regiment as they marched along Main Street during the second annual Sag Harbor Cultural History Weekend Saturday. Festivities included a boatbuilding demonstration at Custom House, historical lectures at the town library, and guided tours. The re-enactment concluded at the Long Wharf with the firing of muskets.

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Summer At Gurney’s

By Jessica Mackin-Cipro

Gurney’s Montauk will host exciting summer programming for its 2017 season. The oceanfront resort and spa will have a little something for everyone.

To further its commitment to wellness, Gurney’s Montauk is expanding its partnership with the Wellth Collective, a design firm that blends wellness and travel. Gurney’s will bring top trainers and classes to Montauk each weekend

including Y7, Bari Studio, City Row, and Exhale. This will also include trainers like Alex Kate Knight, Holly Rillinger, and more.

For the second year, Gurney’s will host its Fashion Collective, a curated collection of fashion and lifestyle brands, from Memorial Day through Labor Day. In addition to partnering up with resort-wear brand 6 Shore Road, Gurney’s will host pop-ups with Joie, featuring a contemporary and sophisticated aesthetic. Also there

a soothing aromatic marine cooling mist to revive the senses. For the second summer, Gurney’s has partnered with celebrity hair stylist Ric Pipino to offer hair services to guests and visitors alike at the new Ric Pipino Hairspace. They will offer a deep conditioning hair treatment that can be applied to your hair prior to spending a day at the beach. The salon can also style your hair in a fun braid while the treatment is in, and blow it out after your day in the sun.

Gurney’s offers the only indoor ocean-fed seawater pool in the US. This summer Gurney’s will offer the After Sun Ritual at its spa. The 50 minute treatment includes a gentle aloe gel wrap for the body, leaving skin soft and refreshed. Then, a moisturizing face mask is applied and set, while you receive a serene lavender oil scalp massage. After a rinse, the journey continues with an application of a healing and nourishing coconut emulsion for a luminous finish and

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Iconic Writers To Appear At Bridgehampton Library

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Gaines, the well-known author of the bestseller Philistines At The Hedgerow: Passion and Property in the Hamptons, knows a few things about staging events at libraries. “I was involved in the East Hampton Library event. In fact, I was co-chair for three years,” he related. “I’m the one who changed the name from ‘Novel Night’ to ‘Authors’ Night’.

In 2008, Galanes debuted as a weekly columnist for the Sunday Styles section of The New York Times. His "Social Q's" column, which answers reader questions about the sticky situations that they face in every corner of modern life, quickly became one of the most consistently popular and most-read features of the newspaper.

Galanes, who earned degrees from Yale College and Yale Law School, worked as an entertainment lawyer before embarking on a career in journalism.

Steven Gaines wanted to help raise the profile of the Bridgehampton Library and at the same time raise some much needed funds.

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Sheehy changed the way the world looks at women – and in many cases how women look at themselves. There’s more star power. The renowned New York Times columnist Philip Galanes will

As a literary journalist, Sheehy was one of the original contributors to New York Magazine and has been a contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 1984. She has interviewed thousands of women and men and written 17 books. Her earliest revolutionary book, Passages, was named by a Library of Congress survey as one

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Grant Haffner ‘Mohawk Trail’ At Roman Fine Art

By Jessica Mackin-Cipro

Artwork by Grant Haffner will be exhibited, at the artist’s first solo exhibition in over a decade, at Roman Fine Art in East Hampton with “Mohawk Trail,” opening this weekend. An opening reception will be held on Saturday from 7 to 9 PM.

For over a decade, Haffner has created captivating paintings of Hamptons’ roadways. (Arguably, no other artist captures the South Fork locales we love in the same fashion.) His renditions of familiar roads and landmarks -- often set ablaze in dayglow, sunset colors -- have made him one of the most sought-after artists on the East End.

Haffner, who lived in the Hamptons for most of his life, moved to Massachusetts in 2016. He still continues to paint scenes of the Hamptons. His works have earned

him an international following. Created from photographs collected during his travels through the area, those familiar with his depictions of the Hamptons can easily recognize their favorite routes in his work. The exhibition also marks a new chapter in his career as a painter as he creates an entirely new body of work, exploring a new landscape. From the bays and farmlands of the South Fork to the mountain ridges of Western Massachusetts, Haffner captures the roads, trails, and colors of hills and mountains of the Mohawk Trail region. The viewer can see the new landscape through familiar eyes, with a fresh perspective.

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Speaking of Wölffer Wine. I will drink rosé. I will be a “rosé-all-day” cliche. Also, I will take a day to go wine tasting on the North Fork.

Speaking of the North Fork, I will definitely spend a day in Greenport. Back on the South Fork, I will splurge (calorically and financially) on a Sant Ambroeus gelato.

I will barbecue and spend as much time with friends and family as possible. This is what summer is all about, right? Ok, now that I have the food and drink portion of the bucket list taken care of (priorities!), I will hike the trails in Montauk. I will finally learn how to play tennis.

I will try to have zero nervous breakdowns if I ever need to park in East Hampton Village on a holiday weekend. I will spend as much time on the beach as I can. I will get there in the morning and stay for a bonfire at night. In fact, I will throw many bonfires. I’m a pro at planning them, not such a pro at building them, but there’s always someone who is. Every summer I say I’m taking a trip to Block Island, where I have not visited since I was 11. This summer it will happen.

I will take the boat out every weekend. Even if it’s just for an hour. There’s really no excuse not to. I will start saving now for Super Saturday. I’ll triple my budget on my yearly shopping spree that all goes to a really good cause (OCRF. org). I will become a supermodel. Well, that may be a stretch. But I have signed up to model in the “Canines Down the Catwalk” benefit for the Southampton Animal Shelter Foundation and Gabby Wild Foundation. I’ll be walking the runway with a pup that’s up for adoption in an eco-friendly fashion show. Indy reporter Nicole Teilter will be modeling as well. Come see us! Tickets are available at www. southamptonanimalshelter.com.

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I’ll make and sell a lot of Hampton Jam. My husband Joe and I make jam and we sell it at the Havens Farmers Market on Shelter Island every Saturday this summer. If I don’t accomplish anything else on the list, it’s probably because we’re too busy making jam. I will never take a selfie with the Welcome To East Hampton sign. Ever. Follow Hampton Daze on

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images, exhibited for the first time. Included in these 20 photographs is a previously unknown color portrait of Pollock. Through his career, Vaccaro has photographed a wide array of notable personalities, including heads of state and stars of stage and screen. He is renowned for his documentary photos taken in Europe during 1944-45, as World War II was drawing to a close.

There will be a reception and gallery talk with the photographer on Sunday from 5 to 7 PM. At age 94, Vaccaro continues to work in his Long Island City studio. The show will remain on view through July 29. For more info on the PollockKrasner House and Study Center’s exhibit visit www.stonybrook.edu/ pkhouse.

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Her favorite bag was the Chatelaine.

“My favorite is my first metal bag that I made. Unfortunately, when we got the design to New York from Italy they couldn’t do a good job on [the plating]. So we had to cover the brass piece with rhinestones. We loved the way they looked,” said Judith. “It was a very good piece, it looked beautiful. It was very successful. We sold about 3500 of them,” she continued.

Holding a Judith Leiber bag has become a symbol for many women. First Ladies Mamie Eisenhower, Barbara Bush, and Hillary Clinton all carried Judith Leiber bags. When it comes to an evening bag, “All you have to do is put a $100 bill in it, a handkerchief, and a lipstick. That’s all you need because all the rest you already have on before you go out,” stated Judith.

Any advice for up-and-coming designers? “First of all they have to work very hard. You have to learn the trade and it’s very difficult. But once you know how to do it, you have to be able to create something that’s interesting enough to make the customers happy,” Judith offered.

In 1994, Judith received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Council of Fashion Designers. While many of her bags can be found in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, East Enders have the unique opportunity to see the impressive collection at the home and garden the Leibers have created themselves over the years. Janice D’Angelo, Owner

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“Mr. Leiber says that Mrs. Leiber saw the handbag in everything,” said Stewart. Dedicated to her art form, she was inspired by everything she saw.

“She had a singular vision,” said Gerson with admiration and love.

The Leiber Collection is located at 446 Old Stone Highway in Springs. It is free and open to the public from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day on Saturdays, Sundays, and Wednesdays from 1 to 4 PM, and group tours can be made by appointment. For further information phone 631-329-3288 or email info@leibercollection.org.

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Smithsonian retrospective, there was a photo of me at about eight years old, under the Christmas tree with my brand-new art supplies. By the time I was in middle school, I knew I had a talent that the other kids didn’t have. It kept me out of trouble. I got A’s in everything except “Conduct.” That was always a problem for me. Still is. But art wasn’t part of the culture where I grew up, sadly. So I didn’t truly understand what it meant to be an artist. Frankly, I still don’t know, except that maybe it’s a compulsion -- almost a religious fervor -- to make these things that hopefully are meaningful and resonate with other people. How did the whole Crystal Head vodka thing come about? That came out of the blue. I’ve had a long friendship with Mr. (Dan) Ackroyd, and he has the Patron distributorship in Canada. He was telling me about it over dinner, how much he loved working with this tequila company. I told him about this idea I had over 10 years ago, using a skull as a vessel. He thought it was great! It took off from there. What inspired you to paint this flag? The American flag is one of the most iconic symbols ever. You cannot drive anywhere in America without seeing flags. It’s a strong, powerful image that has all kinds of different meanings to different people. I’ve used the flag over and over in my work over the years. I’ve put in graveyards; I’ve put it in the hands of politicians. Childe Hassam did a famous flag. So did Jasper Johns. But in this case I was looking at a flag, simply flapping on a flagpole, and I thought, That’s amazing. I want to paint that.

I wanted to make it my creation, without being corny or kitsch. And I wanted, perspective-wise, for it to be coming toward you. So I kept screwing around with it until I got what I liked. There’s a stormy sky behind it. I wanted it to invoke powerful emotion, with some sense of dignity and power, and yet not make it political.

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How do you feel your work has changed in the past few decades? There was a dramatic change from the ’70s to the ’80s, as I went from living in Texas to living in New York City. The work in the ’80s – it was demons and devils, dark and foreboding stuff done late at night. My paintings have always reflected how I perceived life around me, and I was living this Hunter Thompson/John Belushi lifestyle. When I painted out here in the ‘90s, I was closer to nature again, with access to the gardens and the sea, so in those next years I painted the landscape, flora -- much more about the natural world. So that dominated my work through the early 2000s. I think a lot of the change had to do with having a young son we were raising. He means everything in the world to me, and I think it gave me a different perspective. As I started to settle down, I changed dramatically as a painter. I’ve always been, in the back of my mind, interested in politics and I’ve always been affected by the political climate. I started painting more demonic work again, trying to capture the insanity of man’s behavior. My Ship of Fools, that was used last year for the Hamptons International Film Festival poster, was exactly that. It all stemmed from a general concern, watching the whole country politically unravel, through many presidents and administrations. Then, when I hit my mid-60s, I started to care less about what people thought, and more about the work itself. The subject matter became more complicated.

I think a lot of painters just do their greatest hits as they get older, so I determined not to do that. I wanted to keep my mind and my ideas fresh. So I painted a field of busted watermelons. A field of oysters. Gigantic piles of seafood and lobsters. That was a totally fresh approach to me. Now I was painting these strange configurations of stuff, in strange juxtapositions. Who’s obsessive enough to paint over a thousand oysters on a canvas? I’m amazed at

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become aware that you don’t have all the time you had as a young artist. So what will you leave behind? The work is what lives on.

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Manorville Fatality A teenager from Shirley died Saturday night in Manorville after the car he was riding in hit a tree. Suffolk County Police said Edenilson Trejo, also from Shirley, was driving a Mitsubishi convertible about 9 PM Saturday on North Street when he apparently lost control and slammed into a tree.

Isaiah Perez, a passenger, was killed. Another passenger, Tyrese Ramseur, and the driver were both taken to Stony Brook University Hospital where they were listed in serious condition. Riverhead Crash Four people were hurt Friday night after a two-car crash on Route 25 in Riverhead. Riverhead Town Police said two cars collided at the Edwards Avenue intersection. The driver of one vehicle was airlifted to Stony Brook University Hospital; three other victims were taken

Peconic Bay Medical Center. Burglar Escapes A Riverhead man returning to his Griffing Avenue home after a long night’s work was assaulted as he walked into his own apartment. Riverhead Town Police said the would-be burglar hit the man over the head, climbed out a window, and ran away, headed north. He left behind a backpack, which reportedly contained items belonging to the victim. The Suffolk County K9 unit searched the area to no avail. Blockade A local man was so intoxicated he parked his car across two lanes of traffic, Southold Town Police said. They observed a 1996 Nissan SUV “stopped on Route 48” Saturday night obstructing westbound traffic. Police said the driver failed sobriety tests and was charged with DWI. The car was towed away.

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has been sold since then, but Diane is still a frequent East End visitor. Brother Alec – a screenwriter with credits like Toy Story and the Garfield movies – is a full-time Sagaponack resident. Sam’s sister, Betsy Sokolow Sherman, has worked in publicity and is executive producer of the just-released and highly-lauded documentary I Am Jane Doe, narrated by Jessica Chastain, which throws a light on child sex-trafficking in the United States – with Alec Sokolow as one of the film’s producers. So to say that the Sokolow apples don’t fall far from the tree is an understatement; they never fall off the tree at all. Sparking “Genius”

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Einstein was a volatile young man, always in too many relationships with women, butting heads with his father, trying to gain approval, and just trying to understand the way things worked. I related to that guy,” he said.

“I always felt there was a way to capture the younger Einstein’s life, becoming famous before World War II, before jumping to the atom bomb and his years at Princeton,” Sokolow continued. “Two hours always got you into the older Einstein too quickly. So when I was able to put energy into it as a TV project, I felt the project could really pay respect to the science and the man.” The series has scored critical success, and was renewed for a second season even before the first episode was aired.

Ron Howard is also executive producer, and directed the first episode of “Genius.” “From the time Ron Howard was exposed to it, he was enthusiastic,” Sokolow said. When Howard was approached, Sokolow was told, “’Ron loves Einstein, this might be something he’s interested in.’ I thought, ‘Wow, wouldn’t that be amazing.’ Then the meeting happened very quickly. That’s when the seas parted,” he said. “Of course, Ron won an Oscar for A Beautiful Mind, about John Nash, another Princetonian. It felt oddly auspicious,” he said. This whole journey has felt oddly auspicious to Sam Sokolow. “The series premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival last month, and the reception was at the Rainbow

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Room – where we had the reception for my bar mitzvah,” he said with a laugh. “It was the first time I had been there since my bar mitzvah, so it felt like a homecoming in a way for me. And I was able to give Walter the biggest hug,” he said. “When, as a kid, my summer job was sweeping up the courts at the Bridgehampton Tennis and Surf Club, this wasn’t exactly part of my narrative. But being allowed to play in the softball game, with all of those accomplished, successful people….” He trailed off, thinking. “It made me feel like doing anything, achieving anything, was possible. These weren’t removed people, behind some velvet rope. They felt like uncles and aunts, these important, impactful people. It was very inspiring,” he said.

Sam Sokolow -- who lives in California with his wife, Julia Fowler, creator of YouTube’s Southern Women Channel -- is part of a creative triumvirate at EUE/Sokolow, along with brothers Jeff and Chris Cooney, who had always been interested in making an Einstein feature. When they partnered up with OddLot producer Gigi Pritzker, things began to gel.

“Walter’s book was a gamechanger,” Sokolow said of Isaacson’s bestseller, Einstein: His Life and Universe. “I remember early on saying, ‘That’s a friend of mine.’ But it was still daunting to make as a feature film. That’s when we turned our attention to the idea of a series. I think certain people’s life stories are so epic, so intriguing, with so many dramatic turns, it’s almost impossible to show it in two hours,” said Sokolow. “Genius,” the first scripted series ever on the National Geographic channel, jumps back and forth in time in Einstein’s life – from his early days as a Jewish scientist in an increasingly-frightening Germany (the younger Einstein is played by singer-songwriter Johnny Flynn), to his even earlier days as a student in Switzerland, to the older Einstein with which the audience is most familiar. “Those earlier days are the most interesting part of his life, in my opinion,” Sokolow said. “Albert

Courtesy of the Rothman Family and the Southold Historical Society, Southold, NY Albert Einstein with Southold department store owner David Rothman, on the Peconic Bay, 1939.

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David Rothman was playing Mozart on the phonograph in his Southold department store when he first met Albert Einstein during the summer of 1939. “In he walked!” Rothman told his daughter, musician Joan Rothman Brill, whose book My Father and Albert Einstein chronicles the unlikely friendship that began that day. “Well,” Rothman continued, “I walked over to turn the phonograph down a little; but Einstein said, ‘Please do not touch it. Leave it. Let it play – it is beau-ti-ful!’

“He started to wave his arms up in the air, humming and singing, and beating time to the music as if he

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The Rothmans were the only Jewish family in Southold at the time, but it was music and Rothman’s love of science that led to the long walks and musical evenings the families enjoyed together. Einstein was also visited by two physicists that summer who told him that the Germans were experimenting with uranium to create – as Einstein wrote to President Roosevelt in a letter postmarked August 2, 1939, with a return address Peconic, Long Island – “a new and important source of energy” which could “lead to the construction of bombs.” Einstein, a lifelong pacifist, urged

a “call for watchfulness and, if necessary, quick action on the part of the Administration.”

Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Einstein’s letter was the catalyst for Roosevelt to green-light the Manhattan Project and build the world’s first atomic bombs. It was, according to Einstein in his later years, his “one great mistake in my life – when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made…” But during that last halcyon summer, Einstein enjoyed sailing on the Peconic Bay, playing his violin, and peaceful evenings surrounded by friends and family.

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Angela Tassoni, Roberta Amon, Hayley Beard, Carol Letterman, and some too confident to mention. Hosted by popular couple Ed and Pam Pantzer, held at Doubles, the crowd was very Park Avenue indeed. Anne Hearst McInerney and her sister, Patricia Hearst Shaw, hosted a party for the Hearst Castle Preservation Foundation, which preserves all the valuable things that their grandfather W. R. Hearst had acquired. It was held at the Verdura jewelry showroom, which is a very private place. Of course, husband Jay McInerney was there, along with Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia, Brooke Shields, Candace Bushnell, Judy Gordon Cox, Jamie Figg, Liliana Cavendish, Muffy Potter Aston, Gary Fisketjon, Jennifer Creel, Marigay McKee, Harry and Laura Slatkin, Sylvia Mazzola, Barbara Bancroft, Debbie Bancroft, Milly de Cabrol, Caroline Dean, Tracy Snyder, and others I have known forever.

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But don’t worry about her, she still has plenty of groceries. She liked one of the Verdura pieces so much that she got it for the premiere of “Real Housewives of New York” scheduled for the next day. Count Verdura if still alive would have been pleased. The acting Count as it were, Nico Landrigan, and wife Kim Landrigan are so extremely charming as is everyone at Verdura. Alison Mazzola organized the whole thing.

As Alison Mazzola knows, it’s not easy to get Anne out of her Hamptons farm, but she and Jay McInerney hosted cocktails to celebrate Amanda Hearst’s ethical fashion company, Maison de Mode, which Amanda started with manabout-town Hassan Pierre.

4. Trish McEvoy’s The Makeup of a Confident Woman Book Signing was held at Doubles in New York City on Tuesday, May 9. 1. Jerry Della Femina, Judy Licht, 2. Trish McEvoy, Sabrina McEvoy, 3. Margo MacNabb Nederlander, Geri Emmett, 4. Phyllis Mack, Rita Bronfman, Janet Hershaft.

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Emin, Katharina Otto-Bernstein, Valesca Guerrand Hermes, Diandra Douglas, Paolo Oliveira, George Farias, and others. I thought I had the night off but the Lenox Hill Neighborhood House (LHNH) was honoring John Manice and interior designer Geoffrey Bradfield at Cipriani Continued On Page 84.

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Many Hopes Spring Ball was held at The Angel Orensanz Foundation on Thursday, May 11. 1. David Houck, Sarah Keller, Alex Blanchard Mona Antaramian, Thomas Keown, Antonella Scarpa, 2. Sally Wu, Colin Callendar, Elizabeth Callendar, 3. Christina Ware, Gigi Howard.

The Turtle Conservancy’s 4th Annual Turtle Ball was held at The Bowery Hotel on Monday, April 17. 1. Jill Kargman, Drew Barrymore, 2. Matt Dillon, Tom McCarthy, 3. Famke Janssen, 4. Alexis Bloom, Naomi Watts, 5. Sarah Silverman, Eric Goode.

2. 1. Housing Works’ Groundbreaker Awards Dinner 2017 was held at Metropolitan Pavilion on Wednesday, April 26. 1. Tamron Hall, 2. Barbara Corcoran.

1. 2. Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation Eleventh Annual Connoisseur’s Dinner was held at Sotheby’s NYC on Wednesday, May 10. 1. Tad Smith, Caroline Smith, 2. Paula Zahn, Jane Hertzmark Hudis

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Verdura celebrated the Hearst Castle Preservation Foundation at its showroom on Tuesday, April 4. 1. Patricia Hearst Shaw, Brooke Shields, Anne Hearst McInerney, 2. Luann de Lesseps, Sharon Handler Loeb.

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real mix of high society. Some were a little higher than others. There was Diana Quasha, Martin and Audrey Gruss, Alberto and Joanne DeGuardiola, Peter and Jamee Gregory, Hilary Geary Ross, Jeffrey and Liz Peek, Tara Rockefeller, Fred Koch, Bill and Bunny

LHNH honored Geoffrey Bradfield and John Manice at Cipriani 42nd Street on Tuesday, April 18. 1. Jamee Gregory, Audrey Gruss, 2. Mary Snow, Geoffrey Bradfield, Meredith Ostrom.

Beekman, Nick and Jackie Drexel, Martin and Jean Shafiroff, Valentin and Yaz Hernandez, Othon and Kathy Prounis, Chele Chiavacci, Richard Farley, John and Andrea Stark, Christopher Spitzmiller, Sonja Morgan, and Monique van Vooren.

Also, Time Magazine’s Time 100 is an amazing party at Jazz at Lincoln Center. The guests were stellar in every category. The Hot Pink Party “Super Nova” was presented by the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

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of the 10 most influential books of our times. Passages remained on The New York Times Bestseller List for more than three years and has been reprinted in 28 languages. In five other books on the passages theme she revisits the stages of adult life and illuminates our predictable crises: Understanding Men’s Passages, The Silent Passage (menopause), Sex and the Seasoned Woman, and Passages in Caregiving.

soliciting sponsors, recruiting volunteers, ordering supplies, and packing and distributing her backpacks to children whose family incomes qualify them to receive free or reduced-price school lunches.

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Bushnell is the critically acclaimed, international best-selling author of Killing Monica, Sex and the City, Summer and the City, The Carrie Diaries, One Fifth Avenue, Lipstick Jungle, Trading Up, and Four Blondes. Sex and the City, published in 1996, was the basis for the HBO hit series and two subsequent blockbuster movies.

A 1963 graduate of Barnard College with an MA (1965) in 18th century English literature from Columbia University, Jong is best known for her first novel, Fear of Flying (1973), which created a sensation with its frank treatment of a woman's sexual desires.

Although it contains many sexual elements, the book is mainly the account of a hypersensitive young woman, in her late 20s, trying to find who she is and where she is going. It contains many psychological, humorous, descriptive elements, and rich cultural and literary references. The book tried to answer the many conflicts arising in women in late 1960s and early 1970s America, of womanhood, femininity, love, one's quest for freedom and purpose.

As for Gaines, he’s flying high again with One Of These Things First, an autobiographical novel about his childhood in Brooklyn. But he hasn’t abandoned the Bridgehampton Library. The cavalcade of hits will continue every week all summer with visitors like Carl Bernstein, Jay McInerney, and Colson Whitehead, who recently won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature.

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“My hope is to create a level playing field in the classroom, no matter what the socioeconomic status is, and maximizing a child’s opportunity for educational success,” said Ariana.

The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards is a national youth recognition program sponsored by Prudential Financial in partnership with the National Association of Secondary School Principals.Judges select one middle school and one high school student to represent their state in a four-day conference and celebration. “These 102 state honorees, international honorees, and their families are brought to DC for an all-expense paid event,” Ariana’s mother, Nancy, explained.

State honorees and their peers participate in events such as sharing of their community service obstacles and their triumphs, meeting with mentors, participating in a community service events while in DC, press interviews and group sessions. The event then celebrates their achievements with a motivational speaker (this year Olympic medalist Michael Phelps), an evening at the Smithsonian which is theirs alone to explore, laying of a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery, meeting with their senators, tours of DC all culminating with a luncheon at the Mellon Auditorium where leaders from Prudential and the NASSP pay tribute to the students. For the honorees it was a lifechanging opportunity to meet like-minded students from around the world who have a passion to make their mark, to celebrate their accomplishments, and to motivate them to reach for the stars and accomplish more, Nancy DeMattei observed. “They have bonded with people and have joined a sort of fraternity that will forever be part of their life. The award is not academically

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based so every child with a heart, a dream, and the conviction to make a difference is eligible. Those adults attending were humbled to be in the presence of these all inspiring students,” she added.

“We as a culture celebrate academic success, we celebrate athletic success, but rarely celebrate those who are selfless and want through community service to make the world a better place,” Nancy continued. “I believe Prudential and the NASSP should be applauded for their efforts and for the spectacular event that they just put on.”

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stands of the Hamptons when I am home, so when I do go out, I love a little international flair like Italian or Mexican. That reminds me, Rumba in Hampton Bays has the best fish tacos around!   What are you looking forward to most this summer? At dawn and dusk, shark feeding time, I go into the water and surf. It’s my way of tuning the world of work, writing deadlines, and three loud teenagers out. When I slip into my wetsuit, I feel a sense of calm come over me. As I stand at the edge of the waves and let the water run over my toes, a sense of happiness fills me. I’m honestly not the greatest surfer out there by a huge margin, but I love sitting on my board, hanging with friends and my kids in the water, and, of course, rare that it is, catching a great wave with a teeny bit of style.   Which Hamptons town is your favorite? I live in Water Mill, but every single time I drive down Hedges Lane in Sagaponack, I say out loud whether or not someone is in the car, “What is it about the light in Sagaponack?” I swear it changes from the other Hamptons hamlets as soon as I head east off Sagg Main Road…I don’t know why. It’s like the whole sky opens up and delivers a powerful punch of that Hamptons magical light we all crave and adore.

Filmmaker Rich Anderson Rich Anderson, senior student filmmaker at Five Towns College in Dix Hills and owner of R.A. Cinematics, was nominated in eleven categories and won five awards at the 8th annual Luminaries for his senior thesis film titled The Tenth Year. This production is a signatory to a SAGAFTRA contract that is on file with SAG-AFTRA. The Tenth Year is based on the song “Forgiveness” by Matthew West which was inspired by the true events of Renee Napier and Eric Smallridge, where forgiveness grew out of a drunk driving accident that affected both families.

The film is being submitted locally to the Hamptons International Film Festival in hopes of having its New York premiere on the East End, where Anderson previously won awards for Decisions (First Exposure Student Films in 2012 in the Hamptons Take Two Documentary Film Festival) and Journey (best overall student film on Long Island in 2013). He wrote the film with his father, Richard Anderson, who owns WLIR-FM on the East End. Annemarie Davin from FameHampton is a line producer and the leads in the film are played by Terri Conn and Austin Peck. 91

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Bike riders testing your driving skills and nerves on Further Lane …

Dumb drunks who should know better, aiming two-ton cars at innocent people. We need more Saturday night inspection roadblocks in The Hamptons. We need police cutting drunk drivers’ licenses into little pieces right before their eyes …

Three-charity, multi-party nights where the same 50 people jump from party to party. A conversation starts at one party and finishes two parties later. It doesn’t matter, nobody’s listening …

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turn the ocean or the bay into a shimmering silver carpet …

The East Hampton bees (smarter than the average bee) that stalk your cookouts and terrorize your kids all summer long …

Basting your children with suntan lotion with the same care you give your Thanksgiving turkey … Lost sunglasses, flippers, goggles, youth, bathing suits, nose clips, romance, boogie boards that you never seem to find again … Falling into a 20-something hot

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new place in Montauk, feeling age-challenged and realizing for the first time in your life you don’t belong …

The Artists and Writers Annual Softball Game, where for a few hours the players can live out their childhood dreams of being Mickey Mantle. Watching guys who 20 years ago used to huff, now puff as they round the bases … The Sunday night Land Rover/ Mercedes/BMW parade on 27 … Feeling disappointed and awed at

the same time as you see the first beautiful monarch butterfly of the year. They only seem to show up on the last week of August …

Biting into the last hamburger you can possibly eat on the Monday night of Labor Day weekend and realizing that the potato trucks have started to roll and it’s all regretfully over … HAVE THE BEST SUMMER!

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SHELTER ISLAND WATERFRONT

Undressing at night, reaching into your pants pocket and yelping as a cocktail toothpick is embedded in your palm. Check your blazer pocket and you’ll find a half-dozen cocktail toothpicks and God knows how many cocktail napkins …

Protected waterfront with deep water dock overlooking West Neck Bay on 1.1 acres, located in the prestigious Westmoreland area. Filled with natural light, this spacious two story, 5 bedroom, 4 bath contemporary home has an open floor plan, cathedral ceilings in living room with fireplace, formal dining room, gourmet kitchen, den with wood burning stove with a wall of windows and gorgeous water views. EXCLUSIVE. $2,180,000. Ref. S1031

Enjoying a beach party on a moonlit beach while keeping a close eye on the little kids as they watch the marshmallow on the end of the branch they’re holding go into a raging bonfire and magically turn from a white little pillow into a brown caramelized treat …

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Margaritas …

Runners clogging up the roadway with their “I’m healthy and you’re not” eyes …

Adorable six-year-old kids (with profit-making skills genetically bred into them) selling lemonade on Lily Pond Lane at outrageously high prices … Hurricanes that never materialize. Then one that comes too close … Margaritas …

Sipping a drink and taking in a beautiful sunset … More margaritas …

Bluefish, nutty as fruitcakes, following their prey right into shore, right to their doom. Overhead, gulls fly in lazy circles, taking it all in …

Grown men hiding behind their sunglasses as they sneak lascivious looks at their children’s teenage nannies … Starring in your own romantic movie as you watch a full moon

Paddle your kayak right up to the back lawn. Set off the road, this cottage offers a cozy and welcoming interior with 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, living room, kitchen/dining and den. Enjoy the “On Golden Pond” feel with 100’ on tranquil Fresh Pond, and sandy Wades Beach just a few blocks away...the best of both worlds! Enjoy meals, company and relaxation on the back deck. Spectacular sunsets over this lovely pond front cottage - Not to be Missed! $850,000. Ref.S1013 Contact Jan at 631-871-1899 or jan@mweinrealty.com.

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