South O' the Highway (and the North too)

East Hampton resident Gwyneth Paltrow is reportedly opening a gym in TriBeCa with her longtime trainer, Tracy Anderson. Cost to work out with the stars? $4,500 to start, plus "hundreds of dollars a month."

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Hamptons designer Jonathan Adler updated a Malibu mansion to serve as the spot for Barbie's 50th birthday celebration. The "Jonathan Adler Loves Barbie" collection, including pillows to paint, debut in September.

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Last Saturday, Alec Baldwin, dressed in black, was on the porch of The Hedges Inn in East Hampton in front of a Playboy Magazine photographer and many onlookers.

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A star-studded party followed the opening of the drama Irena's Vow at the Walter Kerr Theatre on Broadway last Sunday. This play stars Tovah Feldshuh as Irena Gut Opdyke, a Polish woman who risked her life during the Holocaust, and is related to Dan's Papers writer, Debbie Tuma. At the party at TAO in NYC were: Neil Simon, Kathleen Turner, Elaine Stritch, David Hyde Pierce, Ally Sheedy, Blythe Danner, Joel Grey, Judith Light, Andrea Martin and Charles Busch.

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Grey Gardens Online® is launching the newly revamped www.greygardensonline.com, a website for fans of cult figures/fashion icons, "Little" and "Big" Edie Beale. The site offers historical data, photos and content - all things Grey Gardens, including info on the Maysles' documentary, Broadway musical and upcoming HBO movie.

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More than 100 people attended the First Annual Women's Sustainability Conference in Duke Lecture Hall at Stony Brook Southampton last weekend, including college administrators Ginny Clancy and Anamaria Cobo de Paci and Christie Brinkley.

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Adele Smithers, president of the Christopher D. Smithers Foundation for alcoholism treatment, is elated that the film Stella won an award at the Venice Film Festival for advancing the message of hope and recovery for alcoholics. The film was shown for the first time in the U.S. at the Walter Reade Theater.

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Local landscape designer Barry Block of East Moriches won a Gold Award from the Long Island Landscape and Nursery Association in their Environmental Enhancement Award Program.

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Hamptons resident and former Dan's writer Tracy Davis has a new book, My Husband Ran Off with the Nanny and God Do I Miss Her, published by BookSurge and available in April on amazon.com.

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