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South 'O the Highway... and the North too
Singer Billy Joel is buying Actor Roy Scheider's oceanfront house in Sagaponack. It's quite a downsize for Joel and his wife, because his current house, which is not out here at all, but eighty miles away in Centre Island, is an old WASP estate of about 9,000 square feet. Scheider's house is about 2,500 square feet. The Center Island property is currently for sale for $32.5 million, if you're interested. The Scheider house was sold to Joel for about half that. And Roy and Brenda Scheider are not moving away. They've bought a small whaler's house in Sag Harbor, inland, which they are restoring and hope to be able to occupy in August. Meanwhile, they are upstairs at the American Hotel in Sag Harbor
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Last Monday night, Hamptons designers and muses gathered to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the CFDA Fashion Awards. Marc Jacobs was there with his date, Helena Christensen. Jane Krakowski came swathed in a Nicole Miller gown. Michael Kors brought three lucky ladies to the event: Heidi Klum, Debra Messing and Liya Kebede. Ralph Lauren brought his good friend Oprah Winfrey to the event, which was hosted by Ellen Barkin. Other guests included Francisco Costa and Eva Mendes, Zac Posen and Karen Elson and Diane Von Furstenburg.
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Starbucks' first original music release, Paul McCartney's "Memory Almost Full," will be played on loop all day at all Starbucks locations to promote the album on sale there and nowhere else. Whether or not the constant repetition of this will cause a mass wave of quitting and employee misery has not yet been addressed by the company.
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Southampton heiress Paris Hilton checked herself into a private cell at the luxurious Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, California after attending the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday night. Until June 23, Paris will eat her meals in her 8x12-foot cell and will be allowed out for at least an hour per day to shower, watch television, participate in outdoor recreation or talk on the telephone. No news yet on how Paris will keep track of her contacts while in jail, since no Blackberries or cell phones are allowed in the facility, even for visitors.
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Hamptons restauranteur Ed "Jean Luc" Kleefield has changed the name of his Sag Harbor Cajun eatery from "Mumbo Gumbo" to "Black Buoy Bar & Grill" in reference to the rowdy bar that once occupied the space.
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Hayden Panettiere, now filming Fireflies in the Garden with Julia Roberts and Ryan Reynolds, and the Humane Society of New York's Blausius will be among those on the catwalk at Animal Fair's "Paws for Style" benefit at Arena on June 11. Adoptable pooches will be accompanied by the likes of BeKind founder and Hamptonite Frances Hayward; Court TV's Catherine Crier, also a Hamptonite, wearing an outfit designed by Hamptons designer Jackie Rogers; Christy Scott Cashman; Stacy London; Cornelia Guest, who has a film coming out soon with Lindsay Lohan; and Richard Belzer. Guests include Harriette Rose Katz, Campion and Tatiana Platt, Fred and Vicki Modell, DeJuan Stroud, Salvatore Strazzullo and Jodie Fanelli, Plum TV's Alison Chace, Bentley Meeker, Rodolfo Valentin and Alison Becker Hurt. All human and canine fashions will be sold online, with proceeds benefiting the Humane Society of New York.
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Sag Harbor's Bay Street Theatre will be rooting for many of their performers, playwrights, and designers who are up for Tony awards this year, including Christine Ebersole, Dana Ivey, Debra Monk, Mary Louise Wilson, Rupert Holmes and Michael Ritchie.
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Dan's Papers writer and author of Duckhampton, Christian McLean, presented his short play, Men With Hunger, at the Samuel French Playwriting Contest last Wednesday, June 6 in New York City.
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Westhampton's Ann Liguori will be signing copies of her book, A Passion for Golf: Celebrity Musings About the Game, at Brunetti Hair & Beauty on Main Street in Westhampton Beach on Thursday, June 7. Register to play in the 10th Annual Ann Liguori American Cancer Society Golf Classic taking place on Monday, June 25, at Olde Vine Golf Club in Riverhead. Call the American Cancer Society at 631-300-3151.
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Thomas Krens, Director of the Guggenheim Foundation, co-hosted a photography exhibit for Hamptons photographer Peter Beard with Russian real estate developer Janna Bullock at her Norman Jaffe home in Southampton. Among the guests dining on Elegant Affairs' lobster rolls were Steven Klein, Tara Subkoff, Jackie Rogers, Campion and Tatiana Platt, Alison Chace, Frances Hayward, Mike Latham, Michele Gerber Klein, Michelle Marie, Andrew Borrok, Michael Sinensky, Salvatore Strazzullo and Jodie Fanelli. The Jaffe house will be open to the public on weekends in June and features art by Andy Warhol, Robert Indiana, Roy Lichtenstein and David Salle.
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Hamptons artist Clifford Ross will be presenting his newest works in an exhibition at The Drawing Room in East Hampton titled "Small Water." The exhibition opens on Friday, June 8 and closes on Saturday, July 9. A reception for the artist will be held on Saturday, July 7.
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This week's cover artist, our very own Michael Paraskevas and his mother, Betty Paraskevas have a new book out. The book, Chocolate at the Four Seasons is available at all bookstores and at their gallery in Westhampton Beach. The painting on the cover is from their book, Monster Beach. Their next book, Peter Pepper's Pet Spectacular, will be published in September, but advanced copies will be on sale at the Paraskevas Gallery this summer.
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The Group for the East End will celebrate its 35th Anniversary with a gala catered by Robbins Wolfe Eventeurs at the Woelffer Estate Vineyard in Sagaponack on June 16. Guests will join co-chairs Nicole Miller, Kim Taipale, Anne Hearst and Jay McInerney in a night of food and fun.
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