Dan's Papers - June 19, 2009

This past Friday, Lindsay Lohan arrived in the Hamptons straight off of a flight from London. Around the same time, Lilo was making headlines worldwide for allegedly "stealing" 45k in jewelry from a photo shoot for Elle Magazine back in London. That may explain why the actress was reportedly "all business" on the way into Axe Lounge, late night in Southampton. According to photographers, Lilo posed for a handful of photographs outside the club and then when she was asked to do a quick interview with the club cam, Lohan muttered in motion, "Hi I'm Lindsay Lohan at Axe Lounge." What? She's 22 years old! Not bad for a day's work. Inside, partygoers were asked to refrain from using their camera phones as Lindsay blended in with the locals and eventually disappeared into the sunrise. Hopefully LI will lie LO {couldn't resist} and set the record straight by the time this column goes to print.

This past Saturday morning in Southampton, fans spotted the star of Bravo's Real Housewives of NYC turned bestselling author, Bethenny Frankel, tooling around town in her brand new "SkinnyGirl" VW convertible bug. "I just picked it up off the lot two hours ago!" The break-out star is literally non-stop and currently on a national tour promoting her bestselling book, Naturally Thin. I had the pleasure of interviewing Bethenny in studio on Main Street. Frankel's book speaks directly to your inner food voice and insists one of the first steps to becoming thin is to reprogram your inner food dialog and live by Frankel's 10 simple rules. Bethenny shared, "I received countless emails of girls raving about how, thanks to my book, they've lost 10, 20 even 50 pounds!" Whether or not the book can actually help people lose weight wasn't the payoff for me. I was more impressed with Frankel's remarkable ability to plow through her own personal struggle with food and ultimately evolve and transform a life obstacle into a bestselling book that can actually help change other people's lives. Bottom line, Naturally Thin is a daring, refreshingly realistic blueprint for how any person can approach and create a healthy relationship with food. Bethenny's life story is truly inspiring and clearly this woman is on her way to having it all. With her boyfriend Jason

Hoppy of 8 months, "He's the one" literally in the passenger seat, it's full speed ahead for Frankel who revealed "I have a cookbook on the way" and a follow-up book on her life story in the works. Frankel's next stop was at Savanna's restaurant to attend an invitation only luncheon hosted by Beth Ostrosky Stern and her and Howard Stern's official fur kid, an English Bulldog, Bianca. Guests including Frankel's cast mate Kelly Killoren Bensimon (who made a quick exit shortly after Bethenny arrived), Fox 5's Rosanna Scotto and daughter Jenna, Jill Martin, Lauren Ezersky, Ellen Scarborough, Sager Kopchak, Devera Lynn and Dianne Zoppa, brought their own dogs while they dined and shopped the brand new animal-friendly, cruelty-free Bodhi bag collection designed by Joseph Janus and Beth O. Bodhi donated all the proceeds to the North Shore Animal League America. Celebrity Groomer and Animal Planet's" Groomer Has It" star, Jorge Bendersky was on site to offer tips and spruce up several puppies available for adoption who came to visit the Hamptons. Best part? You can log onto DansHamptons.com and follow the links to Whispers to see pics of Beth posing with all the available puppies. Contact NSALA directly to adopt any of the pups you see. Next stop on Bethenny Frankel's Hamptons excursion was a dinner party at a private estate in East Hampton, hosted by Pepsi Natural. MTV's "The City" was on-site to shoot Whitney Port and friends in action. Port and crew ended the night Cabana side at Lily Pond night club.

This Saturday, June 20 and recently extended through July 19, you can experience LI rocker Billy Joel's private collection of motorcycles "20th Century Cycles: The Motorcycle as Art and Icon" cleverly on display at The Christy's Building Art Center in Sag Harbor. Saturday evening, you can join Billy Joel, Christy Brinkley and several other famous faces who are scheduled to attend The 6th Annual "Live at Club Starlight" Gala to benefit the Ross School in East Hampton. SNL's Seth Meyers will be hosting and the Ross School will honor the one and only Martha Stewart. Plus, live performances by James Ingram and Billy Joel's only daughter, Alexa Ray Joel. Also this Saturday evening, designer Charlotte Ronson will host a beach chic crowd who will feast on Southern-Style BBQ and summertime cocktails then dance the night away to the beats of DJ Kiss at the annual Love Heals Gala at Luna Farm in Sagaponack to benefit the Alison Gertz Foundation for Aids Education.

This Sunday evening, for the first time ever, Alexa Ray Joel will be performing live at Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett at 7 p.m. Alexa noted this performance will be very special, "I'm excited and I'm getting together all these kind of rockin' songs. I'm just gonna play as much as possible. Plus, I am doing a Led Zeppelin cover. It's kind of a more soul version of that classic rock."

Until next week - Life is short, you only live once, so party on!

TV host, entertainment & feature correspondent, director, writer and executive producer, Gina Glickman can be seen Tuesdays, Thursdays and weekends hosting News 12 Long Island's "What's Hot in the Hamptons."