South O' the Highway (and the North too)

GET WILD, a benefit cocktail party to be held July 19th for the Wildlife Rescue Center of the Hamptons, will honor Ellen & Chuck Scarborough and Marcy & Michael Warren. Those expected to come out to fete them are Kelly Ripa & Mark Consuelos, event chairperson Beth Ostrosky & Howard Stern, Lauren & Charlie Walk, Lizzie & Jonathan Tisch, Roseanna & Elaina Scotto, Marty Richards, Caryn & Jeff Zucker and a long list of others. Info and tickets: Linda B. Shapiro 631-329-5480

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Ron Perelman will be hosting a fundraiser for presidential hopeful John McCain at his East Hampton estate on July 19. Though Perelman plays for the other team, he's opening his home to fulfill the wishes of his closest business adviser and friend of 40 years, McCain backer Howard Gittis, who passed away last September.

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Christie Hefner, daughter of Hugh Hefner, commissioned Southampton artist Ceravolo to create a very special portrait of her famous father, based on a childhood photo. Ceravolo has just begun a series of portrait painting of adults as little children. His clients (which include Elton John, Rod Stewart and Alice Cooper) are now commissioning portraits of their children in addition to portraits of themselves when they were children.

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Hamptonite Candace Bushnell will use a character in her next novel, One Fifth Avenue, to bring to readers' attention the disrespectful new crop of journalists that has emerged since the "Sex And the City" creator stopped writing for the New York Observer. Thayer Core will be "a blogger on one of those vicious new websites that had popped up in the last few years, displaying a hatred and vitriol that was unprecedented in civilized New York."

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"The Real Housewives of New York City" star and Sag Harbor resident Jill Zarin hosted her 5th annual 4th of July party to raise funds for CreakyJoints.org. More than 250 guests attended, including New York Giant Michael Strahan and his girlfriend, Nicole Murphy, Ashley Bush and Jill's co-stars Bethenny Frankel and Countess LuAnn de Lesseps.

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B. Smith's of Sag Harbor has become media central. This past weekend on July Fourth, Sam Champion and Good Morning America were on hand at the restaurant in Sag Harbor taping a segment on entertaining with food. Also last Saturday, both B. Smith and her husband, Dan Gasby, were interviewed by Steve Gaines on the Hampton Channel on Sirius Satellite Radio. Roger Ailes, President of Fox News Channel and Chairman of the Fox Television Stations Group had requested they do something from the Hamptons, so this upcoming Monday and Tuesday, Fox Business News will broadcast their Business Report live at the restaurant at 5pm and 6pm.

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Philistines at the Hedgerow author Steven Gaines hosted an Independence Day special on Sirius Satellite Radio last Saturday, live from the American Hotel in Sag Harbor. On-air guests included Susan Lucci, Judith & Rudy Giuliani, Jerry Della Femina and B. Smith.

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Elegant Affairs had a busy holiday weekend catering Hamptons fetes for "Dirty Sexy Money" star Zoe McLellan at the Social Life Estate, a summer bash for Russell Simmons complete with a special vegan menu of Moroccan lentil burgers and curried eggplant for the animal activist and entrepreneur, and a gala honoring the legacy of Reginald F. Lewis and P. Diddy, for his philanthropy work in East Hampton.

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Hollywood mogul Sandy Gallin threw a star-studded 4th of July bash at his sprawling Bridgehampton estate. Guests included fellow Hamptonites Russell Simmons, Matthew Broderick, Brooke Shields, Matt Lauer, Mary J. Blige, Jon Bon Jovi, Jerry Seinfeld and Richard Gere.

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The 4th Annual Hamptons Golf Classic benefiting the Make-a-Wish Foundation was hosted by New York Giants superstar, David Tyree. Guests included Nobu's Richie Notar, celebrity artist Adam Port, Joe Farrell, Page Six's Richard Johnson and Stella Keitel.

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Ringing in the Fourth last weekend was young Miguel Forbes, who took the Highlander, the family's yacht, on an eight-hour cruise to Sag Harbor. Miguel and two other grandchildren of the late Malcolm Forbes entertained several hundred guests, including supermodel Elle Macpherson and Herb Kohler.

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Help for Orphans International founder Sarah Ehrlich and benefit committee members Jill & Bobby Zarin, Allyson Shapiro, Sara Herbert-Galloway, Dr. & Mrs. Gerry Curatola, Bethenny Frankel, Countess Lu-Ann de Lesseps, Amelia Doggwiler, Gracean & Jerry DeCrosta and Tundra Wolf will host the 2nd Annual Help for Orphans International Hamptons Summer Benefit on Friday, July 25 from 6:30-9:30p.m. at Nova's Ark in Bridgehampton. Tickets start at $150. For more information, contact Sarah Ehrlich at 917-232-6477, or visit hamptonsbenefit.com.

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Alec Baldwin, Bryant Gumbel, Stuart Match Suna and his wife, Vicki, Toni Ross, Ted Conklin, Nancy Green, Karen Arikian, Alan Sunathe, Dr. Robert Grossman, Susan Mead Esq., Donald Sultan and Nancy Singer were among the overflowing crowd of 400 viewers to stop by The Gallery in Sag Harbor last Saturday for the opening of Hamptons artist Michelle Suna's landscape paintings. Suna's bold East End scenes, described as abstract reality, will be on display until July 27. Collectors include Paul Guilfoyle ("CSI"), NBC's Mike Taibbi, President of Air America, Mark Green, and Eric Clapton.

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