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South O' the Highway (and the North too)
The president of the global Seven Stars and Stripes Award company, a highly-regarded award-giving organization with an office home in the Hamptons, Thorsten Buehrman, appointed Long Island native Barry Kay as the company's new Executive Vice President.
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The August 18 "SNEAKERS del ARTE" event, hosted by Ellen & Chuck Scarborough, at their Southampton home, will honor the memory of Chuck's sister, Cynthia Scarborough. Betsey Johnson will serve as honorary chair, along with Christine Wasserstein & Dan Rattiner. Some of the artists & celebrities included in the designer sneaker auction, featured at this cocktail party event are Donna Karan, Itzhak Perlman, Leroy Neiman, Kelly Ripa, Toni Ross, Peter Buchman, Audrey Flack, Billy Joel & Robert Dash. All proceeds from this event will benefit Ellen's Run.
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The Hampton Theatre Company in Quogue has announced its line-up of winter shows: "Doubt" in October, "Glengarry Glen Ross" in January, "The Oldest Living Graduate" from March to April, and "The Moon Over Buffalo" from May to June. To see yourself on stage, head to the "Doubt" audition on Sunday, August 19, from 2 to 4 p.m., or Monday, August 20, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the Quogue Community Hall on Jessup Avenue in Quogue.
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East Hampton resident Judith Peck and her family are hosting a special clinic, exhibition and reception at their home with Q&A this Saturday afternoon, July 28, given by the junior players from the Israel Tennis Centers. The Centers are open to all Israeli children -- Arab, Jewish, Druse, etc. -- for tennis training from ages 5 to 18, including at-risk and disabled children. There is no admission charge, but donations are accepted. Call Cathy Mullin at (954) 480-6333 for more information. The event is a small swing towards peace.
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On Friday, August 3, the Ferregut Gallery and the Southampton Inn will host 3-D: Dan, Dinner, and Dancing! The informal talk with Mr. Rattiner and four-star poolside BBQ is being held to honor Dan, whose pen and ink drawings are on display at the Southampton Inn.
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Hamptons fashionista and soon to be former Mrs. Russell Simmons, Kimora Lee Simmons, is debuting her own reality show on August 5 - "Kimora: Life in the Fab Lab." The show will go behind the scenes in Kimora's life as she runs her Baby Phat fashion line.
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Kimora's new boyfriend, actor Djimon Hounsou, has just picked up a new gig as well, as the new Calvin Klein underwear model.
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The first of senator Hillary Clinton's Hamptons fundraising benefits in the first weekend of August will be at the Southampton home of Irene and Bernard Schwartz in East Hampton. To snag a cocktail at this party, guests shell out $1,000 in support of Clinton's campaign. Carl Spielvogel and Robert F.X. Sillerman are already on the guest list.
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Tory Burch, who just opened a store in East Hampton to sell more of her coveted big-symbol ballerina shoes, has rented a home on Captain's Neck Lane in Southampton. The designer may use the house to spend some quality time with her new beau, cyclist Lance Armstrong.
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Christie Brinkley's compound Tower Hill on Scuttle Hole Road in Bridgehampton, the home she once shared with Peter Cooke, is back on the market for two new lovebirds that need a mansion and over 20 acres of land.
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The Bridgehampton Carnival was a circus of celeb-spotting: Kelsey Grammer spent time on rides with his little one and Mark Consuelos and Kelly Ripa ate cotton candy with their three wee ones.
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Some of the East End's most glittering residents, Somers & Jonathan Farkas, Bonnie & Stewart Lane, Ann Liguori, Sheila Rosenblum and Jill and Bobby Zarin are inviting their friends for cocktails in honor of European artist Renee Niklan. Renee is having her first Hamptons exhibition in the Roberta von Schlossberg Gallery on 20 Jobs Lane on July 28th till August 5th.The artist is flying in for the event from her home in St. Tropez to join her New York friends for the occasion. Cocktails are on the 28th from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., and a glamorous time will be had by all who see her passionate work.
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Nobu has just opened its doors at the Ross School and already its seen a slew of celebrity clientele: Gwyneth Paltrow, still using a cane, ate there on Friday night, and Howard Stern and Martha Stewart separately sampled the fish on Saturday night.
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Debra Messing hosted last weekend's annual Mercedes Benz Polo Challenge, an event attended by AJ Calloway, Aretha Franklin, B Smith, Beth Ostrosky, Bijou Phillips, Dan Gasby, Danny Masterson, James Lipton, Jeffrey Chowdorow, Katie Lee Joel, Kelly Klein, Kim Raver, Leven Rambin, Michelle Rodriguez, Nacho Figueras, Ralph Lauren, Reggie Jackson, Samantha Cole, and Vito Schnabel.
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An intimate clam bake was thrown by Allure magazine editor Linda Wells and her husband Charlie Thompson on Old Town Line Beach in Southampton. Richard Gere, Uma Thurman, her ex-boyfriend Andre Balazs, and Balazs' ex-wife Katie Ford were all in attendance, but no high school fights broke out.
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Hotelier and entrepreneur Andre Balazs was also spotted cozying up to Southampton's Renee Zellweger on Shelter Island's Sunset Beach restaurant and bar.
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Yoko Ono took the stage last Saturday at textile artist Jack Lenor Larsen's East Hampton estate. At Larsen's 80th birthday bash, artist Ono performed what she called an onstage "sex change," during which she changed her clothes a little bit. The enigmatic performance art was met with a round of applause.
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