Alec Baldwin will serve as Honorary Chair of the Wildlife Rescue Center’s benefit next summer, which will honor Missy Hargraves and Ron Delsener. Caroline Hirsch will act as benefit chair.For information on the event, call (631) 329-5480.

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Quogue Native Kate French has just landed her first major role as beautiful Brooke Crawford in the TV series titled “Wicked Wicked Games.” Watch for Kate’s show on MNT beginning December 6.

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Cardiologists Dr. Miguel Blanco, Dr. Babu Easow and Dr. Rajoo Patel have proposed a new location for Eastern Suffolk Cardiology on the northeast corner of Wickapogue and Old Town Roads in Southampton. The location is the former site of Dr. Charles Guida’s offices.

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Developer Robert Gianos has agreed to resume discussions with Southampton Village about preserving a larger portion of his Wickapogue Road property when he subdivides the 50-acre farm field into a ten-lot subdivision.

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Along with their gift of six buildings for the new East Hampton Town Hall complex, Adelaide de Menil and her husband, Edmund Carpenter, will also be donating $2 million for the buildings’ upkeep. The Town will be adding another $1 million to the fund using surplus budget money, and $1 million from the Community Preservation Fund to maintain the Town’s historic buildings.

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Sag Harbor teens Peter Landi, David Horn, Forest Fire Gray, George Hoglund, Tucker Ruiz-Bass and Owen Preata beat more than 45 other bands in The Knitting Factory’s Battle of the Bands on November 12 in New York City. Their band, Too Busy Being Bored, will use the 46 hours of studio time they won in the contest to record their first album.

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East Hampton’s Martha Stewart attended the much-anticipated opening of Tom Stoppard’s new play, The Coast of Utopia – Part One, The Voyage, and the after party at Tavern on the Green. Other celebrity audience members included Chelsea Clinton, Blair Brown, Zoe Caldwell, Stockard Channing, Jill Clayburgh, Joanna Gleason, Paul Rudnick, Kate Burton and Vaclav Havel.

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East Hampton’s Katie Couric may be adding even more shows to her already busy schedule, as CBS News president Sean McManus has named her, along with Anderson Cooper, Lara Logan, Scott Pelley and Byron Pitts, as Ed Bradley replacements for the next season of “60 Minutes.” McManus says Bradley cannot be replaced by only one host.

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Uma Thurman’s main squeeze and owner of Shelter Island’s Sunset Beach Club, André Balazs, hosted a launch party for his new residential project, the William Beaver House, in Manhattan’s financial district last week accompanied by the musical talents of French DJ Stephane Pompougnac.

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Beautiful TV host, model and girlfriend of Hamptonite Howard Stern, Beth Ostrosky, has recently been spotted cozying up to another beautiful blonde (hint, he has puppy breath and a cold, wet black nose) in the North Shore Animal League’s “pick of the month” ads.

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Southampton Intermediate School’s ten-year-old acting sensation, Dylan Blue, is currently starring in the recently opened film, Deck The Halls, with “Sex and the City’s” Kristin Davis, Danny de Vito and Amagansett resident Matthew Broderick.

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On Saturday, world-renowned artist Mia Fonssagrives-Solow’s fanciful wooden penguins, monkeys and reindeer, recently seen in the holiday windows of Cartier and Bergdorf Goodman’s in New York City, will be on display to delight everyone at CMEE’s Holiday FUNdraiser. For tickets to the FUNdraiser, call (631) 537-8250, or visit www.CMEE.org.

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Last weekend, Dan’s Papers photographer Barry Gordin and theater critic Patrick Christiano spotted Diane von Furstenberg, Barry Diller, Kathleen Turner, Mickey and Leila Strauss, Ellen Barkin, Terrance McNalley, Tom Kirdahy, Joan Rivers, Kate Winslet, and Lauren Bacall at the Broadway debuts of Julianne Moore and Bill Nighy in the world premiere of David Hare’s new play, The Vertical Hour, at the Music Box Theatre in New York City.

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The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding held its annual Fall Benefit last Tuesday in New York City’s Crown Building. Rabbi Marc Schneier, President, and Russell Simmons, Chairman, presented Joseph Papp Racial Harmony Awards for 2006 to Michael Karsch, Founder, Portfolio Manager, Karsch Capital Management; William M. Lewis Jr., Co-Chairman of Investment Banking, Lazard Ltd.; and Alex Sapir, President, The Sapir Organization. The event is held annually to benefit the many programs of The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding. For more information, visit www.ffeu.org.

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Congratulations to Dick White of Montauk, who will receive the Nick Monte Lifetime Community Leadership Award this Saturday at 5 p.m. during the Holiday Tree Lighting Show at Gurney’s Inn. Santa Claus will present the award.

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WordHampton Public Relations, Inc., the number one public relations agency in the Hamptons, was recently awarded MarCom’s Platinum Award for its work on Goodbye Greenspan, a show curated by Rebecca Cooper of The Gallery in Sag Harbor, and an honorable mention for their work on Hamptons Restaurant Week.

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Barbara Warner of Southampton will be hosting a book signing and holiday toast to her pals Claudia Lebenthal and Daniel Stark at H Groome in Southampton this weekend. Claudia and Daniel have just launched Stoked, The Evolution of Action Sports, a chronicle of extreme sports with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize winner Buzz Bissinger. Claudia joins Dad Jim Lebenthal and sister Alexandra on the hot book lists.

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Hamptons regulars Mariska Hargitay, Peter Hermann, Ellen Barkin, Jimmy and Jane Buffett, Erica Jong, Cynthia McFadden, Jane Rosenthal, Craig Hatkoff, Richard and Marcia Mishaan, Claude Wasserstein, Heather and Steven Mnuchin, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Stuart and Vicki Match Suna, Lori and George Hall, Stanley Druckenmiller, Fiona Druckenmiller, Gary Cohn, Lisa Pevaroff-Cohn, Lloyd and Laura Blankfein, Nathaniel Kahn, Lisa Perry, Michael and Beth Fascitelli, Brooke and Daniel Neidich, Arthur and Linda Carter, Alice Tisch, Ann Tenenbaum, Tom Lee, Dr. Harold Koplewicz, and Linda Sirow were all spotted the NYU Child Study Center’s Ninth Annual Child Advocacy Gala in New York City last week.