South O’ the Highway (and the North too)

Cliff Robertson, Jamie Patterson, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Nancy Coyne, Savion Glover, Moira Kelly, Ann Reinking, Bob McGrath, Sarah Jessica Parker, Phylicia Rashad, Lourdes Benedicto, Stanley Wayne Mathis, Mike Sheehan, Jennifer McSweeney, Kevin Kline, Alan Cumming, Judith Regan, Jim Dale, Idina Menzel and Adriana Trigiani have been invited to attend the 25th Hatter’s Ball on February 23 at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in New York City to benefit the Creative Arts Summer Program and to welcome this year’s honoree to their ranks.

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Southamptonite Minnie Mortimer, sister-in-law of Southampton socialite Tinsley Mortimer, has announced her engagement to Hollywood producer, director, screenwriter and actor Stephen Gaghan. The two have been hosting and attending parties from Palm Beach to New York City to celebrate.

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Hamptonite Alec Baldwin brought home the Screen Actor’s Guild award for “Outstanding Performance By a Male Actor in a Comedy Series” last week for his role as Jack Donaghy on NBC’s “30 Rock.’’

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Bruce Littlefield, who shopped Hamptons garage sales all summer long, will have a HarperCollins book, Garage Sale America, coming out around Memorial Day.

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Hamptons lawyer Chris Seeger has made public his support of his friend, ex-Senator John Edwards, in his race to be the next Democratic presidential candidate. He did the same for Andrew Cuomo, now the New York Attorney General.

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Southamptonite Paris Hilton and Long Island’s own Lindsay Lohan decided not to make an appearance at music producer Scott Storch’s birthday party at Mansion in Miami last week, despite the fact that both starlets used Storch’s talents on their albums and that the producer supposedly showered Lindsay with over $1 million in diamonds on New Year’s Eve.

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Southampton’s Ferregut Tower Gallery is pleased to display 87 pen and ink drawings created by Dan Rattiner over the past 40 years in the upcoming show, Ode to the East End. The show will open on February 8 and run until March 20. An opening artist reception is planned for the Sunday of President’s Day Weekend, February 18 from 5-7 p.m. Call (631) 287-0798 or visit www.ferreguttowergallery.com for more information.

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Lighthouse International’s Music of Winternight black tie gala will be held at The New York Marriott Marquis on Wednesday, March 7, 2007, beginning with a cocktail reception at 6:30 p.m. The evening will benefit the children of the 96-year-old Lighthouse Music School. The honorees include Kitty Carlisle Hart, Carol Channing, Clive Davis, Stephen Marriott and Susan Desmond-Hellmann. Chuck Scarborough of WNBC TV will be Master of Ceremonies. The Gala Chair is Barbara Saltzman and President Jimmy and Roslyn Carter are Honorary Patrons. Other Chairs and Committee Members include William J. Moran, Tom Wlodkowski, Michael Gould, Thomas S. T. Gimbel, Ella Krasner, Marty Richards, Cece Cord, Muffie Potter Aston, Arlene Dahl, Marc Rosen, Jonathan Farkas, Chris Meigher, Sharon Bush, Janna Bullock, Jamee Gregory, Mai Hallingby Harrison, Beth DeWoody, Debbie Bancroft, Frances Hayward, James L. Nederlander, Reagan Stone, Elaine Sargent, Andrea Stark, Michelle Marie and Adria de Haume. For tickets or more information please contact Elisa Gunzl at (212) 254-6677 or egunzl@inezevents.com.

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After 43 years of processing and printing East Hampton’s film, Reed’s Photoshop will be moving to a new location in Amagansett Square with a new name, Reed’s Photo, and a new owner, Denis Car, who worked for the previous owner of the shop, Jonathan Reed, for the past fifteen years.

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Happy birthday to Bridgehamptonite Christie Brinkley, who was born on Groundhog Day in 1954. Other Groundhog Day birthdays include writer James Joyce, actor Gene Kelly and Columbian songstress Shakira.

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Congratulations to local sculptor David Slater who was recently awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Artists’ Grant.

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Hamptons environmentalist Eva Growney has received an AIA grant for the restoration of the Black Duck Lodge in Flanders.

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Hamptonites Cindy Adams, Pamela Fiori, Meredith Viera, Joan Didion, Susan Lyne, Lisa Caputo, Ariania Huffington and Thelma Golden are all being honored by Women in Communications for their extraordinary achievements in publishing, broadcast and news journalism this year. Past honorees have included Hamptonites Barbara Walters and Katie Couric.

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Romance novel cover model and Southamptonite Cindy Guyer will be helping out at the Evening of Enchantment at New York City’s Puck Building to benefit St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital along with her husband, Andrew Catapano and Mistress of Ceremonies, Rita Cosby, and fellow partiers Ann Curry and Jennifer Bawden.

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Jacob the Jeweler, favorite jeweler of Hamptonites Jay-Z, Sean Combs and soccer star David Beckham, is in hot water with the government over the finances of his formerly cash-only jewelry business.