South O’ the Highway (and the North too)

Hamptonite Billy Joel has recorded a song for his wife, Katie Lee Joel, a.k.a. East End Girl, titled “All My Life.” The last time Joel sang about his wife was in “Uptown Girl,” which he wrote for Bridgehampton beauty and now ex-wife Christie Brinkley.

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Donald Trump joined Co-Chair and animal advocate Frances Hayward and Chairs Lois Pope and Mary Montgomery in the Grand Ballroom of “Mar-a-Lago” for the Palm Beach Zoo’s annual gala. Guests included Mrs. Frances Scaife, Mr. Tom McCarter, Pauline Pitt, and Pepe and Lourdes Fanjul. To the music of Bob Hardwick, Sotheby’s Hugh Hilldesly auctioned off wonderful donated items, including a 15-foot porcelain tiger designed by Lynn Chase.

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This week’s cover painting will be shown, along other with new paintings by Michael Paraskevas, at his show that’s opening on April 7 at Hampton Road Gallery in Southampton. An opening reception will be held from 5-7 p.m. Call (631) 204-9704 for more information.

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During Olympus Fashion Week in New York City, Hamptons’ designer Jackie Rogers showed her Fall 2007 Collection at the gentleman’s club Scores West. Inspired by 1920s Bauhaus Germany, the entire collection will be available at her East Hampton Boutique next season.

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Bill and Hillary Clinton threw a party for DNC’s Terry McAuliffe to celebrate his new book, What A Party, at the Four Seasons, where guests Robert Zimmerman, Ed Koch, Barbara Walters and Cheri Kaufman talked politics and literature.

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House & Garden editor Dominique Browning called upon the talents of Hamptonites Tony Ingrao, Robert Wilson and Isaac Mizrahi to design tables for the Botanical Garden’s Orchid dinner at the Rainbow Room last Tuesday. Sarah Ferguson and Harry Slatkin created their own table, inspired by the Duchess’ family tartan and her new tea-scented candle line, available through Slatkin & Co.

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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 February 18 from 5-7 p.m. Call (631) 287-0798 or visit www.ferreguttowergallery.com for more information.

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Dennis Basso, Debbie Bancroft, Gillian Hearst-Shaw, Sharon Bush, Somers Farkas and Michelle Gerber Klein were all spotted sitting in the front row at fellow Hamptonite Douglas Hannant’s showing of his Fall 2007 collection at Gotham Hall last week in NYC.

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The Bridge Hampton Historical society recently published a pamphlet stating that Bobby Van, founder of the eponymous eatery in town, died in the 1980s. Dan’s Papers would like to reassure the good people of Bridgehampton (and Mr. Van) that Bobby Van is, in fact, alive and well.

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The Bard Music Festival, now celebrating its 18th season on the Bard College campus in Annandale-on-Hudson, and the Music Festival of the Hamptons have joined forces to create the Bard Music Festival of the Hamptons, scheduled for the weekends of July 13-16 and July 19-22. Leon Botstein, Christopher H. Gibbs, and Robert Martin will serve as artistic directors of the new festival. Michael Guttman and Lukas Foss will retain their roles as artistic directors under the guidance of Irene Zedlacher, executive director of the Bard Music Festival.

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John Kowalenko, Cheryl Stair and Michelle Moliski, of Art of Eating Catering/Hamptons Event Management International, just returned from The Special Event, the premier annual tradeshow and conference in Los Angeles for event professionals in the United States, and will be using their new knowledge to make parties in the Hamptons even more exciting than last season.

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Hamptonite designer Joanna Mastroianni was one of the select few designers chosen to host her Fall 2007 collection under the tents in Bryant Park for Fashion Week.

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Kazdin Pools has won an award of merit from the Northeast Spa and Pool Assoc. in a competition held in Sept. 2006 for the freeform pool they built for Deirdre Kiddre in Sag Harbor.

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The Long Island Game Farm has welcomed two homeless animals from the Catskill Game Farm – a camel named Catskill and a male cougar. The Game Farm is asking children ages 12 and under to submit their suggestions for a name for the new cougar. For more information, visit www.longislandgamefarm.com or call (631) 878 - 6644.

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Roy Scheider, Toni Ross, Ruth Reichl and Drew Nieporent will co-host a kickoff cocktail reception and auction preview to toast the sponsors, committees and supporters of the upcoming Great Chefs Dinner at the award-winning Lure Fishbar in Manhattan on Monday February 12. Josh Capon, Lizz Salaway, Susan Ringo Sonnenfeld, John McDonald, James Nederlander, Mercedes Ruehl, Ann Watt and Stuart Match Suna will all be there to toast the Great Chefs, and to enjoy the Great Chef’s dinner next month.

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King Kullen Grocery Company recently presented a check for $100,000 to Little Flower Children Services of Wading River, an organization that finds adoptive and foster homes for children on Long Island and New York City. The money was raised through King Kullen’s annual James A. Cullen Memorial Golf Outing.

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Gary de Persia, Senior Vice President of the Corcoran Group’s East Hampton office, was named the top Corcoran broker on the East End at the company’s annual awards dinner at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City. Joan Rivers acted as Master of Ceremonies and Pamela Leibman, president and Chief executive officer of the Corcoran Group, presented the awards.