Nora Ephron

A Hamptons fixture for more than four decades, Nora Ephron is now back in residence after having rented out her six-bedroom Georgica Pond home last summer to Heather Mills for $200,000. Now that she has reclaimed the home she shares with husband Nick Pileggi, the Oscar-nominated writer-director is making good use of it, entertaining such friends as her literary agent, Binky Urban, famed dermatologist Pat Wexler and comedian Al Franken. Earlier this month, Nora and sister Delia Ephron presented a staged reading of Ilene Beckerman's Love, Loss, and What I Wore at the Bridgehampton Community House. In 1983, Nora penned her own version of the heartbreaker memoir, her novel punctuated with recipes rather than sartorial doodles. The bestseller became a film three years later starring Meryl Streep. Heartburn chronicled her tumultuous split from Washington Post journalist Carl Bernstein, one half of the team credited with breaking the Watergate scandal by way of "Deep Throat." In a 2005 Vanity Fair article, Mark Felt finally revealed himself as the source, confirming the opinion Ephron had publicly announced for years. In a recent interview with Dan's Papers, Ephron explained that no one was ever actually interested in who the real "Deep Throat" was; merely in their own theories.

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Chris Martin

Two years ago, below-the-radar Coldplay frontman Chris Martin got a little more on the radar. He and wife Gwyneth Paltrow bought their Amagansett home, a $5.4 million, 7,000-square-feet summer manse two miles from the ocean, and big enough for their growing family including Apple, 4, and Moses, 2, and frequent house guests Jake Paltrow and Blythe Danner. Gwyneth's mother, Blythe, is currently building a home on the property next door. While the goal surely isn't to wall off their children's grandmother, Martin and Paltrow have nonetheless built a massive fence around their property, antagonizing their neighbors in the process. When he emerges from this gated sanctuary, Martin can be found surfing with pal Ed Burns at Ditch Plains or knocking back shots of Dewar's with Gwyneth at Cherrystone's in Amagansett. Most recently, Martin has been defending his kids' quirky names, telling Blender magazine in August that "people make a big fuss over names. Names of babies, names of albums, names of bands. There's nothing weird about calling your baby Chewbacca if that's what you want to call your baby." Perhaps a third baby is on the way, Chris?

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