DAN'S PAPERS, January 11, 2008 Page 22 www.danshamptons.com
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Baby One More Time.” According to their website, they are a “media and entertainment movement led by industry leaders who come together to collectively lead the entertainment and digital revolution.” You can debate all you want on who those industry leaders are and how they are going about leading the digital revolution, but what is really more important here is that HYT ME knows how to throw one hell of a party. The gossip magazines would report on how glamorous the parties were and who the celebrities were, such as Ja Rule and Mims, they attracted. The house itself has over four acres of landscaped property, three full bars, two professional kitchens, a 3,000 square foot media room, a cabana, a roof deck, a gunite pool, spa,
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sand volleyball court, state-of-the-art sound system and elegant fountains. The entire house is designed with a good party in mind and the reason is because the house was never intended to be a living space, but a party place. This raises the question of the legality of such a house, because in reality the HYT ME Estate is essentially a private home that has been transformed into an exclusive nightclub, complete with bouncers, coat check and a very high cover charge. In other words, it’s a business, a very cool business, but a business nonetheless, and the Town Board has an obligation to prevent this kind of thing from getting out of hand. The rallying cry of the HYT ME Estate and its supporters has mostly been about every
American’s right to throw a sweet party, but the violations have been piling up for the owners with four outstanding on the property to date. The cancellation of their New Year’s party just days before New Year’s Eve could be argued as a message that the town means business about keepings its mansions as mansions and not nightclubs. On January 16, the lawyers will do battle with both sides showing up in court to discuss the placement of a temporary injunction on the house, which would prevent the owners from throwing large parties. In the meantime, the party hats will remain on the tables and the booze will remain in the bottles as the HYT ME Estate tries to figure out where it is headed in 2008.
water’s edge with sponges and rags to happily mop up every drop of oil that washed ashore from an oil spill caused by a breach in the tanks of a big oil tanker just offshore. And then yesterday, filling up with gas at the self service pump at Hess in Wainscott, I noticed this guy at the next bay — a very swarthy looking fellow with
a pickup truck — fill up, then grab the metal top of the rear cargo bed with both hands, and give it a vigorous little shake side to side. Then, he pumped in a little more, shook it again and, satisfied, drove it away. He seemed very happy with himself for having thought of this. But I don’t get what he was doing. •
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renew my gun license.” The police also said that whoever is doing this knows the business. It is not easy to operate an oil tanker filled with fuel. And it is not easy, unless you know how, to turn all the proper valves, to drain the tank. I’ve noticed for some time that people are taking a very different attitude about oil spills. Not long ago, everybody would protest the environmental damage being caused and would go into paroxysms of sadness, seeing oil covered sea birds waddling up the sand. Yesterday, I saw footage on a news channel of some natives in India running down to the