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South O’ the Highway
(and the North too)
After a two-week vacation, Vice President Joe Biden and wife Jill left the Hamptons with a bang when Air Force Two’s backwash lifted and damaged a small Piper Club parked nearby at Gabreski Airport. * * * Literary lions roared at Authors Night at the East Hampton Library last weekend. In attendance were Hamptons residents Alec Baldwin, Candace Bushnell, Bryan Batt and more than 100 authors. * * * Tom Colicchio and Eric Ripert, judges on Bravo’s “Top Chef,” participated in this year’s Great Chefs Dinner benefiting the Hayground School’s Jeff’s Kitchen and the Jeff Salaway Scholarship Fund. * * * Anne Hearst and Jay McInerney hosted the Midsummer Garden Fete benefiting the Princess Grace Foundation at their Hamptons home last weekend. Guests included Monaco’s Prince Albert and fiancée Charlene Wittstock. * * * Celebs galore attended pharmaceutical billionaire Stewart Rahr’s party in Wainscott last weekend, including Donald Trump, Christie Brinkley, David Koch, Veronica Webb, David Foster, LL Cool J, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner. Lionel Richie performed. * * * Jessica Capshaw, star of “Grey’s Anatomy” and stepdaughter of Steven Spielberg, is spending the summer at Spielberg’s East Hampton home. Among her favorite East End activities are walking into town for coffee and lounging by the pool. * * * Speaking of coffee, former New York Met Keith Hernandez picked up some at Java Nation in Sag Harbor last week. * * * East Hampton Studios recently brought a little bit of Hollywood to the Hamptons by holding a five-day AT&T commercial shoot with singer Thalia, and a photo shoot with super-chef Bobby Flay. * * * Water Mill realtor Daniel Lembo, 63, will appear on the next season of “Survivor.” * * * Hamptons resident Calvin Klein recently bought a late-1970s Polaroid for $3,000 at photographer Christopher Makos’ exhibition at Clic Gallery in East Hampton. * * * “30 Rock” starlet Katrina Bowden and her boyfriend enjoyed a romantic dinner at Southampton’s 75 Main. * * * “Real Housewives of New York City” star Ramona Singer hung out with Nathan
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