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DAN’S PAPERS
Time (Cont’d from previous page) estate enclave to ask whoever answers the door—the butler or maid or whatever— if the owners would be willing to share the load with those less fortunate people financially from the north who had to put up with this horrendous concentration of rat-atat-tat noise from the helicopters last summer. Hopefully the wealthy will see the fairness of this approach and agree that this should be the case. On the other hand, there is a small faction in the group forming this committee that wants to go directly to the FAA without doing the door-to-door business. This group believes that’s what’s only fair is that the rich people chartering helicopters should have them go over the rich people’s homes in the south, and the poor people chartering helicopters have them go over the poor people’s homes in the north. At the present time, the discussions of this committee, which is meeting daily in the high school auditorium, are leaning toward trying the former plan first and if they get nowhere with that going directly to the FAA with the latter proposal. There is also some discussion about whether it violates the rights of American citizens to ask them not only where they are going (to East Hampton Airport) but where their home address is in the Hamptons, either North of the Highway or South of the Highway. But that seems to be something that the local lawyers who have taken this on pro bono say can be worked out.
danshamptons.com “Saturday Night Live,” and how the show’s moved on after losing two major cast members. Said Michaels, “The one thing you can’t try to do is replace Kristen Wiig with Kristen Wiig.”
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S.R.O. attendance over its first weekend of operation in Water Mill. Quogue residents Michael J. Fox and Tracy Pollan are on the cover of this month’s Architectural Digest. The magazine tours the couple’s newly remodeled Manhattan home. The ongoing legal feud between famous South Fork exes Tory and Chris Burch is explored in this month’s Vanity Fair. Tory believes her ex-husband stole concepts from her fashion business to benefit the one he started post-split. In other Tory Burch news, the New York Post reported last week that she sold her Meadow Lane home to Vivek Garipalli, co-owner of Bayonne Medical Center, for $11 million. Garipalli plans to tear down the structure and build a new 7,100-square-foot house. Amagansett’s Lorne Michaels spoke with Entertainment Weekly about this season’s
Congratulations, Jimmy Buffett! The North Haven singer has been nominated for induction into the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame. Voting on the nominees closes December 17, and new inductees will be named next June. New Max Factor ads featuring Amagansett’s Gwyneth Paltrow were revealed last week. The campaign features Paltrow in seven reallife looks. First up is “The Writer,” for which she sports jeans, a T-shirt and minimal makeup. Many East End musicians supported local Hurricane Sandy victims with a relief concert organized by East Hampton’s LTV Studios last weekend. Participants included Caroline Doctorow, Gene Casey of the Lone Sharks, Inda Eaton, Dan Bailey, Mick Hargreaves, Joe Delia and the Thieves, Dylan Janet Collins, The Thunderbird Sisters and more. Prudential Douglas Elliman is dropping the Prudential name. Long Island Business News reports that more than 1,500 real estate agents in 42 offices throughout Nassau, Suffolk and Queens counties will now be known as Douglas Elliman.