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Sag Harbor resident and Hamptons icon, Billy Joel, is movin’ out of his Miami mansion. The South Beach Condo Blog has reported that the piano man has just sold his mansion in Miami for a cool $14.75 million.
The 8,881 square foot oceanfront palace is located on La Gorce Island and has 7 bedrooms and 8.5 bathrooms.
Vienna waits for you!
The Parents Television Council does not like Hamptons resident Howard Stern starring on the television show, “America’s Got Talent” and has sent a letter to NBC urging them to not buy ads on the show.
The PTC states in the letter that Howard Stern is only an expert at “looking at insecure, naked young women and telling them whether or not they were hot enough to pose for Playboy.”
The letter was sent to 91 advertisers.
Further parts of the letter read, “There can be and there must be, a presumption that Mr. Stern will only continue to conduct himself in a precisely the same manner as he has done for decades. Unless and until his conduct consistently reflects and respects the time, place and manner of an 8 p.m. broadcast television program, we would urge you and your advertising agency to consider alternate network television programming for your media dollars.”
Those are some strong words!
What do you think?
“The Avengers” which stars Hamptons resident Gwyneth Paltrow, just earned itself the title of the highest domestic opening ever with $200.3 million in ticket sales, beating out Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2.
The movie is directed by Joss Whedon and stars, Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston, Clark Gregg, Cobie Smulders, Stellan Skarsgård and Samuel L. Jackson.
Hamptons resident Jimmy Fallon will be releasing his second album, Blow Your Pants Off, this summer. The album will feature original material as well as popular content from Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. It also features guest appearances by Justin Timberlake, Bruce Springsteen, and Amagansett resident Paul McCartney.
Hamptons-based radio and television sports personality Ann Liguori will be the keynote speaker at the USTA Eastern LI Region Annual Awards Dinner on May 9 at Crest Hollow Country Club in Woodbury. Liguori has been covering tennis for WFAN Radio for years and will talk about everyone from Jimmy Connors and Martina Navratilova to the Williams sisters, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovich.
Nobody knows what’s the deal with the new Jerry Seinfeld project with Alec Baldwin, but one thing we do know, it’s going to be freaking hilarious.
Comedy legends and Hamptons residents Alec Baldwin and Jerry Seinfeld along with the legendary Ricky Gervais are in the process of filming a new project that Jerry Seinfeld Tweeted about yesterday.
What could it be???
Renowned art collector Cheech Marin has rented the Sand Castle this summer? Only in the Hamptons.
Southampton producer Patricia Watt, along with Ava Astaire McKenzie, will present the 30th annual Fred & Adele Astaire Awards. Liza Minnelli will receive this year’s Douglas Watt Lifetime Achievement Award. The award is named for the late drama critic Douglas Watt who resided in Southampton for six decades and founded the Awards with Fred Astaire in 1982. Minnelli will be on hand for the announcement at the Nominations Announcement Party at The Lambs Club on May 7 along with many of the nominees. The Gala Awards Ceremony will also recognize the achievements of dance world legends Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon and the evening will be dedicated to producer and longtime Hamptons resident Martin Richards. This year the Adele Astaire Scholarship will honor three-time Tony Award-nominated Producer Kathleen Raitt, in addition to a young up-and-coming dancer. The Honorary Chairs Emeritus for the Astaire Awards are Jacques Azoulay, Countess Luann DeLesseps and Wendy Federman. The Gala Chairs are Carolyn Kendall Buchter and Alix Michel. The Benefit Chairs are Cassandra Seidenfeld Lyster and Sara Johnson Kaplan. The 30th Fred & Adele Astaire Awards will be presented on June 4 at New York University.
Katie Lee’s debut novel, Groundswell, will be released in paperback on May 29.
Here’s how Amazon describes the book:
Sometimes the biggest ripples come from the smallest events. Like the day that novice PA Emma Guthrie walks into world-famous movie star Garrett Walker’s trailer. When she walks out, she’s on her way to becoming Mrs. Emma Walker, trading her jeans and flip-flops for closets full of Chanel and the start of a successful screenwriting career. But when an incriminating text message throws her marriage into question, Emma flees New York City for a sleepy coastal town in Mexico. Here, she meets gorgeous, California-born Ben, who teaches her about the healing powers of surfing, shows her the joys of the simple life, and opens her up to the possibility of love. An irresistible insider’s glimpse into a glittering world, Katie Lee’s debut novel is a captivating story about how losing everything you thought you wanted can be the first step to finding what you need.
Looks exciting, and it looks like she was inspired by her own life while married to Billy Joel!
The book, “Long Island Noir” is available for download onto your Kindle, and is a book of dark fiction short stories that take place on Long Island and one of those dark fiction stories takes place in the Hamptons.
The New York Times writes: Things get out of hand for a teenage girl in Wainscott in Ms. Jones’s story “Home Invasion” after she meets a wild-haired surfer dude from an old-money family, who is described as looking “like a WASP kidnapped by Apaches.”
The ending features a scene in which the girl wields a handgun she was taught to use by her father. The story was based somewhat on a real experience, said Ms. Jones, who lives in Manhattan but spent much of her childhood in Sagaponack.
