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 Best Buddies in the Hamptons
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The Inaugural Best Buddies Hamptons Beach Bash.
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Last Thursday night in the Hamptons The Venetian Foundation presented the Inaugural Best Buddies Hamptons Beach Bash hosted by Anne Hearst and Jay McInerney and Tatiana and Campion Platt.
Best Buddies was founded in 1989 by Anthony Kennedy Shriver, the son of Eunice Kennedy and Sargent Shriver.
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Jay McInerney, Anne Hearst, Anthony Shriver, and Tatiana and Campion Platt |
Best Buddies is a non-profit with the charter to enhance the lives of people with intellectual disabilities by providing opportunities for one-to-one friendships and integrated employment.
There are now Best Buddies programs in all fifty States. Its six formal programs will impact more than 350,000 individuals this year. |
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Anne Hearst and Frances Hayward |
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Amanda Hearst, Luigi Tadini, and Georgiana Cavendish |
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Amja Kaehny and Andrew Lipman |
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Alexandra Loeb and Robin Baker Leacock |
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Brian Bahe, Elizabeth Fago, Margaret Luce, Suzanne DeGeorge, Maigi, and David Luce |
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Barbara and Ken Sforza |
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Count Alexandre deLesseps and Countess LuAnn deLesseps |
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Anthony Shriver and Florence Durso |
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Carol and Steve Nobbs |
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Anthony Shriver, Lisa d'Urso, and Marianne Larston |
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Dotty Herman and Carol Nobbs |
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Betsy Bingle |
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Catherine McMenamin |
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Dayssi Olarte de Kanavos |
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Dana Hammond Stubgen |
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Elizabeth Fago, Lucia Hwong-Gordon, Margaret Luce, and Maigi |
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Ed Fion and Ahki Franklin |
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Blaise Labriola and Princess Yasmin Aga Khan |
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Debbie Bancroft, Anthony Shriver, and Anne Hearst |
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Grace Meamey and Karen MacWhinnie |
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Carolina Shriver, Teddy Shriver, and Eunice Shriver |
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Holiday Hayes and Angela Boyer-Stump |
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Christopher Robins |
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Jeremy Platt, Lily Baker, Nina Griscom, and Leonel Piraino |
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Eben Hall |
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Helen Matsos and Gregory Speck |
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Ethan Gillmore, Teddy Shriver, and Wendy Holmes |
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Jennifer Faga and Michael Braverman |
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Anthony Shriver, Katrina Peebles, and Don Peebles |
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Jay Schneider, Tiffany Dubin, and Debbie Bancroft |
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James Lipton and Kedaki Turner |
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Francis Schultz |
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Joy Marks and Peter LeBeau |
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Jeremy Platt and Darlene Marone |
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Julia Royter and Sara Herbert-Galloway with a friend |
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Kim Heirston Evans and Countess LuAnn de Lesseps |
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Georgina Bloomberg and Cornelia Bregman |
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Hunt Slonem and Jeff Slonim |
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Lucia Hwong-Gordon, Paola Rosenshein, and Robin Baker Leacock |
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Joy Marks and Taryn Lawrence |
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Lisa d'Urso, Hilary Stephens, and Marianne Larston |
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Lydia and Rudy Touzet |
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Marissa Bregman and Luigi Tadini |
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Mimi Crume and Betsy Bingle |
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Jim Signorelli and Alexandra Loeb |
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Lydia Fenet and Dr. Carter Pottash |
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The Cinema Society along with SONY Cierge held a screening of "The Wackness," which won the prestigious Sundance Film Festival’s Audience Award and has received raves all around. It stars Ben Kingsley, Mary-Kate Olsen, Josh Peck and Olivia Thirlby, and was directed by Jonathan Levine, all of whom were present at the screening which was followed by dinner on the Roof of the Gramercy Park Hotel.
The Cinema Society’s founder Andrew Saffir welcomed a crowd that included Linda Wells, Alexie Gilmore, Matchbox 20’s Rob Thomas, John Corbett, Heather Matarazzo, Maggie Rizer, Milena Govich (“Law & Order”, “K-Ville”), Zach Galligan, Zuleikha Robinson (“New Amsterdam”), Ben Shenkman, Beth Ostrosky, Sante D’Orazio, Selita Ebanks, Keira Chaplin, Zoe Kravitz, Frederique Van Der Wal, Derek Blasberg, Jessica Gomes, Rufus Albemarle, Daniel Benedict, Marina Rust Connor, Meredith Melling-Burke, Ann Dexter-Jones, Johannes Huebl, Tim and Helen Schifter, Debbie Bancroft, Olivia Palermo, Eleanor and Jon Ylvisaker, Bettina Zilkha, Michael and Eleanora Kennedy, producer Joe Neurauter, and Sony Pictures Classics’ Michael Barker and Tom Bernard, all of whom supped and drank Moet & Belvedere cocktails well into the night. |
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Zoe Kravitz |
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Meredith Melling Burke |
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Olivia Palermo |
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Trish Goff |
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John Corbett |
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Daniel Benedict and Jill Kargman |
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Mary-Kate Olsen |
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Derek Blasberg and Eleanor Ylvisaker |
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Ann Dexter-Jones, Erin Flanagan, and Bettina Zilkha |
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Heather Matarazzo and Caroline Murphy |
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Josh Peck and Olivia Thirlby |
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Josh Peck, Michael Barker, and Sir Ben Kingsley |
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Jackie Astier |
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Helen Lee Schifter and Tim Schifter |
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Marina Rust Connor |
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Frederique Van Der Wal |
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Alexie Gilmore |
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Kiera Chaplin |
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Debbie Bancroft, Andrew Saffir, and Bettina Zilkha |
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Daniela Lavender, Sir Ben Kingsley, and Andrew Saffir |
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Maggie Rizer |
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Marisol and Rob Thomas |
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Selita Ebanks |
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Milena Govich |
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Ling and Zach Galligan |
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Beth Ostrosky |
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Jessica Gomes and Nicole Trunfio |
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Tom Bernard, Joe Neurauter, Jonathan Levine, and Michael Barker |
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Filippo Bozotti and Zuleikha Robinson |
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Sante D'Orazio |
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Andrew Saffir and Linda Wells |
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Last Saturday was Week 5 for the Bridgehampton Polo Club’s 2008 Mercedes-Benz Bridgehampton Polo Challenge at Blue Star Jets Field. Attendees included Dan Abrams, David Lauren, Tina Louise, Lauren Bush, Michael Lohan, Doug Rodriguez, Don and Katrina Peebles, Dave Zincenko, Neil Hirsch, Nacho Fidgueras, Rob Florio, Tim George Jr.
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Don Peebles and Tina Louise |
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Michael Lohan and Erin Muller |
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| No polo game would be complete these days without a bevy of product promotions to distract the disinterested from the game. Last Saturday’s included Perrier Jouet’s “Savory Tasting with ‘Godfather of Neuvo Latino Cuisine,’ provided by the James Beard Award Nominee, Mr. Rodriguez. |
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Teddy John |
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Chef Douglas Rodriguez and Brett Hickey |
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JB Berns |
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Steve Tisch and Neal Sroka |
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Lauren Bush and David Lauren |
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Tim George Jr and Nacho Figueras |
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Josh Guberman |
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Neil Hirsch and friend |
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| Photographs by ©PatrickMcMullan.com; Paul Hawthorne (Polo) |
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