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THE HAMPTONS GOSSIP
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Story By: Edward Callaghan
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The Stars Come Out For Super Saturday

Beth Ostrosky Stern

Joe Biden Loves The Hamptons

Saturday July 31


Shinnecock Museum Strawberry Moon Festival



Join a celebration of local Native American culture and heritage, and enjoy traditional summer foods at the Strawberry Moon Harvest Festival. A highlight will be ?Wicki Walks? - guided tours of the Museum?s mini preview ?living history? Village - traditional dance and canoe making demonstrations that allow guests of all ages to learn, participate and have fun; a corn cob eating contest and visit by feathered friends from the Quogue Wildlife Refuge. The Festival will be held at the Shinnecock Museum, Saturday, July 31, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. This is a free outdoor event on Montauk Highway in Southampton. The day also provides a wealth of choices on the Hamptons benefit circuit. Here are several of the best from past experience.


The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund


The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund?s (OCRF) 13th Annual Super Saturday The bid daddy of fashion sales The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund?s (OCRF) 13th Annual Super Saturday will take place on Saturday from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Nova?s Ark Project in Water Mill. Donna Karan co-hosts the super sale along with Kelly Ripa and Ariel Foxman of In Style. This daylong fundraiser will include its famous one-of-a-kind designer garage sale, a kids? carnival, gourmet dining and exciting activities galore. Ticket prices for Super Saturday 13 are $450 (regular) or $650 (preview) for adults and $150 for children ages five to 16. Kids under five will be admitted free of charge. Preview tickets include access to an exclusive pre-shopping hour from 12 noon to 1 p.m. as well as a well stuffed goodie bag making the extra $200 more than worth it! Tables and sponsor packages are also available beginning at $2,500. For tickets visit the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund?s website at www.ocrf.org.


ACRIA Cocktails



ACRIA Cocktails at Sunset 2010 Presented by Calvin Klein Collection and Vanity Fair, Ross Bleckner with a little help from his friends Andre Balazs, Sandra Brant, Nan Bush, Bob Colacello, Francisco Costa, Steven Klein, Andrew Saffir, Elizabeth Saltzman, Ingrid Sischy, Darren Star, Bruce Weber and Italo Zucchelli will host the annual Cocktails at Sunset to benefit ACRIA. The MisShapes will perform. Founded almost 20 years ago, ACRIA has contributed to the development of more than a dozen medications that have received FDA approval, helping countless thousands of HIV-positive people live longer, healthier lives. Best part is the cocktail reception from 7pm to 11pm will be held at famed photographer Steven Klein?s farm ? the one where Madonna took a tumble. Tickets are $300, $500 & $2,000. To purchase tix visit www.acria.org.



ARF Beach Ball



ARF Beach Ball Animal lovers will definitely make a beeline to the ARF Beach Ball presented by The Animal Rescue Fund. Cocktails, a raw bar, dinner, dancing, a silent auction, and a beach bonfire are part of the festivities at the Bridgehampton Tennis and Surf Club in support of ARF?s valiant cats and dogs. You?ll be very well fed - their caterer is Robbins-Wolfe Eventeurs one of the best in the biz. To purchase tickets contact This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or call 631-537-0400, ext. 214.



Sunday August 1

Mercedes Ruehl reads My Brilliant Divorce



Oscar Winner Mercedes Ruehl reads My Brilliant Divorce Don?t miss the absolutely brilliant Oscar, Golden Globe, Tony and Obie award winner Mercedes Ruehl as she performs a staged reading of Geraldine Abron?s ?My Brilliant Divorce at Guild Hall in East Hampton. If you were lucky enough to have seen her as flashy art philanthropist Peggy Guggenheim in ?Woman before a Glass?, you know what I mean Aron is the author of twelve plays produced for television and radio, and 'Toscanini', a screenplay directed by Franco Zeffirelli. Her hugely acclaimed one-woman show 'My Brilliant Divorce' has been performed all over the world and was nominated for an Olivier Award in 2004. She is also the past winner of two Edinburgh Fringe Firsts, for 'Bar and Ger' and 'A Galway Girl' respectively. For tickets call 631-324-4050 or visit www.guildhall.org.

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Pop legend Madonna's boyfriend Jesus Luz is comparing their long term relationship to a "marriage". He is insisting he already feels like a father-figure to the singers children. The 51-year-old icon began dating Luz in December 2008 after they met at a W magazine photo shoot weeks before her divorce from director Guy Ritchie was final. Luz is now opening up about his romance with the superstar in an interview with Brazil's RG Vogue magazine, insisting he feels totally committed to his lover and her four kids: Lourdes, Rocco, David and Mercy. He says, "I consider myself a married man. I have a family. At my age, my father was married, my mother gave birth to me when she was 15."
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Pop legend Madonna wants to cash in on her celebrity status as a fashion icon. The Material Girl is in talks to design her own clothing line with the department store Macy?s. Now Madonna is negotiating a high end deal with Macy?s bosses to bring her fashion style to life in a collection of clothes, accessories, underwear and footwear, reports Women?s Wear Daily. Executives at the clothing company Iconix Brand Group Inc. which also bought Jay-Z?s Rocawear line for $204 million, is also believed to be involved in the venture.
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Madonna has become so nuts for coconut water that she recently invested about $1.5 million in one of the leading makers of the drink, which has taken Hollywood and The Big Apple by storm, The Post has learned. Guy Oseary, the Material Girl's manager, told On the Money in an exclusive interview last week that the superstar decided to invest after she learned about the product from a September story in The Post. Oseary is also investing seven figures in the company, New York-based Vita Coco, and has rounded up pals like actors Mathew McConaughey and Demi Moore, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Anthony Kiedis, who are making smaller, but "significant investments." The total investments, estimated to be under $10 million, will amount to a minority stake in Vita Coco, which has been valued at between $120 and $140 million by industry analysts. Madonna, who Oseary said started drinking coconut water on her world tour last year, doesn't look like she is going to be a passive investor -- she's already lobbing some business ideas at company founder Michael Kirban. For example, she thinks it would be a marketing winner if the company made coconut-water popsicles. Madonna is so enthusiastic about coconut water -- the clear juice from young, green coconuts, not the brown coconuts that have a milky liquid center -- that she drank fresh coconut juice daily on the overseas leg of the Sticky & Sweet tour. There is also talk that she might make a follow-up investment. Oseary said he and Madonna were attracted to the financial side of the business because it is vertically integrated -- they own their own factories -- and because they are independent. "The fact that they are saying no to everyone who wants them is pretty cool," he said."You want to go to the party that no one else is invited to." As reported in these pages, Vita Coco, which expected to log $40 million in sales this year, turned down multimillion-dollar investments from beverage industry giants Coke and Pepsi -- opting to try to make it alone in the highly competitive water wars. Vita Coco has 60 percent of the market, but competes with two other brands, Zico and ONE. Kirban, 34, who started the company with pal Ira Liran in 2004, hopes to use the investor cash to expand distribution beyond New York and LA.

"American Idol" star Adam Lambert has a mentor in Madonna, after she gave him career advice during a guitar lesson at her New York City home. Adam was stunned when he discovered his guitarist was Madonna's guitar teacher, and thrilled when he was invited to her house for a music lesson. Lambert told Oprah, "That was actually the first time I can remember getting super star struck ... I had a great conversation with her. My guitar player is her guitar teacher and, we were both in New York, and he said, 'You know, I'm giving her a guitar lesson. Would you like to come over?' "I went to her house ... and she came in in, like, no make-up, yoga wear, just totally Zen. ... She walked into the room and her presence is very powerful ... and, at first, I could tell she was kinda checking me out ... and the first thing I said to her was, 'Oh my God.' "I talked to her about celebrity and how to deal with it all and she gave me a couple of words of wisdom -- she said, 'Just keep your eye on the prize and put your blinders up and don't get sidetracked with all the extra fuss.'"
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