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Best Buddies in the Hamptons

The Inaugural Best Buddies Hamptons Beach Bash.
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.
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.
Anne Hearst and Frances Hayward
Amanda Hearst, Luigi Tadini, and Georgiana Cavendish
Amja Kaehny and Andrew Lipman
Alexandra Loeb and Robin Baker Leacock
Brian Bahe, Elizabeth Fago, Margaret Luce, Suzanne DeGeorge, Maigi, and David Luce
Barbara and Ken Sforza
Count Alexandre deLesseps and Countess LuAnn deLesseps
Anthony Shriver and Florence Durso
Carol and Steve Nobbs
Anthony Shriver, Lisa d'Urso, and Marianne Larston
Dotty Herman and Carol Nobbs
Betsy Bingle
Catherine McMenamin
Dayssi Olarte de Kanavos
Dana Hammond Stubgen
Elizabeth Fago, Lucia Hwong-Gordon, Margaret Luce, and Maigi
Ed Fion and Ahki Franklin
Blaise Labriola and Princess Yasmin Aga Khan
Debbie Bancroft, Anthony Shriver, and Anne Hearst
Grace Meamey and Karen MacWhinnie
Carolina Shriver, Teddy Shriver, and Eunice Shriver
Holiday Hayes and Angela Boyer-Stump
Christopher Robins
Jeremy Platt, Lily Baker, Nina Griscom, and Leonel Piraino
Eben Hall
Helen Matsos and Gregory Speck
Ethan Gillmore, Teddy Shriver, and Wendy Holmes
Jennifer Faga and Michael Braverman
Anthony Shriver, Katrina Peebles, and Don Peebles
Jay Schneider, Tiffany Dubin, and Debbie Bancroft
James Lipton and Kedaki Turner
Francis Schultz
Joy Marks and Peter LeBeau
Jeremy Platt and Darlene Marone
Julia Royter and Sara Herbert-Galloway with a friend
Kim Heirston Evans and Countess LuAnn de Lesseps
Georgina Bloomberg and Cornelia Bregman
Hunt Slonem and Jeff Slonim
Lucia Hwong-Gordon, Paola Rosenshein, and Robin Baker Leacock
Joy Marks and Taryn Lawrence
Lisa d'Urso, Hilary Stephens, and Marianne Larston
Lydia and Rudy Touzet
Marissa Bregman and Luigi Tadini
Mimi Crume and Betsy Bingle
Jim Signorelli and Alexandra Loeb
Lydia Fenet and Dr. Carter Pottash
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.
Zoe Kravitz
Meredith Melling Burke
Olivia Palermo
Trish Goff
John Corbett
Daniel Benedict and Jill Kargman
Mary-Kate Olsen
Derek Blasberg and Eleanor Ylvisaker
Ann Dexter-Jones, Erin Flanagan, and Bettina Zilkha
Heather Matarazzo and Caroline Murphy
Josh Peck and Olivia Thirlby
Josh Peck, Michael Barker, and Sir Ben Kingsley
Jackie Astier
Helen Lee Schifter and Tim Schifter
Marina Rust Connor
Frederique Van Der Wal
Alexie Gilmore
Kiera Chaplin
Debbie Bancroft, Andrew Saffir, and Bettina Zilkha
Daniela Lavender, Sir Ben Kingsley, and Andrew Saffir
Maggie Rizer
Marisol and Rob Thomas
Selita Ebanks
Milena Govich
Ling and Zach Galligan
Beth Ostrosky
Jessica Gomes and Nicole Trunfio
Tom Bernard, Joe Neurauter, Jonathan Levine, and Michael Barker
Filippo Bozotti and Zuleikha Robinson
Sante D'Orazio
Andrew Saffir and Linda Wells
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.
Don Peebles and Tina Louise
Michael Lohan and Erin Muller
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.
Teddy John
Chef Douglas Rodriguez and Brett Hickey
JB Berns
Steve Tisch and Neal Sroka
Lauren Bush and David Lauren
Tim George Jr and Nacho Figueras
Josh Guberman
Neil Hirsch and friend


Photographs by ©PatrickMcMullan.com; Paul Hawthorne (Polo)

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