The Hottest Deer Reducer in the Hamptons
And other tips for those headed “out East.”
Seems to be a bit of a war going on. On the plus side, Mamdani overtakes Cuomo in the polls! Meanwhile, let’s hop into our private helicopters and flit away to the Hamptons. —Emily Gould
THE HAMPTONS ISSUE!
‘So I Think This Is the Best Costume for the Day’
Cole Escola stuns as Little Edie on their first ever trip to the Hamptons.
“Escola, who finished with Mary on June 21 after more than a year in the role Off Broadway and on, found it easy to slip into character as another eccentric with an appreciation for cabaret. What would she make of East Hampton today? ‘It’s still a mean, nasty Republican town,’ Escola said, adopting the younger Beale’s whine. ‘Mother would be sick about the cost of ice cream.’”
See more beautiful pictures here!
RICH PEOPLE THINGS
‘If You See an Ice Luge or John McEnroe, You’re at the Wrong Party’
After you’ve read this guide, you’ll be able to pretend you’ve been to every Hampton (without ever having to actually drive out there!).
It’s hard to pick a favorite line from this exhaustive roundup of what all of the neighborhoods (hamlets? Townlets? Whatever) in the Hamptons are like. There’s just such abundance … how much everything costs in all the different quaint little markets, what people are calling the cops about (assault with samurai sword, spilling a drink on a club employee) … I think I’ll just do a bullet-point list of my favorite tidbits.
$50 pies at the recently reopened Sagaponack General Store.
“But I think if you are going to wear pants, it has to be linen.”
“a couple of really, really detrimental trips to Round Swamp Farm where, after a few cocktails, you spend $200 on chicken fingers.”
“In March, a brush fire caused by someone making s’mores ripped through the area.”
“The homeowner told police that he did not want to pursue charges but would like to be reimbursed for the plants if the thief was identified.”
“a trailer [in Montauk] recently sold for $3.75 million.”
RICH PEOPLE THINGS (1800S EDITION)
How Many The Gilded Age Stars Have Also Been On Law & Order?
The worst best show on TV is back, and we have questions.
If you watched Sunday’s season-three premiere of The Gilded Age, you could be forgiven for being a little bit confused. The show hasn’t aired since 2023, so you’re going to have to read this excellent recap to refresh your memory about why Ada’s rich now, why Oscar’s poor now, what “Train Daddy” George Russell is doing out West (besides being, omg, so hot), and — most crucially, truly I cannot stress the crucial importance of this plotline enough — what’s going on with Jack (Ben Ahlers) (“Clock Twink”) and his invention of the alarm clock???? But if that’s not enough to wonder about, we also came up with another puzzler in the Gilded Age group chat, based on Rebecca Alter’s recent conversation with Cynthia Nixon about the “Don’t Rank Cuomo” PSA she did with Mrs. Fish, a.k.a. Ashlie Atkinson. Turns out Nixon and Atkinson go way back. Among the four times she mentions their having worked together, one was on an episode of Law & Order (Criminal Intent, not SVU, as Nixon can be forgiven for misremembering). It’s a great episode (theater kids understand why). It got us wondering, how many other Russells and van Rhijns and their servants and friends have done crimes and been busted by Benson, Stabler, et al.? Christine Baranski has done three. Audra McDonald was on the first season of SVU. Kelli O’Hara was on an episode of The Good Fight that was about Law & Order, which counts. Donna Murphy has played four different Law & Order characters in three different franchises, which deserves its own Special Emmy category. Jack Gilpin would get that same award, if it existed. Also I somehow didn’t know that he was Betty Gilpin’s father until today, which probably means I should have my access to the gay Slack channel revoked, not that such a thing exists. There are probably a lot more, but frankly I’ve run out of time to look them up right now. Please feel free to sound off in the comments!
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