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Friday, May 24, 2002
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'The Hamptons'
It's a sparkling summer playground for the rich and famous, from Jerry Seinfeld to Billy Joel and Kim Basinger. It’s a happy hunting ground for ambitious young women shopping for wealthy husbands and a young man's fantasy beach party bubbling with girls.
Now this elite Long Island enclave known as The Hamptons has become the real-life set for America’s first real-life mini-series. It’s a four-hour, two-night ABC extravaganza that takes cameras past the velvet ropes, inside those exclusive celebrity and socialite parties, and behind the steel gates and high walls of resident stars like Alec Baldwin, Christie Brinkley, and her ex-husband, Hamptons native Billy Joel.
The mini series, "The Hamptons," is the brainchild of Oscar-winning filmmaker Barbara Kopple. She says, "You'll see reality as you've never seen it before."
Barbara spent an entire summer there chronicling the soap-opera lives of a kaleidoscope of diverse Hamptonites. She says, "It's all about all of these different people coalescing and their lives intertwining during the course of the summer."
It’s also complete with scandal, including the upcoming socialite trial of publicist Lizzie Grubman, who ploughed her Mercedes SUV into a crowd of nightclub goers last summer. Barbara says, "Lizzie Grubman will be part of the mini-series in a very surprising and interesting way."
As they say, to be continued...
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