Mariska Hargitay is the cover star of Hamptons Magazine

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June 1, 2010

Hamptons elite welcomes actress Mariska Hargitay

10:54 AM By Lee Fryd

Photo credit: Lee Fryd

For a certain crowd in the Hamptons, summer begins at Jason Binn’s house. The Niche Media mogul, who created Hamptons and Gotham magazines, brings out non-Hamptons celebs as well as the usual suspects to his Southampton home.

Sunday, he and wife Haley even got the elusive "Law and Order: SVU" star Mariska Hargitay -- this month’s Hamptons Magazine cover girl, seen here – to show up. “Happy Summer,” she announced. "Here’s to the kick off!"
“She doesn’t go out much,” Binn told the crowd, ”but she’s an amazing supporter of the town we live in. It really took a year to get her on the cover.”
How does he do it? “Anybody that meets Jason knows he’s a guaranteed good time,” Hargitay told us. “He’s a non-stop, traveling one-man party.”

“He’s a very handsome man,” deadpanned Kyle MacLaughlin, right, who never misses the party. On vacation from ABC's “Desperate Housewives,” he spends his time in the Hamptons working out, running and playing with his toddler son.

One theory: The celebs have to go out sometimes. They all told us all they want to do in the Hamptons is stay home and barbecue.

“Sitting outside in my own backyard with my goddaughter running around, that’s my perfect Hamptons day,” said Star Jones (seen here with Hoda Kotb), a Wainscott resident for 11 years. “Grilling a little fish, and spending time just with the people I love.”

“I hibernate in my house,” Hargitay told us. “That’s the whole point, isn’t it?” She bought her house out here two years ago, after coming out for 15. Her happy Hamptons Day? “To come out in the fall and winter and go on the beach with my son and husband.”

And a big welcome to the “Hoda Woman” (as Kathie Lee calls her), who stayed with jewelry designer Jennifer Miller. “Can you believe it, I’ve never been out to Southampton before?” Hoda Kotb gushed. It was 7 p.m., and she and Miller were just getting going. “We’re starting here and then we’re hopscotching around,” Kotb said. “There’s a party at a friend of hers [Jennifer] and then there’s a series of drinks and desserts.”

So, what does she think of the Hamptons? “C’mon!” she said. “What’s better than here?"

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Mark Feurstein on cover of Hamptons Magazine

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June 6, 2010

In playing Dr. Hank Lawson, a concierge doctor who caters to the Hamptons’ wealthy denizens in the USA Network hit “Royal Pains,” Mark Feuerstein frolics in a world of excess. He knows the territory.

“I grew up in Manhattan and went to a nice, private school on the Upper East Side,” he says, referring to Dalton School.

“We didn’t have the kind of money the kids I went to school with had, but they had birthday parties and weekends in Montauk, or someone’s estate in East Hampton,” says Feuerstein, 38, who calls the Post in between takes from “a beautiful restaurant on the shores of Strong Island.

“So I got to see the world that’s depicted in ‘Royal Pains,’ but I was never part of it — just like Hank Lawson.”

In the show’s pilot, Lawson was a star doctor at a city hospital who suddenly lost everything when a hospital benefactor died in his care. When his brother Evan, played with a goofball alacrity by Paulo Costanzo, hauls the depressed doctor off for a weekend of heiress hunting in the Hamptons, Hank saves a girl’s life at a mansion party. Soon, the area’s affluent — and slightly unhinged — residents are clamoring for Hank’s smart, thoughtful and, most important of all, discreet kind of medical attention.

To prepare for the role, Feuerstein tailed a doctor who showed him some of the more challenging aspects of the medical profession.

“I followed a brain surgeon into surgery,” he says. “He was standing over a man’s open scalp, and I was looking into the center of who this guy is. It was both terrifying and amazing.”

The experience doesn’t really help when Feuerstein has to pronounce “the insane ten syllable words like Glossopharyngeal Nerve,” but then “Royal Pains” is less about medical minutiae, and more about blending the right mix of bling, babes, and banter we’ve come to expect from USA.

While all of that makes for a pleasant shoot, at this point Feuerstein is simply glad to have a show people like.

He’s appeared on hits like “Sex and the City” and “Ally McBeal,” and had a recurring role on “The West Wing,” but he’s also well acquainted with the sting of unfulfilled promise. He starred in a number of short-lived sitcoms, including the long forgotten “Fired Up,” “Conrad Bloom,” and “Good Morning Miami.”
As such, he went into “Royal Pains” with guarded optimism.

“I remember people saying that USA doesn’t shoot pilots that they don’t air, so that was positive,” he says. “You get so thick-skinned after all the rejections and shows that don’t amount to much that you prepare yourself for the worst.”
It so happened that “Royal Pains” became, according to USA, the top-ranked first-year scripted series in cable history, averaging 7.5 million viewers per episode.

For season two, which premiered last week, the series has added Henry Winkler as Eddie Lawson, Hank’s ethically questionable father, who left the boys when they were kids.

The experience of working with Winkler, a legend since his time as Fonzie on “Happy Days,” was a thrill. It also helped Feuerstein add a deeper dimension to Hank.

“It was playing this hero,” Feuerstein says. “In the stage directions, it was described that ‘Hank Lawson will make an entire new generation of kids want to go to medical school.’”

But in the first season, Hank was a bit too perfect. With his constant saving of lives, and having gorgeous women flock to his door unannounced, the character was developing an unrealistic halo. Feuerstein is excited for the chance, with Winkler’s help, to tarnish that angelic quality.

“Eddie Lawson is this foil for Hank. He brings out the Hank that has a lot of rage about the fact that he was abandoned as a child,” Feuerstein says. “I even said to the writers at one point that it would be great to see a little more dirt under [his] fingernails.”

So Feuerstein, who lives in LA with his wife and three kids, heads into season two feeling fulfilled in several ways — finally enjoying a show with a future, while doing so in a place that feels like home.

“My brother and I sat reading Hamptons Magazine on the beach 10 years in a row,” he says. “Now I’m gonna be on the cover.”

Kyle MacLachlan celebrates his cover of Hamptons Magazine

June 23, 2010

Kyle Maclachlan Is Happy To Be On Hamptons!


“Desperate Housewives” actor Kyle MacLachlan, rocking a glitzy gold Invicta watch, was on hand on Monday evening (Jun 21) to celebrate his cover of the Father’s Day issue of Hamptons Magazine at the Four Season’s Restaurant in NYC!

Also in the house was Real Housewives of NYC star Alex McCord!
MJ wasn’t able to attend, but heard a great time was had by all!

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Micah Jesse: Kyle MacLachlan with Hamptons Magazine

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June 23, 2010

Kyle Maclachlan Is Happy To Be On Hamptons!

“Desperate Housewives” actor Kyle MacLachlan, rocking a glitzy gold Invicta watch, was on hand on Monday evening (Jun 21) to celebrate his cover of the Father’s Day issue of Hamptons Magazine at the Four Season’s Restaurant in NYC!

Also in the house was Real Housewives of NYC star Alex McCord!
MJ wasn’t able to attend, but heard a great time was had by all!

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Just Jared: Mariska Hargitay is Hamptons Magazine cover girl!

http://justjared.buzznet.com/2010/06/01/mariska-hargitay-hamptons-magazine/

June 1, 2010

Mariska Hargitay: Hamptons Magazine Cover Girl!

Mariska Hargitay celebrates her Hamptons Magazine cover during a Memorial Day party hosted by mag publisher Jason Binn and his wife Haley on Sunday (May 30) in Southampton, New York.

The 46-year-old Law & Order: SVU star wore Michael Kors and was accompanied by her husband, director Peter Hermann (their adorable son August napped this one out).

Also in attendance and pictured below: Desperate Housewives actor Kyle MacLachan (with his wife, PR guru Desiree Gruber), Elle’s creative director Joe Zee and Just Jared.

Later in the evening, Georgica Restaurant & Lounge opened for their sophomore summer in Wainscott, NY, hosting a bevy of celebrities including hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons and model Jessica White (both pictured below).

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Hamptons.com: Hamptons Magazine has a kick off party

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June 7 ,2010

Hamptons Magazine had a kick-off party.

I've spent many a Memorial Day shivering at garden parties that the weather didn't really call for (and we didn't really dress for). Paying too much money for too little food at new hot spots garnering far too much hype. Scouring events for the hors d'oeuvres or gift bags overlooked in the wake of a suffering economy. And finally, heading back to the city prematurely with the shared sentiment that the Hamptons doesn't get good until Fourth of July. Not so this weekend. For the first time in years, for the first time since the economy faltered, the Hamptons kicked off in a manner that felt very Fourth-of-July-esque. Fire Marshals shut down club doors, restaurants and hotels couldn't accommodate last-minute walk-ins, cops perused overcrowded streets, and there were gift bags and hors d'oeuvres aplenty. Hamptons 2010 isn't "over" in the least - it's just beginning. Along with Cover Star Mariska Hargitay, Hamptons Magazine's Jason Binn and wife Haley Binn welcomed familiar faces and loyal supporters into the backyard of their bright, tented Southampton home on Sunday. Trays of champagne, Absolut concoctions, a line-up of notable Hamptons photographers (Rob Rich, Jerritt Clark, and John Roca) and a Ferrari stationed at the entrance reminded guests they were stepping inside one of the more coveted annual Memorial Day events. Inside, the very Hamptonites who provide the magazine's content (and the requisite gaggle of Housewives) enjoyed passed hors d'oeuvres by Elegant affairs, Smart Water, and lauding speeches from the gracious host. Calling attention to the front, Jason Binn took command of the microphone and thanked his staff, including publisher Debra Halpert and actress Mariska, whose cover story credits her ability to juggle being an actress, mother, charity founder, and Hamptons homeowner. Lending their support to the event were Hamptons Magazine devotees Beth Ostrosky Stern, Star Jones, Kyle McLaughlin, a majority of the "Real Housewives of New York City" cast, including Countess LuAnn de Lesseps, Kelly Bensimon, Alex McCord and Simon Van Kempen, Ramona Singer and Mario Singer, and Hamptons mainstays Richard Johnson, Sessa Von Richtofen, Rosanna Scotto, Niche Media's Joanna Tucker, James Goll, Jared Epstein, Shawn Sachs, and Gen Art's Ian Gerard.

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A La Ashley Olsen talks fashion with Hamptons Magazine

http://yvetteyeau.com/mode-du-jour-hamptons-a-la-ashley-olsen

July 15, 2009


Mode du jour: Hamptons à la Ashley Olsen

while i’m still running on vacation mode, i thought i’d share a feature of Ashley Olsen in Hamptons Magazine - she is still my favorite Olsen twin! enjoy! xo
p.s. might i add the Louboutin’s on the first picture is gorgeous!