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Good News Gossip About Our Notable Friends and Neighbors.

Wow, this summer is going by at lightning speed! There have been many fun things to do and see and not nearly enough time for everything. But, at least we’ve been able to stay up on our latest and greatest local celebrity news.  

Up, Up and Away
Frequent East Hampton visitor, Emma Roberts, who has been keeping her hands full and her schedule packed the past two summers out east, has a new film project that just came out in July. It’s called Space Cadet and it’s streaming on Amazon Prime. Also starring Gabrielle Union, Tom Hopper and Poppy Liu, the fun feel-good film is about a young woman who finds herself out of her depth and shooting for the stars in NASA’s astronaut training program. 

Space Race
|As luck would have it, we’ve got another fun feature about the interstellar world that also just came out this past month on Apple TV+. This one, called Fly Me to the Moon, stars Amagansett’s Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum. 

Set against the high-stakes backdrop of NASA’s historic Apollo 11 moon landing, the rom-com centers around the budding love story between a marketing maven and a NASA launch director. All sorts of sparks fly and hijinks ensue when the unlikely duo are forced to concoct a fake moon landing scheme, as directed by the President of the United States. Johansson, who is set to star in the Jurassic World 4 next year, is also serving as a producer on this film. 

Sexy Surprise
We hear that Kim Cattrall, formerly of East Hampton, is whispered to be returning as the sensational Samantha Jones in the Sex in the City spinoff series, And Just Like That, for season three. Yippee!!

We’re not sure yet if she’ll be filming with the other three headliners — Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, and Kristin Davis — or if she’ll appear in solo shots, as she did in the season two finale, but we are here for it no matter how! The Max original, created by East Hampton’s Darren Star, is currently filming in and around New York City. The release date is tentatively slated for early 2025. 

Reading Is Fundamental 
Some writers that are right here right now are those artfully curated scribes selected for the 2024 Authors Night benefit. The annual East Hampton Library fundraiser, which celebrates it’s twentieth year this August, is dubbed the “Premier Literary Event of the Hamptons” and with excellent reason. 

Included in this year’s roundup of bold-face book writers are: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Robert A. Caro, Diana Nyad, Nelson DeMille, Joy-Ann Reid, Brian Stelter, Julia Phillips, Wilbur Ross, Mary Mcartney, Nelson DeMille, Robert Caro, Tessa Bailey, Barbara Butcher, and many more. We just love this fantastic event!  

Time to Remember
If you haven’t already, now is the time to check out Billy Joel My Life: A Piano Man’s Journey at the Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame in Stony Brook. The massive exhibit features more than five decades of rare memorabilia from the Sag Harbor resident’s career, is filled with all sorts of cool videos, recordings, photos, instruments, and memories — many of which have been donated from Joel’s personal collection. Sure to put viewers in a New York State of Mind, this retrospective is a can’t-miss for music fans. 

Passionate Prose
Whilst on the subject of great books, have you checked out Life on the Green: Lessons and Wisdom from Legends of Golf by Ann Liguori yet? We just love this fun- and fact-filled follow up to Ann’s A Passion for Golf, Celebrity Musings about the Game! Featuring all-new interviews with a dozen of legends of golf, including Amy Alcott, Ben Crenshaw, Padraig Harrington, Bernhard Langer, Nancy Lopez, Jack Nicklaus, Dottie Pepper, Gary Player, Renee Powell, Annika Sorenstam, Jan Stephenson and Tom Watson, this book is a real winner.