By Erica Schwiegershausen 8/15/12 4:30pm

Shindigger

Dick Cavett. (Matthew Peyton/Getty)

Summer Reading: The East Hampton Library’s Authors Night

The Observer put down our book last Saturday and ventured out to Gardiner Farm for the eighth annual Authors Night at the East Hampton Library. By the time we arrived, a plethora of library patrons—evidently undeterred by the cloudy skies—swarmed the tent in hopes of chatting up their favorite writers.

Hosted by library benefactors Alec Baldwin and Barbara Goldsmith, the reception boasted a guest list of more than 100 authors—everyone from the former Real Housewife of New York Kelly Killoren Bensimon, author of the “supermodel diet” book I Can Make You Hot, to the esteemed Lyndon Johnson biographer Robert Caro. Literary aficionados of all breeds meandered between tables with plastic cups of wine, accumulating stacks of personally inscribed hardcovers.

Sitting beside a large pile of copies of his second autobiography, Dick Cavett appeared to be thoroughly enjoying the attention of a throng of admirers and photographers. As we approached, he spontaneously grabbed both sides of our head and pulled us in for a dramatic kiss on the cheek. “I just wanted to give the photographer a thrill,” he whispered, a gleam in his eye. Read More

By Sheelah Kolhatkar 2/28/05 12:00am

Times Hollywood Guy Replacing Weinraub Is David Halbfinger

While many New York Times readers’ eyes were still bulging over Bernard Weinraub’s Jan. 30, too-much-information essay about the personal agonies of working in Hollywood, a new reporter was quietly settling into the film beat’s piranha pool.

On Feb. 22, David Halbfinger was busy writing his first story as The New York Times’ newest reporter Read More

By Sara Vilkomerson 9/27/04 12:00am

Eight Day Week

Wednesday 22nd

Defiantly wear those flip-flops all you want, but here is some irrefutable proof that fall has its slippery claws deep in our pre-winter fat: these troublesome new talk shows ( ¡Tony Danza, no mas!); non-practicing Jews suddenly finding their religion and taking the nebulous “Jewish holidays” off from work; movies being referred to Read More