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A welcome blast of air conditioning from an open door at the Ralph Lauren Rugby store on Main Street in East Hampton cooled an abbreviated red carpet at the East Hampton UA theater during arrivals for the Vanity Fair and Cinema Society screening of "Dinner for Schmucks" on July 17.

On his way inside, James Lipton, of the Actors Studio, with his scruffy black goat beard, mentioned that he has likely been the schmuck at a dinner party or two. "I suspect that people who had dinner with me felt they were having dinner with a schmuck," he offered in a modulated monotone. A "good seat" is what an excellent dinner partner is called in heady social circles. "But I think I suck," said Lipton. "I am not very good at it. My wife is superb. Everyone wants to know about the actors I've met, but that's the last thing I want to talk about."

Meanwhile, at the head of the red carpet, "SNL"'s Lorne Michaels glad handed Howard Stern, who wore fatigues with cargo pockets and a shirt that read "Star USA" on the back. Broad faced beauties Christie Brinkley and Candice Bergen Cheshire cat-smiled down the carpet. Lucy Punch, who plays Paul Rudd's crazy, sex-obsessed ex-girlfriend in the film, wore a dress by Christian Cota and Sergio Rossi shoes. "I've had a lot of dates with schmucks," she said. "They go on and on, complete disasters. Moronic. I think I attract these idiots."

Has Paul Rudd, wearing a suit by Marc Jacobs though the event was in part sponsored by Hugo Boss, dined with schmucks? "I'm sure somewhere along the way. . . . ," he admits after hemming and hawing politely. "I'd say yes."

Howard Stern's beauty pageant for Tiger Woods' alleged mistresses takes place Wednesday and the winner gets not only a prize of $100,000 from the AshleyMadison.com website but also a 'mistress' ring. Jeweler Steven Singer, infamous for his "I Hate Steven Singer" ad campaigns, created a 3.5-carat total weight black diamond ring for the winner of pageant which will be held live on air during Stern's Sirius XM radio show. A few of the women involved in the Tiger Woods scandal will participate in several categories like "bikini" and "talent" to win the prize. The jeweler says the piece is the "perfect mistress ring."

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--As was first reported by Bob at Big Time Listings, Howard Stern has paid $15.1 million for the apartment directly below his West Side condo in order to create a massive over 8,400-square-foot penthouse. Stern's buy is a combination of three separate units. He first bought in the building in 1998 when he combined two penthouse apartments.
--Baseball player Alex Rodriguez has been spotted checking out a home at the San Remo co-op. The five-bedroom home is listed at $6.975 million, a little mdoest by A-Rod standards.
--Rachael Ray has finally closed on her Southampton home. The home on 6.2 acres had a list price of $2.9 million.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Model Isabeli Fontana just spent $3.37 million on a three-bedroom apartment in the Trump Place development on Riverside Boulevard. She already has a penthouse in a Trump condo a few doors down. Fontana, who currently fronts the H&M lingerie campaign, already has two children so perhaps she needs the extra room.
--Model Jessica Stam, who is just 21, has already bought her third New York apartment .She first sold a co-op on East 16th Street, for $510,000 in August 2004 and bought an $800,000 condo four blocks down. She sold that place for $935,000 and now has paid $1.4 million for a loft at the Petersfield on Fourth Avenue.
--DJ AM has paid $1.995 million for a 1,147-square-foot apartment at One Kenmare Square, André Balazs'condo on Lafayette Street.
--Ex-Senator George Mitchell, who recently released a report on baseball's steroids problem, has sold his 3,150-square-foot, two-unit apartment at the posh Grand Millennium condo at 1965 Broadway which was listed for $6.65 million.
--Author and motivational speaker Dr. Joy Browne has sold her four-room duplex penthouse for $3.29 million to the art publishers Martin Bondell and Juliette Galant.

Also from the Observer:
--Suze Orman and her partner Kathy Travis paid $3,610,886 and 34 cents in cash for a condo at the Plaza in New York.
--Bob Costas and his wife Jill Sutton have picked up an $11 million condo on Central Park West.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--The official price of Simpson's voice Dan Castellaneta's house sale is $3,305,000.
--A look at the real estate dealings of currently jailed actor/celebrated bad boy Keifer Sutherland. As many know he owns a large warehouse building in Silverlake with the downstairs as a recording studio and living quarters upstairs. He also owns two other L.A. area homes.
--Jack Black has sold a 2,694-square-foot house in Los Angeles' Beachwood Canyon area for $1.462 million.
--via the Wall Street Journal, Burt Reynolds has dropped the asking price of his waterfront mansion in Hobe Sound, Fla. from $12,900,000 to $10,500,000. The listing is here.
--Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have sold their four-bedroom house in Nashville for $2.36 million and picked up 36 acres in Franklin, TN for $2.45 million.
--The records have cleared on a Beverly Hills home once owned by pianist and composer Burt Bacharach. It was listed for $3,495,000 and sold on August 31 for $2,990,000.
--A home in Studio City that was once owned by actress Jane Leeves has sold for an undisclosed price after having been on the market for $2,995,000.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
A Southampton, N.Y., estate formerly owned by Martin "Marty" Richards, who produced the Oscar-winning 2002 film "Chicago" and many Broadway plays, has just gone on the market for $65 million. It is our estate of the day, later today.
--Thomas Theobald, a former chairman of Continental Bank and his wife, writer, Gigi Mahon have listed their Greenwich, Conn., mansion for $17.9 million. We covered the home as an estate of the day back in November.
--A Houston mansion originally owned by Joanne King Herring the socialite played by Julia Roberts in the movie "Charlie Wilson's War" has gone on the market for $3.5 million, shown above. Ms. Herring built the home in 1954. The exceedingly lavish home includes a ballroom with wood paneling decorated with gilded bronze cherubs, violins and lyres. The listing is here.

From the Real Estalker:
--Phil Romano, the restaurant owner responsible for Fuddruckers and Romano's Macaroni Grill has put his Dallas, Texas home on the market for $17.5 million. Wow, the wine cellar is like a retail store. Check it out at the listing here.
--As the Real Estalker predicted, Ellen DeGeneres who recently bought Max Mutchnick's freshly built Bev Hills mansion for $29 million, has also picked up the Cabrillo Drive property across the street.
--The Real Estalker Mama breaks down just how many celebs are moving into the much vaunted 15 Central Park West building in New York.
--Linda Bollea (also known as Linda Hogan, wife of Hulk Hogan) was recently renting a home in Little Holmby Hills for a rumored $18,000 per month.

From the AP:
An estate that belonged to late society photographer Lord Lichfield has been sold for more than £34 million.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Johnny Depp has yet to move in to the penthouse he bought in the turquoise Art Deco Eastern Columbia Building in downtown L.A. All but half a dozen lofts on the penthouse level have been sold and prices run from the high $600,000 range to $2.2 million. Other buyers include comedian Ant and Slade Smiley, who was on the TV show "The Real Housewives of Orange County."
--Alfred Villalobos, a former deputy mayor to Mayor Richard Riordan, has listed his compound in a Woodland Hills gated community at $3.6 million. The listing is here.
--A portion of the property in West Hollywood that once belong to Irvin Willat, a silent-film director, is expected to be on the market soon for around $30 million.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Howard Stern has spent more than $600,000 for an oceanfront rental in Southampton, The home is listed for sale at $35 million. The listing is here. The shingle-style home sits between Wickapogue Pond and the ocean and has nine bedrooms. a two-story living room, elevator, wine cellar and an oceanside pool with a gazebo.
--Russell Simmons has been spotted looking for a Hamptons bachelor pad.
--Roy Scheider is selling his house in Sagaponack for $20 million.
--A 26.6 acre summer camp that philanthropist Anthony Drexel Duke donated to the Boys & Girls Harbor in East Hampton is now on the market for $12 million.
--Jennifer LeRoy, daughter of late restaurateur Warner LeRoy, has sold her apartment on West 13th Street for $2.6 million she is moving up a few floors into a smaller unit and seeking a house in West Palm Beach.
--It turns out that apartment Tommy Mottola recently bought for $6 million at 170 East End Avenue is for his daughter.

From the NY Times Big Deal:
--J. Darius Bikoff, the founder of Glaceau water, has paid  $5.6 million for a 4,000-square-foot duplex penthouse in a new building at 330 East 72nd Street. He is selling his East 77 Street condo for $2.5 million, the listing is here.
--Gregory Olsen, an inventor and entrepreneur who paid around $20 million to fly to space on a  Russian rocket, sold an apartment at 1 Central Park West, Trump International Hotel and Tower,  for $6.45 million. He still owns an apartment near the top of the Time Warner Center.
--Screenwriter, Leslie Dixon and her husband Tom Ropelewski have bought a 1,350-square-foot condominium at 45 Christopher Street for  $1.9 million.
--Actor Patrick Wilson and his wife, Dagmara Dominczyk, bought a duplex apartment last month in Williamsburg, Brooklyn for $972,428.

From the New York Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Russell Simmons is still trying to sell 114 Liberty Street. It's now listed at just under $6 million, a big dip from the original $11 million it was listed at in May 2005.
--Minnesota businessman Edward Bazinet recently placed his five-story Tribeca penthouse on the market for $28.5 million, a new record for the area. The listing has pictures of this stunning glass penthouse (shown above) which is on top of a 19th Century warehouse building
--Te Spence-Chapin Adoption Service is selling their 60-foot building for $23 million. It could become either a single-family home or luxury condos. The listing is here.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Christina Ricci is putting her Los Feliz house on the market for $3.1 million. The 1928 house is a local landmark which was preserved and updated by Diane Keaton in the 1990s. The listing is here.
--The late Eddie Albert's house was purchased for around $8.25 million. The Pacific Palisades estate was sold for the value of the land only since the house is a teardown.
--Kate Jackson has purchased a Sherman Oaks home for just under $1.1 million.

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