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ALICE BURDICK SCHWEIGER
Special to the Jewish News

John Tanasychuk, Detroit Free Press, January 8th, 1999

from New York City for them."
Jacqueline Lipson, a matrimonial
lawyer determined to find Mr. Right
by summer's end, is one of the singles
Kopple follows. She goes on record
saying she wants someone Jewish.
University of Michigan grad Kevin
Feder, an investment analyst who is not
in the film but lives in New York and
vacations in the Hamptons, also has
noticed the vast contingent of Jews.
"Many young Jewish professionals
go out there in the summer season,
and many relationships are formed,"

I is filled with long sandy beach-
es, rambling estates, chic bou-
tiques, trendy restaurants, a
hopping bar scene and TV and
film industry moguls. Its the
Hamptons, located at the eastern end
of Long Island, about 90 miles from
New York City, and from Memorial
Day through Labor Day it's turned
into a playground for the rich and
famous, and singles seeking romance.
On June 2 and 3, from 9-
11 p.m., ABC will take a look
at this wealthy beach resort in
a reality-based miniseries
called The Hamptons, directed
and produced by two-time
Academy Award-winning
documentary filmmaker
Barbara Kopple (American
Dream; Harlan County,
U.S.A.; Wild Man Blues; My
Generation).
"I think people would like
to see a nonfiction film about
the Hamptons for the sur-
prise of how people live," said Filmmaker Barbara Kopple, center, interviews
the Jewish filmmaker during an equestrians for "The Hamptons."
ABC interview. But this was
particularly tough because people are
he says. "A close friend of mine is mar-
paying a lot of money to spend time
rying a Jewish real estate broker he
met there last summer. People seem to
in the Hamptons. So to allow a film
let their guard down there, and people
crew into their lives was something
they really had to take a deep breath
from all over the country visit in the
for.
summer -- not just New Yorkers."
The area, originally a quiet, peaceful
Filmed the summer of 2001, the
documentary follows the lives of a
summer colony for socialites seeking
diverse group of people, including
refuge from hectic city life, gradually
became a popular hideaway for writ-
aspiring socialites, celebrities such as
Billy Joel, waitresses, fishermen and
ers, artists, businessmen and entertain-
more. Viewers get a glimpse of a wed-
ers who built second residences as a
retreat.
ding, a funeral, barbecue and exclusive
parties. The show even includes PR
Then Hollywood turned up and the
princess Lizzie Grubman, who made
likes of Steven Spielberg, Jerry Seinfeld
and Billy Joel arrived.
headlines last summer when she ran
her SUV into a nightclub, injuring
Today, the Hamptons are depicted as
several bystanders.
an enclave unlike any other in America.
What's evident in the documentary
And Kopple is proud to have the whole
is that many of the Hamptons' inhabi-
country take a peek into the lives of the
people who vacation there. ❑
tants are Jewish, including a large
Jewish singles population.
"We have a lot of single Jews in the
The Hamptons airs 9-11 p.m.
Hamptons looking for love," says
Sunday and Monday, June 2-3,
Jason Binn, publisher of Hamptons
on ABC.
Magazine and one of the people fea-
tured in the film. "It's a great escape
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