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Two families teamed up to buy Paolo Gucci’s flamboyant former home. Now it’s yours for a suitably exclusive £5m

Two families teamed up to buy Paolo Gucci’s flamboyant former home. Now it’s yours for a suitably exclusive £5m

It’s been six years since The Corcoran Group made its dramatic entrance from New York City onto the Palm Beach real estate stage, instantly acquiring local cachet by acquiring successful broker Paulette Koch’s namesake agency here in late 2003 and, shortly thereafter, purchasing McCann, Coyner & Clarke.

It’s been six years since The Corcoran Group made its dramatic entrance from New York City onto the Palm Beach real estate stage, instantly acquiring local cachet by acquiring successful broker Paulette Koch’s namesake agency here in late 2003 and, shortly thereafter, purchasing McCann, Coyner & Clarke.

Hot town, summer in the city, Al Pacino’s neck gettin’ dirty and gritty. Pacino will play Shylock in “The Merchant of Venice” in a production directed by Daniel Sullivan that will run at Central Park’s Delacorte Theater alongside “The Winter’s Tale,” directed by Michael Greif.

Is the subject of Carly Simon’s  song “You’re So Vain”  really record mogul David Geffen?

Some creative putting of two and two together led Britain’s The Sun newspaper to declare on Friday that entertainment mogul Geffen — who made his fortune in music and co-founded the Dreamworks movie studio — is the man who “walked into the party, like he was walking onto a yacht” , almost 40 years ago.

Simon, who has kept the name a secret, sparked the guessing game by telling Britain’s Uncut music magazine in its new issue that she whispers a name at the end of her new version of the song “and it’s the answer to the puzzle” of the mystery man that for years Simon has refused to divulge.

Uncut editor Allan Jones told Reuters that the name did indeed appear to be David.

But how The Sun came up with Geffen, who came out publicly as gay in the 1980s, seems to have involved some guess work.

The usual suspects have includes Simon’s first husband James Taylor, or actor Warren Beatty, singer Cat Stevens, Mick Jagger or Kris Kristofferson.  In hints over the years, Simon has said the name contains a A, an E and an R.  But where’s the “R” in David Geffen? Apparently, his middle name is Lawrence, and he had a romance with singer Cher in the 1970s before coming out.

Geffen was head of Simon’s Elektra record label around the time of her 1972 song, and The Sun speculated that Simon is thought to have resented the effort he put into promoting Joni Mitchell at the time, rather than any failed relationship.

As for Simon, she could not be reached for comment on Friday. Neither could Geffen.

As the American craft beer movement grows, breweries large and small are offering visitors more than just a tour and a sip.

The Crop Mob is a monthly word-of-mouth (and -Web) event in which landless farmers and the agricurious descend on a farm for an afternoon.

On March 5, former Florida quarterback Tim Tebow will take a break from his Extreme Makeover: Long, Looping Throwing Motion That Isn’t His College Coach’s Fault Edition to use his left arm for a different purpose.

By Marissa Maier The Sag Harbor School Board released a preliminary tally for the overall budget in 2010-2011. The figure for the next school year is $32,249,974, up by around $2.6 million from the current academic year. School business manager Janet Verneuille broke down the five big ticket items making up the bulk of the […]