Art Fairs, Cocaine, and Fried Shrimp
Will Ferrell goofs around in Montauk; the NOMAD art fair arrives; the battle of the bougie pies; and is there actually a "cocaine scandal ripping the Hamptons apart"?
As the heckling of players at this weekend’s U.S. Open grew hostile, a lighter mood prevailed in Montauk, where fake golfer Will Ferrell promoted his show The Hawk. Ferrell, who plays washed-up golfer Lonnie “the Hawk” Hawkins in the upcoming Netflix comedy, delighted the town by walking around the main drag in a sandwich board, and hitting some balls at Puff & Putt minigolf. The stunt was part of a larger promotional tour of golf hot spots, including the World Golf Hall of Fame in Pinehurst, North Carolina and an upcoming trip to Cromwell, Connecticut for the Travelers Championship Pro-Am. Mike from Montauk told me Will was talking to lots of townspeople: “It was a very cool moment and everyone enjoyed seeing him there.”
I spent part of my weekend undertaking the Herculean mission of ordering fried shrimp and ribs at Shelter Island’s legendary Commander Cody’s fish market. Commander Cody’s, which was opened by Jimmy Hayward in 1993, is a rustic seafood and barbecue spot with long waits and great beach grub. (I have a group chat whose signature emoji is the “🍤” in honor of Cody’s.) Hayward, who is 91, still mans the cash-only till. My father’s day gift to my long-suffering husband was handling our Cody’s order and the subsequent wait, while he had a massage at another Shelter Island institution, the Bonheur Supreme Spa across from Sunset Beach.
In today’s newsletter: the jetsetter art fair NOMAD—complete with a Giorgio Armani exhibition—arrives in Water Mill; Alex Gilbert; Nicolas Bellavance-Lecompte; Robert Wilson; the cocaine chronicles; a Montauk cab driver; Lizzie Grubman; Stefan Soloviev; New York’s Hamptons issue; Jamagansett’s $80 pie; Sam Pezzullo; Kristen Wiig; Rukmini Callimachi; Marit Molin.