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Although the Hamptons are not a universal object of fantasy on the scale of Hollywood or Manhattan--there are no movies or musicals about young people in Kansas dreaming of making it in East Hampton someday--they have an allure that is at least as powerful, because it is based on exclusivity: the Hamptons are what the people who have made it in Hollywood and Manhattan fantasize about. Many New Yorkers look on the Hamptons--strictly speaking, a half-dozen or so disparate villages, which are often lumped together in the media and hence in the popular imagination--with a mixture of contempt and envy, the former inspired by the saturation-level coverage of the goings on of the rich, famous, and foolish, and the latter inspired by the natural beauty of the area, the elemental pull of the ocean and the air and the land, and by how out of reach it seems to all but the luckiest few. The beauty, the money, the elusiveness--all these converge to make the Hamptons viscerally fascinating, a kind of perfect storm of a subject.
So it's not all that surprising that the documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple has chosen this strip of Long Island's South Fork for her latest film, "The Hamptons," which will be shown on ABC, in two parts, on June 2nd and 3rd--even though it seems a long way from the work with which she made her reputation, the 1976 "Harlan County U.S.A.," about...
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