To Do Saturday: The Artists of Fielding

Laura L. Griffin — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 11:00:03 -0400

Grab your peanuts and crackerjack, because Saturday marks the 64th annual Artists and Writers Celebrity Softball Game, which benefits an amalgamation of deserving East Hampton charities. And what rarified company you’ll be in! Long-time coach Ken Auletta leads the writers, joined by the likes of George Stephanopoulos, Hugo Lindgren and Carl Bernstein. The scribes will be challenged by the “artists” Christie Brinkley, Lori Singer and Mad Men’s John Slattery. (We’d never argue semantics, but this category used to include the likes of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, though we can’t picture either playing softball.) The proceedings will be announced by James Lipton, natch, whose bookings for Inside the Actors Studio have also begun to blur the lines of job titles. Remember the Jon Bon Jovi episode?

Herrick Park, 86 Main Street (East Hampton), $10 suggested donation, batting practice begins at noon, game at 2pm; information can be found at artistswritersgame.org.

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To Do Saturday: The Artists of Fielding