Women were encouraged to wear wide-brimmed straw hats and lots of jewelry. An instruction sheet advised him to bring three Gatsby-style outfits suitable for a wedding guest. Mathew Sultan, 31, a mortgage broker from Roslyn, was one of those selected as an extra. Some said they had only dropped in for coffee or to pick up lunch, but no one seemed to be in any hurry to leave. Slipping off sunglasses and flipping cell phones closed only long enough to be photographed, hundreds of hopefuls waited their turn. ''If they want me as an extra, I'll be here in between patients,'' he said.
Marc Brenner, a podiatric surgeon from Old Westbury, arrived in his Lexus SC430 hardtop convertible.
Her Mercedes wears a license plate that reads ''Gold2.'' ''After all, we're on the Gold Coast,'' she said.ĭr. ''They've never had this much traffic in the lot, '' said Mona Gold of Roslyn. (If your face didn't make it into a scene, perhaps your fender might.) Porsches and Jaguars jockeyed for position while production people snapped photos.
Luxury cars are never uncommon in the Kitchen Kabaret parking lot, but at the casting call they were a dime a dozen. She and her friend Cindy Sidhom, 38, of Woodbury arrived in Mrs. Nancy Locastro, 37, of Massapequa carried a red Hermès Birkin bag just like the one Samantha Jones lusted after in one episode. Heather Rand, 27, of Miller Place said what may be unthinkable for many people: ''I'm hoping I look older.''Īlthough the casting call did not begin until 11 a.m., she was the first to arrive - at 7 - along with her friends Lynn Coyle-O'Boyle, 29, of Islip Lisa Hames, 31, of Manhattan and Melissa Matovcik, 25, of Edgewater, N.J.Īccessories, from handbags to sports cars, were carefully chosen.
Jerry Deutsch of Old Brookville said residents ''dress like people from the Hamptons, they're always trying to be at the height of whatever is hot.''īarbara Yarnell of Old Westbury said ''Hampton types'' have two looks, depending on age: for the young, ''rich and understated,'' and for the more mature, ''very conspicuous - it's the change of the guard.''īoth the old and new guards turned out in full force at Kitchen Kabaret. Another reason is that East Hills ''has a reputation of being an affluent area,'' said Liza Sandler, 35, of Jericho.