Who’s Here in the Hamptons

Episode 50: This week on “Dan’s Talks,” Dan speaks with PR and communications expert Robert Zimmerman. The ZE Creative Communications founder/partner has extensive experience in media relations, branding communications and crisis management. He has compiled an extensive background in government and community service The Hamptons resident has also received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Public Relations Professionals of Long Island.

Episode 49: This week on “Dan’s Talks,” Dan speaks with award winning author Roger Rosenblatt. Throughout his career, he’s been an essayist for Time magazine and PBS NewsHour, author of several New  York Times bestsellers and Distinguished Professor of English and Writing at Stony Brook University. He’s also the first person to ever interview Dan for an issue of Dan’s Papers.

Episode 48: This week on “Dan’s Talks,” Dan speaks with David Nugent, artistic director of the Hamptons International Film Festival, which runs October 7–13 this year. They discussed the procedure for submitting a film, how it gets selected, safety precautions at this year’s festival and HIFF’s track record for selecting films that will win Best Picture at the Oscars (11 times so far).

Episode 47: This week on “Dan’s Talks,” Dan speaks bestselling author Erik Larson. The Southampton writer is know for his popular books Dead Wake, The Devil in the White City, In the Garden of Beasts and The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill. Released on Tuesday, his first foray into fiction, No One Goes Alone, is a horrifying experience that can only be experienced through  he chilling audiobook narrated by Julian Rhind-Tutt.  

Episode 46: This week on “Dan’s Talks,” Dan speaks with Monte Farber, celestial mechanic. Farber was the resident psychic for Jim Cramer’s popular financial website TheStreet.com and has nearly three million copies of his 45 books, divination systems and meditation kits published around the world in fourteen languages. He and Dan discuss how he got interested in the planets and how the result of a rare confluence several years ago foretold hard times.

Episode 45: This week on “Dan’s Talks,” Dan speaks with Caroline Hirsch, owner and founder of the legendary Carolines on Broadway comedy club and the New York Comedy Festival. She is well-known for her sixth sense of detecting rising comedic talent, including the likes of Paul Reubens and Jerry Seinfeld. She and Dan discuss how she got into the standup comedy club business, and why she bought a home in the Hamptons.

Dan Rattiner Talks with Tom Clavin, American Author

EPISODE 43. This week on ‘Dan’s Talks’: Dan speaks with Amy Zerner, a fashion designer for Bergdorf Goodman. Zerner, who lives full-time in East Hampton, has been designing luxury clothing for years. She describes her style as “mystical,” and talks about how she tries to make “art that you wear”. She and Dan talk about the magic of thrift shops and how Zerner “chose” the Hamptons as a place to live when she was just a teenager, among other things.

EPISODE 42. This week on ‘Dan’s Talks’: Dan speaks with Marvin Scott, a WPIX stalwart who has served as an anchor, producer, and journalist for the network for over 40 years. Scott’s knack for interviews has taken him around the world; he’s talked to everyone from Martin Luther King to soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. In the podcast, he and Dan discuss the biggest story he’s ever covered, and how social media has changed journalism. Read more about Scott in his new book, As I Saw It: A Reporter’s Intrepid Journey.  

Episode 41: This week on “Dan’s Talks,” Dan speaks with Ann Liguori, a sports journalist who’s been covering America’s athletic heroes since the days of Jack Nicklaus. She was the first woman to host a call-in show on WFAN, and her reporting exploits have taken her to six Olympic games and interviews with too many sports stars to count. She talks with Dan about the nicest golf courses in the Hamptons and what it’s like to speak with Tiger Woods and Mickey Mantle.