Brooke Shields and her daughter Grier Henchy didn’t let the threat of rain keep them from finishing Audrey Gruss’s Hope for Depression Research Foundation ’s 5k race in Southampton last weekend. Also on hand were several billionaires, including composer Karen LeFrak and her husband Richard LeFrak and John Paulson with his fiancée Alina de Almeida, plus Social Life magazine’s editor in chief Devorah Rose. Over 1,000 people showed up with dogs and babies in carriages to walk around the town.
**** Jeff Bruette had never heard of Andy Warhol in 1985 when he was sent to New York to teach the pop artist how to use a computer. Bruette was a product manager at Commodore, headquartered in Pennsylvania. “I said, ‘Why don’t you get someone who knows computers.
’ They said, ‘We have Andy Warhol. He did the Campbell’s Soup cans.’ I thought he was a label designer.
” Bruette was soon at The Factory, Warhol’s studio, hanging with Ric Ocasek of The Cars, and Debbie Harry of Blondie . Bruette taught Warhol how to use the new Amiga computer to make an image of Harry at a press conference. “Andy was a really nice guy,” Bruette told me.
“So down to earth.” Harry sat next to Bruette at rehearsal in a sequined Steven Sprouse minidress. “Aren’t those sequins scratchy,” Bruette asked the blonde.
“Actually it’s very smooth inside. Want to feel?” Harry replied. “I turned the brightest red,” Bruette said.
Warhol’s demonstration at Lincoln Center that .