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The Hamptons meets pop culture in Paramount Pictures’ mega-hit, “Iron Man," starring Robert Downey Jr., who got married there, and Amagansett’s own Gwyneth Paltrow. During one scene, Paltrow’s character Pepper Potts rolls her eyes and tells Downey’s character Tony Stark that a painting he's about to buy is not from the artist’s “Springs” period as Stark thinks…it was painted in an area of East Hampton called Springs, where the artist had a studio.

This moviegoer's recollection of the dialogue is that Potts refers to a Willem DeKooning painting; a blogger at Dan’s Papers remembers it as a Jackson Pollock painting. Whether Pollock or DeKooning, both artists did have studios in Springs, and longtime connections to the Hamptons.

Incidentally, the 2,500-square-foot Springs former studio of DeKooning’s wife, Elaine, has been on the market since last year. The most recent listing price is $1.6 million, a reduction from the original $2 million asking price. The studio is listed with Josiane Fleming and Robin Kaplan of Prudential Douglas Elliman.

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