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Beach House Spectacular: One Ocean View

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File this one in the Things We Do For You category: Here's a recap of last night's One Ocean View. OOV is a short reality TV series by the same production team that does the Real World. In it, a bunch of heavily waxed singles spend the summer in Fire Island (mostly weekends, as some are working New Yorkers) and do all the things one would expect from reality TV housemates. The show is kind enough to give one line descriptions for the cast members, and we'll do the same:

Miki and Rhada: Twins that own an organic pizza shop in New York City. Tastefully crunchy.

Mary--A handbag designer that lives in both New York and L.A. She's got L.A. attitude and New York looks. Uh oh.

Lisa--The "shy" one, who is also a "dancer". A shy dancer, we assume.

KJ--Originally from North Jersey, he owns a gym. Guido.

John--Described as the romantic one, he's a broker of some kind. Sensitive Guido.

Usman--Ethnic and horny, much like if Fez from That 70's Show was a wealthy lawyer. Metro Guido.

Zach and Lauren--Formerly a couple, Lauren is keeping Zach on the hook (she was his only girlfriend) while she sluts around with other men. He's a delusional Guido, she's mostly evil.

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Beach House Spectactular: Fire Island Stinks?

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Surprise, surprise, Fire Island never cottoned to the whole reality show (One Ocean View) filming in their midst. Just like residents of Denver, where the Real World is currently filming, and Scottsdale, which was the location for an MTV Super Sweet Sixteen episode, Fire Island would rather not have a bunch of drunken, horny egomaniacs careening through their hometown.

According to locals, portraying the area as a super-sexy Hamptons lite, as ABC is aiming to do, is inaccurate:

"From their pictures, the guys on the show are all glamorous," said Maria Rondisi, who works in magazine production and was spending a recent Friday on the beach in front of the shared house where the show was shot in June and early July..."The real guys out here are beer-drinking, shower-once-a-week, down-to-earth fun guys," she said. "It's not the Hamptons."

Remember that folks: Fire Island is stinky, not sexy. And yet, it still sounds a lot more pleasant than the Hamptons.

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Beach House Spectacular: Long Island Long Since Past?

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Sorry, twenty-somethings: The Hamptons and Fire Island don't want you any more. No, according to a recent New York Times article, there aren't nearly as many group shares (houses where tons of young folk crash for a summer) as there were twenty years ago. Many of those houses have been fixed up, turned into cash cow rentals for families, or purchased. Unsurprisingly, those landlords aren't interested in having a bunch of drunk kids on their property if they can get less problematic tenants instead.

On the flip side, those young cosmopolitan whippersnappers are indifferent to the Hamptons. Quoth one hipsterette:

"If someone is like, 'I'm going to the Hamptons for the weekend,' " she said, "I'm like, 'You are so generic.' "

Snap, yo!

The article points out that for the several hundred dollars it takes to spend a weekend in the Hamptons, many prefer to go someone completely unassociated with Long Island (like Miami) or stay in the city and drink on their roof. Bummer for Martha Stewart. She'll have to look for a young buck to Sugar Mama during the cooler months, now, instead of easily luring one with pool access.

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