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Brad and Angelina's Hamptons Express

Sun., Aug. 26, 2007 12:20 PM PDT by Marc Malkin

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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie hit the Hamptons last night.

As I was the first to tell you, Tribeca Film Festival cofounders—superproducer Jane Rosenthal and her businessman husband, Craig Hatkoff—threw a dinner party at their Hamptons home to help promote and raise funds for Pitt’s efforts to help rebuild Katrina-devastated New Orleans.

I’m told the intimate four-hour soiree was attended by about 70 people, including Christie Brinkley, Pitt's Oceans 13 costar Ellen Barkin, Donna Karan, music honcho L.A. Reid and hotelier Andre Balazs. The New Orleans-inspired buffet menu—prepared by Rosenthal and Hatkoff’s personal chef—included crabcakes, salmon, lamb, lemon pound cake and grilled peaches.

Jolie was in white pants and a matching long-sleeve top, a fellow party-goer reports. Pitt wore all black, including a tie.

Cocktails started at about 7p.m. on the deck, followed by dinner under a white tent.

As dinner was winding down, Pitt made a speech. Douglas G. Brinkley, a historian and author of The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, also spoke after being introduced by Pitt, as did environmental architect Bill McDonough.

Pitt and Jolie, I’m told, were the last to leave at about 11 p.m. They apparently left the Hamptons the same way they arrived—by helicopter.

"It was lovely," the fellow party-goer said. "It was very low-key. It was just a great way for Brad to promote the great things that he’s doing."

Asked to describe Brangelina, the partyer cooed, "They’re adorable."