Movie director Joel Schumacher was honored in the Hamptons on Saturday at an elegant gala dinner for Phoenix House, a nonprofit drug and alcohol rehabilitation organization with 150 programs in 10 states.
The “St. Elmo’s Fire” and “The Lost Boys” director told the crowd that Bill Maher once said of him, “I went to a party when I was 12 and got home when I was 52. And you don’t want to hear what happened in between.”
The now-sober filmmaker said he “started using” as a kid in New York, “and then came the ’60s and the ’70s and the ’80s. And I hate to say this, but it was fun. Well, it was until it wasn’t.”
Also honored at the event, which raised more than $350,000 and was held at the Wainscott home of Fred Seegal and wife Robin, were Howard and Allison Lutnick.
Guests included Peter and Susan Solomon, Rose Marie Bravo, Alina Cho, Jeff and Caryn Zucker, John Forté (who performed), Pete Peterson, Linda Wells, Robert Zimmerman, Anne Keating, Rosanna Scotto, Maurice DuBois with wife Andrea, Mitch Rosenthal and Harry Slatkin.