Hamptons Scene: Lou Reed, Len Riggio, Baldwin, Paltrow

“Let them in, I’m only the host!” Leonard Riggio said on Friday night, to a guard stationed at his front door who had been asking arrivals to enter through the side porch.

The set-up at his home in Bridgehampton was for Guild Hall’s annual benefit. The chairman, founder and largest shareholder of Barnes & Noble Inc. said he agreed to host the event out of affection for the artist Chuck Close.