MonTalk©
with Ingrid Lemme

Dream Quote of the Month:"When opportunity knocks, you still have to get off your seat and answer the door.” - Will Rogers

Dream Woman of the Month: Jill Ramundo, manager of Brideghampton National Bank in Montauk

Dream Man of the Month: Kevin O’Connor, the new President and Chief Executive Officer of Bridgehampton National Bank.

Best Friends of the Month: Loretta and Debbie

Organization of the Month: Our Montauk Library

Dream Business of the Month: A Little Bit of Everything

Dream Teen of the Month: Bridget Behan

Dream Baby of the Month: Samantha Behan

Dream Kid of the Month: Christina

Dream Boat of the Month: The Viking Fleet

Movie of the Month: Death, Taxes... and Chocolate! A Dark (Chocolate) Comedy  filmed in Wilmington, NC has its NY debut on the Dream Show with Executive Producer & writer Dr. Andrea Stern-Levinson.

Dream Teacher of the Month: Miss Evelyn

Montauk VIP of the Month: John Behan

Dream Media of the Month: NPR…National Public Radio

Dream Author of the Month: Emma Walton-Hamilton

Dream Book of the Month: Home by Julie Andrews, co-authored by Miss Andrews’daughter, Emma Walton-Hamilton

Dream Couple of the Month: Marilyn and John

Dream Artist of the Month:  Arnie Arlow, creator of the famous Absolut Vodka advertisements,  

Dream Website of the Month: Montauk Sun

Save the Date: The ‘Jersey Boys’ show, Memorial Weekend at Gurney’s

Never forgotten: Beautiful Suzanne Gosman

Dear friends, let’s spend the economy stimulus rebate money as quickly as possible. We can beat the recession; with six hundred dollars per person. Don’t hold on to it and don’t send it out into a foreign country. Our friend Jeff Nichols sent us this e-mail: DROPPING GAS PRICEs! THIS IS NOT THE 'DON'T BUY' GAS FOR ONE DAY, BUT IT WILL SHOW YOU HOW WE CAN GET GAS BACK DOWN BY A $1.30 PER GALLON.

This was sent by a retired Coca Cola executive. It came from one of his engineer buddies who retired from Halliburton. If you are tired of the gas prices going up AND they will continue to rise this summer, take time to read this please. Phillip Hollsworth offered this good idea.

This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the 'don't buy gas on a certain day' campaign that was going around last April or May! It's worth your consideration. Join the resistance!!! I hear we are going to hit close to $4.00 a gallon by next summer, and it might go higher!! Want gasoline prices to come down?

We need to take some intelligent, united action. The oil companies just laughed at that because they knew we wouldn't continue to 'hurt' ourselves by refusing to buy gas. It was more of an inconvenience to us than it was a problem for them. BUT, whoever thought of this idea has come up with a plan that can really work. Please read on and join with us. By now you're probably thinking gasoline priced at about $2.00 is super cheap. Me too! It is currently $3.35 for regular unleaded in my town. Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us to think that the cost of a gallon of gas will be CHEAP at $3.50 - $3.75, we need to take aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS control the marketplace..not sellers.

With the price of gasoline going up more each day, we consumers need to take action.The only way we are going to see the price of gas come down is if we hit someone in the pocketbook by not purchasing their gas! And, we can do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves. How? Since we all rely on our cars, we can't just stop buying gas.......

But we CAN have an impact on gas prices if we all act together to force a price war. Here's the idea: For the rest of this year, DON'T purchase ANY gasoline from the two biggest companies (which now are one), EXXON and MOBIL. If they are not selling any gas, they will be inclined to reduce their prices. If they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to follow suit. But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of Exxon and Mobil gas buyers. It's really simple to do! Now, don't wimp out on me at this point...keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people!! I am sending this note to 30 people. If each of us send it to at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300) ... and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300x10 = 3,000)...and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth group of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers. If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted! If it goes one level further, you guessed it..... THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!!

Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. That's all! (If you don't understand how we can reach 300 million and all you have to do is send this to 10 people.... Well, let's face it, you just aren't a mathematician. But I am so trust me on this one.) How long would all that take? If each of us sends this e-mail out to ten more people within one day of receipt, all 300 MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within the next 8 days !!! I'll bet you didn't think you and I had that much potential, did you! Acting together we can make a difference. If this makes sense to you, please pass this message on. I suggest that we not buy from EXXON/MOBIL UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE $2.00 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK.

~ Love Ingrid

Ingrid Lemme is Director of PR and Marketing for Gurneys Inn Resort & Spa in Montauk. She is show hostess of her talk show American Dreams® which airs on WVVH TV, 78 Hamptons Television Tuesdays 6:00 pm, Fridays at 7:00 pm and Saturdays at 2pm. Send her e-mail to ilemme@mac.com, or a letter to PO Box 752, Montauk N.Y. 11954 if you like.

The American Dreams® Show is aired on Hamptons TV, CHANNEL 78 a commercial cable and broadcast TV station serving New York and Long Island and are watched world-wide in real-time via Live-Web-Stream on http://www.WVVH.com. The American Dream® Show is also available on: Time Warner Cable's video-on-demand system.

This Month on the American Dreams Show: Julie Andrews' daughter Emma Walton, actress and founder of Baystreet Theater, talked about her life growing up with the Sound of Music and her mom's new book Home, an autobiography which she co-authored.  Death, Taxes... and Chocolate! A Dark (Chocolate) Comedy, filmed in Wilmington, NC has its NY debut with Executive Producer & Writer, Dr. Andrea Levinson. Arnie Arlow, creator of the famous Absolut Vodka advertisements, talked about his dream life in the Hamptons, as did Kevin O’Connor, the new President and Chief Executive Officer of Bridgehampton National Bank. VIP reporter Debbie Tuma who interviewed Richard Nixon. Rick Friedman who created the syndicated TV show Dance Fever (original MC) and runs the annual Hamptons Home & Garden Show. Aspiring EH fashion designer Lissa Tovar, and Art Eisenberg, CEO of ‘Route 110 Home Furnishings’.

NEW Airing times: Tuesdays 6:00 pm, Fridays 7:00 pm & Saturdays 2:00 pm

4/29 5/02 5/03 Kevin O’Conner

5/06 5/09 5/10 Debbie Tuma

5/13 5/16 5/17 Art Eisenberg

5/20 5/23 5/24 Dr. Andrea Levinson

5/27 5/30 5/31 Emma Walton-Hamilton

6/03 6/06 6/07 Arnie Arlow

6/10 6/13 6/14 Lissa Tovar