Fresh from playing Carson Drew to Emma Roberts’s Nancy, actor Tate Donovan and his family just spent a week relaxing in a five-bedroom Fire Island rental in the upscale hamlet of Saltaire. It’s unclear how much he paid, but houses that size usually go for $5,000 to $6,000 per week. One dazzled local says he fit right into the low-key community, calling him “lovely.”
Speaking of good-guy celebrities, more details on John Cleese’s $1.4 million pied-à-terre purchase: Mitchell Tenzer, president of the co-op board at 196 East 75th Street, says the building was thrilled to welcome him because “he and his wife were lovely and entertaining.” Listing broker Samantha Kleier Forbes of Gumley Haft Kleier had no comment on the sale, but Jacky Teplitzky of Prudential Douglas Elliman, whose team member David Cooper worked with Cleese, says he found the place when he called them out of the blue about another apartment in the building, one that was already in contract.