RICHARD JOHNSON: Justin Bieber, wife Hailey surprise fans in Southampton, L.I., with casual village stroll

Justin Bieber and his wife Hailey Bieber surprised fans when they showed up with no security at the Golden Pear in Southampton for the second year in a row.

The lovey-dovey duo, who held hands and smooched while walking in the village, were both dressed casually in t-shirts and shorts.

The singer ordered matching vanilla iced lattes at the counter. Everyone stared, but no one asked for selfies or autographs as this was, after all, the celebrity-filled Hamptons.

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Gary Player had three good reasons to follow the 151st Open Championship, also known as the British Open, finishing Sunday at Royal Liverpool.

The South African, 87, is the only golfer to have won it in three different decades.

Player told Hampton Sheet Magazine why he always dresses in black.

“I watched a show called ‘Have Gun — Will Travel,’ it’s about a man dressed in black with a silver holster and a cowboy hat. He gave everyone he met a business card with a black knight logo that read, ‘If you have problems call me and I’ll help you.’ And I loved that. So I decided to wear black and that’s why they called me the Black Knight.”

“And yes, it’s a little hot, but when you are hot, your muscles are far more loose than when they are cold.”

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Legendary photographer Harry Benson, who has shot everyone from Greta Garbo to Princess Diana, also took iconic shots of the Beatles, who became his friends while he toured with them in 1964.

“I still talk to Paul [McCartney],” said Benson. When asked who his favorite Beatle was, he said “Paul was the leader, if you wanted something done, he was the one that got it done; Ringo and George, not so much.”

Of John Lennon he remarked, “He was the least show-bizzy of the group.” Guests at a reception for his show at the Southampton Cultural Center were moved to tears by his photograph of Robert F. Kennedy dead in a pool of blood on the floor of a Los Angeles hotel.

Benson confessed, “I have frequent nightmares about seeing Bobby Kennedy shot. The screaming of the people around him still haunts me. The last thing Bobby said to me was ‘See you in Chicago’ but of course he never got to Chicago. In my job you always have to be ready for something awful — or beautiful — to happen.”

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The usually conservative Parrish Art Museum in Southampton hosted a shocking performance by Narcissister, a Brooklyn based performance artist, at its Midsummer Dance co-chaired by billionaire heirs Ivy Getty and Larry Milstein.

The artist appeared as a masked doll with clown shoes and stripped down before extracting a seemingly endless blue ribbon from between her legs, not unlike what you’d see in the sex clubs of Bangkok.

She proceeded to tie helium-filled balloons to the ribbon and sat on them, crushing them until they popped.

Some theorized the performance was about giving birth and cutting the umbilical cord. Others ran for the bar.

The young crowd cheered her on but some of the older folks found it a bit awkward.

“The Parrish has gotten cool and edgy,” said one art collector. “I can’t wait to see how they’ll top this next year.”

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“Star Trek” star William Shatner, Pierce Brosnan and “The Sopranos” Vincent Pastore are a few of the actors who have who been honored at Roberto Rizzo’s NYC International Film Festival.

This week at The Dolby Theater on Sixth Ave., Rizzo featured over 30 TV shows by independent filmmakers.

The winners included “Hot Angry Mom,” “Timeless Love” and the inspirational documentary “UNDIVIDED: Pandemic with a Purpose,” produced by SOMOS Community Care founder Dr. Ramon Tallaj and Anel Pla.

Although SOMOS lost 12 doctors to Covid, the organization’s 700 doctors delivered over 1 million free vaccines to the most underserved in the five boroughs, saving thousands of lives.

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Chuck Zito, Chazz Palminteri, Mario Cantone and Andrew ‘Dice’ Clay were all on the red carpet for the season two premier of their mafia crime series “Gravesend 2″ by filmmaker and actor Will DeMeo at Floral Terrace on Long Island.

Also on hand were “Karate Kid” stars Martin Kove and Ralph Macchio, who celebrated their reunion at the screening.

The second season will continue the saga of Benny Zerletta, a Brooklyn based Italian-American soldier in the Colezzo crime family played by DeMeo.

Fans of “The Sopranos” will be happy to hear that Pastore, Tony Darrow, Sofia Milos and Al Sapienza will also star in what’s being called the “Expendables of Organized Crime Cast.”

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An edition of the iconic Astor Place Alamo Cube, whose permanent home is in the East Village, was sold for $250,000 to The Pauline & Austin Neuhoff Foundation in Dallas.

It was the first of nine editions by the late sculptor Tony Rosenthal, who was posthumously honored at the 4th Annual Hamptons Fine Art Fair.

The original cube is now back from repairs in its iconic spot downtown.

Over 10,000 people attended the four-day event, which featured over 1,000 artists and 300 galleries, including M.S. Rau, which sold a 5.5-million-dollar Picasso.

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D’yan Forest, Guinness world record holder for oldest working female comedian, will celebrate her 89th birthday with a standup performance at Gotham Comedy Club on July 31.

Forrest has been called the naughty version of Betty White and has worked with Jerry Seinfeld, Jim Gaffigan and the late Joan Rivers.