Wednesday, August 10, 2005 1:34 PM
WHO: Amy Alkon, Emmanuelle Richard, Cathy Seipp and the L.A. Press Club invite you to:
WHAT: A party for writer/director/actor Paul Feig, author of the new bestselling memoir “Superstud: Or How I Became a 24-Year-Old Virgin.” Paul is also the creator of the cult TV hit “Freaks and Geeks,” writer and director of the feature film “I Am David,” and a director on the TV series “Arrested Development.”
WHEN: Wednesday, Aug. 10, from 7-10 p.m., with Paul doing a short reading from “Superstud” and Q&A around 8:30 p.m.
WHERE: Poolside at the fabulous Grafton Hotel on Sunset Strip, 8462 Sunset Blvd., just east of La Cienega. Hotel phone: (866) 301 8187. Cash bar, complimentary hors d’oeuvres from Balboa, the Grafton’s very hot restaurant. Partially validated valet parking at the hotel; limited free street parking after 6 p.m.
WHY: Because “Freaks and Geeks,” finally available on DVD this year, remains one of the funniest and truest TV shows about adolescence ever — a “high-school show for adults,” as Feig always said, and still missed five years after NBC too quickly cancelled it. Because “Superstud,” along with Feig’s previous memoir “Kick Me: Adventures In Adolescence,” is a hilarious look at the real-life romantic misadventures that helped inspire “Freaks and Geeks.”
And because in his youth, Feig found favorite imaginary girlfriends in ads from W magazine, a vast improvement over previous imaginary girlfriends: “For a twelve-year-old boy who had just spent the past week trying to become aroused by [a picture of] a woman from the 1950s who was built like one of the chorus girls in a Marx Brothers movie, this was the mother lode.”
WAIT, THERE’S MORE: In the spirit of the evening (Paul Feig began his career as a stand-up comic), the Comedy Store across the street has donated about three dozen free tickets to partygoers who want to catch a late show there after our event.
ALSO: Excerpt from Dan Zak’s July 23 Washington Post article on Paul Feig:
It’s a Nerd. It’s in Pain. It’s Superstud!
WASHINGTON — The first time Paul Feig was naked in front of a woman was 1986, when he was 24. After all those years, he was ready. More important, she was willing. But what followed was less a sequence from a Pat Conroy novel and more a spectacular NASCAR spinout. Too fast, too slow, wrong way, back up, hold on. Pit stop, change the tires, keep your eye on the road. Zoom. Screech. Bam. Ooh. That’s gotta be humiliating…
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