This month's bookmark by:
Gary Baseman
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Sunday, January 30th
(& the last Sunday of Every Month)
8:00 until 10:00 in the evening
Mt. Hollywood Underground
4607 Prospect Avenue
(Underneath Mt. Hollywood Church in Silverlake, corner of Prospect and
Rodney, one block North of Hollywood
and one block east of Vermont. Enter
on Rodney)
Gents and Dames welcomed with equal regard!
Admission $7.00 (general) or $5.00
(members)
Bookmarks $10.00*
Passwords & such
310.572.7347
www.smartgals.org
Mix, mingle, swoon, shine, speakeasy!
*Keeping this all on the QT, we
don't sell booze, but we
do sell
bookmarks. Do I make myself
mysterious enough here? We
don't sell booze,
but we do sell
bookmarks. Pack $17.00 for a full
night. And hush! |
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Sunday, January
30th
8:00pm
Put down that Tolstoy novel for just a moment,
please. This month's Speakeasy pays tribute to
the sweet release of pretense with an Evening of
Guilty Pleasures.
What is a guilty pleasure, you ask? It's the creamy
center of an Oreo cookie. It's the common bond
between Keanu Reeves, dollar stores, popcorn shrimp,
Hallmark commercials, Cap'n Crunch cereal, and the
WB. It's also the subject of our featured tome,
The Encyclopedia of Guilty
Pleasures: 1,001 Things You Hate To Love (Quirk Books). Coauthor Julia
Spalding joins us to spread the guilty pleasure
gospel, along with this month's featured artist
Gary Baseman. Yes, Gary Baseman.
Come fess up to your deepest, darkest secrets
in a parlor game patterned after that classic guilty
pleasure, The Cosmo Quiz. We'll toast your
brave candor with a signature cocktail, the Vanilla
Ice, and dim the lights for a special screening
that will take you back to the days of very special
After School Specials.
So go ahead. Let your freak flag fly. Your secret's
safe with us.
Password: That's the way (uh-huh, uh-huh) I like
it (uh-huh, uh-huh).
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Gary
Baseman. Pervasive Artist. Painter. TV/Movie Producer.
Toy Designer. Humorist. Mr. Baseman is the three-time
Emmy award winning creator and executive producer
of “Teacher’s Pet,” the critically
acclaimed animated series and film. His artwork
can be seen in The New Yorker, Time, The
New York Times, Rolling
Stone, and on the best selling game "Cranium." The
National Portrait Gallery in D.C. and the Gallery
of Modern Art in Rome feature his work in their
permanent collections. He continues to have solo
gallery exhibitions with his paintings in New York,
Los Angeles, Rome and Tokyo. Entertainment
Weekly Magazine named Baseman as one of the 100 Most Creative
People in Entertainment. His 352-page book of his
art, titled Dumb Luck was just published by Chronicle
Books.
BUY
THE BOOK
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Coauthor
of The Encyclopedia of Guilty
Pleasures, Julia
Spalding is a huge fan of America’s Funniest
Home Videos, and she’s not ashamed to admit
it. She is also a San Diego freelance writer
who has penned articles for Elle
Décor,
Los Angeles Magazine, Endless Vacation, and a
bunch of other publications you’ve probably
never heard of. She keeps her eBay account in
good standing and her refrigerator full of Fresca
by covering the visual arts for San
Diego Magazine and writing Duds, a monthly fashion advice column
for men.
(Ms. Spalding would like to acknowledge her Encyclopedia
of Guilty Pleasures partners in crime: Lou Harry,
who is the wind beneath her wings; and Sam Stall,
her very own American Idol.)
The Encyclopedia of Guilty Pleasures: 1,001
Things You Hate to Love by Sam Stall, Lou
Harry, and Julia Spalding
What do Neil Diamond, Touched by an Angel,
Pamela Anderson, The Boy in the Plastic Bubble,
Benny Hill, Thomas Kinkade, and the song “You
Light Up My Life” have in common? They’re
all guilty pleasures -- and they’re all celebrated
in this massive ABBA-to-Zima encyclopedia.
Authors Sam Stall, Lou Harry, and Julia Spalding
have unearthed fascinating trivia about books you
wouldn’t want to leave out on your coffee table,
albums you stash at the bottom of your CD rack, foods
you eat in the dark of night, and movies that would
curl the toes of a film studies student – and
yet there they are at the top of your Netflix queue.
Complete with 1,001 entries, all handily cross-referenced
for your bar betting convenience, it’s the
ultimate guide to everything you hate to love.
BUY THE BOOK
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