Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Screening Party by Dennis Hensley Entertainment. This show has been canceled due to the temporary closing of North Star Casino Resort. Please refer to the following Press Room articles for more information: northstarcasinoresort.com/news/temporary-tribal-gaming-operation-shutdown northstarcasinoresort.com/news/faq-regarding-covid- 19-casino-resort-closure. Barry Neal. Barry’s beginnings were unusual. After graduating from Northwestern University and completing a successful run in the famous Mee-Ow show (who’s celebrity members have included Julia Louis Dreyfus, Dermot Mulroney, George Newborn, Craig Bierko, Seth Meyers, and Ana Gasteyer), his brother dared him to go onstage at an open mic to do a routine. Barry was hit that night, and knew that stand-up comedy was his next mountain to climb. Barry learned from the best comedians in the country. Jerry Seinfeld was a regular. He watched people like Bill Maher, Ellen Degeneres, Paul Reiser, and Tim Allen just to name a few. Barry learned by not only watching these comics but by being a good listener when these comics would talk comedy. Barry’s style is clean, high energy, and relationship material was a hit in almost every market. He quickly moved up the comedy ladder and was on cable and network tv, from MTV, NBC, Comedy Central, and VH-1. Barry’s act was noticed by a production company that loved his Counselor of Love persona, and his act is currently being shopped as a sitcom called The Counselor of Love that Barry wrote along with his partner Dan Patterson, who was creator and executive producer of Who’s Line Is It Anyway? Debbie Praver. Debbie Praver lives in Los Angeles but is always more at home in New York City because in Manhattan people are ready to order when they get to the front of the line. Her impatience combined with her sarcastic wit made stand up comedy her only career option. She was an invited guest performer at the Las Vegas Comedy Festival, has shared the stage with Kathy Griffin in Dennis Hensley's “Screening Party” and performs regularly at the Improv, the comedy store, and the Friars Club. Debbie honed her writing skills with Desperate Housewives Creator Marc Cherry and Desperate Housewives Co-executive Producers Joey Murphy and John Pardee. The refinement of her stand up act happened as she studied with the fabulously talented yet brutally honest Mark Lonow . She has been published in Los Angeles' Atomica magazine, is a fill in sidekick for Dennis Hensley on his Sirius Out Q radio show and makes appearances on paper in Dennis Hensley's “Misadventures in the 213” and Del Shore's novel “Sordid Lives .” Praver spent too many years in Disney costumes including Minnie Mouse, Pinocchio, Sneezy, Grumpy, Dopey, the March Hare (who. the hare is in Alice in Wonderland), and in a pinch she crouched down to do Donald Duck in a parade. Because she towers at 5' 1” it appeared that Donald had joined the Rockette's. After escaping from the tragic kingdom she toured as the Dance Leader for the media tour of the Broadway musical “Footloose”, choreographed many fitness videos (those include Jeff Costa's “Cardio Strip Tease”, Denise Austin's “Pilates Matwork”, and George Forman's “walk it off with George ”), and choreographed the series “the Method workout” for Fit TV. Debbie received her BA in Physical Education/Exercise Physiology from Cal State University at Long Beach and can be found teaching all sorts of fitness classes around Los Angeles . Screening Party (Signed) Some terminology that may be used in this description includes: First Edition In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in. [more] edges The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a. 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Just then, his wife traipses in looking like Pat Benatar from the "Love Is a Battlefield" video. When Rob notices she's with another man, all hell breaks loose. "Get your hands off of my wife!" threatens Rob. "With narcissists," explains Dr. Beaverman, "everything belongs to them. They see everything as an extension of themselves. They are not independent objects." Dr. B takes a swig of Snapple and adds, ". . . .unlike whatever Demi's got stuffed into her bra which seems to have a mind of its own." "And check out that metallic lip gloss," says Tony. "It looks like she just went down on C3PO in the bathroom." - Screening Party on St. Elmo's Fire. It started as a series of articles for the British version of Premiere , and Instinct Magazine , but soon took on a life of it's own. Dennis Hensley, author of the bestseller Misadventures in the (213) , has been getting together with 5 friends to watch and debate, rant, criticize, and reminisce about films that are both recognized classics and guilty pleasures. Partway through this deconstruction of memorable cinema, you will encounter this musing on Armageddon: "'What girl would make out with her boyfriend in front of her dad?' wonders Tony, as Liv straddles Ben and sucks his face off while Willis and company look on. 'She mounted him in a sundress in front of her dad.'" If you're tired of plodding through earnest studies of film's impact on society, these words alone should convince you that this book is anything but. Dennis Hensley is a Los Angelesbased journalist whose writing has appeared in Movieline, Premiere, The Advocate , and other publications. He is the author of the n. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Hensley held a series of movie screening parties for friends and recorded the group's caustic chatter while watching the films. He relates what's happening on-screen while his pals (voiced by Kathy Griffin, Tony Tripoli, Erin Quill, Mark Salzberg and Robert Abele) create a Mystery Science Theater 3000-like atmosphere with astute put-downs, wry observations and behind-the-scenes anecdotes to delight film buffs. This crowd can even make a fun evening out of sitting through Armageddon, A Night in Heaven and 9 1/2 Weeks (which everyone agrees refers to "how long Kim Basinger is going to have to be on penicillin" after she breaks up with Mickey Rourke). When Julia Roberts enters Pretty Woman in a blonde pageboy wig and sailor hat, someone notes, "She looks like the Captain and Tennille rolled into one unfortunate person." During Flashdance, Griffin wisecracks, "The metaphors in this movie are about as subtle as Bruce Jenner's face work." Hensley saves the best commentaries for the last CD, when the group takes on Al Pacino's Cruising and Mariah Carey's Glitter. The entire cast is splendid. Hensley deftly handles the majority of the narration, but vies with Eve Arden reincarnate Griffin and hilarious mimic Tripoli as top laugh-getter. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. Screening Party by Dennis Hensley. 6 • 29 • 2019 ••• DEL SHORES & FRIENDS PLAY YOU DON’T KNOW MY LIFE! w/ Del Shores, Ann Walker, Emerson Collins, Mat Hayes, Jeb Havens & Dennis. Just in time for the 4th of July weekend, here's a special YOU DON'T KNOW MY LIFE! episode featuring filmmaker/playwright/performer Del Shores (Sordid Lives, Southern Baptist Sissies) and three of his frequent collaborators: actress Ann Walker (LaVonda in Sordid Lives ), actor- producer Emerson Collins ( Southern Baptist Sissies, Rent Live ) and actor-filmmaker Mat Hayes ( Cognitive ). Game co-creators Dennis Hensley and Jeb Havens also play. The questions they answer include: When was a time that you gave into peer pressure? What's a movie that you saw when you were way too young to see it? What's a character trait that you share with your mother? and What's a memorable theme party you threw or attended? What's the shallowest, quirkiest or most shocking reason you decided, 'No, I don't want to date this person?' About half the stories that come up could all be turned into gay short films; there are college fetish parties, a b.j. that turn into prayer when a roommate walks in, hot guys with warts down there, small town busy-bodies and much much more. You can play the game at home. Buy You Don't Know My Life! on Amazon or at www.youdontknowmylife.com. 6 • 17 • 2019 ••• MAKE YOUR OWN PARADE. w/ filmmaker P.J. Castellaneta ( Together Alone, Relax, It’s Just Sex) Dennis visits the Silver Lake home of filmmaker P.J. Castellaneta to talk about the renaissance his early 90's gay indie film "Together Alone" is experiencing this summer in France. with special screenings and a re-release in theaters. He talks about shooting the film in his Hollywood apartment while working full time as a clerk at Warner Bros., how he found his actors, and why the film still resonates today. P.J. talks about his follow-up film Relax, It's Just Sex starring Jennifer Tilly, Lori Petty and Mitchell Anderson, his favorite day on the shoot, taking the film to Sundance and how making the movie almost killed him. He talks about his plans to get Together Alone on a Streaming service as well as the Frankenstein -inspired script he plans to shoot next. Other topics include: getting married at city hall in Indio, riding in an elevator with a nervous Spike Lee, his nightmare second grade teacher, wanting to live in the Tapestry album and the day Dennis and P.J. went to The Rosie O'Donnell Show in NYC. https://pjcastellaneta.blogspot.com/ A shot from the late 1990s when Dennis and PJ went to the Rosie O’Donnell taping together. 6 • 5 • 2019 ••• I’M A DIRTY DOILY. w/ actress-singer Mary Birdsong ( The Trump Family Special, Reno 9-11, Succession ) Dennis visits the stuck-in-time rehearsal space in North Hollywood called The Madilyn Clarke studios to chat with Mary Birdsong who is stepping into the role of Melania in the musical review The Trump Family Special , which plays as part of the L.A. Fringe Festival starting June 7th. She talks about her how the show came to her, her take on Melania, her facility for developing voices and characters, loving to sing and her hope that one day Melania will just crack and tell all. Mary talks about her incredible Instagram feed, which is like a one-woman show and features "face- swapping" technology that allows her to play people like Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Robert Mueller and a dirty doily she saw on the sidewalk. She talks about working with Adam Makay on the show Succession , being a series regular on Reno 9-11 , getting cast as Mona in the Tales of the City musical because Armistead Maupin saw one of her YouTube videos and appearing on Broadway in Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me. Of the latter, she recalls the thrill of having her mother come to opening night and then chat up Tom Hanks at the afterparty. Other topics include: getting sober, her gig from hell singing at a Macy's cosmetic counter and giving out truffles, rocking out to Pat Benatar, being in a girl group that ended up on Star Search , saving her money, buying her first new car and, of course, the irresistibility of Anderson Cooper's giggle. Mary in her Melania wig discovering her new favorite game You Don’t Know My Life! 6 • 3 • 2019 ••• ALL GAY MEN ARE TERRIBLE. w/ writer-performer Drew Droege ( Happy Birthday Doug, Bright Colors and Bold Patterns) Dennis welcomes returning champion Drew Droege to his North Hollywood condo to talk about the new one-man show he's writing and starring in called "Happy Birthday Doug," in which he "celebrates and eviscerates gayness." He talks about the show's themes like aging, hetero- normativity, partying, the Peter Pan-ness of it all. He talks about the challenge of playing nine characters in one show. as well at the challenge of playing drunk and/or on molly. He shares his experience with his last one-person show Bright Colors and Bold Patterns, which took him to New York City, was shot as a performance film and is now being performed by another actor. He talks about how his viral videos as Chloe Sevigny became his calling card and got him jobs. He also opens up about the experience of being on the TV series Heathers and its long, painful and tumultuous journey to actually airing. He also talks about his OTHER new show with Sam Pancake, We Are Special Bitches about an acting class from hell. Other topics include: Insta-fame, The Boys in the Band , being involved in both The Groundlings and the Upright Citizen's Brigade , selling out, celebs who came to his show, going on a vacation and what it feels like to get a big laugh. SCREENING PARTY. Screening Party is a TV pilot I produced with John Carrozza and Doug Prinzivalli of Velvet Candy Entertainment. It was directed by Chil Kong. The pilot played many film festivals and is now available on YouTube as a 4-part webseries. Here’s the blurb from the DVD box: Mystery Science Theater meets Friends in Screening Party , a short film/pilot about six friends and the movie-watching parties that bring them together. When journalist Dennis (Dennis Hensley) gets assigned to write about Pretty Woman for Marquee magazine's “Hooray for Hollywood Hookers” issue, he invites five friends over to screen, celebrate and skewer the modern-day Cinderella story. The partiers include his roommate Tony (Tony Tripoli), a burnt-out cruise ship crooner who's desperately looking for new gig on land; Lauren (Erin Quill), a relationship-challenged aspiring stand-up comic; Marcos (Felix Pire), a sweet-natured attorney who never met a tangent he couldn't go off on; Ross (Ossie Beck), a Opera-loving video clerk with multiple tattoos and arsenal of movie fun facts at the ready; and Dr. Beverly Beaverman (Nora Burns), the shrink next door who finds Freudian psychological meanings in everything she sees ("Tell me that snapping jewelry box doesn't represent a vagina with teeth.”) Together, they do their best to make sense of the 1990 Richard Gere-Julia Roberts romantic comedy classic while discovering that the movie's themes—sex, money, sex for money—resonate in their lives in ways both ridiculous and profound. Based on the opening chapters of the book by Dennis Hensley, Screening Party explores the ways pop culture can affect people's lives. Using well-known films as a point of departure, it explores the lives of these six characters; their hopes and dreams, lusts and heartbreaks, and how the ritual of getting together once a week to make fun of movies and their stars comes to mean more to them than they ever would have imagined. With insight, wit and campy reenactments, Screening Party is a fresh, fast-paced, exploration of the joys of friendship and the struggles that come with going after your dreams. So grab a seat on the couch, the party's just beginning.