First was our surprise invites to the New Yorker Opening Night Party in a beautiful enclosed rooftop garden in Grammercy Park, including sightings of Salman Rushdie, Oliver Stone (and his three girlfriends), Alan Cumming, Regina Spektor and author Jeffery Eugenides (The Virgin Suicides, Middlesex).
Eventually we found our way to a couch where we had a nice hour-long chat with the very congenial Wes Craven (who Diana kept calling by his full name and at one point remarked, "My brothers used to terrify me as a kid with Freddy Kruger stories SO THANKS A LOT, WES CRAVEN!") and his beautiful and outgoing wife Iya Labunka, who related the story of their blind date (in which she mistakenly assumed she had been set up with a midget, hunchbacked Korean man) before mentioning she had served as producer of The Life Aquatic and HEATHERS! (Upon which Sara yelled at her, “It's like you just fucking told us that you wrote Ecclesiastes!”)Then on Saturday Sara and Diana performed in character in front of 350 guests in a converted cathedral at The New Yorker Festival Political Humor Panel ("Look at all the liberal, homosexual Jews just sitting out there. This is what it's gonna look like after the Rapture--just a bunch of gay liberal jews in a church, waiting for instructions.") The panel featured prominent writers and producers from The Onion, The Colbert Report and The Daily Show along with very charming reporter Samantha Bee!
Then that night they went to see Margaret Cho perform at Radio City Music Hall, where they received backstage passes to meet the legend herself.
All in all a great weekend for two very hardworking, exceedingly talented women. I couldn't be prouder of the both of them.
3 comments:
Don't make me punch you for this.
Thank you, Ces!
I loved this line: "Look at all the liberal, homosexual Jews just sitting out there. This is what it's gonna look like after the Rapture--just a bunch of gay liberal jews in a church, waiting for instructions."
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