The Hollywood Improv (West Hollywood, CA)
Monday, Jul. 14 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 Our Price: $7.50* Rated:
Monday night will never be boring again with Mo' Better Mondays at the Hollywood Improv. Here, the hottest urban comedians from around the U.S. stop in for a night that'll leave you laughing so hard, you won't be able to resist returning next week! Host DeRay Davis' credits include Barbershop, Semi-Pro, BET's Comic View, and skits on Kanye West's albums The College Dropout and Late Registration. Learn More
Gender and spirituality fuse together in these two fascinating documentaries about self-discovery and religion. Love Man Love Woman explores the Mother Goddess religion Dao Mau of Vietnam. In a country intolerant of homosexuality, Dao Mau is a long accepted refuge for effeminate men. Voodoo Woman, an intensely personal documentary, follows Carolina's path into Santeria and womanhood. Learn More
How do the choices we make affect the people we love? Gwen Haworth, filmmaker and subject of this well-crafted documentary, examines her own gender transformation - from self-realization, and repression, to acceptance and surgery - through interviews with the six closest people in her life. Blending humor with frank emotion, She's a Boy I Knew is an intimate self-reflexive journey through the eyes of others. Learn More
Small connections make the world go 'round in these shorts from Spain, Japan and the Ukraine, to name a few. Ex-lovers reunite, an apartment building romance ignites and somehow buying a used dresser becomes sexy. Losing touch is part of it too, when a circus love triangle falls apart, a bookish girl loses her first love and a lonely writer can't keep pace with her corporate-minded girlfriend. Learn More
The fully improvised Two Looks takes us from dawn to dusk on the most important day of Sofia and Laura's vacation. Stunningly gorgeous cinematography of the San Pedro de Atacama desert in Chile makes for a colorful backdrop to the volatile and curious drama that unfolds between these two young women as they struggle to reach the moment of truth in their relationship. Learn More
Academy Award-winning actress Celeste Holm makes an appearance at the Egyptian Theatre to introduce two of her greatest films: the sophisticated comedy The Tender Trap, in which Holm plays Debbie Reynolds' rival for the affections of Frank Sinatra, and All About Eve, the classic Joseph L. Mankiewicz film starring Bette Davis and Anne Baxter as dueling actresses. Holm was nominated for an Academy Award for her role in the latter film. Learn More