Donna in Hollywoodland

40 Year Old Virgin

Tonight, Arclight Cinemas had a screening of The 40 Year Old Virgin .
It was part of the Hollywood Master Storytellers series.
Speaking afterwards was the director and Judd Apatow and co-producer and actor Seth Rogan .

This is the second time I have seen this movie. The friend I went with had never seen it.
So I had told him "We have to go, you have to see it."
I really like silly comedys. The funnier, the better.
My friend likes all the critically acclaimed serious films. But I know he likes comedy too, so I wanted him to go.

Since I knew it was going to sell out, I ordered the tickets on the Arclight website.
You can pick the section of the theatre you sit in, but you can not pick the exact seat.
We ended up sitting somewhere in the middle, but pretty much dead center.

The Q&A was really great. And very funny in and of itself. They talked alot about the improvisation that the actors did.

Afterwards, they asked people to submit Questions for the Q&A. If your question got picked, then you won a DVD of the 40 Year Old Virgin.

And also they asked people to put their business cards in a jar, and if yours got picked you got a DVD of the Undeclared TV show , and a CD of the Freaks and Geeks soundtrack.

Judd Apatow, the director, actually pulled the business cards out of the jar.
The first business card he pulled, and looked at, and said "Donna Grayson".

I stood up - oh, cool, I've won something.

Oh, my God, the director of the "40 Year Old Virgin" has my business card in his hand !
I let out a scream .

If you heard the slightly delayed scream that night, it was me. Realizing that the director of a top grossing movie, had my business card in his hand with my name, phone number and website address.
Yes, he only looked at it for less than a minute.
But that thrilled me so much, I had to send my agent an email and tell him what happened.
Wow !