After being screened at the New
York International Independent Film and Video Festival in September, DBNS
is previewing at the Savannah
Film and Video Festival on November 6-13, and the Hawaii
International Film Festival from November 6-20.
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"A comedy of near misses with the right people and repeated run-ins with the wrong, DESPERATE BUT NOT SERIOUS is a must see for anyone who loves the Big Orange, and anyone who absolutely hates it too.
"Out-of-towner Lily (Taylor) arrives in Los Angeles to attend a wedding reception with the man of her dreams, Jonathan (Corbett). Aided by party-girl Frances (Brewster), they embark on a night of adventure after the wedding invitation is lost. Their wild romp through the streets of Hollywood in search of the reception, takes them to club after club — including the trendy "Vapor" Room and even into the home of famous actor Darby Tipp (hint: read the name backwards).
"After being thrown out of parties, terrorized by a psycho bartender, and chased by police it seems Lily will never find her man - or will she?"
-Minette Lew
The full cast and crew credits of DBNS can be viewed at the Internet Movie Data Base.
Henry Rollins (who plays "Psychotic Bartender") was interviewed on The Onion's A.V. Club Web site. He told writer Stephen Thompson:
"I just wrapped up a part in the film Desperate But Not Serious with Claudia Schiffer and Christine Taylor and all these beautiful women. Very strange, to be on the set with, like, 20 drop-dead women who have, besides a professional capacity, zero interest in you. And you're just sitting amongst them, and none of them are looking at you. None of them are talking to you. Claudia Schiffer has bodyguards with her. She's real nice; I mean, no one bugged her. She's mellow. I guess she gets enough crazoids running at her in airports, she kind of has to have her big Samoan man around her. So that was fun…"
Cast members in DBNS wear wear bcbg max azria fashions. Read all about it at the BCBG Web Site.
New Times Los Angeles covered the wrap party for DBNS. Lisa Derrick wrote:
"Shot for $650,000, the comedy -- which finished shooting last Friday night with a scene in the parking lot of Lumpy Gravy (the techno-supper club was starring as an afterhours called the Black Hole) -- traces the trail of Lily (Christine Taylor) and her pal Frances (Paget Brewster) as they pursue the man of Lily's dreams (an etymologist, played by John Corbett) through Los Angeles nightlife.
"Along the way they encounter drag queens, an alt-rock wedding, and a slew of L.A. locals -- Brent Bolthouse as the groom, John Fleck playing a sleazy producer/agent/manager, Bill Cusack as Trendy Guy, the infamous Pink Dot delivery cars, and the working-very-hard-on-her-character-motivation Claudia "Stanislavsky-Babe" Schiffer as studious party-girl Gigi -- who turns out to be the deus ex machina for the film's happy ending.
"There's also a mysterious elongated object called Big Pink....
Sunday at the Opium Den, Bow Wow Wow played a quick set for the Desperate cast and crew's wrap party. Though supermodel Schiffer didn't show, Rollins did. (This is the second film Hank has shot in the last two months; the other is Warner Bros.' Frost. On top of that, he's got a new book called Solipsist due out August 1, with a CD and long-form video following in September. The last was directed by Modi, an old pal of Fishman and Rollins, who was busily chatting away at the bash.)
"Also in attendance: Cusack, Taylor, Brewster, and other cast members. Except for Big Pink...."
"Which is a greater stretch -- Henry Rollins as a serial killer/bartender, or Claudia Schiffer as a university scholar who keeps changing her major? Well, you can be the judge with the release of Desperate but not Serious, the latest, greatest movie directed by Bill (Tapeheads) Fishman and written by Abbe Wool.
