Return-path: Envelope-to: [email removed] Delivery-date: Fri, 11 May 2007 04:55:52 -0400 Received: from [63.251.135.109] (helo=ccm08.constantcontact.com) by mx02.wellbury.com with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1HmQum-0008Vt-Aa for [email removed]; Fri, 11 May 2007 04:55:52 -0400 Received: from ws006 (unknown [10.250.0.102]) by ccm08.constantcontact.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BF1A3DDEFF for <[email removed]>; Fri, 11 May 2007 04:55:47 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <1101650782447.1101650220002.985.6.21045503@scheduler> Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 04:55:54 -0400 (EDT) From: UUSC Celebration of Coventry Reply-To: celebrate_coventry@sbcglobal.net To: [email removed] Subject: One Night Only! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_20357026_1704681011.1178873754370" X-Mailer: Roving Constant Contact 0 (http://www.constantcontact.com) X-Return-Path-Hint: ESC1101650782447_1101650220002_985@in.roving.com X-Roving-ID: 1101650782447 X-Lumos-SenderID: 1101650220002 X-Roving-CampaignId: 1101650782447 X-Roving-StreamId: 0 You're receiving this email because of your relationship with our year long Celebration of Coventry. Please confirm http://visitor.constantcontact.com/c.jsp?t=1101650782447.985.10178721.2&m=1101650220002&wl=F your continued interest in receiving email from us. You may unsubscribe http://ui.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?p=un&m=1101650220002&ea=tickets.com%40peeved.org&se=985&t=1101650782447&lang=en&reason=F if you no longer wish to receive our emails. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For a Sneak Video Peek, Click HERE [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=ph9by4bab.0.nfrey4bab.c4uqx4bab.985&ts=S0254&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dropshots.com%2FAmerican_Splendor] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For Immediate Release Event Date: Saturday May 26, 2007 Interviews: Pekar/Brabner at 216-321-7794 or $null$ Celebration of Coventry #2: AMERICAN SPLENDOR: AFTER THE BALL IS OVER With Harvey Pekar and Joyce Brabner "Honest & funny tales about the slippery slope from red carpet to Coventry tree lawn" After the wonderful success of Rick Cleveland's one man show, My Buddy Bill, the Unitarian Universalist Society of Cleveland (Heights) presents the second in its year long "Celebration Of Coventry" series, AMERICAN SPLENDOR: After the Ball Is Over with Harvey Pekar and Joyce Brabner on Saturday, May 26 at 8:00 PM. Their Hollywood friends are donating door prizes and refreshments will be served at an after show "eat, meet and greet." Who ARE these people, anyway? Harvey and Joyce are your neighbors, that couple you've seen squabbling at Zagara's because he wants potato chips and she wants fiber wafers. For a while, they were famous and sometimes they were scared: Harvey has survived two bouts of cancer and near-crippling depression. Harvey and Joyce have new books to talk about and stories to tell in a program about life after the success of their Oscar nominated biopic, "American Splendor." Harvey honed his storytelling skills as a drug store cowboy hanging out in what's now Coventryard. He's been traveling the world, telling neighborhood tales although he usually keeps a low profile at home. Joyce has work-in-progress to share and will spill about life with her errant spouse, recently voted the 63d "Least Sexy Man" in the world... if you believe USA Today. The couple also plans to blow the whistle on motormouth Freddie, an old school Coventry character who launched an outrageous and ultimately hilarious lawsuit against Harvey-and most of the entertainment world-when the movie became successful. You may remember this fast talking con man as "the laziest man on Coventry," ever determined to let someone else pick up the tab and the nightmare guest who wouldn't leave. To hear how the couple trapped, wrapped and delivered this rude dude into the arms of Lady Justice, or if you're just curious about the fame game and what happens after the ball is over, catch this one night only show Saturday May 26 at 8 PM at the Unitarian Universalist Society of Cleveland (UUSC) 2778 Lancashire Road in Coventry Village, Cleveland Heights Tickets are $15 each or $20/pair. Get them at Mac's Backs Book Store (321-BOOK) "American Splendor" (the movie) was based on Harvey's own stories and his work with his wife Joyce Brabner. It won awards at Sundance, Cannes and an Oscar nomination for "Best Screenplay." As payback to the Coventry Village Unitarian fellowship that helped Harvey and Joyce raise a child who made a surprise appearance at their door ten years ago? and to help draw a line against the blanding and gutting of a beloved neighborhood the couple is getting behind the Unitarian Universalist Society of Cleveland's year long "Celebration of Coventry." Future "Celebrations" include "Tommy, Can We Hear You?" (the story behind "Mayor of Coventry" Tommy Fello and his restaurant ("Tommy's") and the neighborhood people he named his sandwiches and salads for; "How Much Fun Can One Man Have? A Roast of Steve Presser; "I Remember Irv's- Whether You Were There or Not;" "A Tribute to Suzanne DeGaetano, Mac's Backs and Literary Coventry;" "Lee Batdorff on The Rock Court Hunt Club and Other Dubious Associations;" "The First and Only Coventry Beaux and Bozo Arts Ball;" "Coventry Tales" and more. 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