I didn’t slack with my hosting duties, either. I got out the special-occasion candle holders and polished the silver, onto which I placed pizza bites, piping hot from the microwave. I rinsed off the crystal champagne flutes—to my knowledge this was the only time they were ever used—and filled them with sparkling cider. For “Powar and Greede,” which took place during the Golden Age of Hollywood, I replaced our framed family photos with magazine pictures of movie stars from the era. Good-bye to the Brownsteins posing in front of the fireplace, trying to keep our dog Buffy in frame; hello, Lana
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