Join us for a virtual Live Talks Los Angeles event:
Tuesday, November 19, 2024, 6pm PT/9pm ET

**An Evening with Tim Matheson
discussing his memoir, “Damn Glad to Meet You: My Seven Decades in the Hollywood Trenches”**

*This event is taped with an audience on Nov 14.*

TICKETS (**US Orders Only**):
$46 Virtual Admission + signed book (includes shipping to US addresses only). Includes access to watch the event on November 19 at 6pm PT/9pm ET and on video-on-demand for five days.

**A fun and revealing memoir from acclaimed Hollywood actor Tim Matheson.**

**Tim Matheson** has appeared on television and film screens for more than six decades, from early roles in *Leave it to Beaver, Jonny Quest *and *Bonanza*, to his unforgettable comedic turn as Rush Chair Eric “Otter” Stratton in *Animal House*, who was always “damn glad to meet you!” Matheson was twice nominated for a Primetime Emmy for his work as Vice President John Hoynes on *The West Wing*, and he is currently filming the sixth season of Netflix fan favorite *Virgin River*. From the director’s chair, he’s worked on episodes of* Virgin River, The Twilight Zone, Cold Case, Psych, Criminal Minds, Suits, Burn Notice, Third Watch, Without a Trace,* and *Hart of Dixie* among many others, as well as multiple pilots including the acclaimed pilot for *Covert Affairs.*

“Tim was a cast, crew, and audience favorite on The West Wing. He’s been at the center of some of America’s most iconic film and television. Damn Glad to Meet You is a fascinating, hilarious, and often very moving inside look at an extraordinary career.”―**Aaron Sorkin**

“A really enjoyable read covering Tim’s remarkable screen career—and some juicy tidbits about what actually goes on behind the scenes on a Hollywood set!”―**Mel Brooks**

As much as this book is about Matheson’s own career, it’s equally about the larger-than-life characters he’s encountered, including Chris Farley, Chevy Chase, Lucille Ball, Dick Van Dyke, Jackie Gleason, Bob Hope, Ryan Reynolds, John Candy, Steve Martin, Mel Brooks, John Belushi, Clint Eastwood, Kurt Russell, Henry Fonda, Kevin Bacon, Michael Landon, Jane Seymour, Anne Bancroft, Steven Spielberg, Aaron Sorkin, Penny Marshall, Sally Field and more.

Filled with riveting stories of the entertainment industry, Matheson also offers illuminating insight in his film school boot camp sidebars.

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Join us for a virtual Live Talks Los Angeles event:
Tuesday, October 29, 2024, 6pm PT/9pm ET

**Alex Van Halen in conversation with Ariel Levy
discussing his memoir, “Brothers.”**

*This event is taped with an audience on October 24.*

TICKETS (**US orders ONLY**)
$50 Virtual Admission + signed book* (includes shipping to **US addresses only)**. Includes access to watch the event on October 29 at 6pm PT/9pm ET and on video-on-demand for five days. Books ship one week after the virtual event.
*book has a signed book plate

**Alex Van Halen shares his personal story of family, friendship, music and brotherly love.**

**Alex Van Halen** is the co-founder of the rock band Van Halen and its original drummer. Born in Amsterdam and trained as a classical pianist, he graduated from Pasadena High School.

**Ariel Levy** was Alex Van Halen’s collaborator on Brothers, and is the author of her own New York Times bestselling memoir The Rules Do Not Apply.  Levy has received a National Magazine Award for her work at The New Yorker, where she has been a staff writer since 2008. She is the host and co-creator of the podcast The Just Enough Family.

Alex Van Halen wrote Brothers, a love letter to his younger brother, while still mourning Eddie‘s untimely death.

He recounts their childhood in an 800-square foot house in Pasadena, with an itinerant musician father and proper Indonesian-born mother—how they arrived in the US from the Netherlands and struggled to fit in. He also shares stories of musical politics, infighting and bad-boy behavior. The book includes never-before-seen photos from the author’s private archives, as he sets the record straight on his brother’s life and death in the first-ever accurate account of his family and the band.

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Join us for a virtual Live Talks Los Angeles event:
Monday, October 21, 2024, 6pm PT/9pm ET

**Eric Roberts in conversation with Eliza Roberts
discussing his memoir, “Runaway Train: or, The Story of My Life So Far.”**

*This event is taped with an audience on October 16, 2024.*

TICKETS (**US Orders Only)**:
$46 Virtual Admission + signed book (includes shipping to **US addresses only**). Includes access to watch the event on October 21 at 6pm PT/9pm ET and on video-on-demand for five days.

**In this brutally candid memoir, Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee Eric Roberts pulls no punches about the ups and downs of his career and his sometimes stormy relationship with his famous sister, Julia.**

**Eric Roberts**, during his five decade career, has appeared in over 700 films, from King of the Gypsies and The Pope of Greenwich Village to The Dark Knight, Inherent Vice and Babylon. He’s won a Golden Globe and been nominated for an Oscar, and celebrated at film festivals around the world. He’s brother to Julia Roberts and father to Emma Roberts.

**Eliza Roberts** is known for National Lampoon’s *Animal House*, *The Tasmanian Devil* and *My Last Best Friend*. She has been married to Eric Roberts since 1992. She was born in Manhattan to an actress/director/producer/writer mom, Lila Garrett, a screen-writer biological dad, David Rayfiel and a press agent adoptive dad, Don Garrett. The family moved to Los Angeles, by way of a peace march in San Francisco, when Lila and her then-husband got jobs writing Bewitched. At sixteen she moved to England to study acting. She has two children, Keaton Simons (recording artist) and Morgan Simons (chef).

“Compelling to read―candid, brave and full of Eric’s natural grace and good nature.” ―Christopher Walken, Academy Award-Winning Actor

At age 17, Eric Roberts moved from Georgia to New York to pursue a career in acting. He worked and partied with future legends like Christopher Walken, Mickey Rourke, John Malkovich, Bruce Willis and Robin Williams. 

After his big break in King of the Gypsies, he became one of the hottest stars of the era. But celebrity came with a dark side—an ocean of cocaine that nearly swept him away, culminating in a car accident that almost cost him his life. In Runaway Train, or, The Story of My Life So Far, Roberts confronts the seriousness of his addictions, their devastating effects on his career, and the reason for his complicated relationship with his sister, Julia, and daughter, Emma.

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Saturday, October 5, 2024, 6pm PT/9pm ET

 
**Tom Patchett in conversation with Jerry Stahl
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*This event is taped with an audience on September 30.*

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**What do Carol Burnett, Bob Newhart and the Muppets have in common? Tom Patchett, whose new, irreverent memoir looks at his storied Hollywood career**.

**Tom Patchett** is a producer, director and comedy writer known for The Carol Burnett Show, The Bob Newhart Show, The Tony Randall Show, Open All Night, Buffalo Bill, and the hit series Alf. He also co-wrote the screenplays for the films The Muppets Take Manhattan and The Great Muppet Caper. He was half of the stand-up comedy team of Patchett & Tarses. He teamed up with puppeteer Paul Fusco to create Alf.   Later, Tom founded the art gallery Track 16 at Bergamot station. The gallery, now in its third iteration, turns 30 this year.

**Jerry Stahl** is the author of ten books, including the best-selling novel I, Fatty, the memoir Permanent Midnight, made into a movie with Ben Stiller, and most recently, Nein, Nein, Nein! One Man’s Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust. His fiction and journalism have appeared in Esquire, the New York Times, Vice, the Believer, and a variety of other publications. He has written extensively for film and television, including Alf,  HBO’s Hemingway & Gellhorn, CSI, and Escape at Dannemora, for which he received an Emmy nomination.

How does a boy rise from his “hard-knock” upbringing in Lansing, Michigan and a $75 a week job as an advertising copywriter to become a co-creator and majority owner of a network TV show in syndication?

Tom Patchett examines his path to becoming a comedic force in Hollywood in his illustrated, limited-edition memoir, The Horse I Rode In On, which writer Jerry Stahl has called “Hilarious.” 

The “Horse” that Patchett rode in is an illustrated memoir that spans the first 84 years of his whipsaw life. Asked for his “source of inspiration, he answered without hesitation, “Absurdity was my co-pilot.”
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An Evening with Bethany Joy Lenz discussing her memoir, “Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While also in an Actual Cult!)”

This event is taped on October 28.

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$45 Virtual Admission + signed book (includes shipping to US addresses only). Includes access to watch the event on November 2 at 6pm PT/9pm ET and on video-on-demand for five days.

A deliciously witty and inspiring memoir by One Tree Hill star Bethany Joy Lenz about her decade in a cult and her quest to break free.

Bethany Joy Lenz starred in the hit TV series One Tree Hill. Her other acting credits include Guiding Light, Grey’s Anatomy, Charmed, Felicity, Suits, Dexter, and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. She is also a recording artist who has released several albums. Lenz currently cohosts the podcast Drama Queens and is the founder/editor-in-chief of the broadsheet newspaper Modern Vintage News.

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