Curve is the well-known lesbian magazine
and in this season of The L Word the magazine whose staff
made a guest appearance in the second episode. Jenny Schecter
had given an interview to a freelance writer and then went
all crazy at the Curve magazine’s office because
she didn’t like the interview.
On Saturday, March 3, the magazine held another L Word Gala
party at Los Angeles Windham Bel Age Hotel. While I was walking
around the room and getting ready to take pictures, I checked
the reserved tables and found out that in addition to scheduled
The L Word cast member Janina Gavankar and Honey Labrador,
we were also expecting several surprise celebrities, like
Margaret Cho and Guinevere Turner.
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I arrived earlier again
and helped the volunteers to organize the gift bags
that ended up containing a lot of goodies, including
the latest issue of the Curve Magazine with
Janina Gavankar on the cover.
The doors were opened at 8 pm as usual for all the
guests, and this time I noticed that the atmosphere
around was more laid-back and the guests and fans were
more sophisticated…at least until Janina Gavankar
arrived with her manager and her mom.
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Janina was very nice and friendly, talking to the fans and
taking pictures with them. By the time everyone settled down
and the party started, it was already 10 pm.
This time another comedienne, Sabrina Matthews, greeted the
crowd and was supposed to do a short comedic routine and then
introduce Frances Stevens. However, the publisher of the Curve
magazine was nowhere to be found for some time, so Sabrina
ended up doing a long comedic routine. It was funny, so I
didn’t mind.
The entertainment part of the evening, in my opinion, was
better and more exciting this time. First, Jukie Sunshine,
a burlesques dancer from San Francisco, performed an ‘almost-striptease’
dance and then Sabrina Matthews introduced Kings of Drag,
a drag troupe from Sacramento. They performed several exciting
musical numbers and at some point Janina joined the crowd
and sang along with one of the songs.
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Labrador talked to the fans and told us again about
the new L Word clothing and jewelry line, and even though
the prices might not be affordable to many TLW fans,
it is really wonderful to remember that some of the
money go towards the Cancer Research Foundation.
Finally, it was Janina’s turn to
speak and while Sabrina was announcing her, they showed
a clip from episode 402 with the limousine ‘infamous
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The scene made Janina blush, and she didn’t believe
that this is what they chose to show with her mother watching.
Janina mentioned again how different from Papi’s character
she is and how excited she was to be on the show. Janina even
brought her mother and some other family members with her
to share her excitement.
I had a chance to talk to Mohra Gavankar, Janina’s
mother, a little later. She is part Indian and part Dutch.
She told me that she is really excited about her daughter
being on the show, but she hadn’t watch it before Janina
got the role of Papi. After Janina landed the part, Mohra
watched all previous seasons to make herself familiar with
the show.
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speech she and Frances Stevens began signing autographs,
which of course I couldn’t miss, so I was one
of the first in line so I could get my autograph and
spend the rest of the evening taking pictures. Fans
were getting more excited, taking more pictures with
Janina, and the whole event ended up way past midnight.
The whole evening was really relaxing
for me, full of wonderful conversations with different
guests and fans and to top it all,
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the funniest thing happened to me on the way back to my hotel.
I was picked up by an Armenian taxi driver who immediately
began speaking Russian to me (I originally from Russia). After
a fairly meaningless conversation about his life in LA and
taxi drivers’ hardship, he said one interesting thing,
though I don’t think for him it was anything positive.
He said, while we were driving on Sunset Blvd, that in a
few years all Americans will be gay. I found it incredible
ironic, coming from the L Word Gala Party, so I simply agreed.
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