By Grace Moon, Velvetpark Magazine
New York, NY--The Premiere of Season 3 of the L Word had critics of Season 2
believing in the love again. The turn out for HRC's premiere party in New
York City numbered over 1000 topping lasts years event by several 100. At
least an hour before the event lesbians were lined up and down the long
Chelsea block in front of Crobar.
Just inside it was hard not to stop and admire the unending flow of women
into the club. Girl-watching at its best. I delayed long enough at the
entrance to find Sharon Isbin accompanied by fellow classical composer Laura
Koplewitz. Sharon, the renowned concert guitarist, appeared in Season 2. She
was woven into the storyline of episode 207.
Rose Troche and partner filmmaker Cherien Dabis (who joined the writing team
for S3,) arrived unassuming and anonymously admits the throngs of women
entering the venue. In spite of being at the nexus of the L word phenomenon
as one of the key members of the production team, Rose seemed genuinely
surprised and awed at the number of women in attendance.
"This is so amazing," she said. " No other sub-culture has responded with
such intensity for something like this..." She gestured as if holding the L
word between her hands. In response to up-coming projects both Rose and
Cherien said they have feature films in the works for summer and at least of
this writing there is no word yet on Season 4.
Actor, Jane Lynch, best known for her roles in Christopher Guest films but
better known to L word fans as Joyce Wishnia, introduced the screening. Once
that familiar drum intro to the theme song began it was hard to concentrate
on the large screens suspended overhead. Women were standing shoulder to
shoulder and abuzz over their favorite characters. A maternal "Aww..." Swept
through the crowd when Bette held up baby Angelica in the preschool welcome
circle. "Noooo, Alice!" cried a woman as Alice fumbled with her pill bottle
lost in her reverie over Dana. Applause broke out seeing Shane had lasted
the 6 months committed to Carmen. And there was even a resounding applause
for the notoriously misunderstood Jenny when she stood up to her parents.
The real anticipation that night, at least within our circle of friends, was
the debut of Moria played by NYC's home girl (though she would probably
identify as world citizen) Daniela Sea. Filling the screen with a disarming
easy charm I heard a young woman behind me comment, "The new girl is so
cute." After Moria informed Jenny of her techno-web education, The young
woman continued "...and she's nerdy, that's so cute." Its no wonder why
Jenny is bringing Moria back to LA, we look forward to seeing more of her
too.
Having shared 2 seasons worth of L word debates, both in praise and
criticism there was a peculiar sense of familiarly standing there among
hundreds of virtual strangers. It was as if these fictional characters were
our mutual friends who have brought us all together. Though we are from
different cities, countries and continents the L word girls unequivocally
belong to all of us.
On the way out I bumped into Sharon Isbin again. She asked, "So, what did
you think?" I gestured a thumbs up. She smiled with a nod in agreement.
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