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The show tells the story of a group of hair-metal rockers striving simultaneously to enjoy themselves, find love and save their favourite LA bar from being bulldozed – a flimsy bit of rigging, by common consent, on which to hang a lot of jolly, dreadful (and jolly dreadful) 1980s anthems.
Posner takes the helm again here for a dark comedy that finds a group of single friends entering their 40s and on a night out at an LA bar, which sets into motion a journey forcing them to confront the bleaker side of their relationships.
The ripples of the film's extended life have ranged from the obvious (booming DVD sales) to the even-by-its-standards peculiar (the soundtrack's version of Tears for Fears' Mad World by LA bar singer Gary Jules randomly becoming last year's Christmas No 1).
Two weeks ago, I was scrolling through my Facebook newsfeed in the grimy bathroom of an LA bar.
And yep, right off the bat, there's Gena Rowlands as Mabel Longhetti looking very down-and-out indeed, trashed at a sleazy LA bar.
Zook, the heaviest of the show's creators, appears shirtless often in the series and even competes in a Mr. Bear Chest contest at the Eagle LA bar and does a pole dance at Faultline Bar in East Hollywood.
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We came in just as Mike Jon Favreauu) is calling Nikki Brooke Langtonn) – a girl he's just met in the Dresden, one of the many kitsch LA bar-restaurants that Mike and his friends drink in.
Streep fans, who have enjoyed her in recent years as a nun, celebrity chef, English prime minister, pill-popping southern matriarch and singing witch, proved predictably less enticed by her as a washed-up LA bar-band rocker.
"There are three major kinds of comedy venue in LA: bars, black boxes & random spaces where you wouldn't expect someone to even fathom putting on a comedy show.
(Or maybe I would and then cherish it for the rest of my life?) Her descriptions of early nights out at divey LA bars with $1 tequila shots and unlimited free tacos sound great, though.
Seven years later, they were hanging out at Austin's SXSW festival and tipped up to the packed Shangri-La bar, whereupon Murray spontaneously decided to muck in.
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