BABE AREA Debut: Lena Dunham's Famesick and our brush with online notoriety

Absolutely.

I can definitely say that this is a craze that swept across our nation and San Francisco is no different.

I think I've seen pretty much everybody I know or have ever seen in San Francisco in the theater on that night.

It was a full house.

Yeah.

And I was also, I felt very at home.

I saw so many women wearing chic Rachel Comey outfits and jumpsuits and nice ballet flats.

And honestly, I was kind of surprised because I expected just a...

A ton of people who are approximately our age, maybe a little bit older, millennial women mostly.

But I was surprised because there were a lot of women who were older, probably Gen X or even older than that.

And some of them were with their daughters, some young girls, some straight guys.

The bravest of them all was Michael Lewis, who, despite his more serious guy persona, was willing to take his shoes off and show us his little...

I think he had penguins on his socks or something.

And the set, if you haven't been to Lena's event, so haven't heard about it, basically there's a reproduction of her bedroom on the stage because Lena said that she... wrote the book basically in bed and it was very cute.

It was a little chair and some clothes and a lovely bedspread.

So most of the interview took place in bed and they both seemed really comfy.

Yeah, and I loved the set.

It was really well designed.

But it reminded me, I don't know, Rita, if you watched this video, there is, so Lena, she has a podcast that I'm a huge fan of, The C Word, along with Alyssa Bennett.

And it really saved me during the pandemic.

It was really grim, but I was listening to like stories of crazy women or stories of women that were deemed crazy, but maybe weren't.

And one of the episodes is about Paula Yates.

Lena's setup on her book tour is a reference to the set that Paula Yates, she was a TV host, and I think she was the wife of Bob Geldof, a very famous rock musician in the UK.

She had a... morning show where she would interview her guests where they were both in bed.

There was a famous video with, I don't remember the name of the guy, but her and this Australian rock star where she interviews him and they have insane chemistry and they fall in love during the interview and then she proceeded to leave her husband for that man.