The Playboy Mansion

One of the evening events scheduled during YEO University was a party at the Playboy Mansion.  Evidently Hugh rents out the place to organizations looking for a party venue with a little something extra (the addition of surgery-enhanced women to provide tours of the grounds - pools, a small zoo, the grato and a gaming cottage.  It was quite interesting - sort of like a 60s/70s time capsule - somewhat dated for the tastes of 30 somethings in 2004. 

Shortly after a couple of glasses of wine and some rubbery chicken I tagged along with a tour of the grounds.  The place is a lot bigger than I had imagined - monkeys, birds and other animals can be found throughout the grounds - the grato is very humid (I cannot imagine have any sort of intimate encounter there under any circumstances). 

I settled in the game room and played a few video games (does that make me a geek?  playing video games at a Playboy party? I think it might).  Anyway, it would seem that geeks flock together and to my surprise Jason Alexander (George from Seinfeld) walked through the door with his publicist.  In short order we were playing pool and talked about his new project - the (at the time) pending release of his new sitcom Listen Up - and my new project (wow I had a PROJECT!).  I described our first meeting with FOX and drew the Seinfeld analogy - he laughed (slightly in a “do we have to talk about Seinfeld?” way).  Anyway, he was much more conservative than the characters he portrays on television.  I guess that is fairly obvious to most everyone - except for me…

Missy’s assistant still had not called to firm up our meeting with FOX Sports so we were still waiting on pins and needles.  We had a meeting with our director and his agent for lunch the next day…