“5 Hollywood Secret Social Clubs”
When you sell your big spec script, The Wrap unwraps some of Hwood’s ‘secret’ social clubs you may find yourself invited to participate in:
• The Millionaires’ $2 Poker Game
Each Wednesday for the past 18 years, veteran music agent Norby Walters has welcomed nine boldface names to his Wilshire corridor high rise for three hours of poker.
• Kimmel’s Super Sundays
Every Sunday during football season, Jimmy Kimmel plays Willy Wonka to friends, staffers and fellow comics by opening up his house not just to gridiron viewing but to a fantasy of home-made culinary delights.
• The Friends of Abe
It’s not easy being a Republican in Hollywood.
In a town painted “Democrat blue,” where can entertainment industry conservatives find an island of “red” for political refuge?
At social gatherings of the “Friends of Abe,” a network that subscribes to the same PR rules as “Fight Club.”
• Hollywood’s Hardwood Varsity
Every winter between New Year’s and Easter, 205 hand-picked talents like Joel McHale, Taye Diggs and Michael Clarke Duncan play a full season of organized basketball in a (formerly) secret westside location on Sunday afternoons.
• Kutcher’s ‘Amazing Races’
Until recently, Twitter King Ashton Kutcher spent weekends with celebrity pals competing in a private, not-for-air reality show: a made-to-order edition of “The Amazing Race.”
Along with his production partner in Katalyst Films, Jason Goldberg (“Punk’d,” “True Beauty”), Kutcher recruited wife Demi Moore and friends like Balthazar Getty, Rebecca Gayheart, Eric Dane and Jason Bateman for full-day races, with clues leading them to challenges and puzzles all across the L.A. area.
Any other ‘secret’ clubs in Hwood you want to unwrap, feel free to post them here.