The Dink Movie Premiere: Mary Steenburgen Got Snubbed at Open Play, Ted Danson Fell Head Over Heels for Pickleball, and Ben Johns' Celebrity Foursome
About this episode
The episode discusses a memorable dinner with Mary Steenburgen and Ted Danson, insights from the premiere of The Dink movie, and experiences in the pickleball community.
You know how everyone at open play decides how good you are as a pickleball player before you've hit a single ball? Your paddle, your shoes, your warmup, whether the next twenty minutes are worth their court time? It happens to beginners. It happened to an Oscar winner, and she told us about it over dinner. Rivulet invited us to what we understood was a cast party for The Dink movie. Instead, we ended up at a table for eight on a terrace at Soho House with Mary Steenburgen and Ted Danson. The next night we were at the premiere in Westwood watching the cast come through when we spotted Ben Johns across the atrium and decided the polite thing to do was run him down. Then we hosted a happy hour before a screening for our own pickleball community in Dallas: This week we get into: Our "is this really happening" moment at Soho House, and how fast it turned into the easiest conversation of the trip Mary's paddle stack story, involving a group of strangers making up their minds about her, and what happened after that What Ted said about the people who keep turning up at his house for dinner now, and how casually he said it The celebration that gets under Ben Johns' skin, and the nearly…
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