Wednesday
night some 230 people came to Coco66, a restaurant in Brooklyn, N.Y.,
for a screening of Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno films--shorts
about the sex lives of insects--and an appearance and discussion by
Rossellini herself. WORD hosted the event and sold 145 copies of Green
Porno, the $24.95 book with DVD, published by HarperStudio in
September. The event has Twitter roots that could lead
to a new adage along the lines of "it never hurts to sort of ask":
after a customer suggested that the store screen the Green Porno films
in its basement event space, WORD manager Stephanie Anderson tweeted
@harperstudio for permission. Soon afterward, she received an e-mail
from HarperStudio's director of marketing Jessica Wiener saying, "We
hear you'd like to do a Green Porno event! How would you like it if
Isabella Rossellini came?" As Anderson put it, "After I woke up from my
dead faint, I e-mailed back and said, 'Of course.' " In the photo (from l.):
Kelly Amabile, WORD's event coordinator; Anna Perleberg, a new WORD bookseller; Anderson;
Rossellini; WORD owner Christine Onorati; Vincent Onorati.
