At Home With Amy Sedaris

The long-postponedawaited film version of "Strangers With Candy" finally hits theaters in New York next Wednesday, but something tells me an afternoon at Amy Sedaris' West Village apartment would be way more fun. Sounds like Amy might agree:

"I really don't like going out," Sedaris told Gina Bellafante of the NYT one afternoon last week. "I don't like restaurants because I don't like the idea of someone, a waitress, being responsible for my evening. I like seconds, and more, and lots of conversation, and I've always hated the idea that in a restaurant an evening just ends. I find that incredibly depressing."

It's an interesting article with a lot of information that I didn't know about including the fact that once, in a play she wrote with her brother David, she assumed the role of a young woman who became a TV star after her face was mutilated in an accident involving a boat propeller. (!!!)

There's only one Amy Sedaris ...

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