The Best Damn Sunday Night Football Party Period

When you get invites like this: "Come usher in the new football season with a viewing party that will reunite the pussified “No Felon League” with deviant and shameful behavior. The Mullens will provide the Dallas-Giant game on two (2!) HD flat panels as well as an elaborate taco bar and copious amounts of alcohol. All you have to do is peel yourself out of whatever poster-laden, bleach-scented pisshole you spent watching the day games and make your way to the Mullen pad in grand old West Hollywood." How CAN you resist?

So, Sunday, I trekked over to the Mullens to spend some time with this crew >> Here is Heather Ankeny, flanked by the boys (how is it that everyone always ends up standing around in the kitchen??!):

While Tom found a softer place to fall on the couch in the living room, flanked by the ladies: Brooke, Ashlee, T & I:
Matt & Danelle took the "Love Sack" in the corner. Look for Miss. Vance in national SUNSILK ads out soon!! We've got our fingers crossed that her mug gets bottle placement in addition to the print & screen! (she'll be the "wavy hair girl"):

I became the most popular gal at the party with Champ here, when I went for my taco's. My new best friend - Ashlee's (other) special guy:

Ashlee secured a football pinata for the festivities. Here is Tom holding Damian's golden leg who opened her up for us (after Drama did the initial crack, of course)!

You wanna know who’s behind the Mullen’s successes? The man behind the team: manager Andrew Kersey and his fellow manager girlfriend Mary Putnam Greene.

Awe - isn't this nice? Nice little parting shot of Tim (aka Rob Lowe) & I for you. **Great party guys. See you soon. xox

The LA Triathlon took place over the weekend -- a beautiful weekend for a race! I was more than happy to work our Expo booth vs. prep for swimming, biking and running myself... I got to see all our excited members coming through to pick up their packets, and visit with them-sharing their excitement for the race on Sunday. Miss Carly below took FIRST in her age group.... as did SEVERAL other clubbers. We sure rocked the course this year!

Here is a snap from the START of the '07 race -- clear skies, smooth waters...

Clara Palmer, below on the right, taking the curve on her bike in downtown.

Pro, Greg Bennett, took top honors for the 2nd year in a row.

Aug. 2007: Creative Screenwriting Covers the Boys

Okay, so, maybe they don't need my services anymore... seems like the Mullen's are getting plenty of ink from reputable sources these days... Variety... now Creative Screenwriting! But, since I love em', I'll still give them some electronic props right here at home.

The article above reads:

The Mullens: 2 Years, 2 Brothers, 5 Deals

by Peter Clines

Tom and Tim Mullen grew up in Helena, Montana, far from the film industry. Tom wanted to be a journalist as far back as he can remember. "Yeah," he laughs, "it was pretty dorky." Tim is a bit prouder of the credentials he received from Capital High School. "I got class clown," explains the younger Mullen, "and somehow I parlayed that into wanting to write." While they shared a common sense of humor and creativity, they also knew there was little market for it outside of screenwriting, and for a long time, Tom explains, "both of us considered that the equivalent of going into NASA."

Still, when they moved to Los Angeles six years ago, the lure of Hollywood became irresistible. Many of their friends worked in the industry, and after a while the brothers wrote their first script, a "red-state teen comedy" called Deers & Beers, which they describe as going against the classic John Hughes standards of heroes, popularity, and fun. Deers caught the attention of an acquaintance, television director Terry Cunningham (Wicked Wicked Games), who arranged a script reading that helped the brothers quickly land both a manager and an agent.

Now with representation, the Mullens tried to focus more on writing, but paying bills still got in the way. "You come home from work," Tim explains, "and you're beat and you're tired and you're not very funny. Then on the weekends, when you want to write, you just happen to get really hungover, so that doesn't work either." One of them, they realized, needed to be writing full-time. So, Tom quit his job {insert me bawling here, because Tom quitting meant much less fun for me here at the office!} while Tim continued working. "I thought pulling the big brother card would work to my advantage in having authority in the relationship, " smirks Tom, "but essentially I became Tim's bitch." Tom wrote during the day, then the two of them would review his work each night. They worked like this for over a year and a half, until last April, when they were hit with an unexpected wave of success.

That's when Deers & Beers was picked up by Ivan Reitman's Montecito Picture Company for a mid-five figures deal. A month later, the brothers scored the assignment for Strike, a modern version of Aristophanes' Lysistrata (now set between rival fraternities) for Mark Waters (Mean Girls). Another pitch session (and two sixteen-hour days) landed the Mullens a page-one rewrite of Time Travel for Dummies, which Tom describes as "Back to the Future meets Dude, Where's My Car?" NBC bought a pilot script from them. And then, the big dream: a pitch with Sandra Bullock attached to star sold for six figures against a cool one million dollars.

The brothers are very aware that selling their pitch gives them pretty much every possible success for a writer in under a year—"besides having something made," Tim adds with a laugh—so they have no plans to change how they work. "If either of us jumped in with another writing partner," says Tom, "at some point you assume you're just going to go your separate ways. In our partnership that's just not something we're looking at."