Where Fabulous Lives!

The Hillwood Museum & Gardens is having a picnic (complete with a Doris Day look-alike contest) and a special screening of Pillow Talk!

When I went to the website, the headline next to their logo read "Where Fabulous Lives" and I thought that it was a great match for Copacabana, being quite fabulous ourselves.

Here is the event information:

Gates open at 6 pm; Movie begins at 8:15 pm
Pillow Talk Outdoor Screening
Co-hosted by Hillwood, One in Ten, and the DC GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender) Center

Enjoy picnicking on the Lunar Lawn and an outdoor screening of Pillow Talk, the Academy Award-winning classic film starring Rock Hudson, Doris Day and Tony Randall with costumes by Hollywood designer Jean Louis.

Tour the mansion and gardens, or pick your picnic spot, starting at 6 pm. Be sure to visit the motor court to see a 1960 Chrysler Imperial – similar to the car Tony Randall drives in Pillow Talk – on display from Straight Eights, the Baltimore-Washington DC chapter of Lambda Car Club International, America's largest organization for Gay and Lesbian car enthusiasts.

The evening’s festivities get underway at 7:15 with the “Best Picnic Spread” contest. At 7:45 the Doris Day look-alike contest begins. Our guest judges include Darlene Nipper, former Director of the Mayor’s Office of LGBT Affairs and Capital Pride Hero for 2007, Greg Link, owner of home-furnishings boutique Home Rule, Howard Kurtz, Hillwood’s Assistant Curator of Costumes and Textiles, Amanda Weaver, dcist.com "eating in" column writer, and Adam Bailey, dcist.com food editor.

Contest prizes include gifts from the Hillwood Museum Shop, exquisite floral arrangements from the Hillwood’s gardens, and a Tylenol PM "Dream Bed Set"!

The main event – a screening of Pillow Talk – starts at 8:15 pm. Pillow Talk received five Academy Award nominations, including Best Actress (Doris Day), Best Supporting Actress (Thelma Ritter), Best Music, and Best Art Direction. It won the Academy Award for Best Writing, Story or Screenplay.

Special thanks to Tylenol PM, Hillwood’s GLBT Advisory Committee, Burgundy Crescent Volunteers, Straight Eights Car Club, and Lambda Rising Bookstores.

$15; $10 visitors under 18 – includes film and self-guided touring of Mansion and gardens
To reserve a ticket, call Hillwood at 202-686-5807.