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On Monday afternoon, Lena Dunham, who wrote and directed the beautifully received SXSW discovery Tiny Furniture in 2010, returned to Austin to share the first three episodes of her new HBO series Girls. Her latest creation is a terrifically fresh, recognizable portrait of being young, smart, and adrift in a city that isn’t there to serve you. There’s a not unkind wink to Sex and the City in the first episode, which seemed a shrewd way to acknowledge the inevitable comparisons and keep it moving.
Executive producer Judd Apatow stood alongside Dunham on stage, looking like a bemused and proud uncle in his pink button-down. (“I took a picture with a film fan at the Austin Airport and they put it on Twitter,” he said: “‘Judd Apatow comes to Austin with his suburban Dad fashion.’”) “I’ve never been around so many women before,” he said of Girls. “There were no bongs in the room. No bongs or penises and they don’t really like pornography. It was all very new for me.” READ FULL STORY »
