RELATIONSHIP SERIES

Three couples share stories about how their marriages have survived in Hollywood.

Beth and Dean Batali, Karen and Jim Covell, and Kathy and Chris Riley, all Hollywood veterans and believers in Jesus, will share with singles and couples their perspectives on marriage and relationships in Hollywood. Bring your toughest, most honest questions about love, marriage and relationships.

Join them in a dialogue about what happens when the two become one.

Saturday April 22, 2006
9:30am - 12:00 noon
Middle Terrace – Hollywood Presbyterian Church
1760 N. Gower, Hollywood, CA 90028
Entrance and parking off Carlos

$10 singles - $15 couples - Childcare available ($5 per child)
Includes a continental breakfast, handouts, and lots of hopeful and harrowing stories.
To RSVP call 323-462-8460 x333 or order tickets online

DEAN AND BETH BATALI
Dean and Beth met in a performing arts class while attending The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. They sang in a semi-professional jazz quartet for two years before they decided to try making out on a dock. Beth starred in the first full-length musical Dean wrote, and later acted in two more of Dean ' s original productions. They both worked full-time as actors for Taproot Theatre in Seattle, often performing as many as eight shows a week for grade school kids and high schoolers who couldn't have cared less.

After leaving the company (okay, they were fired), they moved to Hollywood and for five years Beth worked as an assistant to the head of Buena Vista Film Distribution while Dean pounded out spec scripts and toiled as a PA and writer's assistant. He has since written for "Buffy, The Vampire Slayer," "The Adventures of Pete and Pete," and most recently "That 70's Show" as an Executive Producer. Beth spends her time much more productively as director of development for their two daughters Erin, 10, and Katharine, 7. In July, Dean and Beth will celebrate their twentieth anniversary. He should probably take her some place nice.

KAREN AND JIM COVELL
Jim Covell is a composer whose musical scores have been heard on every major television network as well as worldwide on such shows as American Detective, Headliners & Legends With Matt Lauer, U.S Marshals., Changed Lives: Miracles of the Passion. and McGee & Me! . A few of Jim ' s feature film credits include The Elevator, starring Martin Landau, Santa With Muscles with Hulk Hogan, and The Ride, starring Michael Beane. He composed the score and conducted the London Symphony Orchestra for the feature film Left Behind.

Karen is a television producer and has worked on various TV shows and Specials, including most recently, Headliners And Legends With Matt Lauer, America's Throwaway Children and Changed Lives: Miracles of the Passion. She is also the Director of The Hollywood Prayer Network, a global movement of prayer for the Entertainment Industry.

Karen and Jim spend quite a bit of time in ministry in Hollywood, teaching an evangelism class in their home and speaking, both as a team and individually, to churches, colleges and groups across the country.

Jim's non-musical passions are Mrs. Fields cookies, his girlfriend Karen, (who he's been married to for 22 years) and their two wonder boys Christopher and Cameron.

CHRISTOPHER AND KATHLEEN RILEY
As a husband-wife screenwriting team, Christopher and Kathleen Riley have worked in Hollywood for many years. They've written for Touchstone Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Mandalay Television Pictures and Sean Connery's Fountainbridge Films. Their first film, After the Truth, was a multiple-award-winning German-language courtroom thriller which sparked international controversy and earned its star, Goetz George, a best actor nomination for the prestigious European Film Award for his portrayal of Josef Mengele.

Christopher is the author of The Hollywood Standard: The Complete and Authoritative Guide to Script Format and Style, and is the director of the highly regarded Act One writing program. Through the organization We Can, Kathleen works to assist families affected by childhood brain tumors. The Rileys have four children, including a son with special needs.