Third & Heaven

“Covers all the basic food groups that nourish Hollywood: sex, power, dreams, and deception. What a great read.” —Steve Kmetko on In and Out in Hollywood It used to be trendy; now it’s just comfortable. And it’s the perfect spot to recover from Saturday night while preparing for Monday morning. Each Sunday, Third and Heaven, a little diner in West Hollywood, California, plays host to four friends who over breakfast counsel, console, encourage, mock, outrage and otherwise make each of their lives worth living. Freddy is an entertainment-show host who is dating a Broadway star with a crystal meth addiction. Claire is a twice-divorced osteopath who is compulsively amorous with men she meets in the supermarket. Ritchie is a personal trainer who dreams of being an actor and struggles to reconcile with his Sicilian family. And Joshua, as a publicist to has-beens and nobodies, attempts to spin press mentions out of thin air. Over the course of a year, their friendship remains the one constant as porn stars are dated, Thanksgiving dinners are ruined, stalkers are served restraining orders, exes are spied on, gowns are assembled in late-night sewing bees, apartments are painted and bail is posted. No matter what happens, each of them knows the other three will be there, waiting to dish in the corner booth at Third and Heaven. Ben Patrick Johnson is one of the top voice-over actors in Hollywood. His is the signature announcer voice of Entertainment Tonight, Judge Joe Brown and Fox Sports’ You Gotta See This! His voice has been heard in hundreds of trailers for films such as X-Men, Anger Management, The Pianist, City of God and many others. He is the author of In and Out in Hollywood and lives in Los Angeles.