Sat- Aug 30, 2008 – F*ck Yeah Fest – This is a HUGE event
- See the details – The Echo – Echo Park, CA

Fri- Aug 29, 2008 – Negative Approach w/ Broken Needle, Trash Talk,
The Voids, Bad Reaction & Tippers Gore – Pomona Elks Lodge – Pomona, CA

Fri- Aug 29, 2008 – Edward Colver Photography Exhibit
Punk photos and more – Reserve – Los Angeles, CA

Thu- Aug 28, 2008 – Pussy Cow w/ Off With Their Heads & Nothington – The Scene Bar – Glendale, CA

Thu- Aug 28, 2008 – Boracho w/ Headless Pez (OR) Mindwar – Cero’s Lounge – Anahiem, CA

Germs Movie – “What We Do Is Secret” – Held over for another week in Los Angeles

PRESS RELEASE
August 26, 2008

For Immediate Release

www.whatwedoissecretthemovie.com
Complete list of cities and dates where the film will open is online.
5 more markets release 8/29.

 

WHAT WE DO IS SECRET

Opening Weekend Box Office Gross Garnered the Film A Hold Over in Los Angeles for a Second WEEK!
Opens August 29 at the Los Feliz 3 in Los Feliz, CA

 

Show Times: 4:30 PM, 7 PM & 9:30 PM

Director Rodger Grossman, Band Members Lorna Doom & Don Bolles & Actors Shane West (who plays Darby Crash), Bijou Phillips (TBC) and Noah Segan (who plays Don Bolles) to appear In Person with 7 PM & 9:30 PM Shows on Friday & Saturday

 

 

Showtimes: 4:30 PM  7 PM  9:30 PM

Thru Thursday, August 28 at the:
Nuart Theatre
11272 Santa Monica Boulevard, just west of the 405 Freeway
West Los Angeles, CA 90025
(310) 281-8223
website

There are no press passes to these screenings as they are public screenings that are part of the run of engagement. Tickets can be purchased at the Nuart box office or through Landmark Theatres online and for the Los Feliz 3.

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The film runs 93 minutes.

Soundtrack is on Lakeshore and comes out in September.
DVD street date is Nov. 4th.

Interviews available with talent (actors & band members subject to availability)
Shane West, Bijou Phillips, Rick Gonzalez, Noah Segan
Don Bolles, Pat Smear & Lorna Doom

The Original Germs Band were inducted into the Guitar Center Rock Walk on August 20th!!

 

Peace Arch Entertainment & Vitagraph Films Present WHAT WE DO IS SECRET
SHANE WEST   BIJOU PHILLIPS   RICK GONZALEZ   NOAH SEGAN

Talent from the film will be on hand for q & a’s with the audience at the Sunshine
Cinema and Nuart Theatre during opening weekend in New York & Los Angeles and
the "new" Germs will be performing live shows at the Warped Tour and in LA (The
Echo) and NY (The Blender Room) this summer in connection with the theatrical opening
of this film. See www.whatwedoissecretthemovie.com for details on live shows, cast and band member appearances at the theatres, etc.

        1970s Los Angeles, Nihilist Philosophy, Glam Rock, Drugs, Booze, Closeted Homosexuality,
        Dianetics, a Yen for Rock and Roll Immortality - a convergence of forces that shaped
        the short, self-destructive life of Jan Paul Beahm, a fatherless boy raised by an
        alcoholic mother and abandoned by an older brother who died of a drug-overdose -
         a kid who reinvented himself coming out of a high school program for outcasts,
        as the one and only DARBY CRASH, the legendary lead singer of the seminal Los Angeles
        Punk band, The Germs.

        Shane West ("ER," "ONCE AND AGAIN"), Bijou Phillips (CHOKE, BULLY), Rick Gonzalez
        (ILLEGAL TENDER, COACH CARTER) and Noah Segan (BRICK, CHAIN LETTER) star in WHAT
         WE DO IS SECRET, a biopic that chronicles the rise of The Germs and their charismatic
        leader Darby Crash whose image - the contorted, screaming face and death grip on
         the microphone, has become an icon of the U.S. punk movement and a rapt influence
        on bands since. Darby’s cultivated punk attitude, resplendent with the hardcore,
         infamous onstage self-mutilation antics and volatile energy that inspired the band’s
        mesmerized followers to riot, ultimately banned The Germs from playing every venue
        in the greater Los Angeles area.

        But how did it start? It all started with a germ.

        Los Angeles, 1975 - disenfranchised University High School teen Jan Paul Beahm (Shane
        West), shares his five year plan to become a legend with best friend George Ruthenberg
        (Rick Gonzalez). Step One. They ignore the fact that they don’t know how to play
         instruments, as well as the fact that they don’t even have instruments, and form
        a band. Sophistifuck and the Revlon Spam Queens is born.

        Paul and George recruit band members and play their first gig, which is pretty much
        a giant food fight to the tune of noise. These antics distract from the band’s lack
        of musical ability and endear them to the audience. Virtually overnight, the out-of-control
        group earns a reputation as a force of chaos and mayhem on the Los Angeles punk
        scene.

        After some false starts with band members that don’t work out (including Belinda
         Carlisle who shot to fame with the Go Go’s a few short years later, but never made
        it on stage as a Germ!), the final Germs line up is complete. Sculpting their punk
        image, Paul drops the moniker "Bobby Pyn" and adopts the name "Darby Crash." He
        anoints George "Pat Smear," and bassist Terry Ryan (Bijou Phillips) is "Lorna Doom."
        Smart aleck drummer Don Bolles (Noah Segan) who heard the band’s early music, arrives
        from Arizona for an audition, determined to be a Germ.

        Darby gets off on "mind-control" (interestingly his high school unofficially taught
        L. Ron Hubbard’s Dianetics) onstage and off and soon has the "Circle One" fans buzzing
        around him in a cult of their own. This both fascinates and fuels him. He develops
        the "blue circle logo" and the viral "cigarette burn circle." He writes shockingly
        literate and insightful lyrics and comes to the attention of journalist Claude Bessy
        whose interview with Darby about his philosophies and plans for the future, provides
        a structural element for the film. The band runs wild in an FCC nightmare of an
        in-studio interview with KROQ DJ Rodney Bingenheimer who broke the band on radio.
        Increased notoriety on the underground music scene for The Germs, also captures
        the attention of What? Records and later, Slash Records. Ironically, as their popularity
        grows, ultimately the band is black balled from playing every venue in town because
        the destruction of the club will inevitably ensue amidst a storm of flying bottles
        and fights. When they are asked when they will play again, the running joke is –
        "never" — and when documentarian Penelope Spheeris wants to film The Germs for
        her seminal documentary on the L.A. punk scene, THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION,
        she filmed their performance on a soundstage with a live audience, since no club
         would book them.

        By 1980, Darby was increasingly dependent on hard drugs and unable to focus on writing
        more music to follow up The Germs’ one and only album. He subscribed to the "Live
        Fast, Die Young" mentality, and with Step Five of "the plan" he sealed his status
        as a legend of rock ‘n roll, by ending his life in heroin-overdose suicide on December
        7th.  While he might have imagined himself on the cover of every tabloid, ironically
        his death was eclipsed by John Lennon’s assassination the next day.  But the legend
        of Darby Crash and his hugely influential band, The Germs, continues to reverberate
        and grow.

        The real Pat Smear went on to play with Nirvana and is currently with the Foo Fighters
        as well as the "new" Germs, a band that grew out of the making of this film. Shane
        West, who portrays Darby Crash in the film "channels" Darby when he joins original
        band members Pat Smear, Lorna Doom and Don Bolles on stage.

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        Credits:
        WHAT WE DO IS SECRET is stars SHANE WEST, BIJOU PHILLIPS,  RICK GONZALEZ,
        NOAH SEGAN. WHAT WE DO IS SECRET is Written and Directed by Rodger Grossman.
        The Producers are
        Matt Perniciaro, Kevin Mann, Rodger Grossman, Todd Traina and Stephen Nemeth. The
        Line Producer is Bruce Wayne Gillies. Executive Producers are Shane West, Michael
        LaFetra and King Records. Story by Rodger Grossman and Michelle Baer Ghaffari. The
        Director of Photography is Andrew Huebscher. Production Designer is John R. Mott.
        Film Editors are Ross Albert and Joel Platch. The Music Supervisor is Howard Paar.
        Music by Anna Waronker. The Costume Designer. The Co-Producers are Michelle Baer
         Ghaffari   and Andy Wombwell. Co-Executive Producer are Andre Relis and Lise Romanoff.

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