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Los Angeles Times
28-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Kat Dennings
To television viewers, Kat Dennings is probably best known for playing down-on-her-luck characters — first in a six-season run as Max Black on the CBS sitcom 'Two Broke Girls,' and, more recently, as Tim Allen's estranged-but-reunited daughter on ABC's 'Shifting Gears,' which aired its first-season finale earlier this month (all episodes are available for streaming on Hulu). But to hear her tell it, there's hardly a down-on-your-luck aspect of her real-life ideal Sunday itinerary, which starts with double belly rubs for her two cats, ends with drifting off to 'Columbo' and includes an eclectic lineup of museums, rare-book-browsing and dinner prepared to the strains of live piano music (by musician husband Andrew W.K.) in between. After she described her ideal day, I asked Dennings which current co-star might make the best Sunday wingman. She answered without hesitation. 'I'd force Tim Allen to take me around town and see what he does on a Sunday,' she said. 'I feel like he probably just tinkers with his beautiful vintage car collection. But who knows. Maybe he does goat yoga. He's really a bloomin' onion of man. There are so many sides to him and so many layers.' This interview has been lightly edited and condensed for length and clarity. 10 a.m.: Cuddle with the catsUsually my little 'soup cats' [Lentil and Barley] will wake me up and I'll do our adorable morning routine: They'll both roll over on their backs, and I'll do a double belly rub and cuddles. It's the best [because] they're so affectionate. Then I'll feed them and wash their dishes. I got them through a cat rescue called Tail Town Cats in Pasadena; it has a cat cafe where you can sit in a room and just get covered in cats. It's literally the best thing ever. And they're open on Sundays, so that could be something to do. 10:30 a.m.: Down some decafI actually stopped drinking caffeine — much to my chagrin — for my anxiety issue, so I'll make myself a little pot of decaf. I've got a Moccamaster which is a fantastic coffee maker that's so easy to use. My best friend Brenda Song suggested it to me, and she's very type A and always researches everything, so I know that if she suggests something, it's the best one. [Coffeewise] I like Peet's Major Dickason's [Blend] decaf and their French Roast [decaf] is also really good. So by 10:30 [a.m.] I'm having my sad decaf coffee ... I'll put a little oat milk in there with a little maple syrup. It tastes really good. 11 a.m.: Go for the gardenMy favorite thing to do on a cold morning is to take my coffee out to the garden — I'm a big gardener — and look at my tomato plants and do any of the little things that need to be done: weeding, staking up the plants, clipping any leaves at the bottom of the plant. And, if I'm feeling really indulgent, I'll put on an audiobook while I garden. A great audiobook for for gardening — a great one period — is 'Howl's Moving Castle' [by Diana Wynne Jones]. I recommend it for anybody doing anything. Noon: Jet over to the Museum of Jurassic TechnologyThen my husband and I will get ready for the day and decide where we want to go to do something fun. One option would be the Bob Baker Marionette Theater. But my favorite place in [the] Los Angeles [area] is the Museum of Jurassic Technology [in Culver City]. It's a museum but it's an oddity; it's kind of science-based, but there's also folklore stuff in there. It's best if you take someone without telling them what it is, and then it just sort of blows their mind when they get there. I'm always filled with childlike wonder, even though I've been there a million times by now. You go [through the museum] from the bottom [floor] to the top [floor], and at the top there's a tea room with this big brass samovar. And this lady — usually it's a lady — gives you a little cup of literally the best-tasting, scalding-hot tea you've ever had in your life along with this little plate of almond cookies. To make it even more amazing, there's an aviary there where you can take your tea and sit and look at these birds in this fairy-tale environment. 2 p.m.: Find some fusilliMy husband and I don't really eat in the morning so by now we'd probably be super hungry. We'd head to whichever Jon and Vinny's location we're closest to at the time. I'm a big fan of their spicy fusilli. I could tear down an entire plate of pasta with no problem. So I'd probably do that. 3 p.m.: Browse some mind-blowing booksIf I'm feeling really luxurious I'll head to Mystery Pier Books, Inc. just off Sunset [Boulevard in West Hollywood] near Book Soup. It's very hidden and not a typical bookstore. It's a collection of books owned by these two fantastic men who are just the most knowledgeable ever, and they have first editions and things like that. It's not affordable — I've never bought anything more than a tote bag — but if you had a spare $30,000 you could buy a first edition of something with a letter from Einstein in the front of it. They have things that are just mind-blowing. 4 p.m.: Grab some groceriesIf it's a typical weekend, I would have planned a recipe I want to make for dinner, so I'd go to Gelson's and pick up ingredients for that or something to barbecue, depending on the season. The last recipe I made that was worthy of printing out and putting in my recipe box was the Creamy Italian Sausage Soup from Salt & Lavender. I do love to grocery shop, so I can really kill some time in [Gelson's]. My favorite is probably the fresh produce section. I'm a real stickler [for perfectly ripe fruit], so I'll just touch all the melons like a [strange] person. 5:30 p.m.: Some supper-prep pianoWhen we get home I'll start [working on preparing] dinner, and my husband will probably play piano for a couple of hours because he is a real-deal pianist and plays for hours every day. It's really amazing to hear Bach being exquisitely played in another room; I'm very spoiled by that. And then I usually like to have dinner ready around 7:30 p.m. 8:30 p.m.: Peddle on the PelotonIf I'm really being motivated — which I normally am not — I'll get on the Peloton [bike] for a 30-minute class. Or, depending on how the day went, maybe I would have done it earlier. My favorite instructor is Christine D'Ercole, who's just absolutely the best. She's a champion bicyclist. I don't [typically] do well with extreme-positivity workouts, and she's positive, but it's also a very emotional experience. I've cried in those classes. 9 p.m.: Learn lines Then, if I'm working the next day, I'll immediately get in bed and obsessively learn my lines for the next day. After I do that for about two hours, my husband will run lines with me doing all the voices of everybody else. He does a good Tim Allen impression and he does a great Seann William Scott impression that I know Seann is just dying to hear — which he will one day. 11 p.m.: Catch some 'Columbo'The nicest thing that kind of lulls me to sleep is when my husband is watching TV and I fall asleep to him doing that. 'Columbo' is our favorite show. If I didn't fall asleep to that, I might try to be heroic and read a physical book. I just started reading 'So Thirsty' by Rachel Harrison. I'm only five pages in but I already love it.
Buzz Feed
15-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
Kat Dennings Revealed Why She Doesn't Go By Her Real Name, And It's Pretty Funny
You know Kat Dennings — but did you know that isn't even her real name? 'My real last name is Litwack — that's all you need to hear,' she joked. 'At 9, I was like, 'This isn't going to work for me. This is not going to work.' She-slash-I was very ahead of her time. It was a CEO situation. I was like, 'This can't be displayed on a poster.'' Kat then explained that she got the idea to change her name after visiting with a family friend, children's fantasy author Lloyd Alexander. 'Randomly, he was my mother's best friend,' she said. 'So I went there every week until I was 15 years old, and they were like my grandparents, he and his wife. And his wife's name was Janine Denni, she was French. And I thought it would be a super sick idea if I took her name and made it different. Literally, that was the thinking. That's as far as it went. So Dennings is from her.' As for the "Kat"? Well, she took inspiration from a surprising source — specifically, Christina Ricci's character from the 1995 film Casper, who was Kat's "favorite character at the time." 'So I was like, 'Okay, Kat Dennings. This is it, I can really picture it.'' she said. 'It's insane.'
South China Morning Post
18-02-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Who is Thor actress Kat Dennings' musician husband, Andrew W.K?
Musician Andrew W.K first launched his musical career in the early noughties with rock and metal songs about partying. He shot to fame with his 2001 anthem 'Party Hard', which remained a popular track for years after, appearing in adverts, movie trailers, video games and even at ice hockey games – it's the goal song for the Pittsburgh Penguins. Despite his hard rocker image, W.K – whose full name is Andrew Fetterly Wilkes-Krier – also became known for his motivational speaking and self-help work. He wrote an advice column for New York newspaper The Village Voice, hosted a children's game show on the Cartoon Network, and gave lectures on positive partying at universities including Oxford, Yale and NYU. And then he disappeared. Andrew W.K had disappeared from social media for two years until his wedding to Kat Dennings. Photo: @katdenningsss/Instagram Just a few weeks after releasing his sixth studio album God Is Partyin g in September 2021, W.K went off the grid. He deleted all his social media accounts and the tour he had announced was cancelled. Numerous conspiracy theories were floated by fans until about two years later, he began to be seen more frequently when his actress partner – Thor and 2 Broke Girls actress Kat Dennings – confirmed they were married. Here's what you need to know about the rocker. The fame train Andrew W.K and his wife Kat Dennings. Photo: @katdenningsss/Instagram Andrew W.K is a classically trained pianist, having begun lessons as a five-year-old with teachers from the University of Michigan Music School. He played in bands as a teen, then applied to and was accepted into the Art Institute of Chicago. Before the term even started, though, he had decided to move to New York and make music. In 2001, W.K's song 'Party Hard' became an instant rock anthem and by the time he released his debut album , I Get Wet – with its now famous cover of him drenched in sweat with a bloody nose – he had solidified a cult following.
