Southampton, NY – Bestselling author, actress, comedienne, and wife of media star George Stephanopoulos, ALI WENTWORTH gave a sharp witted, fun filled lecture on July 21st at The Greek Orthodox Church of the Hamptons to promote her new book, ALI IN WONDERLAND: And Other Tall Tales(Published by Harper/HarperCollins). More than 200 people attended the outdoor lecture under a billowing white tent on the grounds of the church. Ali was this year’s keynote speaker for the 2012 Sophocles N. & Louiza Zoullas Memorial Hellenic Lecture.

In her sharp-witted—and often laugh out loud funny—bestselling memoir, actress, comedian and writer Ali Wentworth shares her real-life adventures through the looking glass: from a Washington childhood as the daughter of a White House social secretary, to years in the casting trenches of Hollywood, and back to Washington as the wife of George Stephanopoulos. In between there was a rough stint at an all-girl boarding school, misspent college years, and a few decades of soured relationships—all priceless comic material for the woman who has made us laugh on Oprah, In Living Color, and Seinfeld, and in the pages of Marie Claire and Vogue.

Ali got plenty of laughs as she confessed to hitting the relationship jackpot with George (“I had a big, fat, WASP, Greek wedding, heavy on the Greek. What I didn’t realize was, when you marry one Greek, you marry them all (approx.16 million.”)  She poked fun at her shock when she realized that her wedding reception was to be held in the basement of the Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in New York City. And how on a trip to Greece with George, she realized that her husband was “Bon Jovi’’ in Greece.

At the end of the hour long talk, Ali signed copies of her book and chatted with guests.  ALI IN WONDERLAND: And Other Tall Tales is on sale in bookstores everywhere.

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