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People Magazine Extra, Winter 2000, 28 November 2000
Shawnee Smith, actress: Living Room author uncredited
caption: "When people come to our house," says Smith, "I like to put out Blow Pops and Clorets, in case anyone gets lucky and has a love connection."
At her previous addresses -- a small house across the street from Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson on Mulholland Drive and a '60s-inspired apartment in Venice Beach -- Shawnee Smith was known for her freewheeling parties. "They overflowed with people," says Saverio Guerra, Smith's castmate on the CBS sitcom Becker. And though Smith, 30, has now settled down with husband Jason Reposar, 31, a photographer and graphic artist, in a four-bedroom house in Malibu, she still loves to entertain. Even the arrival of daughter Verve 18 months ago hasn't put a crimp in the couple's social life. They have just adapted their parties to their new status, transforming their 800-sq.-ft. living room into a screening room with an 80-in.-screen TV with VCR, DVD player and stereophonic sound. "We never go to the movies anymore," Smith says, "so the living room had to be comfortable." With tips-and some hands-on help-from Paramount painters and craftsmen (on hiatus from Becker), Smith and Reposar had French doors installed and the room painted "the color of a stormy sky, which is especially neat when you're lying on the floor looking up," she says. It's a room made for sprawling, so when guests come to watch videos, they spread out on floor pillows ("The first time my daughter threw herself out of the crib, I started making pillows," says Smith), an oversize couch and loveseat, or the animal-print ottoman. "We go for the relaxed vibe," says Reposar, who lets baby Verve snuggle on the sofa with Mom and Dad until she falls asleep. "Our parties are like the kind you went to in high school and college."
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