M@A's Big Fat (Kilted) Hollywood Premiere!

**Monkey@Arms** · 29th July 07, 03:12 PM

Due to happy family connections I was invited to attend the Hollywood premiere of a new comedy, Hot Rod, which is going to be opening in theaters on August 3rd. (It's a very funny movie, which I recommend that everyone see on the opening weekend, perhaps more than once. Did I mention there was family connection?) I told my host, that unless it was an issue for him, I would be attending kilted, and had my wife buy an appropriate shirt to go with my Black UK Workman (my wife couldn't make it, the woman you'll see is my sister.)

Our ride awaits:

On the red carpet at the famous Grauman's Chinese Theater:

The press

Inside:

Sitting in front of Sacha Baron Cohen (in ball cap):

Meeting celebrities at the after party at Les Deux

Sarah Chalke of Scrubs:

Comedian Sarah Silverman:

The Director, Akiva Schaffer:

Of course I had to get my picture taken with some of these ladies:

The next day at brunch with the star of the movie, Andy Samberg:

I got several compliments at the party on my kilt, heard back from someone that they thought I looked "very Hollywood", and the host was pleased I wore it. The longest conversation I had about it was with Efren Ramirez better known as "Pedro" from Napoleon Dynamite, who asked for a UK business card.

If you all buy plenty of movie tickets for Hot Rod, I'll be invited to another premiere and promise to go kilted and take photos again.

Best regards,

Jake

**oldsoldier** · 29th July 07, 03:17 PM

Way to try & con us all in to going to see the movie!!!
Great pics, looks like you had an outstanding time.

**ccga3359** · 29th July 07, 03:21 PM

Cool shirt BTW. Was Sissy Spacek there? I want to go see the movie for her alone (big fan) but from the previews it does look funny.

**pdcorlis** · 29th July 07, 03:27 PM

That must have been an amazing experience - you did a great job representing the XMarks Kommunity!

**Monkey@Arms** · 29th July 07, 04:09 PM

Originally Posted by ccga3359

Cool shirt BTW. Was Sissy Spacek there? I want to go see the movie for her alone (big fan) but from the previews it does look funny.

No unfortunately neither Sissy or Ian McShane was there. Lorne Michaels, Randy Newman and Brooke Shields were, but I only saw Lorne. Isla Fisher was at the movie but not the party. She's mondo pregnant. You can see a video of the stars doing their thing on the red carpet here

Originally Posted by pdcorlis

That must have been an amazing experience - you did a great job representing the XMarks Kommunity!

It was really cool, even if no starlets hit on me.

Best regards,

Jake

**McMurdo** · 29th July 07, 05:01 PM

Well it looks like a wonderful experience, glad you could hook Pedro up with a card. Thanks for the pictures.

**mrpharr** · 30th July 07, 01:04 PM

How cool is that? Here in Austin we have a pretty strong movie industry but i have only bumped into a few stars and don't know anyone that is really connected. Looked like a blast.
steve