Another night, another trip to London, another Movie Premiere. This time it was the Times/BFI London Film Festival Gala Opening Night. The film opening the Festival was Wes Anderson's animated adaptation of Roald Dahl's The Fantastic Mr Fox. Most of the cast were expected. Sadly Meryl Streep had gone down with flu, so had to drop out.
Instead we had to put up with, as he mockingly titled himself at the Oscars in 2007, 'Sexiest Man Alive, Oscar winning Actor' George Clooney. Mr Ocean himself!
Whereas last week the barriers were pretty lightweight and not exactly fixed, this time, they were higher up, and weighted so you you stand on the base, and the barriers would require more force to shift.
George Clooney's standard 'Premiere' Autograph is a GG in capitals, could be a GC, with a tail, but looks like a GG. Guys I was standing with before the event were comparing autographs they had got from earlier brushes with 'The Man Who Killed Off the Batman Franchise (before Christian Bale injected some life into it)'. Apparently to their eyes, the tail on the second G made it a 'proper, fuller' signature.
As per usual at these things, Celeb gets out of Mercedes car to screams from girlies. Then either hits a few folks for autographs, or, if they're Cruise or Wil Smith, or seemingly Mr Clooney, walks along the lines, signing more or less anything in front of him. Tom Cruise will apparently do this for AGES, in some kind of a bid to make his signature worthless to dealers and scalpers.
Whilst this is going on, Celeb's date for the night tends to stand around watching, chatting with event security, or what looks like a PYT from film company.
George's date for this appearance is Italian Supermodel Elisabetta Canalis..
Considering the Old Hands at the thing, I'm surprised no one made a fuss of her, but then, they all had photos to get signed, and didn't bring any of her. And I forgot who his girlfriend was...
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