Movie Premiere

I got to attend the movie premiere with Bill last night. It was awesome. I'm so glad he was able to pull some strings to get me in (although, considering that I was the lead actress and not just his wife, I think it was legit.)

Oh my gosh, I can't tell you how cool the whole thing was. There were about 16 films, all of which were amazing, especially considering the time and money each person was given to produce them. And they ranged in subjects from puppetry to drama to comedy to music video to documentary to commercial, etc. Some had us laughing until we cried (including the film Bill starred in where he spent most of the time in his underwear. The movie poster had him posing in his underwear with a black bar across it. My handsome husband looked naked on a movie poster shown to hundreds of people.)

As for Bill's movie, it turned out great. It wasn't too bad seeing my gigantic head up on screen. The whole thing went by so fast. It may have taken five hours to shoot, but it was only 5 minutes long. The only stinker was the placement of his film among the others. His film came right after a couple of very funny comedies, so when the "aha" moment in his romantic comedy came, people were expecting to laugh out loud. Instead, there was a weird little titter among the audience like they weren't sure why it was funny. However, the head of the entire network came up to Bill beforehand and said he had seen the film and loved it. So that definitely instilled a little more confidence going into the viewing.

Bill received kudos from so many people afterwards too. While many of the films were really insider jokes about the industry or particular coworkers or execs, Bill's was more accessible to anyone watching. He got praise for his writing too -- wonderful since that's what he does for a living.

The whole event was awesome. Beautiful theater, great crooner-type band, awesome food, and delicious desserts (little chocolate mousse thingys in shot glasses. Mmmmmm). Bill looked great too. He actually went out and bought a new outfit to wear. You have no idea how proud of him I was for this! You see, he never buys clothes for himself...ever. He only gets new clothes each year from me for Christmas. He really just doesn't care about what's in style. His old jeans are fine with him as long as they fit and aren't falling apart. I actually love that he isn't so taken up in all of that. It keeps me grounded because I am into that stuff. He may be a changed man, though. Everyone kept coming up to him and telling him how good he looked and how much they liked his clothes. His interns were kidding him the whole night long about actually being stylish.

So he looked amazingly hot. And I hope I didn't look too bad myself. I thought I wouldn't be going so I had nothing to wear. I spent all yesterday morning trying to find something not too formal, kinda trendy, flattering to wear. Plus I had two doctor's appointments and the girls with me all day long. Do you have any idea how hard it is to find something last minute (stress) plus drag around two toddlers (add more stress) during a very limited amount of time (oh-my-god stress) and still make sure you have enough time to get ready (oh-holy-shit stress)? I thought my head would explode yesterday, but thankfully it all worked out (thank you, Ann Taylor) and there was an open bar when we got to the event. I was worried about being too underdressed (the invite said "premiere wear" and what the hell is that?) but I think I fit in quite nicely and I even knew enough of his coworkers to actually leave Bill's side and do a little socializing myself.

As soon as Bill posts the film online, I'll let you know. It was one thing to show it to coworkers who were doing similar projects and understood it. But it's another to show it to friends and family. I think he's a little nervous about that. If not, then I definitely am. I just hope they remember that he is the one who wrote, produced, and directed the whole thing. He's not onscreen so I think people tend to forget how much work went into it and who to praise for all of that.