What a HOOT!
I just got home from a prescreening of the movie, HOOT. The book was written by one of my favorite authors, Carl Hiassen, and Jimmy Buffett optioned it for a movie a while back. The movie was pretty good and will appeal to all ages. I sat next to some girls that looked to be about 8 and they were really into it. On the other side of me were big kids in their 50s and they appeared to enjoy it just as much. Kin Shriner, Scotty of General Hospital fame, had a cameo. When did he get so old?
The show was broadcast to 40 movie theaters across the country then they did a live Q&A with Buffett, Hiassen, director/screenwriter Wil Shriner, producer Frank Marshall and two of the teenage actors from the film. Buffett closed out the evening by playing three tunes with Mac and Ralph.
It was all very cool.
The live part was from Irvine and our friends from the Orange County Parrot Head Club were front and center. It was totally neat to be able to say, "Hey, there's Sean and Paula!" "Look, it's Alan!" "I saw Nellie and Deb." It was kinda like living vicariously through their few seconds of fame.
An unintentionally funny bit was that they spelled it "Jimmy Buffet - Produce" on the screen when Buffett talked. You'd think that the guy who got the movie made could actually get his named spelled right, but apparently not.
The show was broadcast to 40 movie theaters across the country then they did a live Q&A with Buffett, Hiassen, director/screenwriter Wil Shriner, producer Frank Marshall and two of the teenage actors from the film. Buffett closed out the evening by playing three tunes with Mac and Ralph.
It was all very cool.
The live part was from Irvine and our friends from the Orange County Parrot Head Club were front and center. It was totally neat to be able to say, "Hey, there's Sean and Paula!" "Look, it's Alan!" "I saw Nellie and Deb." It was kinda like living vicariously through their few seconds of fame.
An unintentionally funny bit was that they spelled it "Jimmy Buffet - Produce" on the screen when Buffett talked. You'd think that the guy who got the movie made could actually get his named spelled right, but apparently not.
