Saturday night, January 21, 2006. Yes, I was there at the Saturday night premier…the night that the infamous Katie Holmes sex scene went missing. Molly pointed out the press coverage of the "controversy" to me, and I must say that it is pretty darn laughable. First of all, I don’t personally recall any "booing" from the crowd when director Jason Reitman mentioned that the scene had somehow not played due to a "projection error". And I also find it funny that news articles claimed that Tom Cruise had decided to skip the screening to hit the slopes…since the screening was after dark (Park City does have night skiing…but it was below 10 degrees that night and somehow I don’t see skiing as much of a possibility). For the record — and this will be the end of my celebrity gossip — Katie Holmes also was not even in attendance (contrary to some "news" reports of the event). In fact, when the audience asked where she was that night during the Q&A, Reitman replied, "somewhere in love…". Anyway, Molly and I waited outside in the cold for 2 hours to try to get scalped tickets to the screening while Kelly and the other Molly waited in the wait list line. They were turned down for waitlist tickets…but I did manage to get four scalped tix…three of which magically came to me 10 minutes before showtime (note to future Sundancers: if at Eccles and needing tickets, wait at the shuttle bus dropoff in the BACK of Eccles, not in the front). Overall impressions of the film: pretty funny and inventive, especially the scenes of the weekly MOD Squad meetings between the PR faces of the Tobacco, Firearms and Alcoholic Beverages industries. Everyone will get a chance to see this film, as Fox Searchlight bought it before it even screened at Sundance. As for the Katie Holmes scene…
