Hey Keith
I live in Austin and did not go. I didn't know about it. I never found out
about anything while working two jobs.
Bosco
--- On Tue, 4/14/09, Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@comcast.net> wrote:
From: Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@comcast.net>
Subject: [scifinoir2] Nimoy Surprises Austin Audience with Debut of "Star Trek"
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 3:49 PM
I'll be damned! Talk about a surprise: show up to see "The Wrath of Khan"
and ten minutes from the new movie, and Leonard Nimoy shows up and says you'll
be the first in the world to see the entire new movie?? Watch the vid, it's
funny to listen to the crowd cheer as they realize what's happening. I hear
that theatre in Austin's pretty cool too. It's the place to go for indie films,
to have a good meal. May have to get back there to check it out soon.
One of us on this list lives in Austin right? Used to work in a running store
or bicycle shop or something? I should remember the name, but it escapes me.
Did you go?
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http://artsbeat. blogs.nytimes. com/2009/ 04/07/geeks- gone-wild-
spocks-surprise- appearance- at-star-trek- screening/ ?em
Geeks Gone Wild: Spock’s Surprise Appearance at ‘Star
Trek’ Screening
By Mekado
Murphy
Dave Hill/davehillphoto. com Leonard
Nimoy flashes that other familiar hand gesture to fans at the Alamo Drafthouse
Cinema in Austin.
A group of Trekkers in Austin on Monday had a long, prosperous night to
remember at the surprise world premiere of Paramount’s new “Star
Trek” film.
Austin’s Alamo Drafthouse Cinema,
long a destination spot for fanboys and home to the annual Fantastic Fest, had
planned for a
public screening of “Star
Trek II: The Wrath of Khan,” which was introduced by Harry Knowles of Ain’t It
Cool News, as well as Robert Orci and Alex
Kurtzman, the screenwriters of the new “Trek” film, and its producer, Damon
Lindelof. But as the opening credits rolled on “Khan,” scratches appeared on
the print, it became warped and seemingly burned up in the projector, according
to a
report from the Drafthouse blog.
The lights came back up, and Tim League, a founder of the cinema, told the
crowd he would go try to fix the print himself. Then an unannounced guest —
Leonard
Nimoy himself — came to the stage with a print of the new “Star Trek” film
to play instead, three hours before what was to be the film’s official premiere
in Australia.
We can’t show the new “Trek” film here, of course, but for video of a Texas
crowd going nuts for Mr. Spock, check below:
