Tron

On Friday night, Nicole and I drove up from San Diego to the Nuart Theater in Santa Monica. We arrived in plenty of time for the midnight showing of “Tron” but they didn’t start admitting people until about 12:30 a.m.

I wore the costume of the hero’s father in my super 8 film “The Skulls”: Boba Fett helmet, KISS t-shirt & green shorts. Nicole took a picture of me standing outside the lobby. I showed the picture to my grandma the next morning and she said, “That’s one of those helmets that the Asians wear in the sun so that they don’t get wrinkles?”

It was very crowded in the theater when they let us in. Nicole and I got a couple of aisle seats. The manager stood in front and told of the exciting midnight programs that are coming soon to the Nuart. Then they had a theater ticket raffle for two “lousy” movie posters (“Click” and “Over the Hedge” or something) and a $15 gift certificate to Café 50’s in West L.A. My ticket was only *one* number off and for some reason I grimaced in frustration. Then Nicole showed me that she had the winning ticket and I went up to collect the posters and gift certificate.

When the movie started I tried to snap a picture of the spinning title, but I was slightly late. It was great fun to watch “Tron” with a midnight crowd. Nicole didn’t really fall asleep before the movie started; she just had her eyes closed when I snapped her picture. But when we finally got to bed at 3 a.m. even I was tired out.