I'm Back From Cocktails and the Cosmos



Cocktails and the Cosmos wen well on Friday. Chris and I pretty much just had to introduce a couple film (Yongary, Monster from the Deep and Journey to the Seventh Planet), and sit back and make a few jokes. The people in the theaters were pretty into it, though we did end up with a much more diverse crowd than you see at b-movie event. Cocktails and the Cosmos caters to families with kids and couples looking for a date night, as opposed to the people you normally see at a b-movie fest.


When the Empire needed more income, Darth Vader reluctantly opened the Death Star to tourism.

The Orlando Science Center also had live music and IMAX films going on, and Jeff (writer of our Filmboy column and the PR guru for the Center) brought in costumed people and some improv actors to add sci-fi color to this month's event.


I have no idea what's going on here. Make up your own caption.

In what I assume was a horrible mix-up, Jeff had told a local TV station that Chris and I would be available for interviewing. It turns out the show that was filming at the Science Center was about the local dating scene. The host of the show was the usual perky, attractive type that hosts that kind of show. She told us three questions she wanted to ask, Chris and I huddled on some answers, and then we filmed the bit. The host asked the three questions, then sprang a fourth surprise questions on us, which was probably a doomed attempt to make us sound spontaneous or something. After we finished the cameraman said that he wasn't picking up the host's reactions on the hand mike, so they wired her up with a lavaliere, and we did the whole thing again. Same questions, same answers, and the host pretended to find my lame jokes just as funny the second time. (Even my girlfriend will only pretend to laugh at my lame jokes once.) Then the cameraman said that the host was relying on the lavaliere too much, so we did the whole thing again. And I think we did it all a fourth time as well, though I don't remember why. It was a good reminder of why I'm glad I'm not in show business.

Posted: Sun - July 18, 2004 at      

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