Friday night, the movie 21 had its big red carpet premier at SXSW 2008. It’s a true story about an MIT student who bamboozles the Vegas blackjack tables until he gets caught. For me, I thought it’d be fun to hang out on the red carpet here in Austin, which is not known for its red carpets (the one I was standing on was about eight feet long), and see what happens. My story is as follows:
8:30 pm - An hour before the premier - The fidgety reporters and photographers around me are yucking it up about lenses and such when I see a group of kids wearing professional make up and hear shutters start to snap. “It’s the guy from Friday Night Lights!” Someone exclaims, then, “… it’s a show on NBC.” I wait for the flash to charge on my $99 point-and-click camera…
Two girls wearing tiaras take a picture of him…
But my attention turns to this guy–who I’m developing a little man-crush on–and I think he’ll step on the carpet, but he’s apparently just checking text messages…
Then these two step in front of my camera (more after the jump)…
