His Highness Hollywood Movie Premiere: Excitement, Entertainment and Sabotage - Page 6
After the freakish events of the night before, the NAC staff decided to investigate the incident themselves. This WAS their equipment and surely they too wanted to know what went wrong. Well, something was wrong. In fact, everything was wrong.
All the professionally tinkered with settings were adjusted, and adjusted in such a way that the end result of the film stopping in the same place and not budging was the only possible outcome. This was a hit job. All of Ian's precautions, all of the advance press he gave up just to ensure the safety and unimpeded viewing of his professional baby were for naught. This was SABOTAGE.
I asked Ian what he thought happened. He just kept saying, "I don't know, we tested it, we were ready to go, everything should have gone smoothly."
I had to ask it, it would have been wrong and unprofessional for me not to: Ian, do you think Scientology did this?
A long, pregnant and thoughtful pause, "I can't comment."
I pressured Ian for more details, but he gave me all he had. In his words, "we tested it, everything was ready to go. Something is not right."
We'll keep you posted if any new details emerge as to the exact nature of the tampering.
Despite this cringe-worthy snafu, all in all, it was a huge success. The film was great. Then to top it off, Andrew Morton, a real trooper I'd say, stayed through all of this until well past midnight. He then met us around the corner for drinks and to congratulate Ian. What a class act.
In true Hollywood style, the show, must go on.
[Editor's note: this is NOT a review of the film, I will await the edited version for a proper review]
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