![]() Handed the high school theme, Glee if anything choose to err on the side of showmanship, but not without some compromises to culinary standards. On the other hand, walk away from the theme and your sense of showmanship is called into question. Admirable as their consistency was, the decision likely doomed the film at the box office. I've been to the premiere of a film set on an airplane where they kept so close to theme that they forced Hollywood's elite to dine on boxes of ham and cheese sandwiches and Pepperidge Farm crackers. On the one hand, you stick to close to the theme and you risk culinary disaster for the sake of effect. The dilemma of how much to keep with the theme with the food has brought low many a mighty tentpole. The premiere buffet presents the most significant hurdle any TV show or film must cross. Hollywood premiere crowds are not the types to rise to their feet and shake that booty in their Hugo Boss, but the booty shakin' was much implied in the room nonetheless. Murphy's co-Executive Producer Dante Di Loreto took the mic to introduce the cast, thank the assembled executivery, and present a giant fake check to the charity Young Arts Association.įor those who loved the pilot, the episode which airs tonight shall not disappoint, with the comic musical crescendo set to Salt 'n Peppa's Push It particularly delighting. Many power players struggled valiantly however to assert their sense of selves and turn the gym into an impromptu agency board room, working their Blackberries overtime to create a power mystique.Ĭrushing the hopes of all the struggling writers who had come spec scripts in hand, just before the episode rolled it was announced that Executive Producer Ryan Murphy was not with us sadly he was in Rome shooting a film with Julia Roberts. Silently they chanted to themselves, "It's only a theme. Valiantly keeping with the theme, the show's first post-pilot episode was aired in the school gymnasium, causing the assembled Hollywood Power Elite, sitting on folding chairs and bleachers, to fight back the urge to let their neighbors know how much better this would have looked in their private screening rooms. Thus, hostile as it might have seemed to the show's characters, the premiere staff was clad entirely in cheer and football costumes, starting with a recreation of that most precious of scholastic traditions, the Cheerleader Car Wash, featuring mini-skirted Cheerios sponging down a Chevy Equinox SUV - the show's major sponsor. The staging of that division however, hit the roadblock of there being no obvious costume to signify accapella singing. The bash was held at a mid-sized Culver City school, which for the night became the show's William McKinley High, rife with "Join Glee Club" and "Cheerios Rule" signs, re-creating the show's cheerleader vs. There is nothing Hollywood likes better than a theme party and last night TV's big wigs assembled the themeiest of launches, going back to the land of their primal fears, high school for the Glee premiere. ![]()
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