It was an old-fashioned Hollywood movie premiere at Grauman’s Chinese Theater, complete with searchlights, photographers, and crowds of fans to greet the celebrities as they got out of their limousines and walked the red carpet into the theater. All this was orchestrated by the studio to generate as much publicity as possible.
Les and Tiffany arrived together. They were interviewed by several different reporters and hosts of entertainment shows, answering the same questions they had been asked dozens of times in the lead up to the opening. They posed and smiled for pictures alone, together, and with Jason and Nolan—the big names with whom they shared star billing. They were then ushered into the theater and took their seats.
Although they had seen previews, trailers, dailies, and clips
