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Monday, June 1, 2009 – June Premiere
They shut down Hollywood Boulevard again on June 1, for another world premiere of course, this time at the El Capitan. It's The Proposal – fluff, to be released nationwide in a few weeks. But this premiere comes on a dank, overcast day, and everyone involved seems vaguely bored by the whole thing. In 1941, Citizen Kane premiered here. This is no Citizen Kane.
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But Hollywood is full of visual ironies. Behind the flats for the movie premiere, a wall of graffiti left over from the weekends' gay rights rally. Irony is fun.
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And looking down on it all, a new woman on the wall of the Roosevelt Hotel, where they held the first Academy Awards –
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Technical Note:
These photographs were taken with a Nikon D200 – the lenses used were AF-S Nikkor 18-70 mm 1:35-4.5G ED, or AF Nikkor 70-300 mm telephoto. The high-resolution photography here was modified for web posting using Adobe Photoshop 7.0 software.
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All text and photos unless otherwise noted, Copyright © 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 - Alan M. Pavlik
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