D.C. does red carpet movie premieres just a little differently. We don't get many of them, and if a movie is having a star-studded debut in Washington, chances are it was filmed in the city, there's a political connection, or both. This means that the usual high-gloss glamour of these kinds of events ends up mixing, with the effectiveness of oil and water, with the stodgy blue-suited anti-glitz of the Washington elite. more ›

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D.C. may be known as Hollywood for ugly people, but for a little while last night, it was almost like we were just plain Hollywood. Granted, there was no actual red carpet at last night's "red carpet" U.S. premiere — which was billed as a World Premiere despite Tuesday night's London screening — of Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian at the National Air & Space Museum. But there was a crowd of excited fans lining the steps up to the museum's doors, a red velvet rope line populated with microphone-wielding entertainment journalists inside, stressed-out personal assistants and handlers in headsets, heavily-made-up television correspondents, and discreet but tough-looking bodyguards. Substitute middle-aged male studio execs for the slightly paler middle-aged male government types who got invites to the event, and you could almost imagine you were at Grauman's Chinese Theatre. more ›