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Just sending this over. And to let you know that tonight Alexis will be on The Late Show with David Letterman so be sure to check it out! 
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Stolen from Reed Fish's blog:
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Monday, April 10
Sold Out!
Originally uploaded by reedfish.
Yeah, so our premiere on the 29th sold out in the first few hours after tickets went on sale on Saturday. Our final showing on the 3rd sold out today. So that means that we only have two screenings that still have tickets available (although, I think they hold a few tickets for walkup sales on the day of the screening, but I don't know how many of those tickets there are.) Buy your tickets now if you want to get in on either the 1st or 2nd!
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Sunday, April 16
I have half an outfit.
Originally uploaded by reedfish.
After days and days of shopping, I have finally gotten something that I think I can wear to the premiere. I know that all of you out there in internetville are breathing a giant sigh of relief right now. But still, please keep those fingers crossed for me a little longer, because I still need pants.
This is a picture LD took of me on set back in June (I blogged it on July 1st, but I don't care, I'm repeating it for a reason, which you'll learn in the next sentence.) I'm posting it today because it was the photograph that accompanied an article that appeared in the Sacramento Bee on Friday (you need register --for free-- to read the article.) There is a rumor that it is going to be reprinted in the Red Bluff Daily News later in the week. This whole deal with the movie finally being shown and Tribeca and articles and Brazilian blogs and everything is getting more surreal by the minute.
I guess Alexis is going to be on The Late Show with David Letterman on Wednesday. And apparently they're going to let her talk about the movie a little bit, so set your TiVo's. Now that will be surreal. Except if she can't talk about the movie. Then it will just be Alexis on Letterman, not talking about the movie and not surreal at all.
Sometimes for fun, I read the message boards for I'm Reed Fish on our imdb page. My favorite (really, I think it's great!) posting is from a couple days ago and is the only post under the topic "Title." It's by "no_axel" and in its entirety reads: "If this film isn't about Reed Fish, which it doesn't appear to be, he strikes me as a pompous ass."
Like I said, it gets more surreal by the minute.
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Stolen from the Sacramento Bee
Red Bluff screenwriter's film to debut at Tribeca festival
By Christine Vovakes -- Bee Correspondent
Published 2:15 am PDT Friday, April 14, 2006
Story appeared in Metro section, Page B4
RED BLUFF - Reed Fish likes the small town roots that growing up in Red Bluff gave him.
Those roots spawned a place called Mud Meadows in his fictionalized coming-of-age screenplay, "I'm Reed Fish," which will have its world premiere April 29 at New York's Tribeca Film Festival.
"Reed is obviously a great new talent and we want to put that on display," the festival senior programmer David Kwok said. "Hopefully he'll be one of the next bright stars of Tribeca."
Fish, a 32-year-old Red Bluff native who now lives in Los Angeles, never intended to be a screenwriter. He earned a degree in art with an emphasis on photography at San Francisco State University. But working in a photo gallery in the city fostered a desire to produce and direct movies.
"I always wanted to get those framed pictures to move," he said. "I didn't know anyone who had a script. So I wrote one myself."
He jumped into the venture five years ago and finished the first draft in a few months. During peripatetic moves to New York City, Sacramento and finally Los Angeles, he polished the original. Two years after beginning the screenplay, he sold what he thought was the final version.
"But I've done numerous rewrites since then," he said. Turning the script into a film was "a long, arduous process, and gut-wrenchingly difficult. There were so many ups and downs."
Co-founded by Robert De Niro in response to the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the community-based Tribeca festival showcases mainstream and independent films. Growing from its original five days in 2002, the festival will be 13 days this year. Nearly 2,000 feature films were submitted this year; 174 were selected for screening.
Fish graduated from Red Bluff Union High School in 1991. He credits English and drama teacher Cleo Gambetta for having "a profound influence on me and on the course of my life."
High school theater "was the first time I was able to access the creative part of myself," he said.
Gambetta is delighted by her former pupil's success, but not surprised.
"Reed is talented and focused," she said. "He's sensitive, free of perimeters and boundaries. And also very funny."
Humor and romance fuel the plot of "I'm Reed Fish," directed by Zackary Adler and starring Alexis Bledel from the TV series "Gilmore Girls" and Jay Baruchel from "Undeclared."
"I'm really ready for the movie to be out there. It's been a private experience for so long, but it's not mine anymore," he said. "Letting it go is somewhat bittersweet, but it's a big relief."
Fish is slightly amused by publicity generated by the festival.
Will he don black tie for the occasion?
"I'm not certain," he said. "But I'll definitely wear my good shoes."
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I can't wait to go to the permier of I'm Reed Fish on April 29th and to tell you all about it!!
I am also trying to even get into the I'm Reed Fish after party we shall see but it looks hopeful!. If I do I will be sure to report on all of the Alexis goodness and take tons of photos!!
Hope all is well. Keep on dreaming.
Love,
Erin |