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TINSELTOWN SPYWITNESS.


Byline: Jenny Peters

EXCELLENT THING: What's a good sign at a movie premiere? Let's just say that when the crowd starts cheering and clapping five minutes before the film is over and doesn't stop until the credits roll, it's pretty clear you've got a hit on your hands. That stuff just doesn't happen in jaded L.A., no matter how many friends are in the handpicked audience.

That's why New Line head honcho Honcho

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Notes:
The CEO of a company could be referred to as the honcho or "head honcho."
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 Bob Shaye was grinning so hard his face must still hurt after the premiere of "The Last Mimzy" (review on page 9) at the Mann Village in Westwood on Tuesday night. Shaye directed the fantasy flick, too, that stars Joely Richardson Joely Kim Richardson (born 9 January 1965) is an English actress. Biography
Early life
Richardson was born in London to a theatrical family, the daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave and late director Tony Richardson, the granddaughter of Sir Michael Redgrave
, Timothy Hutton Timothy T. Hutton[1] (born August 16, 1960) is an American Academy Award-winning actor — the youngest ever to win the award for Best Supporting Actor at the age of 20. , Rainn Wilson Rainn Dietrich Wilson (pronounced "Rain") (born January 20, 1966) is an Emmy-nominated and two-time Screen Actors Guild Award winning American actor. He is known for his roles as the neurotic Dwight Schrute on the American television comedy The Office, , Kathryn Hahn, and two amazing kids, Chris O'Neil and Rhiannon Leigh Wryn, so he was doubly psyched at the jubilant reception.

Hutton didn't make the premiere, but everyone else did, including Ed Harris, "Borat's" Ken Davitian, Robert Forester, Irwin Winkler Winkler may refer to:
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 and Melora Hardin, who attended the out-of-this- world after party. "Mimzy" is a sci-fi tale about a future generation reaching out to contact our present for help, and the night's party buzz was that the family-friendly film is "the 'E.T.' of this generation."

"I love the whole idea -- don't we all? -- of that sort of 'E.T.,' magical, different world out there coming into our world," Richardson said with a grin, and then gave credit for the movie's hot buzz to its littlest participant.

"I thought that Rhiannon was just spectacular. On set watching her and on the monitor she is just completely mesmerizing mes·mer·ize  
tr.v. mes·mer·ized, mes·mer·iz·ing, mes·mer·iz·es
1. To spellbind; enthrall: "He could mesmerize an audience by the sheer force of his presence" 
. She's just got that magic thing. It was like, 'Oh, my God.' And the room would stand still."

Seven-year-old Rhiannon raced around the tent with a huge gaggle of kids, most of whom clutched glowing drinks in one hand and "Mimzy" dolls in the other, living it up at her big premiere.

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(1) WRYN and MIMZY: Bunny love on a magical evening

Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images

(2) RICHARDSON and O'NEIL: 'Mimzy' mommy and her on-screen on·screen or on-screen  
adj. & adv.
1. As shown on a movie, television, or display screen.

2. Within public view; in public.
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