Breaking Baz: ‘Barbie’ Preparing To Dig Her Heels Into Box Office Reminds Of Quentin Tarantino Conversation About Modern Movie Stars
18.07.2023 - 23:57
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What on earth possessed a whole bunch of us to think pink on Monday night? True, many of us were in a playful mood, me included, because Warner Bros Discovery was hosting a series of multimedia screenings of Barbie across several screens at two multiplexes in central London.
It’s following hot on the turbo-charged heels of Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One.
Nice people from WB’s UK top brass and corporate comms presided over a pre-screening soiree at the W Hotel. From an upper-floor window, the line of people waiting to gain entry to Cineworld’s Empire could be spied snaking its way across Leicester Square like a slither of pythons bedecked with candy floss.
Dresses, jackets, trousers, T-shirts, the odd fascinator, fingernails (and yes, toenails too) flashed shades of cerise, fuchsia, magenta and raspberry.
If you must know, I had dug out an ancient Armani shirt that hadn’t been on my back for at least a decade. It was still wrapped in cellophane and cardboard from when it had last passed through a hotel laundry.
You get that’s it’s not my regular color of choice?
There was nothing in the WB invitation that stated I must blush in pink. [I do blush on occasion.]
I never turn out in Marvel costumes when attending an MCU movie, though I did for a moment consider renting a battered fedora for the world premiere in Cannes of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
OK, I do wear a tux to James Bond movie world premieres. Always have.
Why the pink shirt though. What’s that about?
My wife had something to do with it. We bet each other to pop on some pink for Barbie. Mrs. B’s silk striped blouse had a hint of peach and coral.
We enjoyed laughing at ourselves. Clearly, others felt the same. There were a