Waitress

As in, the new movie co-starring Nathan Fillion. Nice movie. Go see it. Stuff the box office. Make Nathan a star.

Last night the local art-house cinema held a free sneak preview, with preferred seating (and eligibility for raffle prizes) to anyone who showed up dressed as a waiter or waitress. Yes, of course I went. Nathan on the big screen, for free? Total no-brainer.

And I won a gift certificate for a free pie at a local bakery. Appropriate, since the movie is mostly about pie, among other things.

Funny, seeing an entire theater filled with people in aprons. One gal was even wearing a name tag that said “George” on hers. Must have borrowed it from a waiter friend…. I wore a borrowed apron from a friend, and stuck on a button with the photo of Nathan and me. The guy at the ticket counter just about screamed when he saw it. “Oh, wow, that is totally Nathan Fillion!” The other guy looked blank and said “Who?” I pointed in the direction of the theater doors and said “He’s in the movie!”

If you stay to the end of the credits, there’s the expected poignant moment where the screen says “In loving memory of Adrienne Shelly.” She was the writer/director/co-star of the movie who was murdered last November by an illegal alien who was “having a bad day.”