Inside his banking tower, Dallas Federal Reserve president Richard Fisher is just as likely to be watching outtakes of the new Superhero Movie on Defamer.com as he is to be watching the markets.
That's because his actor son, Miles Fisher, has become a round-the-globe Internet sensation for his parody of Tom Cruise that is the highlight of an otherwise mediocre movie. The Fisher video is a sendup of a more disturbing Scientology video that the church has been trying to get Gawker Media to remove from its Web sites.
CNN and Entertainment Tonight have played clips of Miles' dead-on impersonation of Mr. Cruise. It's an ironic road to fame for the young actor, a Harvard grad. When he was 18, gossip columnist Liz Smith dubbed him "the next Tom Cruise," after seeing him in the Civil War epic Gods and Generals.
One advantage of oilman Ray Hunt's new Hunt Consolidated headquarters in the Arts District is that there is an unobstructed view of the giant video screens at Victory Park. During an AFI Dallas International Film Festival party this week at the 14th-floor offices, guests could look across and see Superman being screened – sort of a 21st-century version of sneaking into the drive-in.
Mr. Hunt's son and daughter-in-law, Hunter and Stephanie Hunt , joined AFI Dallas International Film Festival founder Liener Temerlin and his wife, Karla, to host the party honoring Nancy Hamon for her $1 million gift to the film festival.
At 89, Mrs. Hamon uses a wheelchair, but she is still a quick-draw conversationalist.
As Liener made a speech thanking the philanthropist, he realized he couldn't see her.
"Where's Nancy?" he asked.
The crowd parted to reveal Mrs. Hamon sitting at the back in her wheelchair in a fetching emerald green suit.
"Liener, I would roll over to you," she said, "but I have a cocktail in hand."
At last year's AFI Dallas film fest, the documentary A Lawyer Walks Into a Bar took away honors. The film was exec-produced by Dallas-raised friends Jonathan Osborne and Brandon Camp, son of Benji creator Joe Camp, and their partner, Mike Thompson.
On April 8, Indican Pictures is releasing the DVD of the film about people taking (and failing) the California bar exam.
Following father Joe into directing, Brandon Camp just wrapped production on his directorial debut, a film he wrote with Mike Thompson called Traveling, which stars Jennifer Aniston and Aaron Eckhart.
That was Susan Sarandon's daughter, actress Eva Amurri, hanging out at the W after Wednesday's AFI screening of her film The Life Before Her Eyes.
The after-, after-, after-party ended up in a W suite overlooking Victory Plaza kept by AFI Dallas Founding Circle member Ruth O'Donnell Mutch.
