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Tonight at the opening-night gala of the Tacoma Film Festival, the main attraction will be … the vice presidential debate starring Joe Biden and Sarah Palin.
Months ago, when planners set Oct. 2 as the opening date for the city’s third annual indie film extravaganza, they had no idea that that would turn out to be an evening of high political drama. With what’s become the most eagerly anticipated vice presidential debate in history coincidentally scheduled for the same night, even some members of the board of directors of the Grand Cinema, the festival’s main venue, told festival organizer Philip Cowan that they might be late for the fete. The debate, they said, would keep them home in front of the tube, at least for a while.
Ticket sales for the opening were also soft. “I’m worried attendance will be down a bit tonight because our patrons are so politically active they’ll want to see the debate,” Cowan said this morning.
What to do? “We are going to actually show the debate,” Cowan said. He’d planned to show clips of festival films on a big-screen TV set up at the party site, the United Methodist Church of Tacoma at 621 Tacoma Ave. (just behind the Grand). That is still the plan, but first up will be the debate, which is set to start at 6 p.m., a half hour earlier than the originally scheduled beginning of the party.
Hey, it might be a lot more exciting than most of the movies in the festival. There’s nothing like live-action drama.
