Quick Snaps: Bill Paxton in Austin

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Texas Film Hall of Fame 2007

I found out last night that actor Bill Paxton will be in Austin next week. (Don't confuse him with Bill Pullman. I nearly did so myself.) The Fort Worth native will be at Alamo Drafthouse on South Lamar on Monday night to screen the first feature he directed, Frailty, from 2001. Then on Tuesday, he'll receive a 2011 Texas Medal of Arts Award at the Long Center. Tickets are still available for both these events.

I didn't see Bill Paxton when he was last in Austin in March 2007, at SXSW and the Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards. Fortunately, I did find this photo on Flickr and Austin Film Society gave me permission to republish it here. Paxton was initiated into the Texas Film Hall of Fame by the late great musician Stephen Bruton, also pictured above.

Paxton was born and raised in Fort Worth, and has been in a couple of Austin movies: Spy Kids 2 and Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, playing the character of Dinky Winks.

[Photo credit: "Texas Film Hall of Fame 2007" by Gary Miller for Austin Film Society. Published with permission from AFS.]