Photos Galore: 'Surfer, Dude' Premiere at the Paramount

Photos of Matthew McConaughey, even when he's wearing a shirt, never do grow old, do they? Of course not. That's why I knew you wouldn't mind waiting for me to put together this little photo essay from the Surfer, Dude premiere.

The thing to realize about red-carpet events is that they truly can be a circus, but that this is not always a bad thing. Some people go to giant malls on the day after Thanksgiving, some people go to Mardi Gras in the French Quarter, and some of us go to red-carpet events. I have to wonder -- if they get this crowded and chaotic in Austin, how is it in New York or LA? Or perhaps in those big cities they're a lot more blase about it. This event was called a "green carpet" but it was as red-carpet-y as we get in Central Texas.

I arrived at the Paramount and was assigned a spot not far from the door into the theater, next to Cole and Bobby, who write for (natch) Cole and Bobby at the Movies, as well as Study Breaks magazine. We were joined shortly thereafter by Statesman arts and entertainment editor Michael Barnes, who positioned himself right next to the door, so he could do some short interviews for his Out and About column and blog. This was great for me because I could take photos while the guys were interviewing people.

Let's dive right in, shall we? Here's Bobby and Cole with actor Zachary Knighton.

Next we have actress K.D. Aubert, who looked cool, calm and collected all the way down the green carpet despite the nearly triple-digit temperature.

At some point I randomly snapped a goofy photo of Bobby and didn't realize that behind him, K.D. Aubert had just said something to Michael Barnes to make him nearly fall backwards laughing.

Actress Alexie Gilmore also appeared to be in high spirits.

We could see Matthew McConaughey way, way down at the other end of the green carpet, being besieged by television reporters, but we waited our turn. In the meantime, Richard Linklater (who was there to help introduce the film) walked past us nearly unnoticed.

Woody Harrelson was also in great demand from the TV cameras, and didn't have time to stop by our spot near the door. So this is the only decent photo I was able to snap of him.

If you want to see a better photo of Harrelson on the red carpet, Steve Hopson had it covered. He also got a nice shot of McConaughey with his girlfriend Camila Alves.

Surfer, Dude director and co-writer S.R. Bindler (who also made Hands on a Hardbody) obligingly posed with his wife for a few photos. He even gave us the "Hook 'Em" sign.

Again, because we were at the far end of the green carpet, Matthew McConaughey ran out of time and wasn't able to stop and talk, or even pause for photos for very long, but I was able to catch one good smile from him.

If this wasn't quite enough red-carpet (or green-carpet) excitement for you, I posted all the halfway decent photos to a Flickr set. In addition, Flickr user fuzuoko has a few pictures of the celebrities from inside the Paramount, and Flickr user rockwilder snapped some photos at the after-party.