KLRU to Air Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards

Thomas Haden Church

This Thursday, May 28, KLRU is going to broadcast highlights from the 2009 Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards from 8 to 9 pm. And if you miss that date, you can catch the broadcast again on KLRU-2 on Wednesday, June 3 at 9 pm. The awards originally took place on March 12, right before SXSW started.

Thomas Haden Church (pictured above) was a wonderfully amusing emcee, and I hope that none of his jokes were considered unsuitable for nighttime public television. More photos from the event are after the jump.

The evening's honorees included Larry Hagman, shown below:

Larry Hagman

Hagman took a few minutes to promote Texas film incentives and said that he'd lobbied state legislators himself earlier that day. He showed us the flyers he'd left them, which looked like fake money -- and tossed a handful out into the awards crowd. Here's a closeup, in case you see him throwing stuff on TV and wonder what it is:

Larry Hagman

Keith Carradine talked about his colleague Powers Boothe before presenting him with an award:

Keith Carradine

Brandon Fraser not only presented director Catherine Hardwicke with her Ann Richards Award, but escorted her gracefully offstage afterwards:

Brendan Fraser and Catherine Hardwicke

If those aren't enough photos for you, check out the red-carpet photos I took and wrote about previously. Or you can view my entire Flickr set from the evening. And of course you can watch all the honorees receive their awards on KLRU -- the first time that the Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards ceremony has ever been broadcast.