Upon accepting his best adapted screenplay Critics Choice Award for Up in the Air (shared with Sheldon Turner), writer-director Jason Reitman remarked, "George [Clooney] is a brilliant writer and director … and I'm a better writer and director because of him." Too bad Clooney and Reitman didn't write the dialogue and direct the performances of Todd Phillips and his The Hangover cast at a q&a with journalists backstage.
Questions ranged from what Heather Graham was wearing to what Ed Helms thought of being an "alternative" heartthrob to how many dresses Heather Graham has tried on this awards season to "will Zac Efron be in The Hangover 2"?
The actors (also there were Bradley Cooper and Justin Barth) and the director kept hamming it up; the only answer I can more or less recall was that of an actor (was that Ken Jeong?), which in a couple of sentences went from prayers for the Haiti earthquake victims to some joke about his "little penis." (Is that from the movie? I haven't watched The Hangover. After that one, I'm not sure I want to.)
The press room photo shoot looks grueling. Kevin Bacon, winner of the Joel Siegel humanitarian award, just went through it, now.