Check-in for the Press was at 1:00 p.m., but because Forrest gave the co-pilot bogus directions, we didn’t leave from our pre event breakfast at Arby’s til 12:45. We paid twenty bucks for parking and hit the Press check-in table at exactly 1:00.

Actually it turned out nicely, as we didn’t have to wait in line. All other 49 media outlets had already checked in. Disney went all out for this carpet. Hollywood Boulevard was entirely closed so they could put in green AstroTurf. This was part of the set, making the red carpet ceremony into a setting of a giant house with a green Astroturf front lawn. The traditional metal railing separating the media from the Stars was replaced by a white picket fence.  The temperature was near 90 degrees, but Jon Voight didn’t care, because he showed up wearing a blue wind breaker from his 1999 movie role in Varsity Blues.

Hollywood Boulevard was a bobbing sea of color, decorated with thousands of toy balloons. It was the Hollywood premier of “UP.”  This is Disney Pixar’s first full-length feature in Disney Digital 3-D. Lead character Carl Fredrickesen finally fulfills his lifelong dream of a great adventure when he ties thousands of balloons to his house and flies away to the wild of South America. But he discovers all too late that his biggest nightmare has stowed away on the trip: an overly optimistic 8-year old Wilderness Explorer named Russell. And then, of course, hijinks ensue.

So this week's question is, should Forrest ever be allowed to navigate again, or should he stick to asking celebrities "If you were a lollipop, what flavor would you be, and would you have a Tootsie Roll center?"