Apparently, Vice President-Elect Joe Biden and his wife Jill are huge Brad Pitt fans. The couple tried desperately to get into The Curious Case of Benjamin Button this Saturday in their home state of Delaware, but were turned away because the show was sold out. Perhaps they could have gone to Marley & Me? Of course not. Because Jill Biden was wandering around telling people that “they really wanted to see Benjamin Button”. Isn’t that sweet? Dollars to donuts, Jill Biden picked the movie as a “date night” with her husband. Here’s a run down of what happened.
He’s a heartbeat away from the presidency, but that apparently didn’t help Joe Biden get a movie ticket Saturday night. Employees at the Regal Brandywine Cinemas say the vice president-elect and his wife, Jill, tried to attend the 7:45 showing of “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” at the theater on Concord Pike but left after they were told the movie was sold out.
There’s been no confirmation from the Biden camp, but the theater employees say they are sure it was him. Inshirah Muhamut, an associate manager, said she closed her box-office line when she saw what appeared to be a Secret Service agent coming her way.
The man asked her about tickets for the movie, which stars Brad Pitt, then left.
A few minutes later, she said, the Bidens came into the lobby. Jill Biden walked up to speak with Muhamut while Joe stood nearby.
“She was asking me about other shows, but they really wanted to see ‘Benjamin Button,’ ” Muhamut said. “He was maybe five feet away, looking at her. He was standing with his other Secret Service men.”
Remarkably, none of the other moviegoers appeared to notice. Employees said nobody mobbed Biden or called his name or asked for an autograph.
“It didn’t seem many people recognized him,” said employee Becky Gingrich, 21. “Honestly, I think people were just too wrapped up in themselves to notice.”
The brush with Biden did give the employees a thrill, though. “I was a little excited — I’m not gonna lie,” said Muhamut, a 21-year-old senior at West Chester University. “The Secret Service guy told me to calm down.”
Muhamut plans to go to the Jan. 20 inauguration, so seeing the Bidens up close was a kick. “I recognized him as soon as he came up,” she said. “He had a black jacket and jeans on. He looked real casual. His wife had on a very stylish jacket.”
Gingrich and Muhamut said the Bidens didn’t ask for special treatment. They simply mulled over their movie options and left. “We’re just so crazy in here tonight [with patrons] that we would have had to go into the theater and move people around,” Gingrich said.
[From Delaware Online]
Why do the Bidens hate Jennifer Aniston? Just kidding! They just love Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett more! But seriously, there isn’t one thing about this report that doesn’t make me love the Bidens even more. From Jill Biden wandering around, talking to normal people, to the associate manager freaking out and the Secret Service agent telling him to calm down, this is the cutest story ever. I hope the Bidens get to see Benjamin Button at some point (I think the Naval Observatory has a screening room), and I sincerely hope that Jill Biden one day gets to meet her super-secret crush Brad Pitt. I bet he would totally give her a kiss on the cheek!
Picture note by JayBird: Here are stock photos of Joe and Jill Biden. Images thanks to Splash.
Read about his record: I shudder. Mr. Credit Card isn’t up to the new Presidents’ standards, really. Guess he owed a debt to Biden.
Trust the Bidens to turn up for the only showing of the film that was “sold out” (Pax totally ordered them all online with his pocket money) *wink*
Lol @ Mairead! Damn that Fandango!
What a funny little story! I love the Bidens; they are such an awesome family! And I hope they get to see Button too. We saw it on Saturday & LOVED it!
Well they didnt ask for the theater to shut down for the night or act like they were special and demand a viewing. They are out and about like a married couple the only give away was the SS guy who wasnt exactly making ti well known who they were. I give them credit for acting like you or I ..if sold out you find something else to do .
I think that just made them even more adorable in my book. First the puppy business and now this.
I dig the Bidens.
And I dig date night.
I’ll admit, had I been there, I would’ve been bugeyed. My weakness is politics and damn, I love meeting me some great politicians. But…to be fair, most Americans don’t give a flying rat’s ass about politics and the like.
I LOVE that we have leaders now who are both brilliant AND unpretentious.
The Bidens just seem happy to be Americans – they don’t act like they’re better than the rest of us.
Love the Obamas’ girls as well – Sasha and Malia just seem like great, grounded children.
I love that we get to read stories like this about the Bidens, and see pics of the Obamas actually spending quality time (gasp!) with their daughters. And I agree with lunachick, Sasha and Malia seem very well-adjusted. Watch them during Obama’s speeches–the crowd may be going wild, but they just stand there with these expressions like, “What’s the big deal? It’s just Dad!”
Lol @ people thinking that hey aren’t pretentious b4 they are even sworn in and a year has passed.
@JAn: Don’t you just love it? I think it’s hilarious that people eat up all the goofy contrived pictures of them all over People smiling and laughing at nothing. “Oh look, they’re just like us. They laugh at the same jokes we do! Aren’t they grand?” You people need to stop drinking the cool-aid.