Joe and Jill wanted to see a movie Saturday night but it was sold out

[Jennicut]

He's a heartbeat away from the presidency, but that apparently didn't help Joe Biden get a movie ticket Saturday night.
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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 that we would have had to go into the theater and move people around," Gingrich said.
http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20090105/NEWS02/901050345

Asking for no special treatment...that is our Joe. I saw the movie and it was really good, hope they do catch it.

[Eurobabe]

1. Dayum, Regal Brandywine is a HUGE theater

too, I've been there many times. Delaware: the land of tax free shopping. :hi:

[jillan]

2. Question - IF they got in, what does the Secret Service do while

they're in the movie?

Life must be pretty strange to have an entourage around you wherever you go.


I'm still waiting to see what happens when Jill goes on her daily 5 mile runs.

[PatSeg]

3. Its strange that no one recognized them

Obviously none of us were there!

Yeah, I wonder what the Secret Service does. I suppose they have to go into the movie with them and sit nearby.

[Jennicut]

4. I would freak out over the intrusion of privacy but I guess you give that up

when you become VP or Prez...the Secret Service follows you everywhere and knows everything about your daily life. WE would have recognized Joe, how can anyone miss that smile?

[PatSeg]

5. And it has to be even harder when there

are children involved. I can't imagine what Michelle is going through trying to protect her daughters and give them a relatively normal life. I don't think I could do it.

[Jennicut]

6. I know. I think the Secret Service is probably a bunch of highly trained great people

but it is hard. Actually, the press will be more intrusive of the Obama girls then anything else. Following them to school...that is not fun. I imagine being a teenager in the White House is the worst, my teen years were not the best and having the press and secret service following you around would not be fun.

[PatSeg]

7. I guess Michelle has the advantage

of having her mother to help out with the girls. Just imagine how Grandma feels about the constant Secret Service presence!