Putting up with filmgoing posers

As we head out for out third, and last day, of Tribeca 2008, I’m reminded of two moments from yesterday.

The first was seeing Bruce Willis at “From Within,” the movie his daughter was costarring in, accompanied by a beautiful young woman. He, much the same as I, might have been with one of his daughters. Or, as the imagination goes, he might have been out in public on a date with a woman half his age. He is, after all, a movie star, right?

The second was at the documentary we’d seen earlier, “Pray the Devil Back to Hell.” I’m accustomed to people posing in the post-screening Q&A sessions, either making comments or asking long-winded and ridiculous questions. But when a woman compared the NYPD to the brutality of African warlords - based on the recent jury involving the Sean Bell case - the world tipped over into the surreal.

That’s kind of like comparing the Bush administration to, say, the Italian fascists of the 1920s or the Nazis of the 1930s.

Oh, right, Naomi Wolf already did that.

Never mind.