Pitt is in Oakland at the Paramount Theater for the world premiere of "Moneyball." He plays Billy Beane. Anyway, Channel 2 here is falling all over itself trying to follow Pitt as he schmoozes his way up the Green Carpet here at 6 p.m. PDT. (Green is the A's predominant color--"Green Collar baseball...") Hand-held cameras, gushing female reporters telling us about Pitt's female fans. Blah. Blah.

All in the name of creating some buzz about the movie, never mind its merits as a film. Pitt seems to be very accommodating to the fans. He even looks a little like Beane, except he's grown long hair and a scraggly goatee (maybe for another part?)

I guess we haven't had a movie premiere in the Bay Area for a while and the TeeVee News doesn't understand the protocol. Well, maybe it does; Channel 2 is a local Fox affiliate.