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A reader shares his weekend brush with Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who apparently forgot to take a cat nap before trying to finally catch up on seeing all of the Best Picture nominees:

So my wife and I decide to catch a 9:45pm showing of CAPOTE Saturday Night at the ArcLight. We enter the theater and show the attendant our tickets. He looks over and realizes that someone is in our seats. He politely walks over and asks them to move. They do so, and as we get closer to our seats we realize it is Mayor Villaraigosa and his (I m assuming) wife. We take our seats next to him and a woman in the row in front of us realizes who the Mayor is and drops her popcorn. The mayor then asks the attendant to please refill her popcorn. As he does this they begin a discussion of the movies they have seen and BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN come up which the Mayor says he LOVED. The lights go down and the movie begins. Thirty minutes in to it I hear a snort. I look over and the Mayor is dead asleep!

Let s recap:

The mayor sat in our seats.

He loved BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN

He slept through CAPOTE.

We've been to the ArcLight many times, but we weren't aware that fetching snacks for the theater's clumsy patrons is included in their usher's duties—isn't it humiliating enough that they have to give that little speech about making sure the picture and sound quality are perfect without this added burden? Also, the mayor's already come out publicly as a Crash fan, so this safe, have-it-both-ways pandering to the Brokeback contingent seems a particularly shifty move.