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Actor will step off the red carpet for meet-and-greet at bowling alley before screening of new movie here (Chicago)
BY BILL ZWECKER Sun-Times Columnist
Fans of Vince Vaughn should be happy -- the actor hits town Monday to promote his holiday flick ''Fred Claus,'' largely filmed in Our Town late last year. While tickets to the premiere at the AMC River East 21 Monday night are pretty much spoken for, there will be plenty of space for true Vaughn groupies in a holding area just outside the Lucky Strike Lanes on the second level of the movie theater complex at 322 E. Illinois.
Vaughn, joined by ''Fred Claus'' director David Dobkin (who directed him in ''Wedding Crashers'' and ''Clay Pigeons''), will walk the red carpet around 5:15 p.m. Monday -- promising to greet fans before the 6 p.m. screening of the holiday comedy.
• Though Vaughn owns a condo at the Palmolive Building at Michigan and Walton, don't expect to see a lot of him around the Streeterville digs after his Monday premiere. He's not expected to be in Chicago long, as he's on a media treadmill to boost the Nov. 9 opening of the movie, also starring Paul Giamatti, Kathy Bates, Ludacris, Rachel Weisz and Kevin Spacey.
• Vaughn is also expected at the post-screening bash at the Crystal Gardens at Navy Pier.
• As for ''Fred Claus," bound to get lots of guffaws is a scene where Vaughn's title character (the wayward older brother of the sainted Santa Claus) attends a meeting of ''Siblings Anonymous'' as brothers of well-known folks vent about their second-class status. Hearing Roger Clinton (brother of Bill), Frank Stallone (brother of Sylvester) and Stephen Baldwin (brother of Alec, Billy and the rest) all let it rip is a total hoot.
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