The Scene: Tuesday night’s premiere of “The...

The Scene: Tuesday night’s premiere of “The Dream Team,” the new comedy from Imagine Entertainment and Universal Pictures. The film screened at the Universal City Cineplex, and afterward guests walked to nearby tents decked out in a Manhattan theme, complete with a miniature World Trade Center, Yankee Stadium, the Holland Tunnel, Central Park, costumed bums, punk rockers, and a tiny monkey on a leash.

The Buzz: These days, when studio executives spend this much on a premiere that’s not connected with a charity, they’re either bucking for an Oscar, confident that the movie will be a hit, or stroking an ego or two. “Dream Team” doesn’t seem to be in contention for the 1990 Academy Awards, but most guests questioned seemed to think that it would clean up at the box office.

Who Was There: “Dream Team” stars Michael Keaton, Christopher Lloyd, Peter Boyle and Stephen Furst, Morgan Fairchild, actor/film maker Spike Lee, Pat Morita, Keaton’s “Beetlejuice” co-star Catherine O’Hara, TV personalities Ted Shackelford and David Naughton, Universal Tom Pollock and about 2,000 others.

Dress Code: Invitations stressed “very casual,” and the L.A. heat wave made T-shirts and jeans almost mandatory.

Chow: Tons of it, catered by Ambrosia. Food stations and Manhattan-style pushcarts dispensed pizza, pasta, pastrami, hot dogs, submarine sandwiches, egg rolls, lox and bagels, potstickers, chicken salad, shish kebab, cannolis, fruit, chocolate-covered strawberries, ice cream, Italian ices, soda pop, beer, cappuccino, and much much more.

Favors: If you could emblazon the “Dream Team” logo on it, guests got to take it home with them. Windbreakers, beach balls, seat cushions, Day-Glo caps, baseball jerseys, megaphones . . .

Entertainment: Chain-smoking, chain-sweating Buster Poindexter and his band performed rhythm and blues standards in one tent while guests jumped around the dance floor painted to look like the diamond in Yankee Stadium.

Triumph: All movies should have premieres like this one. With this kind of lavish attention to detail, guests could have left the likes of “Ishtar” or “Satisfaction” convinced that the film was good.

Glitches: To quote a Buster Poindexter hit, it was hot, hot, hot. But who could blame Universal?