The scene: Premiere party for “Shag: The...

The scene: Premiere party for “Shag: The Movie” (as opposed to Shag: The Carpet?) at Ed Debevic’s, following a screening at the Directors Guild of America. Ed’s high-voltage ambiance and rock ‘n’ roll diner decor was the perfect setting to celebrate the release of Hemdale’s fun, frivolous girl-buddy film set in 1963. Lots of young Hollywood turned out for the party as even agents and industry execs doffed designer suit jackets and loosened their power ties to settle in and get comfy.

The buzz: “Cute” was how several people dubbed the film, even those who hadn’t yet been born the year the film took place. British-born producer John Daly said his idea of the ‘60s was “Slightly different. ‘Blow Up,’ that was my memories of the ‘60s,” he said. Daly’s son Mike, 15, said he thought it “a lot better than ‘Dirty Dancing’ ” and screenplay co-author Robin Swicord said although she was in grammar school in 1963, she was a “great observer” of life in the small Southern town where she grew up that was like the film’s Myrtle Beach location. She added, “I hope that more of these kinds of girl movies get made.”

Who was there: The film’s exec producers John Daly and Derek Gibson; director Zelda Barron; producer Julia Chasman; stars Bridget Fonda, Phoebe Cates (with husband Kevin Kline) Annabeth Gish, Page Hannah, Tyrone Power Jr. (along with a collection of family members), Jeff Yagher; screenplay co-authors Robin Swicord, Terry Sweeney and Lanier Laney; le jeune Hollywood contingent including Ricki Lake, Anthony Michael Hall, Rain Pryor, Sean Kanan, Page’s older sister Daryl Hannah, Robert Downey Jr., Cree Summer, Katie Wagner, Dweezil Zappa, Adam Horovitz, Ally Sheedy, plus Peter and Jane Fonda and Mary Steenburgen.

Dress mode: Cowboy chic included boots with tips, cowboy hats, prairie skirts; also seen in passing were jeans with holes, girls in boyfriend jackets, girls in skin-tight minis who mistakenly thought they were at Vertigo, beehive hair-dos only on Ed Debevic’s in-character waitresses.

The food: Ed’s provided dishes from the four basic food groups: hamburgers, french fries, onion rings and brownies. The problem was in getting to it; waiters breezed by with trays so quickly guests practically had to lasso them to get something to eat.

Entertainment: Hank Ballard and the Midnighters performed live (they’re also featured on the movie’s sound track) and got the crowd to twist at 11 p.m. And let’s not forget Ed’s zany crew of waiters and waitresses who managed to keep their cool and senses of humor despite the crowds. And they danced, too.

The Perils of Being a Movie Star, Part I: Tyrone Power Jr. and Page Hannah were comparing notes on their publicity tours.

Hannah: “OK. Twenty-one days, 17 planes.”

Power: “Do you know that in the course of taking four planes they lost my luggage twice ?”

The Perils of Being a Movie Star, Part II: Power and Hannah were asked if the humidity of the Southern region got to them.

Power: “It’s not the humidity, it’s the heat.”

Hannah: “We were getting paid, what can I say?”