Rockin’ to the Max With Jagger and Co.

The Scene: The premiere of the Rolling Stones’ “At the Max” concert film in the California Museum of Science and Industry’s IMAX Theater in Exposition Park. The 90-minute, $10-million film was made during the Stones’ 1989-1990 Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle tour. This is the first feature-length movie in the IMAX format, a 54-foot-high, 70-foot-wide screen with six-channel sound. “Basically it’s just a really big film,” said one USC film school grad.

The Locale: The reception was held among the exhibits in the Aerospace Hall as Stones music played. There is something surreal about standing beneath a dangling F-20 fighter jet as waiters pass hors d’oeuvres and “Sister Morphine” plays in the background.

Who Was There: The 400-strong crowd was an odd mix--Hollywood meets the music industry at NASA. Among the guests were Daryl Hannah with Jackson Browne, director Michael Lehmann and Holland Sutton, Alan Thicke, Bonnie Hunt, Timothy Leary and Haskell Wexler, the movie’s camera consultant.

The Buzz: The crowd was absolutely blown away. Tim Leary said the film “is an altered state in itself.” And he should know.

Dress Mode: Fashion underachievers. They dressed for an evening at Magic Mountain with dinner afterward at Denny’s.

Quoted: Of the IMAX camera, which is about the size of a Volkswagen bug, location director Julien Temple said, “It’s not a fly on the wall. It’s more like a rhino on the wall. It’s mind-blowing when you see details in a crowd of 100,000.”

Sign of the Times: As the camera set its sights on the stage, it panned across a vista of bald spots on middle-aged men watching the band.

Most Favored Topics: How old the band is, how good the band is, how Keith Richards looked almost healthy, how dead people move more than Bill Wyman.

Attitude: MTV, eat your heart out.