McConaughey wows crowd at Austin premiere
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After towing a custom Airstream trailer more than 5,000 miles across the country, Matthew McConaughey brought the action film "Sahara" to his hometown Monday night, previewing the Indiana Jones-style adventure to a sold-out, adoring throng at the Paramount Theatre. The Austin Film Society sponsored the red-carpet event.

The UT grad was introduced by Longhorns Coach Mack Brown and presented with a set of bongos by City Manager Toby Futrell, a reference to his 1999 arrest for noisy late-night drumming.

"This is so you can keep playing beautiful music in our town, nekkid or not," she said.

As for his trailer trip, McConaughey says in his blog on mtv.com that "it's actually a really great way to see the country and a great way to live — not that I don't like five-star hotels as well."

The film, directed by the relatively unknown Breck Eisner and co-starring Steve Zahn and McConaughey's girlfriend, Penelope Cruz, follows McConaughey in the role of Dirk Pitt, a recurring character in the novels of Clive Cussler, as he seeks a Civil War battleship in West Africa. The film opens nationwide April 8.

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