Mike Fleming Admits He Slept Through a Third of Star Wars: The Force Awakens

The Force Awakens was no match for the combination of early arrival, lingering jet lag and a full day of meetings.

There’s a funny reporter’s confession in this week’s Bart & Fleming column on Deadline. The site’s co-editor in chief admits he slept through about a third of Star Wars: The Force Awakens during last week’s big Hollywood premiere event.

Fleming explains the reasons he was so tired, and segues from there to some similar days in New York:

As a reporter on a gossip column at New York Newsday, I covered Broadway premieres. The curtain rose at the time when I was usually commuting home on the LIRR train to Lindenhurst, when I was accustomed to falling asleep for an hour.

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