Drew Altizer does it again! Here's his pictures from Friday's annual SF zoo fundraiser, ZooFest, featuring special guest Tippi Hedren, star of Hitchcock's The Birds and mother to Melanie Griffith. Also, some pictures of Chris O'Donnell, who also supports the SF Zoo. (Alas, no pictures of noted SF Zoo eagle parent Stephen Colbert.) The theme for ZooFest this year was "It's a Jungle Out There," as the zoo opened up the Sloat Street entrance......

Local filmmaker James Nguyen is explaining the premise of his next film, Birdemic (it's about a bird epidemic) to us over lunch. "I want it to make the audience think," he says, "America is the most powerful nation on Earth. What if a flock of birds attack me -- how would I feel? How would I feel?" A few sentences later, he reveals that Tippi Hedren, star of The Birds and Satan's Harvest, agreed......