With the red-carpet premiere about to begin and the headliners of the night coming our way, we asked what celebrity reporters always ask when event stars saunter down the rope line: Who are you wearing?

“I bought this tie for $4,” deadpanned the always fashionable U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson. “I wear it on special occasions. The rest of it’s a pinstriped suit.”

He was a good sport about the silly query before Thursday’s Atlantic Station screening of “Million Dollar Arm,” which filmed partly in the Atlanta area. But Isakson was serious when talking about the state’s growing film community and the economic impact of movies such as the Disney one that stars Jon Hamm as a sports agent.

“Georgia has the Atlantic coastline,” Isakson said. “We have the mountains of North Georgia. We have the plains of South Georgia. We have a major metropolitan city. We have every venue you could possibly want to have. We try to have tax laws that are attractive for the development and production of major motion pictures. Because of that, entertainment is a $4 billion industry, and $989 million of that this year is major motion pictures being filmed in Georgia.”

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