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vindanpar commented about Egyptian Theatre on Sep 2, 2016 at 8:02 am

But this IS small. Considering this was one of LAs great movie houses the architect of this screening room should be charged with vandalism of public property.

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vindanpar commented about Loew's Capitol Theatre on Sep 1, 2016 at 5:40 pm

I couldn’t believe my bad luck.

When I was finally old enough to go on my own to roadshow films(my parents thought people were crazy to pay those prices when you could fill up the station wagon and take the entire family to a drive-in with kids getting in free-think the perfect drive-in double bill: My Fair Lady and For Those Who Think Young) I got stuck with Fiddler at the Rivoli, oy, and Nicholas at the Criterion.

And flame throwers couldn’t get me into Tora Tora Tora or Florence Henderson in Super Panavision 70.

Then they bring back Lawrence and put it in the Rivoli. Perfect right? No. They show the cliff notes version.

Life, as they say, is not fair.

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vindanpar commented about Loew's Capitol Theatre on Sep 1, 2016 at 12:34 pm

Mean!

But I agree with you.

Except for Ryan’s Daughter which is a pretty great film. The storm alone is one of the most stupendous sequences ever put of film. Lean hadn’t lost his touch but got put through the meat grinder by those wretched New York film critic hacks who couldn’t review a grocery bill without mucking it up.

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vindanpar commented about Radio City Music Hall on Aug 30, 2016 at 4:54 pm

Whoever titled the stage show had a sense of humor.

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vindanpar commented about Radio City Music Hall on Aug 26, 2016 at 4:39 pm

I love this photo.

It was the end of an era.

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vindanpar commented about Radio City Music Hall on Aug 21, 2016 at 8:29 am

One of my favorite movies and astonishingly it opened as the ‘42 Christmas show and with a change of stage show played until March!

Despite the MGM gloss and sudden happy ending a very dark and tragic film and an odd choice for a holiday film in the 40s.

Mervyn Leroy claims he was told by the Music Hall management it could play another 11 weeks but they had to get a new film in.

Astounding when it had 5 showings a day to close to 6,000 people. WW II certainly was the halcyon days of film going in NY with all those midtown movie palaces constantly filling up playing to thousand of people a show.

A very exciting time for movie going.

But of course there was that war…

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vindanpar commented about Loew's Capitol Theatre on Aug 18, 2016 at 11:49 am

Bill you only post this to make us jealous.

Well I saw it at the Rivoli in ‘76 and it was pretty fabulous there!

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vindanpar commented about Radio City Music Hall on Aug 12, 2016 at 2:06 pm

Wish they were showing this in September.

Along with the exotic Danse d'Extase rhumba rhythm ballet which must have been fun.

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vindanpar commented about Dominion Theatre on Aug 7, 2016 at 5:03 am

46 ft seems pretty small for a screen for a major London roadshow house.

Especially for films like SOM, Cleopatra and Lawrence.

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vindanpar commented about Radio City Music Hall on Aug 5, 2016 at 5:54 pm

A lot of people think this was a best picture Oscar fail.

I think Streetcar is a great film but I’m fine with American getting the prize.

A beautiful film.

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vindanpar commented about Loew's State Theatre on Jul 20, 2016 at 3:22 am

I was simply confused because the original Blossom Time was one of my fondest theatrical memories.

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vindanpar commented about Loew's State Theatre on Jul 19, 2016 at 7:18 pm

Sorry!

Lost in memories…

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vindanpar commented about Loew's State Theatre on Jul 19, 2016 at 1:43 pm

Saw Chinatown here at a late morning show.

Afterwards went to a matinee of The Andrew Sisters in the musical Over Here at the Schubert in which I remember a very young Travolta, Ann Reinking and Treat Williams.

Boy I liked NY back then.

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vindanpar commented about Radio City Music Hall on Jul 10, 2016 at 2:33 pm

I believe I read that during the climactic horse race the Music Hall’s screen was expanded to its Magnascope size.

I always wondered how this worked. During a reel change was the aperture of the next projector used larger and the borders of the screen then enlarged? Then for the end of the film did the screen then shrink to its former size?

Though I believe the last time this was done was for the incredible Busby Berkeley Cypress Gardens' water show from Easy to Love and I doubt there are many people around who could tell us how it worked exactly.

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vindanpar commented about AD FOR "DARLING LILI" - EGLINTON THEATRE on Jul 6, 2016 at 7:50 pm

Darling Lily opened in Nov of ‘69 in Canada?

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vindanpar commented about Radio City Music Hall on Jul 6, 2016 at 5:41 pm

When I saw Butterflies are Free the summer of ‘72 there was a very long preview of 1776. It seemed like it must have been 15 minutes.

It included some of Cool Cool Considerate Men.

So when I saw the film at Christmas I was like ‘what the hell happened to Cool Cool Considerate Men?’

Did I dream I saw it in that preview?

Little did I know what tricky Dick was up to.

Still have never seen it but it’s nice to know it exists unlike the Coffee Break from How to Succeed which was included in that film’s poster artwork but cut before the film premiered and never seen again.

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vindanpar commented about Radio City Music Hall on Jul 4, 2016 at 6:47 pm

The last Music Hall movie that was so successful(at the Hall) it sometimes sold out the last stage show.

‘This line is for the movie only!’

The Hall played the film again in 1976.

I believe it replaced the dire Bluebird which was unwatchable and had audience members leaving and waiting in the foyer for the stage show.

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vindanpar commented about Radio City Music Hall on Jun 21, 2016 at 3:06 pm

I waited hours in line to see LUCY MAME at the Music Hall.

That was quite the doozy.

The above stage show looks quite the doozy as well.

A Christmas show with Santa at the bottom of the sea, a dog act, and the Rockettes ending up on the moon.

Only Leonidoff could pull it off.

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vindanpar commented about Radio City Music Hall on Jun 11, 2016 at 7:45 pm

All that money to renovate the Hall then they throw in a cardboard arch like some kid playing Radio City in a shoe box.

Incredibly cheap tacky and amateurish.

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vindanpar commented about Radio City Music Hall on May 22, 2016 at 1:17 pm

I’ve always been curious why until the 50s the screen at the Music Hall was so small.

Anybody have an explanation?

It seems it could easily have been 1 and a half times as big.

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vindanpar commented about Radio City Music Hall on May 10, 2016 at 5:58 am

Interesting that the great Jessica Tandy who gives such a superb performance in an important role in this received no credit.

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vindanpar commented about Radio City Music Hall on May 5, 2016 at 10:26 pm

The film looked wonderful at the Music Hall.

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vindanpar commented about Radio City Music Hall on Apr 29, 2016 at 11:13 am

‘Where anything can happen… and everything does!’

I wish one could edit one’s own posts.

Anyway it’s a delirious fun movie that’s not to be missed. And surprisingly contemporary in its animal rights message.

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vindanpar commented about Radio City Music Hall on Apr 28, 2016 at 7:41 pm

One of the most bizarre films ever made. Had no idea it opened at Radio city.

‘Where every can happen…and everything does!’ is in this case pretty accurate.

Imagine Cecil B De Mille, Spielberg and PETA making a film together.

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vindanpar commented about Criterion Theatre on Apr 24, 2016 at 9:36 pm

Sorry ‘Ascot.’