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Why Don’t They Just Rename My Indie Multiplex “The Kate Winslet Theater” and Be Done with It?

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The seven-screen indie theater in my neighborhood has had two of its screens claimed by one or another movie starring the flavor-of-the-year actress for months on end now.

Written by Ted Naron

March 1, 2009 at 2:49 PM

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  1. First blog I read after wakeup from sleep today!

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    Quinten

    March 3, 2009 at 8:52 AM

  2. I think there was once a movie chain called the Jerry Lewis Theaters, so there you go.

    Funny/sad recollection: I was once at the McClurg Court Theater where I saw Chris Farley in the row in front of me (at one time he was popping out enough titles to have a theater named for himself). At the end of the movie, he did something I’ve never seen another human being do–he went to the candy counter and purchased a jumbo popcorn, box of candy, and a large drink–to go.

    William Marks

    March 3, 2009 at 10:40 AM

  3. She’s kind of homely, don’t you think?

    rovronr

    March 3, 2009 at 4:12 PM

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