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...continues to stay alive, says Gianvito. The theater continues to use a projection system modeled after the one used in 1953. Unlike at most movie theaters where the projector beams from the back of the theater, the Brattle's projection booth operates from behind the screen. The system is one of the last of its kind in the country...
...Reported by David Bjerklie and Andrea Dorfman/New York, Wendy Cole/Chicago, Jeanne DeQuine/Miami, Helen Gibson/London, David S. Jackson/Los Angeles, Leora Moldofsky/Sydney, Timothy Roche/Atlanta, Chris Taylor/San Francisco, Cathy Booth Thomas/Dallas and Dick Thompson/Washington, with other bureaus
...argument that Rich didn't deserve a pardon because he never served any time is simply untrue. This guy was married for 25 years to the woman who wrote Sister Sledge's Frankie, which contains the lines "You walked me to the deli and/we sat in the booth where it all began./I looked into your big eyes and/I said to myself we could've had twins." Marc Rich served his time...
...dislocating stage devices, stark but poetic language and fiercely idiosyncratic images transform her work into something haunting and wondrous. Not one but two of her plays revolve around a character who makes a living as an arcade attraction playing Abraham Lincoln; patrons pay to impersonate John Wilkes Booth, grab a pistol and shoot him. (The image simply "burned itself into my mind," she explains.) Her spiky plays often take place in a strange nowheresville and feature Greek-style choruses or Brechtian song interludes. For one play, F------ A (Parks doesn't use the dashes), she invented a new language that...
...first big network TV contract - a six-year, $2.4 billion deal with Fox - an expansion of the schedule to cities in the West, Midwest and Northeast, and some new rules designed to make the sport more exciting to the general public. Fox, with the colorful Waltrip in the booth, eagerly applied its particular brand of glitzy graphics and breathless hype to the proceedings. No longer was stock-car racing going to be the Roger Clinton of professional sports - it was making its bid to join baseball, football, basketball, in the American sport mainstream...