Word: cheris
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...amid the surrounding renewal. Then, at last, the pristine but sterile phallus of the New Boston--the towering Prudential Building. And, nestled at its base, not one, not two, but three Sack Theatres happily clustered together under a grand parking garage, the whole complex multiplying with amoebic ferocity. The Cheri 1 and 2 have already given birth to Cheri 3. Cheri 4 and 5 are soon to arrive. These theatres offer the key to Sack's flexibility. They are all relatively small--the smallest seats only 600--and therefore can be made available profitably for movies with a more limited...
There are long lines these days at the Sack Cheri theater, for the new English comedy The Wrong Box. Hordes are plunking down their two dollars gleefully for what has come to be known as "the new Peter Sellers movie." Except, of course, that it isn't. The Sellers name is advertised loudly enough, and Sellers is in the movie, but his appearance is limited to a quick six minutes...
Deep South? Hollywood? On to Colette's Cheri; more copyright problems, another misfire. Deciding that "you can't write opera unless it's you," he hit on Strindberg's play Miss Julie, whose morbid Freudian thickets "fitted me; I am fascinated with death." The Scandinavian setting, too, suited his Norwegian heritage, but he and Librettist Kenward Elmslie figured that the drama might have more impact if transformed into a love tragedy involving a Deep South heiress and her Negro servant. Timely and all that. Off to New Orleans they went to soak up some local color...