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...Lakers, who won six world championships after migrating from Minneapolis, have finished out of the playoffs for the first time in years. Their coach and symbol of past greatness, the famous Earvin (Magic) Johnson, was so disgusted by their ineptitude that he left the team to start a cineplex in the inner city...
...about wanting a certain atmosphere that attracts a certain demographic." -- CINEPLEX ODEON MARKETING EXECUTIVE EXPLAINING WHY THE CHAIN'S 18-PLEX IN L.A. WOULD NOT RUN JOHN SINGLETON'S POETIC JUSTICE; AFTER THE PICTURE OPENED BIG, THE THEATER SHOWED...
...culture" of our suburbs has fared little better. This summer every mall Cineplex in the nation showed The Doctor, T2 and City Slickers. Every mall has a Gap, the Wonder Bread of clothing stores. Upscale malls have The Sharper Image; downscale malls have Spencer Gifts. Utility and necessity have faded into the distance as things suburbanites don't have to bother with...
...cumulative result is not only a character more interesting than any of his family or friends can imagine but also an interior life richer than even its owner recognizes. Rabbit's undiscriminating curiosity takes in everything, from old songs on the car radio to the crammed titles on a cineplex marquee: HONEY I SHRUNK BATMAN GHOSTBUST II KARATE KID III DEAD POETS GREAT BALLS. These are the fragments he innocently shores against his ruin, the kind of details that historians millenniums hence will cherish. Even his loopiest private opinions carry the whiff of theological profundity. Months into the Bush Administration...
...everything has gone smoothly for MCA lately. Cineplex Odeon theaters, an upscale venture that charges as much as $7.50 for a ticket, lost $12 million in the first quarter of this year after expanding rapidly. And the $640 million Universal Studios amusement park in Florida, which opened in June, has been plagued by technical failures. But MCA chairman and patriarch Lew Wasserman, 77, apparently believes MCA's biggest strategic shortcoming is its failure to find a merger partner that would enable it to compete with such giants as Fox Inc. and Time Warner...