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...Senate Judiciary Committee by Republican Strom Thurmond, the gentleman Torquemada from South Carolina. Thurmond continued to ham mer at an emotional, if elusive issue: pornography. He condemned the fact that Fortas had voted with the court majority in a 5-to-4 decision holding that a Los Angeles exhibitor did not violate the law with his raunchy films. The ruling made it easier for U.S. exhibitors to show films featuring total male and female nudity...
...first-run movie houses. Eight are Sack Theatres. Of the remaining eight independent theatres, one deals mainly in Cinerama, four others usually deal in foreign films. Thus, it is Ben Sack who chooses the majority of American films to be presented in Boston. Sack, who merely acts as an exhibitor, could not be charged with any sort of monopoly violations. But the temptation so to accuse him remains...
...looked like a cinema exhibitor's dream, a remembrance of prosperity past, a pre-TV anachronism. In France one day last week, from the Champs Elysées to the quays of Marseille, customers outside movie houses pressed in queues three or four abreast. At the Wepler theater on Paris' Place Clichy, where Goldfinger was playing, patrons actually crashed through heavy glass doors. And "National Defend French Cinema Day," as it was called, would have produced the fattest 24-hour box office in history except that there was no box office-all the films were on the house...
Short Tether. Significantly shifting the burden of proof to censors, Justice William J. Brennan ruled that "the exhibitor must be assured by statute or authoritative judicial construction that the censor will, within a specified brief period, either issue a license or go to court to restrain showing the film." As for the judicial part of the process, Brennan suggested that it should take no more than three or four days...
...found on some 300 closed-circuit color TV sets. Baby sitters can be found at the Protestant and Orthodox Center and at the Danish Pavilion's miniature Tivoli Gardens. Wallets can be found (sometimes) through the Pinkerton police. Status can be found in one of the industrial exhibitor's VIP rooms. Rest can be found in the Garden of Meditation. Sleep can be found on a mattress at the Simmons Beautyrest exhibit-$1 for 30 minutes...