Word: grauman
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...plopped down on Washington's Mall. It carried two passengers, an alien called Klaatu (Michael Rennie), who had obviously visited us before, there being no other explanation for his perfect Oxonian accent, and a robot named Gort, who was played by a giant whose day job was doorman at Grauman's Chinese theater. The visitors represented an alliance of outer space planets and they were on a mission: to warn us earthlings to mend our warlike ways. Klaatu wanted to convene a conference of intellectuals and statesmen and to demonstrate the superior powers of the aliens by bringing...
...Rings movie, The Return of the King earned $8 million at midnight screenings. Each of those films drew long lines of moviegoers (including an absurd incident in which Star Wars fans lined up for a month and a half prior to the release of Episode III outside Grauman's Chinese Theater, despite the fact that the film wasn't scheduled to show there), mostly as a form of theater and camaraderie. "When it was actually necessary to line up for a movie ticket, people made the best of it," says MovieTickets Executive Vice-President Joel Cohen. "They made...
...trying to follow in the tradition of Rin Tin Tin. I would like to have my paw print in front of [Grauman's] Chinese Theater. But I'll have to hold a lot more slide shows before that's possible...