Word: laundromat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...find crimson scarves or Veritas running shorts at 1 Bow St.--home of Baskin-Robbins, the Bow and Arrow Pub, an auto school, a recently folded copy shop and a liquidated laundromat...
However, nobody seems likely to build in the near future. Barry Bornstein, owner of the Bow and Arrow, and the manager at Baskin-Robbins both say the copy store and laundromat left for financial reasons that had nothing to do with Coop plans for expansion. And they add that their own leases are for an indefinite period. Says the Baskin-Robbins manager, "We're going to be here for a good while...
...outdoes the book. The characters in the movie are far more appealing than those in the novel. Watching them evokes sympathy, while reading about them provokes mainly dislike. As divorced mother Anna Dunlap, Diane Keaton is likeable and unpretentious. When she meets Leo, her lover-to-be, in a laundromat, the scene is free from the air of sleaze that surrounds it in the book...
Anna meets Leo in a Harvard Square laundromat. (Not least appealing in the film is its local color--several scenes were filmed on location in Harvard Square and Boston where the story takes place. Look for people you know...
...Disney has flubbed such efforts as The Ellen Burstyn Show and Side Kicks. But Disney is nothing if not persistent: its next offering, to start on CBS in the fall, is The Dictator, a sitcom about a deposed political strongman who sets up shop in a New York Laundromat...