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...they need only be alluded to in freeze frame and we can visualize the rest. There are the tailors and manicurists fussing, next the journalists hounding, and, of course, vapid models fawning. We at least deserve a sign announcing this tour through recycled film footage so we can get popcorn from the lobby before the feature resumes. At times we detect a glimmer of original satire in this sequence, but not much more...

Author: By Thomas Madsen, | Title: 'The Hudsucker Proxy' Stands in for Real Satire | 4/14/1994 | See Source »

...Grille. It's also what you'll pay Pizza Ring some evening when you and your suite-mates decide you can't live without the Super Price Blaster Special, or what you'll shell out for a ticket to a movie at Loews and a large bucket of buttered popcorn...

Author: By David V. Bonfili, | Title: Is the U.C. Fee Hike Worth the Price? A Perspective From the Inside | 3/25/1994 | See Source »

Forget Mel Gibson, forget Tom Cruise, forget the popcorn-just give me Cary Grant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: To Catch a Movie Star | 3/3/1994 | See Source »

Newcomers to HFA "get really confused," claimed the woman selling tickets at a recent showing. "They don't understand that we don't sell popcorn... You can tell that they only go to Loews." For the savvy cineast, however, the archive is a "real resource, the woman insisted. "A lot o times we'll show things that won't get shown anywhere else...

Author: By R.i. Wilson, | Title: Black Turtleneck Required, Foreign Accent Optional | 2/24/1994 | See Source »

...films"--"Schindler's List" or "Remains of the Day," for example--which have "nothing to do with art." Then of course, there are "movies," the lowest category of them all What's movie? Petric couldn't name one. "What's playing now?" he asked scornfully, waving his hands. "Madonna? Popcorn movies...

Author: By R.i. Wilson, | Title: Black Turtleneck Required, Foreign Accent Optional | 2/24/1994 | See Source »

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