Word: popcorned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Well, here I am at Camp Cinemuck. It's everything you promised me, and worse. I guess you figured that a place that calls itself "the summer home away from home for movie-mad children" would be perfect for a precocious kid who was never far from the popcorn stand or the VCR or the Late Show. So did I. But I was wrong. This place is like school, only with trees. The first thing, I come in and they hand me a bunch of old books about dead movie stars. "You got to brush up on your nostalgia...
...tube that sits in the corner like a Buddha. Instead, the Shermans laze back in their den and let a wave of sight and sound wash over them from a new $16,000 audio-video system that does just about everything but get up and fetch the beer and popcorn. When Advertising Executive Sherman watches a football game on the new set, the clamor of the crowd blares at him from four speakers installed around the room, and larger-than-life players scramble across an 8-ft. viewing screen...
...said that the attractions will include a Poltergeist funhouse, a scuba dive through shark-infested waters, an American Graffiti drag strip, a Millennium Falcon journey through the Twilight Zone, an E. T. flying-bike ride and an Indiana Jones snake pit. The restaurants, or cantinas, will feature gremlins serving popcorn and candy bars. Each afternoon the Ewoks Marching Band will parade through the park playing the works of John Williams...
THERE WAS NO REASON to go on and show the movie. The screen could have been the campfire, the screaming pre-pubescent bubble gum crowd a Browine troop, and the popcorn roasting chestnuts over an open fire. Before the screening began last Thursday at the Sack Charles, a local dee-jay stood up front and called out the ticket numbers of the proud winners of a giant Rick Springfield poster. I looked at my ticket stub blandly What would my roommate...
...perfectly placed brown bricks. A tree is strung, with tiny white lights. We turn to look at the house. It too is outlined with tiny white lights, which trace squares along the Tudor lines. "The Tivoli lights," says Jackson. In the back courtyard there is an old-fashioned red popcorn cart, the kind you see at country fairs with pretty gold lettering on the sides. Jackson wants to show me the swimming pool. A wall behind it has four fountainheads carved like bearded Neptunes spouting water from puckered lips. A large mosaic of a parrot fills the wall behind...