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...could give $2.7 billion if we each just give up a movie and popcorn a year," he said...
...Popcorn--a Native American treat--will be the fare of the day at Loews Sony Theatres. The theater says that Thanksgiving is one of its busiest days of the year...
...Interest, he has enraged the restaurant industry (fettuccine Alfredo: "a heart attack on a plate"), forced a ban on sulfites at salad bars after a rash of fatal allergic reactions, shamed McDonald's into excising beef tallow from its French fryers, roused moviegoers against artery-clogging coconut oil in popcorn and successfully lobbied for nutrition labels on all supermarket processed-food items...
...That's what all the fuss is about? We, as a television audience, have been weaned on Grand Guignol reality programming--standard fare like World's Grimmest Third World Postcolonial Descents into Anarchy videos. We're talking about entire families whiling the night away on the couch, munching toffee popcorn, watching kidney transplants and sex-change operations. You want to give us more bang for the buck (i.e., more violence), you're gonna have to do a lot better. How do you decrease the peace and infuse the sport with more savagery? Here's what...
...even a smoking popcorn machine, which caused a fire alarm and a brief evacuation of the building early in the evening, could break the spirit of the crowd...