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...were crazy. "They said they thought it wasn't an appropriate time to discuss it, and we should just get to business and divide up the rooms in the Science Center. If that's not the time, when is? What am I supposed to do, leave the projectionist's booth in Sci Center C one weekend, knock on the door at B and say to whoever's there, 'Gee, aren't these rules awful...
Robart Moran's shadow puppet theater presents his "Through Cloud and Eclipse...," a "contemporary fairy tale." Puppeteer Moran, projectionist Donald Case, and pianist Joseph Kubera. Also Erik Satie's "Sports and Divertissements," for speaker and piano. Paine Hall, Music Building, 8 pm. Free...
HOWARD ECKERSLEY, about 51, a University of Utah psychology graduate who became a Hughes favorite one day in the 1950s by filling in when the master's regular movie projectionist showed up drunk. Eckersley has seven children and is an energetic tennis player despite having suffered a broken back on Okinawa in the World War II Navy. In 1972 he was charged by Canadian authorities with stock fraud in connection with a mining venture. The case was never brought to trial, but Eckersley's standing in the Hughes empire declined...
Atlanta police have been unable to padlock a single porn palace in years. Recently they raided a downtown theater, seized the film and arrested the projectionist, who before he was led away proceeded to give angry customers tickets to another showing scheduled for later that day. He was released on bond and back at work for the screening. His arrest was a study in double futility, for in Atlanta, as in other cities, the police find it impossible to penetrate the maze of legal fronts and find the identity of the true owners...
Seedy Cineasts. Occasionally Disch eschews eeriness and plays it straight-with a twist. The Joycelin Schranger Story is both a witty send-up of seedy Manhattan cineasts and the disconcerting tale of a projectionist trapped in a laughably bad movie. Getting Into Death, the collection's longest and best story, follows a writer through the last weeks of her fatal illness. On paper she is two writers: Cassandra Knye, a successful purveyor of gothic romances, and B.C. Millar, author of esoteric murder mysteries. Chain-smoking cigarettes and wisecracking with a stream of hospital visitors, she searches stoically among...