Word: sackful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Brooks and his group gather every other Friday night to picket the Sack Beacon Hill cinema, asking customers to boycott Sack theaters for that evening. Their grievance: Many of Boston's Sack theaters, which carry all the most popular first-run films, are inaccessible to people in wheelchairs, on braces, or otherwise disabled...
...Sack Beacon Hill theater is the most glaring example Disabled people can see movies there only if they are carried down a long and perilously steep flight of stairs, an experience they find terrifying and humiliating. To make matters worse, exclusive engagements are often shown at the Beacon Hill rathe than at one of the area's few accessible movie houses. Members of Brooks's group point out that even films of special interest to the disabled, such as Coming Home and Whose Life Is It Anyway?, have been inaccessibly screened...
Technically, the Sack chain is under no legal obligation to make all its theaters accessible. It escaped the current law, passed in 1977, that requires all public structures to be accessible to the handicapped. But the moral obligation to make theaters as accessible as possible is compelling and inescapable. The group points out that seeing movies is particularly important to the disabled, since it may let them experience vicariously what they otherwise cannot...
Particularly disturbing in the Sack case has been the insensitivity of the Sack management towards the rights of the disabled A Alan Friedberg, who owns all Boston's Sack theaters and more than 60 screens in New England, has bluntly refused to install ramps and elevators in more theaters. "If I give them ramps, "he once said in a radio interview, "they will be wanting medication and heart machines in there next...
...With its well-defined moral lines and its success in presenting an individual whose godliness makes him difficult to imagine, it is a winning movie well worth the four hours of sitting (though, it should be noted, not worth the lethal headache that the terrific technological advances of the Sack Charles Dolby stereo system will almost assuredly give...