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Mainstream Hollywood fare is dominated by the Sack chains, which show almost the same movies at their Boston theaters and giant suburban complexes. Nothing special, but they're where you have to go if you want to see the summer's latest escape piece...
...other theater worth mentioning is the Fresh Pond Cinema at the Fresh Pond Shopping Plaza out Concord Ave. Take the number 4 or 78 bus form the Square. It is usually a step behind the Sack giants in offerings, but it one of the cheapest theaters around. Admission is only $1.50 at all times...
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...
...Jamie (Rick Springfield), fleeing his bathroom, races across the screen, a company of excited fans not far behind. Outside his bathroom, a disgruntled song writer swings a broken wine bottle threateningly at Jamie's band, forcing him to flee towel-clad into the auditorium. Borrowing a pair of potato-sack fashioned pants from his assistant, Jame races off, his hair somehow blow-dried along the way until evidently traumatized by the ordeal of screaming fans clawing at his skin-tight clothes on stage and the real goods afterwards, he loses control of his car, totaling a vegetable stand and literally...
With his tight sack pants barely falling off in one of perhaps two last opportunities to show the onetime Dr. Noah Drake of General Hospital with his pants down, he casually apologizes and offers to pay for everything. "Insurance," he says, "my agent handles that," as he races off with the vegetable stand hooked alongside as an Italian grocer curses him out. Jamie, cool as ever, mouths. "You're beautiful...