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...Looka that, friend," he roared. "Know what it cost? Twelve big ones [i.e., $12,000]." Newly refurbished and reopened as the Music Hall, Boston's old, 4,250-seat Metropolitan Theater was undeniably cinemajestic. So, in his own way, is its boss-hefty (6 ft., 240 lbs.) Ben Sack...
Though television once seemed about to bankrupt the movie-theater business, many cinemas are making money again by showing wide-screened, star-studded spectaculars for longer runs and at higher prices. Big Ben Sack, who operates five theaters in downtown Boston and is building a sixth, is a leading practitioner of the new formula. "He is the outstanding independent in the country," says one Hollywood booking executive...
Dillinger & the Pope. Sack got into the theater business by accident. The son of immigrant Russian Jews, Sack owned four meat markets by the time he was 19, lost them at 20 when the Depression hit. Turning to a truck driver's job with a scrap-metal firm owned by his in-laws, he soon wound up owning the company and by World War II was a happy "junkman" grossing $15 million annually...
...evening in 1948 Sack returned to a gin rummy game he had just left to retrieve a forgotten gold pencil. At the table, he fell into conversation with another player, ended up lending him $10,000 to renovate a movie house in Lowell, Mass. The loan eventually expanded into a $200,000 investment in three theaters. When his partner decided to sell out, Sack suddenly found himself in the theater business. "What did I know about theaters?" he asks. "About as much as John Dillinger knew about being Pope...
...planes' crews must be "in training" at the time. And Columbia's Flight from Ashiya (about the Air Rescue Service) has been bowdlerized at Pentagon insistence. In the original script, a paramedic says to an uncomprehending Arab girl: "I bet you'd be great in the sack...