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...COMMON CANCER SCREEN GETS ANOTHER VOTE OF APPROVAL...
...living rooms. Yet here is Eddie Ventrice, 43, tie off, shirt untucked, sprawled in the VIP section of the Muvico Palace theater for a 7:05 showing of War of the Worlds. Sure, he's got a 60-in. set at home as well as a 40-in. flat screen, not to mention a wife and kids. Sure, his ticket cost $18. But here he gets to hang with two buddies and watch killer aliens on the big screen. There's a lobby bar with a martini menu and a restaurant serving mahimahi. Says Ventrice, with eyes glued...
...working for Hamid Hashemi, CEO of Muvico. The Iranian immigrant began accumulating Florida cinemas in the 1980s. "I thought, What an easy business," he says. "The movies are made by someone else. You sell popcorn. Easy!" But when a major chain opened a rival screen down the street and put his first theater out of business, Hashemi realized he had to offer what the big guys didn't. "At the end of the day, you all get the same 35-mm tape," he says. "What sets you apart is how you package...
SIMULATED SALMON Landlocked? Get your fishing fix with this $20 video-game imitation. The 500,000 acres of trophy waters teem with prize fish--all on your screen...
DIED. BARBARA BEL GEDDES, 82, Emmy-winning actress who rose to stardom on the big screen and Broadway but was best known for playing Miss Ellie Ewing, matriarch of the wildly dysfunctional oil family on the nighttime TV soap opera Dallas; in Northeast Harbor, Maine. Bel Geddes wowed critics in George Stevens' 1948 film I Remember Mama and in 1955 originated the role of Maggie in Tennessee Williams' play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. In 1978 she moved to Dallas for the paycheck and took home an Emmy two years later...