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FADE IN...
"The number of avid miniature iMHHHpBtinues to
grow each year at ever-increasing rates Trs one sport that
every member of the family can participate in year-roimd.
indoors or outdoors. R.J. Lomma. president of Lomma
Enterprises. Inc.. Scranton. Pa., one of the world's largest
manufacturers of miniature golf courses, reports that there
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So went a
report in the Feb. 11. 1974 BOXOFFICE. However many
or few ozoners did indeed put in a putt-putt, there is at least
one certain connection between the two diversions: They
both put a smile on your face. And a quailer-century ago,
even a half-century ago right after a world war, everyone
was smiling; everyone went to the drive-in.
Recorded in that same 1974 issue is a write-up of a
$250,000 conversion of Portland. Ore.'s Foster Road
Drive-In into a triplex. A year later, in its annual Drivc-In
Operation special section. BOXOFFICE reported on the
/0-screen Hi-Way Drive-In in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. (Also.
Mr. Lomma was back, offering ozoner operators five types
of "Golf-Arena" greens for putter shuffieboard, putter
bowling and other golf variants.) In the Feb. 16, 1976
number, BOXOFFICE told of the exhibitor at Spartanburg,
S.C.'s Thunderbird Drive-In. who hired a daredevil motorcyclist
to crash through flaming walls to entertain the
crowds. Concessions sales received a boost at Merced,
Calif.' s Starlite Drive-In, with a staffer walking the grounds
wearing a papier-mache hotdog-in-a-bun outfit. More papier-mache
was employed at Slidell, La.'s Tiger Drive-In,
with a golf cart adorned to look like a giant spider being
used to promote the opening of "Kiss of the Tarantula." (No
mention if that was a Lomma golf cart.)
Perhaps there aren't as many smiles these days.
But there are those in the exhibition community who'd
like folks to smile more, and so are fighting to keep the
ozoners that remain to remain open in this "Suminer of the
Drive-In." Independent operators, circuits like Century,
and supporters belonging to the likes of the Drive-In Theatre
Fan Club and the Drive-In Theatre Preservation Society
are doing their part. Even suppliers like Filmack, which
is making up a classic drive-in trailer, are joining in.
But is there a future, beyond the commemorative drivein
stamp to be issued in 1999 by the USPS? Lawrence R.
Loy and Debrean A. Loy, who wrote "A Guidebook to
Operational U.S. Drive-In Theatres" and who supplied the
photo for this Fade In, are working on a future article' that
reports on brand-new drive-ins operating in Avon, N.Y.,
Alliance, Neb. and Mountainboro, Ala., plus a number of
others long shuttered that have been restored and reopened.
So there is hope for the drivc-in, hope that the lit land at
the edge of town won't go dark, everywhere and forever.
And that is something to smile about. Kim Williamson
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8 HOLLYWOOD REPORT
Bruce Willis has "Breakfast," plus early word on a score more
10 TRAILERS: AUGUST
"The Avengers' are yours," salth the loge
115 FAXBACK SURVEY
Your reader response form
116 EXHIBITION BRIEFINGS
Magnum goes Mega; down at Paradise Park; a Revere'd ride
1 1 8 NATIONAL NEWS/HOLLYWOOD UPDATES
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120 NORTHERN EXPOSURE
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122 EUROVIEWS
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123 PACIFIC OVERTURES
Reversals of fortune; Tojo triumphs; New Zealand goes renegade
124 FILM REVIEWS
The ones to watch for (or not) from Cannes, plus:
"Almost Heroes" 1 34
"Broadway Damage" 1 34
"Bulworth" 136
"Cousin Bette" 1 32
"Dear Jesse" 1 32
"Deep Impact" 136
"Dino Island 11" 135
"Fear and Loathing
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"Godzilla" 136
"Go Now" 137
"Hav Plenty" 132
"Homegrown" 1 37
"Hope Floats" 132
'The Horse Whisperer" 1 36
"I Got the Hook-Up" 135
'The Last Days of Disco" 1 34
"Little Boy Blue" 135
'The Parent Trap" (1 961
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"A Perfect Murder" 132
"Plump Fiction" 136
"Quest for Camelof 1 36
"Smoke Signals" 132
'The Truman Show" 133
"Whatever" 124
"Woo" 137
1 38 STUDIO FILM RELEASE CHART
Major releases through September and beyond
1 40 INDEPENDENT FILM RELEASE CHART
Specialized fare through December and beyond
1 42 MOVIEGOER ACTIVITY CHART
KC hits 63rd St.; Detroit motors to Metro; Seattle heads Uptown
143 HOME RELEASE CHART
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1 8 SNEAK PREVIEW: "Snake Eyes"
Actor Gary Sinese looks ready to roll another
winner. By Cathy Thompson-Georges
20 SNEAK PREVIEW: "Rush Hour"
Filmmaker Brett Ratner translates for Jackie
Chan and Chris Tucker. By Bridget Byrne
22 SUMMER PROMO GUIDE
Big hits, big tie-ins. By Christine James
24 EXHIBITION PROFILE: Metropolitan Turns 75
Bruce Corwin on keeping a family business in
the family—and in business. By Bridget Byrne
28 INDEPENDENT SHOWCASE: The Plaza
Zahid Sadiq on making his small-town Plaza a
sweet success. By Cathy Thompson-Georges
38 SPECIAL REPORT: Movie Posters
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30 COVER STORY: First Feature, 1 945 to 1 955
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1 1 7 SPECIAL REPORT: The First Drive-In
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146 THE BIG PICTURE: The First Teen Scene
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LETTERS
SCARE UP YOUR
SHOWMANSHIP
Dear BOXOFFICE,
I have had an idea for a while now, and it
could certainly revive a genre which needs
desperate attention. I happen to love a good
classic horror film, but to be perfectly honest,
we just don't get them anymore. Movies
like "Scream" and "1 Know What You
Did Last Summer" were huge boxoffice
hits, but are geared toward younger teenaged
audiences who really don't understand
the genre. Anyway, back to my idea.
1 was thinking that theatres could go back
to introducing some real special effects
targeting the entire audience. Let's get the
scare back into them! I too much
laughter coming from audiences now. I
remember my parents telling me how people
ran out of the theatre during the movie
"The Exorcist." What you could do |to enhance
the fright factor] is have props set up
on the sides of the screen, for example, a
dummy made to look like the killer in "I
Know What You Did Last Summer," and
have props swoop down on the audience.
know this may sound old-fashioned, but
it would definitely scare the pants off of [the
audience]. People would talk, and more
people would come. I guarantee it!
You could also use effective lighting in
different sequences in the movie. This idea
has the potential to breathe life back into
[the horror] genre. Can you imagine how
people would react to [modern, state-ofthe-art)
realistic [in-theatre] special effects?
only be a 23-year-old kid who
dreams of restoring the fright into a classic
horror movie, but then again, I may have
an idea that could bring more revenue to
the film industry. Thanks for listening.
— Michael Kydd, )fkfan@sprint.ca
GODZILLA VS. BRAINWRAP
Lately a lot of people have been asking
where the quality has gone at the theatre.
Well, I don't know myself. A friend and I
attended "Godzilla" [on its opening weekend].
The presentation was okay, but the
preview ring brainwrapped and the frame
in the lens path burned. ..and burned. ..and
burned. At least five minutes had passed
before a customer next to me dialed the
theatre on his cell phone to explain what
was happening. The movie was delayed at
least 1 5 minutes, which isn't bad for a
major brainwrap, but then the film started
and then stopped again. Now while all this
was happening, they sent a doorman in to
entertain us with stupid theatre facts! You
would think with all the popularity of
"Godzilla," someone would have been
more on their toes. No one wanted to be
entertained by the doorman. We wanted
the movie with no interruptions.
It is unfortunate but I find this is happening
more and more at the large theatre
chains. They are more interested in quantity
than quality. Well, that's my story:
$6.50 to view a brainwrap and Sparky the
doorman.
— Dennis Rose, breeder1@aol.com
Answer Box
BOXOFFICE's new feature, Answer
Box, endeavors to help
solve exhibitors' technical
problems and answer general questions
about theatre operations. Send
your questions to BOXOFFICE, Answer
Box, 6640 Sunset Blvd., Suite
100, Hollywood, CA 90028. We will
submit tnem to an expert in the
field, who will respond in these
pages.
This installment of Answer Box is
by Tom Holman, president of the
TMH Corp., and recent recipient
of the Career Achievement Award
from the Cinema Audio Society for
his contributions to motion picture
theatre sound. He is a Fellow
of the Audio Engineering Society,
the British Kinematograph Sound
and Television Society, and the Society
of Motion Picture and Television
Engineers.
Q: When I look at the screen during
end titles from rows close to the
screen, I see a dimmer image of the
type repeated near the original. Is
this affecting the picture all the
time? What's wrong with my
lenses?
A: Probably nothing is wrong with
the lenses, but the picture is being
affected all the time, making it fuzzier
than it should be. The culprit is
most likely the fact that your port
glass is not installed at a steep
enough angle to the beam. Each
time light meets a typical glass surface,
about seven percent of the light
is reflected. This doesn't often cause
a big problem for light reflected back
into the booth, but think about the
light that gets into the glass, bounces
off the auditorium side of the glass,
heading back towards the projector.
Some of this light reflects again off
the booth side of the glass, but is
now headed for the screen. This is a
small traction of the light, but it is
easily seen on a black screen, and it
is headed for a slightly different
place on the screen. This is what you
are seeing. If your port is operable,
try moving the glass out of the way.
If the problem goes away, that's the
source.
There are several solutions. The optical
system created with ordinary
plate glass for the port is crazy, because
you've paid lots of money for
high-quality lenses only to have the
quality ruined by the ordinary port
glass. The best, but most expensive,
solution is water white glass (Schott
Glass Company, Duryea, Pa., type
B-270), ground flat and coated with
multi-coating (just like camera and
projections lenses are) (Optical
Coating Labs Inc. in Santa Rosa,
Calif.). The coating reduces the reflections
to invisibility. A le.ss costly
solution is Super Abrasion Resistant
(SAR) Lucite installed at an angle to
the beam.
Even if you don't go for the best
glass, tipping the glass or Lucite in
the frame so that the internal reflections
fall on the audience is much
better than having them fall on the
screen. Sometimes reflections can
be seen if they are directed towards
the ceiling, because even a black
T-bar acoustical tile ceiling has relatively
shiny metal grids, so it is usually
better to direct the reflections
downwards. An easy way to test for
this is to run end credits of a film
having just white type on a black
background while holding up a
piece of proposed glass in front of an
open port. Tip the glass and you will
see where the reflections are falling,
and install the glass to put them
somewhere benign. This usually
means on the audience area.
Q; When I watch a movie from the
central seats in my auditorium, I see
some small points on the screen that
are much brighter than the rest of
What's wrong with my
the picture.
projection?
A: There is likely nothing wrong at
all with your projector or lens. Your
screen is perforated with thousands
of small holes for sound transmission.
Something shiny lies behind
the screen, and it is picking up light
and shining it back through the
screen, due to the perforations.
Shiny parts can be loudspeaker
frames, mountiiig screws, the stick
pins used to hold absorbing material
to a baffle wall, conduit, or any other
metal or shiny parts.
A can of Krylon flat black spray paint
can fix this problem in minutes, so
long as you can locate the reflector
and shield the spray so that none of
it approaches the screen (even
spraying the back side of the screen
could be a problem).
Send correspondence to: BOXOFFICE, Letters To The Editor,
6640 Sunset Blvd., Suite 100, Hollywood, CA 90028.

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HOLLYWOOD
REPORT
DANNY DEVITO
This Role's A "Stretch"
JOHN MALKOVICH
"Ladies" Man
NATHAN LANE
Personal "Best"
"BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS"
This adaptation of Kurt
Vonnegut's blackly comic
novel will star Bruce Willis as a
car salesman and Barbara
Hershey as his pill-popping
wife. Albert Finney and Nick
Nolte also star. Alan Rudolph
("Afterglow") directs and scripts.
(Distribution is to be set)
"KILLING MRS. TINGLE" In
this comic horror/thriller, a high
school student ("The Ice
Storm's" Katie Holmes) will stop
at nothing to graduate as valedictorian
of her class, including
murdering a despised teacher
("Critical Care's" Helen Mirren).
Kevin Williamson ("Scream")
wrote the script and makes his
helming debut. (Miramax)
"DICK" Set during the Nixon
era, this comedy will star Kirsten
Dunst ("Small Soldiers") and
Michelle Williams (TV's
"Dawson's Creek") as schoolgirls
who wander off during a
field trip to the White House
and encounter a variety of people,
includingthe president. Andrew
Fleming ("The Craft")
directs and co-scripts. (Distribution
is to be set)
HOWARD HUGHES BIOPIC
Filmmaking brother duo Allen
and Albert Hughes ("Dead Presidents")
will direct a biopic
about Howard Hughes, adapted
from Donald L. Barlett and
James B. Steele's biography.
Johnny Depp, who portrayed an
equally eccentric historic personality
in "Ed Wood," will star
as the billionaire-turned-germphobic-recluse.
(Universal)
"THE JOYRIDERS" Martin Landau
("B.A.P.s"), Shawn Hatosy
("The Postman"), Heather
McComb ("Apt Pupil") and Elisabeth
Moss ("Imaginary
Crimes") will star in this film
about three teens who inadvertently
kidnap a suicidal man
when they steal his car. The four
subsequently form an unlikely
friendship. Brad Battersby
("Blue Desert") scripts and directs.
(Distribution is to be set)
UNTITLED SONNY LISTON
BIOPIC Ving Rhames, who won
a Golden Globe for his portrayal
of boxing promoter Don King in
HBO's "Don King: Only in
America," will now take on the
role of former heavyweight
champ Sonny Liston, who lost
his title in a controversial bout
with Muhammad Ali. Rhames
will also produce, and William
Friedkin ("Jade") will direct
from a script by Shane Salerno
("Armageddon"). (Paramount)
"THREE TO TANGO" A man
("Almost Heroes'" Matthew
Perry) must pretend to be gay to
stay near the object of his affection
("Wild Things'" Neve
Campbell)—the mistress of his
boss. Damon Santostefano
(TV's "The Adventures of Pete
and Pete") directs. (Warner)
"THICK AS THIEVES" Alec Baldwin
("The Edge") plays a criminal
who's double-crossed by a
crime lord in this suspense
thriller, based on Patrick
Quinn's book. Rebecca De
Mornay ("Never Talk to Strangers"),
Michael Jai White
("Spawn"), Andre Braugher
("City of Angels") and Janeane
Garofalo ("The Matchmaker")
also star. (Distribution is to be set)
"LAWS OF MADNESS" Brad
Pitt may star in this drama,
which is based on the true story
of a 24-year-old law student
whose career aspirations are
dashed when he's diagnosed
with schizophrenia. (Universal)
"STRETCH
ARMSTRONG"
Based on the '70s action figure
that was filled with goo and
whose limbs could be stretched
to twice their normal size, this
comedy will star Danny DeVito
as a man who inadvertently ingests
a solution meant to kill
him, but instead it makes him
super-malleable. (Buena Vista)
"END OF DAYS" Arnold
Schwarzenegger ("Batman &
Robin") will have a devil of a
time dueling with Satan in this
parapsychological thriller, in
which the Prince of Darkness
comes to New York to find a
bride. Schwarzenegger will
play the head of a security
agency who must stop the marriage-minded
Mephistopheles.
Andrew Marlowe ("Air Force
One" scripts. (Universal)
"LADIES ROOM" Set in the lavatory
of a lavish opera house,
this comedy about what women
discuss behind closed doors will
star Greta Scacchi ("Emma"),
Lorraine Bracco ("Hackers"),
Molly Parker ("Kissed") and "The
Man in the Iron Mask's" John
Malkovich (Shriek—who let
him in?!) (Distribution is to be set)
"ALL THE PRETTY HORSES"
Billy Bob Thornton ("Sling
Blade") will direct and adapt
Cormac McCarthy's novel set in
1 949 in which a young cowboy,
John Grady Cole ("Gpod Will
Hunting's" Matt Damon), falls
in love with a girl, but her father,
a wealthy ranch owner, has him
thrown in jail. (Columbia)
"CARRIE II" This sequel to the
1976 classic about a girl who's
unmercifully teased by her
classmates and lashes back at
them with supernatural powers
will star Emily BergI as a girl
who is
similarly tortured by her
peers and retaliates telekinetically.
Amy Irving will play a
guidance counsellor who was a
student during the first incident
and believes it's happening
again. Rafael Moreu ("Hackers")
scripts. (UA)
"ANYWHERE BUT HERE" In
this Alvin Sargent ("Ordinary
People")-scripted drama, Susan
Sarandon ("Good Night Moon")
will play an eccentric mom
whose daughter ("Beautiful
Girls'" Natalie Portman) doesn't
appreciate her unsolicited advice
about how to deal with the
trials and tribulations of high
school. (Fox 2000)
"THE ADVENTURES OF
SANDEE THE SUPERMODEL"
Fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi,
the subject of the 1995 documentary
"Unzipped," which
gave a cheeky beh i
nd-the-scenes
look at the world of fashion, is
producing this similarly-veined
parody in which a designer
named Yvesaac discovers a
model in a New York coffee
shop. (DreamWorks)
"THE BEST MAN" Nathan Lane
("MouseHunt") will star in this
comedy about an insane asylum
inmate who breaks out in order
to be the best man at a childhood
friend's wedding. David Ward
scripts and directs. (Polygram)
"ANY GIVEN SUNDAY" Oliver
Stone will direct this drama set in
the world of football. Al Pacino
will play a coach, and Dennis
Quaid will portray a past-hisprime
quarterback who's threatened
by an up-and-comer who
wants his position (musician
Sean "Puffy" Combs). (Warner)
ETCETERA: A department store
executive (Sean Patrick Flanery)
tries to fight his feelings for a
woman (Sarah Michelle Cellar)
whom he believes has magical
powers in Fox's romantic comedy
"Vanilla Fog".. .Will Smith
is given superhuman powers
when an old man puts a magical
mark on his forehead in
Universal's "The Mark". ..Norm
Macdonald ("Dirty Work") will
play a disgruntled chauffeur
who kidnaps his boss' dog in
MGM's "Ballbusted," a comedy
scripted by Scott Alexander and
Larry Karaszewski ("The People
Vs. Larry Flynt"), who will also
make their directorial debut.
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A new summer boxoffice record:
How hard a climb for Hollywood?
Will summer '98 be a record-breaker? At press time,
the season so far had been a mixed bag, with "Godzilla"
making a giant sucking sound—an early death rattle,
that is—while "The Truman Show," perhaps unexpectedly
to some, opened in a way that makes exhibitors
smile. Should June hold pace, and July's big foursome
"Armageddon," "Lethal Weapon 4," "The Mask of
Zorro" and "Saving Private Ryan"—deliver, then a record
should be reachable.
The key reason: August's deep bench strength. In a
month that used to be left to the dogs of August—studio
titles at which distribution execs took one look and turned
tail—this eighth frame of 1 998 could compare quite favorably
to last year's lineup. Back in '97, the big week-byweek
openers were expected to be "Picture Perfect,"
"Conspiracy Theory," "Cop Land," "G.I. Jane" and "Excess
Baggage." As tne tale of the tape went on to tell, tho
latter title could have been applied to most of the slate.
In a crowded-to-bursting schedule, this front-weighted
August boasts "Snake Eyes," "Halloween: H^O" and "The
Avengers" (photo above). Although it's a bit downhill
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The '70s-scene legend of New York
hotspot Studio 54 is revisited in this story of
a New Jersey nobody ("I Know What You Did
Last Summer's" Ryan Phillippe) whose youth
and handsomeness, however, win him entre
into a nightclub life full of luxury, sexual
satiation, drug use and decadence. In a dramatic
turn, Mike Myers stars as (in)famed
proprietor-of-the-ropes Steve Rubell; Salma
Hayek, Neve Campbell ("Scream"), Sela
Ward and Breckin Meyer ("Clueless") costar.
Mark Christopher directs and scripts; Ira
Deutchman, Dolly Hall and Richard Gladstein
produce. (Miramax, 8/7 wide)
ExplOitips: In the indie film world, the producer
names present here are golden; the cast
is young and attractive; and the Studio 54
legacy remains a familiar one even two decades
later. Miramax reportedly is having
trouble, however, getting it a rating other than
NC- 7 7 for the picture.
First Love, Last Rites
Natasha Cregson Wagner ("Two Girls and
a Guy") and Giovanni Ribisi ("Saving Private
Ryan") star as a young couple caught up in
the eroticism of first love. Jesse Peretz (known
for MTV's Jimmy McBride: Cab Driver spots)
directs; David Ryan adapts an Ian McEwan
short story; Scott Macaulay, Robin O'Hara
and Herbert Beigel produce for Forensic
Films. (Strand, 8/7 NY/LA)
ExplOitips: "First Love, Last Rites" won the
Fipresci critics prize at this year's Rotterdam
test. Our April review gave it three stars.
Krzysztof Kleslowsid: I'm So-So
This Polish-language documentary records
the life and work of the late Polish director
who gave us the "Three Colors" trilogy and
"The Double Life of Veronique." Krzysztof
Wierzbicki directs and scripts; Karen Hjort
produces. (First Run, 8/5 NY)
ExplOitips: OurAFI '97 fest reviewer gave
this four stars, saying that the 56-min. film (in
its NY Film Forum run being paired with a Lars
Von Trier documentary) is brief [bull charming...
a soft pencil sketch of a life."
AUGUST 14
The Avengers
Based on the quirky yet sophisticated British
TV series of the '60s, "The Avengers" has
the unflappable duo of John Steed (Ralph
Fiennes) and Emma Peel (Uma Thurman)
uniting to stop a diabolical scientist (Sean
Connery) who plans to rule the world. Jim
Broadbent and Fiona Shaw co-star. Jeremiah
Chechik produces; Don MacPherson scripts;
Jerry Weintraub produces for his Weintraub
Prods. (Warner Bros., 8/14 wide)
ExplOitips: Rated PC for action violence
and some innuendo, "The Avengers" is likely
to be the weekend's widest-ranging choice in
terms of demos; parents will want to relive
their Friday nights of old, and the PC means
they can take the kids. And this PCer is one
kids might actually want to see, with Fiennes
and Thurman cutting a style almost as cool as
did Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg.
Ruslimore
In this comedy, a tycoon (Bill Murray) befriends
the most socially active yet easily most
scholastically challenged student (Jason
Schwartzmore) at a prestigious prep school
but the boy has a certain first-grade teacher
more on his mind. Olivia Williams and Brian
Cox co-star. Wes Anderson directs, and he
scriptswith Owen Wilson; Barry Mendel produces
for Touchstone. (Buena Vista, 8/1 4 wide)
ExplOitips: The AndersonA^ilson "Bottle
Rocket," a Columbia pickup, drew sizable
critical notice if not ticket sales. One can
expect the same contemporary-friendly kiltering
of comedy here, but with star value.
Murray's latest, like the funny "The Man Who
Knew Too Little," have drawn too little patronage,
so play up the young-turk filmers
element along with the Murray name.
Virus
In this SF/thriller (rated R for sci-fi violence/gore,
and for language), the crew of an
oceangoing tugboat are forced by a storm to
take refuge in a passing vessel—which turns
out to be a top-secret Soviet research ship
whose crew has been annihilated by an alien
lifeform that regards humans as a virus requiring
elimination. Jamie Lee Curtis (also in "Halloween:
H2O"), William Baldwin and Donald
Sutherland star. Visual effects whiz John
Bruno (whose "The Abyss" work brought him
an Oscar) directs; Chuck Pfarrer and Dennis
Feldman adapt the Dark Horse comic book
series created by F^arrer; Gale Anne Hurd
produces. (Universal, 8/14 wide)
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Exploitips: The key will be to make this not
seem like "Deep Rising 2, " "Deep Rising" The
First having dropped anchor and then just
dropped in January. Given the date's competition,
one plus is the usually reliable SF crowd
has nowhere else to turn, and the gore subdemo,
having feasted on "Halloween: H2O"
last week, might be looking for new blood.
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
An African-American investment analyst
takes a spur-of-the-moment trip to Jamaica
while her young son is away visiting his father.
There, she meets the man of her dreams in
every way but one: He's 20. Angela Bassett,
Taye Diggs, Regina King and Whoopi Goldberg
star. Kevin Sullivan directs; "Exhale"rs
Terry McMillan and Ron Bass script; Deborah
Schindler produces. (Fox, 8/12)
Exploitips: "Waiting to Exhale" was a film
about women who needed to be freed of
men's control so they could live their own
lives and choose who they loved. Now that
they can choose, they can also choose a
generation younger. Thisgood-for-the-gander
tale will likely attract mature women not only
ofurbia but also suburbia, just as "Waiting to
Exhale" did. Fox's move to this date might be
a good one; although the 8/14 frame is a
chockful one, only this "Stella " and "Slums of
Bevedy Hills" target the distaffdemo, and the
latter will likely trend younger.
Return to Paradise
Aka "Force Majeure" and based on a 1 990
French movie of that title, "Return to Paradise"
tells the story of a young man (Joaquin
Phoenix) accused of drug trafficking in Malaysia,
a country where the offense can bring a
death penalty. He can win a reprieve only if
two fellow-traveler friends (Vince Vaughn
and David Conrad) who were not caught
return to share the blame. Jada Pinkett Smith
and Anne Heche co-star. Joseph Ruben
("Sleeping With the Enemy") directs; Bruce
Robinson and Wesley Strick script; Alain
Bernheim and company topper Steve Colin
produce for Propaganda. (Polygram, 8/1 4)
Exploitips:
Despite the good cast and its
distributor billing as a "suspense thnller, " it's
possible that "Return to Paradise" will be a
'tweener—for those who find "The Avengers"
and "Rushmore" too soft, "Virus" too hard,
"Slums of Beverly Hills" and "The Best Man"
too erudite and the "Air Bud" sequel too
kiddie. It's a good demo— a mature type who
appreciates stories of human drama— but not
a demo famed for hefty summer moviegoing.
Slums of Beverly Hills
Yes, they exist, if only comparatively—and
writer/director Tamara Jenkins uses them as a
setting for this story of growing up poor among
the rich as the barely functioning Abramowitz
family in 1976 move into the great-withschools
district's fringes because, as their single
father says, "furniture is temporary,
education is forever." Natasha Lyonne plays
the lead; Alan Arkin the dad; and Marisa
Tomei a sexually liberated cousin. Robert
Redford, Michael Nozik and Stan Wlodkowski
produce. (Fox Searchlight, 8/14 ltd)
Exploitips: Although R-rated (for strong
sexual situations, nudity, language and drug
content), given the Arkin/Redford elements
one could expect a combo of rock-em sockem
drollery and none-too-bare poignance.
Air Bud: Golden Receiver
Originally on the Disney slate but having
moved to the still-family-label-eager Miramax,
this comic sequel to last year's "Air Bud"
has wonder dog Buddy doing his usual oncourt
tricks. They're witnessed by two animal
"collectors," however, who decide to kidnap
him for a Moscow circus. Kevin Zegers, Cynthia
Stevenson and Gregory Harrison star.
Richard Martin directs. (Miramax, 8/1 4 wide)
Exploitips: Rated PC for brief mild language,
this is likely to attract younger boys of
the family audiences whose daughters the
week before got to choose "Ever After." Although
surely not a dominant demo, those
families have only those two options until
month's end, when "Strike" lands. Still, one
might expect the usual sequelitis (2/3rds of
original boxoffice) to apply.
Tlie Best Man
Diego Abantantuono ("Mediterraneo")
stars in this Italian-language romantic drama
about an emigre to America who returns to be
a wedding's best man only to find the bride
("Beyond the Clouds'" Ines Sastre) looking to
him to save her from an arranged marriage.
Pupi Avati directs and scripts; Aurelio de
Laurentiis and Antonio Avati produce for
Filmauro and Duea. (October, 8/14 NY/LA)
Exploitips: Rated PC for thematic elements,
this October acquisition provides the
weekend's sole foreign-language opener.
Like It Is
A Northern street tough (U.K. ABA featherweight
champ Steve Bell) meets and follows
back to London an assured city type (Ian
Rose). There, the gay freedom of Soho
changes his life. Former Who member Roger
Daltrey co-stars. (First Run, Aug. 14 NY)
Exploitips: Cay and Brit-film demos are
your most likely targets.
Knock Off
AUGUST 21
In this action/adventure, a jeans manufacturer
sajes rep by day/CIA op by night (Jean-
Claude Van Damme) lives a good life in Hong
Kong. As the British hand the territory over to
the Chinese, however, he learns of a terrifying
conspiracy: the Russian Mafia are scheming
to provide microbombs to the worldwide terrorist
black market. Rob Schneider, Leia
Rochon and Paul Sorvino co-star. Tsui Hark
("Double Team") directs; Steven E. De Souza
("Street Fighter") scripts; Nansun Shi produces
forTriStar. (Columbia, 8/21 wide)
Exploitips: Although audiences have been
asking Van Damme to knock it off, having
avoided his recent actloners in ever-increasing
numbers, no one can say Van Damme
isn 't a hard worker in maximizing his projects
strengths. Here, he's ably abetted by the renowned
Hark and by scripter A- lister De
Souza, and the R rating (for continuous violence
and brief language) promises what his
remaining fan base looks for.
Blade
In this SF/thriller based on a best-selling
comic book, Wesley Snipes stars as Blade, an
immortal warrior of half-human, half-vampire
blood who wages a continuing battle against
a thriving underworld of bloodsuckers. Oddcareer-arcer
Stephen Dorff, a resurgent Kris
Kristofferson and former XXX-queen Traci
Lords co-star. Stephen Norrington directs;
David S. Coyer ("Dark City") scripts; Wesley
Snipes produces with Peter Frankfurt and
Robert Engelman. (New Line, 8/21 wide)
Van Damme re-
Exploitips: A sign that a
lease is hardly feared by competing studios.
New Line moved "Blade" from 9/25 directly
into the Muscles From Brussels' line of fire.
It's perhaps a more important date for
"Blade"; whereas older-male action fans
might stick with Van Damme, the younger set
are likely to go here— and the 8/2 1 date gives
New Line that demo's final two weekends of
summer freedom. At press time, "Blade" was
yet to be rated, and the MPAA decision is a
key; although an R would make "Blade" feel
more authentic to its target demo, it will also
make it harder for them to see. As always with
this type ofmovie, the trick is to make it "feel"
like an R— but not get one.
Next Stop, Wonderland
In this romantic comedy, a Boston nightshift
nurse ("The Daytrippers'" Hope Davis)
who was been dumped by her activist boyfriend
has become a cranky monastic. Her
overbearing mother places a personal ad
against her daughter's wishes—but then she
receives 62 replies. Meanwhile, a would-be
marine biologist ("The Crow: City of Angels'"
Alan Gelfant) is having life troubles of his
own. Then fate steps in. Brad Anderson directs,
and he scripts with Lyn Vaus; Mitchell
B. Robbins produces. (Miramax, 8/21 NY/
LA/Bos, 8/28 exp, 9/4 wide)
Exploitips: This is the bought-for-$6-million,
"we're going into the Brad Anderson
business" Sundance acquisition that once
again put Harvey Weinstein on the frontpages
of the Hollywood trades. Our reviewer, in
according this "glorified home movie" a generally
positive three stars, said "Anderson
doesn't seem. ..ready for anything like the
level of hype he received at the fest, Ibut this
film] is still an enjoyable and accomplished
bit ofbusiness.... Cheerful. ..andstraightforwardly
commercial. " Which, as he says, ain't bad.
Phoenix
In this film noir, Ray Liotta, Anthony
LaPaglia, Daniel Baldwin and Jeremy Piven
star with Anjelica Huston in a story about a
law-straddling Arizona cop who, with two
fellow officers, plans to rip off a loan shark.
Danny Cannon ("Judge Dredd") directs; Eddie
Richey and Dina Waxman script; Victoria
Nevinny and Tracie Graham produce for
Lakeshore. (Trimark, 8/21 ltd)
Exploitips: Rated R for strong violence,
language and sexuality, this Prickly Pear Pictures
production is likely to draw the same
pnckly pear demo (aggression-fan males) on
which "Knock Off" and "Blade" will also
draw. This sounds likely to draw a harder,
often straight-to-video audience than "Knock
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Esmerelda Comes by Night
In this Spanish-language satire ("De Noche
Vienes, Esmerelda"), a nurse named Esmerelda,
who's secretly married to five men,
is about to marry #6 when she's charged with
bigamy. While Esmerelda is held for questioning,
the chief inspector falls for her, her other
husbands conspire to break her out of jail and
feminists march in her support. Maria Rojo
stars with Claudio Obregon, Martha Navarro
and Tito Vasconcelos. Jaime Humberto
Hermosillo directs and scripts; Carlos Taibo,
Salvador de la Fuente and Fernando Camara
Sanchez produce. (Fine Line, 8/21 NY/LA)
Exploitips: This is the type of film that Fine
Line's founder would have launched as counterprogramming
for a summer audience sated
with blockbusters, and the distributors' new
administration seems intent on seeing if that
early '90s strategy still works at decade's end.
Our reviewer (next issue) calls the film "a
whimsical tale with charm to spare" but gives
it 2 1/2 stars due to pacing and plot problems;
as a Toronto fest pickup, however, the film
likely has some strong critical supporters. Expect
the art-house's Pop.: Distaff to stand up
to be censused at the boxoffice.
The Eel
Based on the Akira Yoshimura novel "Sparkles
in the Darkness," this Japanese-language
drama tells the story of a parolee ("Shall We
Dance's" Koji Yakusho) just out of prison for
the crime-of-passion killing of his wife. An
outcast who now distrusts humanity, he can
communicate only with a pet eel—until he
prevents a young woman ("Okoge's" Misa
Shimizu) who resembles his dead wife from
committing suicide. Shohei Imamura (Palme
d'Or winner "The Ballad of Narayama") directs,
and he scripts with Motofumi
Tomikawa and Daisuke Tengan; Hisa lino
produces. (New Yorker, 8/21 NY, fail rollout)
Exploitips: Although our Cannes fest critic
gave this a 2 l/2-star review ("Yakusho gives
a good performance in the lead role but the
screenplay does not go beneath the surface of
the characters"), "The Eel" won the '97 fest's
Palme d'Or— making Imamura only the third
director to win that award twice.
Marcello Mastroianni—I Remember
This Italian documentary profiles the great
actor, filmed by his longtime companion,
Anna Maria Tato. (First Look, 8/21 NY)
Exploitips: Our Toronto fest critic gave this
2 1/2 stars, saying it's mainly for Mastroianni
fans— although among a certain demo they
are legion. Held from 7/3.
AUGUST 28
Your Friends and Neighbors
The "In the Company ol Men" duo,
writer/director Neil LaBute and actor Aaron
Eckhan, headline another "inflammatory
cocktail of modern mores, this time not at the
workplace but on the homefront" (as a distributor
copywriter would have it) with a story
about secret intimacies among husbands and
wives and friends and neighbors. Among the
ensemble cast are Amy Brenneman, Nastassja
Kinski, Ben Stiller and Jason Patric. Patric also
produces, with Propaganda topper Steve
Colin. (Cramercy, 8/28 NY/LA, 9/1 1 wide)
Exploitips: In a subtle but effective name
change, the word "Your" now leads the film's
title. The "In the Company of Men" controversy
heightened awareness ofthe LaBute and
Eckhart names with a specific part of the
moviegoing public, and the heavier-duty cast
names here might expand that segment.
Strilce
Aka "The Hairy Bird," this story of comic
misadventure circa 1963 in a girls prep school
follows a group of young and romantically
inclined females who nevertheless resist an
adult plan to merge their academy with a boys
school and so wage an elaborate campaign to
sabotage the impending union. Young actresses
Kirsten Dunst ("Small Soldiers") and
Caby Hoffman ("Now and Then") star with
Rachael Leigh Cook ("The House of Yes") and
Lynn Redgrave. Sarah Kernochan directs and
scripts; Ira Deutchman and Peter Newman
produce. (Miramax, 8/28 wide)
Exploitips: This promises to be one of the
month's most interesting releases, in that the
Dunst-Hoffman duo attractive to the girl
demo are united with two ofthe best art-house
talents there are in Fine Line founder Deutchman
and filmmaker Kernochan (who scripted
the ever-so-fine "Impromptu, " did the
"Sommersby" remake and won an Oscar for
"Marjoe"). Of course, the last times that arthouse-level
artistry and girl-audience-demo
fetchery met were echoing-halls "FairyTale:A
True Story" and "A Little Princess.
I Married a Strange Person
More animated weirdness and funkery
from the colored pens of Bill Plymptoncan be
counted on in this second feature from the
animator. (Lions Gate, 8/28 NY/LA)
Exploitips: Plympton has a small coterie of
fans devoted to seeing his latest. Our reviewer
(not one of them; April) gave it two stars.
AUGUST UNDATED
The Chambermaid on the Titanic
In this French-language romantic drama,
Horty, a foundry worker ("The Horseman on
the Roof's" Olivier Martinez) from Northern
France^ wins a trip to England to witness the
launching of the Titanic. The catch: He must
attend without his wife ("Savage Nights'"
Romane Bohringer), on whom his boss is
making eyes. On arriving in the hotel-packed
U.K. port, a beautiful chambermaid ("A Walk
in the Clouds'" Aitana Sanchez-Gijon) slated
to work on the Titanic asks to share his room,
then his bed. During the night, Horty dreams
of iovemaking with her, but in the morning
Marie is gone on the vessel. Returning home,
his wife has a new job, leading Horty to
suspect she gave in to the boss' advances.
After hearing of the Titanic's sinking, Horty
begins to tell of a night of passion with the
chambermaid throughout the rooms of the
doomed liner. Soon people from miles around
are coming to hear his tale of lost love—and
his wife, despite his protestations it's all a
fiction, begins to suspect his heart is not hers.
Bigas Luna ("Jamon, Jamon") directs. (Samuel
Coldwyn, NY/Aug. undated, wider this fall)
Exploitips: The first film from the new-old
Samuel Coldwyn Co.— the original SC having
gone public by acquiring the Landmark
circuit, run into loan repayment troubles,
been acquired by Orion owner Metromedia
and then been sold to MCM, which jettisoned
virtually everything except the name for its
Coldwyn Films art-house label— is a change
of pace for its maker, both in language (from
Spanish) and in attitude (Luna being a fan of
filming frontal everything). But, given the performer
talent involved, it doesn't look to be a
change ofpace for Coldwyn, whose company
was responsible for such specialized classics
of the '90s as "La Femme Nikita" and "Much
Ado About Nothing." Inland from the East, use
any good Manhattan notices to fan interest.
Frogs for Snalces
A former loan-shark collector turned actress
decides to do one final job for her old
boss and father of her child—even if it means
killing friends. Barbara Hershey ("A Dangerous
Woman") stars with Debi Mazar, Robbie
Coltrane and John Leguizamo. Amos Poe directs
and scripts; Larry Meistrich and Phyllis
Kaufman produce. (Artisan, Aug. undated)
Exploitips: Civen the producers attached,
this could be a sleeper project that, for one
reason or another, has no A-listers. Not that
Hershey is boxoffice strychnine, though she's
notexactlycatniptoticketbuyers. Artisan (formerly
Live) seems intent on doing what Trimark
began trying to do two years ago— build
itself into a full-service moviemaker— so extra
distributor support here is likely.
IVIodulations
This documentary, subtitled "Cinema for
the Ear," by lara Lee ("Synthetic Pleasures")
traces the evolution of electronic music in the
20th century, including the work of Giorgio
Moroder, Kraftwerk, Afrika Bambaataa and
Prodigy. George Gund, best known as owner
of the San Jose Sharks and Cleveland Cavaliers
sports franchises, produces. (Strand, Aug.
undated, NY/LA/SF; wider fall)
Exploitips: Moroder and Kraftwerk are relatively
known talents, and Prodigy is currently
popular. "Modulations" played before the reunion
concert of Kraftwerk at Denmark's
Roskilde Music Festival in June and later foreign
and stateside music events.
See the Sea
This 67-minute French-language drama
starring Sasha Hails and Marina de Von and
directed by Francois Ozon is paired with an
Ozon short, "A Summer Dress," with Frederic
Mangenot. (Zeitgeist, 8/28 NY)
Exploitips: Expect the most select of the
specialized demo to attend here.
La Separation
Isabelle Huppert and Daniel Auteuii star in
this French-language drama about a couple in
a devastating relationship. Christian Vincent
("La Discrete") directs; Claude Berri produces
for his Renn label. (Phaedra, Aug. undated)
Exploitips: The Huppert, Auteuii, Vincent
and Berri names will help pull foreign-fare
fans, especially Gallic-language lovers. The
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Hands on a Hardbody
This documentary tells the tale of a couple
dozen eager-to-own contestants at a Nissan
dealership in Texas who must keep their
hands in contact with a new Hardbody pickup
truck at all times to have a chance to win it;
last left standing gets the keys. S. Robb
Bindler, who shot (in Hi-8) and edited the
film, produces with Kevin Morris and Chapin
Wilson. (Legacy, Aug. undated)
Exploitips: The film's Cong-Show frisson is
salable, and the release might get an extra
nudge thanks to the involvement ofJ. K. Livin'
Prods.— the co. of Matthew McConaughey.
The film also has several test awards, including
the Florida, ATI and Santa Barbara events.
Art Gallery Animation
This animated anthology takes a look at a
number of cartoon creations. New distributor
Palm is affiliated with Manga, which is the
firm's anime house. (Palm, Aug. undated)
Exploitips: /4/ong with handling the various
non-theatrical windows. Palm will oversee all
non-anime features acquired by the expanding
Chicago-based operation.
Metal Skin
This Aussie action thriller by Geoffrey
Wright ("Romper Stomper") stars Tara Morice
("Strictly Ballroom") and Aden Young ("Hotel
de Love"). (Phaedra, Aug. undated)
Exploitips: For artsies,
Wright's "Romper
Stomper" credit will appeal. Held from July.
La Sentinelle
This conspiracy drama by French director
Arnaud Desplechin explores Cold War politics
in its story of a forensics student who is
mysteriously sent a shrunken head. As he
dissects it, the mystery deepens. Emmanuelle
Salinger stars. (Strand, Aug. undated)
Exploitips: Held from last July, "La
Sentinelle" is actually the debut of director
Desplechin, who since made "My Sex Life,"
which came stateside last fall via Zeitgeist.
LATE MOVIE MOVES.
JULY
Sony Classics readied another likely IMAX
smash with Stephen Low's "Mark Twain's
America in 3-D". ..New Yorker on 7/24 NY/LA
bowed the Manuel Poirier French-language
comedy "Western" (see our 9/97 3 1/2-star
review). ..Kino on 7/8 in NY opened the Alexei
Balabanov drama "Brat" (aka "Brother"; 3-star
review in 9/97). ..Cowboy (with Quentin
Tarantino's Rolling Thunder) on 7/4 expanded
the re-release of horrormeister Lucio
Fulci's "The Beyond," following coastal midnight-run
openings that did turnaway business.
..Phaedra slated a restored version of
Jimmy Wang Yu's Hong Kong film "One-
Armed Boxer Versus the Flying Guillotine,"
and offered the Hindi-dubbed Mani Rathnam
romantic musical "Roja" ("The Rose")...
Planet had the Mark Rappaport documentary
"The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender," on
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Miramax on 6/26 expanded foreign-language
Oscar submission "Beyond Silence" (2
1/2-star review, 4/97 issue). .."Men," via Unapix
6/26 LA and later widening, stars Sean
Young as a woman who seduces a variety of
men to learn about the opposite sex...On 6/1
ltd. Lions Gate had the R-rated "Dreams for
an Insomniac," with lone Skye and Jennifer
Aniston... Northern Arts' "Off the Menu" documentary
added NY 6/19 (4/98 four-star review).
..Leisure Time and Cinema Village on
6/1 2 bowed the French-language "Un Air de
Famille" ("Family Resemblances"), directed
by Cedric Klapisch... Phaedra opened a minifestofAsian
titles: Chris Chan Lee's "Yellow,"
and Japanese dramas "Beyond the Realm of
the Senses," directed by Noboru Tanaka, and
Masaru Onuma's "Wife to Be Sacrificed."
MAY
On 5/29 in LA, First Run bowed social-theory
docu "Arguing the World". ..Urban comedy
"I Got the Hook-Up," starring Master P,
was advanced to 5/27 wide by Miramax's
Dimension. ..Capitol 5/22 bowed the Argentinean
romantic drama "Autumn Sun" ("Sol
de Otono")... Barrister on 5/15 in NY and NJ
began a rollout of comedy/drama "Let's Kill
All the Lawyers". ..Also 5/15 but LA, the Jonathan
Silverman-Madchen Amick starrer
"French Exit" bowed via Cineville...On 5/8,
Legacy had Mariel Hemingway and Chris
Sarandon starring in an adaptation of "Louisa
May Aicott's Little Men"; Legacy in May also
bowed the G-rated "The Mighty Kong." ^M
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«< 'Snake Eyes" Star Gary Sinise
Doesn 't Leave Success to Chance
by Cathy Thompson-Georges
BOXOFFICE ODDSMAKERS: Nicolas Cage (left) and Gary Sinese
case a casino murder in the Paramount thriller "Snake Eyes.
Lucky, lucky Gary Sinise,
table-waiting thespian
wannabes must grumble.
Here's a guy who didn't even
show up on the Hollywood scene
until the ripe age of 36 but has
since appeared in some of the biggest,
most successful films of the
'90s—and not as one of the guys
who gets stepped on by Godzilla.
His forte is meaty, interesting
roles. The bitter, crippled lieutenant
in "Forrest Gump"; the frustrated
astronaut who misses the
mission in "Apollo 1 3"; the cop in
"Ransom." Now Sinise is appearing
opposite Nicolas Cage this
summer in Brian De Raima's new
thriller, "Snake Eyes"—another
blockbaster in the making. Plus,
he's shooting a segment in a Miramax/Dimension
anthology called
"Impostor" for director Gary Fleder.
LAicky, lucky Gary Sinise.
According to Sinise, however,
luck has nothing to do with it. "I
try to be selective and go to woric
when it feels like something I
should spend my time on," he tells
B«X{)FTICE, explaining why he
hasn't done bit parts or bad movies.
"I don't have an enormous
overhead, so I don't have to
work all the time to pay off all
my houses. And I think that's
good, because I can be selective
and just go to work
when it feels right."
When Sinise finally decided
to move into the movies,
it wasn't surprising that
quality roles were waiting for
him. At the age when most
young actors who dream of
film stardom are living handto-mouth
in Lx)s Angeles and
scrabbling to appear in slasher
movies for a screen credit, Sinise
was one of the co-founders
of the famed Steppenwolf
Theater Company in Chicago.
A breeding ground for
many of today's top acting
talents, including the likes of
John Malkovich, Joan Allen,
Kevin Anderson and Laurie
Metcalfe, Steppenwolf is 24 years
old and .still going strong.
"Lots ofpeople can have movie
careers, but I think the most
unique thing I'll have ever done is
founded a theatre group as successful
and that still continues to
grow," says Sinise.
But it was hard going at
Steppenwolf the first few years,
with the participants "living together
in a basement," according
to Sinise. "We didn't make any
money at it for four or five years.
We just worked other jobs and
went to the theatre at night." But
the company eventually flourished
and propeled Sinise into
roles on Broadway. He was starring
in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
at age 35 when he decided
that it was time to give film a try.
He had made an abortive attempt
to break into movies in the late
'70s, but this time he had the clout
of a prestigious stage career behind
him. He was cast in his first
Hollywood role the same year and
never looked back.
Snake
Eyes" bids fair to continue
the run of successfiil
and well-reviewed films that
Sinise has appeared in throughout
the '90s. Director De Palma is the
auteur behind thrillers from "Carrie"
to "Mission: Impossible," and
he here reteams with screenwriter
David Koepp, with whom De
Palma worked on both "M:I" and
"CarUto's Way." Sinise describes
the new film as "very much Brian
De Palma It's a classic Brian De
Palma film, a psychological
thriller. It's done in a very stylish,
'Rashomon'-type approach to the
"You don 't make
a movie knowing
it's going to be a
blockbuster....
[T]o mCy it's the
people that are
involved and
the role."
storytelling. Different points of
view about what happened."
The plot: 'The Secretary of Defease
is assassinated during a boxing
match in a casino in Atlantic
City, and Nick Cage plays an Atlantic
City detective. He's on the
scene and kind of shuts down the
entire arena and they begin to try
to investigate and unravel what
actually happened. I play a boyhood
friend of his who was a naval
commander assigned to the security
detail for the Secretary. The
two of us try to figure out what
happened. He goes about investigating
and interviewing different
people who had some eyewitness
account of it. Each time he starts
questioning one ofthose people, it
kind of flashes to what they saw."
The combination of De Palma
and Cage, who is coming off a
string of hit action-oriented films,
seems likely to make "Snake
Eyes" another success for Sinise's
resume. But the actor claims that
he doesn't choose products based
on their chances at the boxoffice.
"You don't make a movie
knowing it's going to be a blockbuster,"
Sinese says. "When
you're working with Mel Gibson
or Tom Hanks, Ron Howard or
Bob Zemeckis, some of those
guys, they have a track record at
producing those films that do
pretty well. But, to me, it's the
people that are involved and the
role. Is the role a good role to
play? Certainly, I think Lieutenant
Dan in 'Forrest Gump' was a
great role. I enjoyed a hell of a lot
the role in 'Apollo 13,' and
'Ransom' as well. All three of
those were big commercial successes—and
still gave me a
chance to do some acting as well."
How does one choose well
when there aren't that many
good roles going around?
Well, it helps not to do too
many movies. Sinise estimates
his average production
cy le to be about one film every
two years; by not trying to
work constantly, he doesn't
have to take every role that
comes along. This also allows
him to spend more time at
home with his children
aged five, seven and nine.
The desire to spend time
with his family has also influenced
his decision to act rather
than direct films for the time
being. Although Sinise has
helmed two films— "Miles
From Home" with Richard Gere
and "Of Mice and Men," in which
he starred opposite fellow
Steppenwolfer Malkovich—he
says he has no intention of doing
that again for a while. "Directing
is a big job—it takes a lot of time.

I know I'll do it again, but right !
now rm kind ofhappy with acting
and hanging with my kids."
His work on the upcoming "Impostor"
won't interfere with those
plans too much, because he appears
in just one segment of a
multi-part film. He expects to
shoot for only 15 days. According
to Sinise, his segment has to do
I've tended to do are dramatic in
nature. I have yet to do an action
part. Those are all things that I'd
like to try to do. It's fun going into
these different roles and exploring
them, and I don't want to rule
anything out. I just haven't found
the right thing. I've been offered
some nice films and good things,
but they just haven't felt right."
I
i
"I don 't have
an enormous
overhead, so I
I
don H have to work
all the time to pay
off all my houses...
...and I think
that's good,
because I can be
selective andjust
go to work when
itfeels right. '^
with "aliens
and human beings
and how they interact." He won't
reveal, however, whether his role
is alien or human.
After "Impostor," Sinise's
schedule is clear. He's had offers,
he says, but nothing he felt compelled
to do. "It just has to feel
right, whether it's a drama or
whatever. I don't know what that
is. I have yet to do a really romantic
part in a feature film, and I have
yet to do an out-and-out comedy
as a feature film. The movies that
If recent history is anything to
go by, Sinise would be wise to
keep going on those feelings. In
an industry where you make
your own luck, he's done pretty
well so far.
Mi
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FEELING THE "RUSH
Action/Comedy Moviemaker Brett Ratner
Aims to Spill Thrills in '^Rush Hour"
by Bridget Byrne
GATE CRASHERS: Actors Chris Tucker (left) and Jackie Clian
in action in the New Line action/comedy "Rush Hour.
Chan is advising Chris
Jackie
Tucker on how to mimic severe
groin pain. He's doing
this mainly with gestures and expressions,
because Chan and
Tucker barely speak the same language.
But Brett Ratner, the director
of "Rush Hour," is amused and
elated by his two stars' inability to
comprehend each other's English.
"That's one bonus," he says of
this pairing of the Asian action star
with the motOT-mouthed American
comedian. "Jackie speaks
very bad broken English and
Chris talks very, very fast. Most of
the time, they don't understand a
goddam word the other one is saying.
There's a real need for 'Say
that again?' and 'Huh?'—and I'm
using that in the film. It's what the
audience will feel."
"Rush Hour" is the second feature
for Ratner, the young director
whose work on rap videos for
music groups like Public Enemy
and slick commercials for such clients
as Coca-Cola led to his feature
debut last year with New Line
Cinema's successful "Money
Talks," an action/comedy also
starring Tucker along with Charlie
Sheen and Heather LxKklear.
Ratner's new venture, also for
New Line (opening nationwide
Sept. 18), is another fast-paced
combination of fights and foolery
about James Carter (Tucker),
a
Los Angeles police detective who
is assigned to keep Hong Kong's
Detective In.spector Lee (Chan)
from meddling in an FBI investigation
of the kidnapping of a Chinese
consul's daughter.
Chan, who learned music,
dance and martial arts when apprenticed
as a child to the Peking
Opera, is the veteran of around 70
movies as stuntman, actor, director,
writer and producer (often all
at the same time), but Ratner
appears neither intimidated
nor uptight about working
with the international star.
"He's been making movies
longer than I've been alive,
but he's so respectful, disciplined
and considerate
even in the action stuff when
he's doing everything himself,"
says the 28-year-old
Ratner, wise enough to allow
Chan, now in his mid-40s, to
choreograph his own stunts and
offer advice on movement of cast
and camera even in action sequences
that he isn't in.
"I'm focusing on his performance,"
Ratner says, stressing the
need for real emotion to cut
through the action and comedy in
order to make the movie also a
thriller. "The fights have to feel
real, [bull the priority is the story,
and the fights have to relate realistically
to that story," Ratner says.
noting this as a marked difference
from Chan's usual Asian films, in
which the fights are multiple but
the plot minimal.
"Rush Hour" is set mainly in
downtown L.A.—a landscape and
backdrop that Ratner exploited
freshly in "Money
Talks"— with
other sequences
shot in Hollywood
and Pasadena.
Much of the
filming has taken
place at night, but
on this day the
moviemakers are
toiling inside a
warehouse that's
tucked into a
dead-end area of
freeway oflEramps.
Outside is industrial decay; inside
is a flashy red, gold and faux
jade -dec orated office above a
Chinatown restaurant. Everything
looks concrete and nailed down,
but much is really flexible and
"breakaway"—a big word on an
action movie like this, where feet
and fists fly every-which-way.
Tucker, lean and loose, nattily
dressed in suit and tie, has ventured
into the room to confront the
film's bad guys, also attired in
sharp suits. They're played by a
striking collection of actors, some
from America, some who have
come with Chan from overseas.
Tucker has only to murmur
"Why all so quiet?" for them to
"/ know what
I like and what
I don 't like, and
I go on gut
instinct. "
leap forward and knock him on his
back. The .sequence is repeated
several times while multiple cameras
roll and either Chan or Ratner
advise on varioas changes and
Tucker toys with his dialogue.
"This is nice, real nice," he murmurs,
able to glance at the decor
for a second before he gets kicked
in the crotch. "That was real childish,"
he says, laying humor over
the necessary grimace, working to
pretend he's not a cop but just a
"Blackanese homeboy" looking
to do business on the wrong side
of the law. "You're down, Chris,
and it really hurts," Ratner instructs
as Chan, tidily outfitted in
off-duty black clothing, also suggests
how Tucker should move to
show off the pretended
pain to
best advantage.
Ratner has
been making
movies almost as
long as he can remember,
starting
out when still a
youth in Miami.
"I would shoot little
home movies
using my friends.
I'm an idiot savant.
All 1 know is
movies," he says, laughing, as he
crouches behind a camera on the
cluttered and crowded set.
At the age of 16, Ratner enrolled
at New York University's
Tisch School of the Arts, where
(thanks to a donation from Steven
Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment)
he made an award-winning
senior thesis project, "Whatever
Happened to Mason Reese." On
leaving school, he found a mentor
in Russell Simmons of Def Jam
Recordings, who hired him to
made a music video for Public
Enemy. Ratner went on to make
numerous other videos, including
one for D'Angelo's "Brown
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Best R&B Video award.
Sugar" that won the
Ratner's style in feature
filmmaking resembles his
quick-cuts experiences with
music videos. "I have a very
.short attention span." he admits.
"I have to entertain myself
I can't worry about what
the audience might like. I have
a specific point of view.
"I know what I like and
what I don't like, and I go on
gut instinct," Ratner says.
Then he returns his focus to
capturing "Rush Hour's" belowthe-belt
action and off-the-cuff
humor. And vice versa.
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SPECIAL REPORT: Promotions/Merchandising
SUMMER '98 PROMO GUIDE
Promotional Tie-ins to the Biggest Summer Movies
BUENA VISTA
Mattel is the master toy licensee for Buena
Vista's summer event films, "Mulan" and
"Armageddon." For "Mulan," Mattel is manufacturing
action figures and fashion dolls of
Mulan, a young gjrl who disguises herself as a
boy and leads an army, and Captain Li Shang,
a brave soldier with whom Mulan falls in love.
According to Mattel, "Girls can transform the
Secret Hero Mulan doll
from a traditional
village girl to a martial arts and gymnastics
expert when danger is afoot." With Matchmaker
Magic Mulan, "girls can easily metamorphose
Mulan from village girl to elegant
Chinese princess." Make-up appears on
Matchmaker Magic Mulan's face with the application
of warm water. Also on the market
will be plush toys of MuShu the Guardian
Dragon and Cri-Kee the feisty cricket.
Other promotional partners include
Quaker Oats, AquaFresh and Nestle.
For "Armageddon," the action-thriller in
which Bruce Willis must save the world from
an oncoming asteroid, Mattel has created action
figures of the heroic lead characters, as
well as a line of Hot Wheels Action Sites and
Deluxe Vehicles. The collection includes a
Deluxe Armadillo Drilling Vehicle; a Deluxe
Space Shuttle; a Drilling Unit; a Space Station;
and an Explosion Zone.
T-Shirts, polo shirts, embroidered flight jackets,
baseball caps, keychains, mugs and shot
glasses are by Giant Merchandising; posters are
by At-A-Glance; electronic games are by Tiger,
and backpacks are by Pyramid Handbags.
McDonald's will launch extensive promotioas
for both "Mulan" and "Armageddon," with
movie-themed packaging, toys and contests.
COLUMBIA/TRISTAR
"Nothing comes closer to the electrifying
thrill of riding Zorro's trusty steed than the
top-down feeling of driving in the 1998 Convertible
Mu.stang GT," says Mark Workman,
senior vice president of strategic marketing for
TriStar. So the studio is partnering with Ford
to promote both the coveted car and the Antonio
Banderas starrer "The Mask ofZorro."The
campaign will center around a television commercial
in which a modem-day hero, with the
help of his black Convertible Mustang GT,
comes to the aid of a beautiful woman attempting
to escape from an evil villain.
Sprint has al.so partnered with TriStar in a
promotion that offers customers who sign up
HUNKS IN SPACE: Buena Vista's "Armageddon" action figures will send fans of
Ben Affleck and Bruce Willis into orbit.
for Sprint two free movie tickets to "Zorro" at
any theatre of their choice. Sprint print ads
featuring creative elements from "The Mask
of Zorro" will appear in Time, People, TV
Guide, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today,
Rolling Stone and Premiere.
DREAMWORKS
Hasbro, Burger King, Putnam, LandoU's,
Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Tiger Electronics, Fruit
of the Lxx)m, Travelodge and Subway have all
signed on to partner with DreamWorks in the
promotion of its live-action/computer animated
summer film "Small Soldiers."
DreamWorks Interactive will also offer platforms
for Sony PlayStation and a CD-ROM
Kids' Action/Strategy game for Windows
95. Master toy licen.see Hasbro will produce
over 60 products in support of the film's
relea.se.
Burner King will give out premiuras based
on the characters, and Coca-Cola will release
a Coca-Cola card, with which customers can
get food or merchandise with the card and the
purchase of "Small Soldiers" movie tickets.
Travelodge will give free "Small Soldiers"
tickets to frequent guests.
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version of the popular sci-fi/paranormal |
drama/thriller will be promoted by Mulderand
Scully-ized versions of America's fa- j
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Other toys, apparel, publishing, electronics,
housewares and collectibles will be available,,
but at press time, the details were kept in
greater secrecy than Cancer Man's alien allegiance
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Gramercy's black comedy about murder,
"Clay Pigeons," will have some "killer" promotions
backing it. A sweepstakes with music
retailers The Wherehouse and HMV will offer
entrants the chance to win souvenirs and
wardrobe items from the movie, while You
Magazine wiU have a contest with props and
special screenings as prizes.
NEW LINE
For the vampire thriller "Blade" starring
Wesley Snipes, New Line has teamed with
Vampire Wines and Marvel Comics, and will
tie in with sci-fi/comic conventions.
Houlihan's Restaurants will be involved in
promoting "Rush Hour," the Jackie
Chan/Chris Tucker action comedy.
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its way! As the November opening of the
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home the bacon are the line of "Babe" toys,
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AT THE MET
Bruce Corwin of Metropolitan Theatres
Relates 75 Years of Family Business
by Bridget Byrne
Welcome
to my playpen," says Bruce
C. Corwin, entering the office where
daily he plies the exhibitor's trade as
president and chief executive officer of the
nation's 34th largest circuit. His suite is adorned
with personal and professional mementos, and
their juxtaposition marks it as the territory of a
man for whom woric is a family
business. Light on the usual corporate
chrome and glass, the office is
cozy, old-fashioned, wood paneled,
suggestive of an intimate den.
Corwin's Metropolitan Theatres
Corp. is celebrating 75 years of continuity
in LxK Angeles. Now with
125 screens in Califomia and Colorado,
the company was bom with
the 1923 purchase of the Broadway
Theatre in downtown Los Angeles.
That acquisition was made by
Corwin's grandfather Joseph, and
his descendant proves both eager to
and proud as he recounts Metropolitan's
history as he turns the
pages of a photo album, stamped
with the title "A Proud Tradition,"
depicting the gloriously ornate theatres
of the silent screen era.
"This was my grandfather's pet.
He spent more time there than at any
other of his theatres," says Corwin,
pointing to pictures of the Olympic,
another downtown Los Angeles
theatre, where in his grandfather's
day "two request hits played for 1
cents, any seat any time." There's a
charming, almost a "once upon a
time" quality to the way Corwin
tells a story that he must have told
countless times before about how
his grandfather, who was in the .shoe
business in Sioux City, Iowa, cros.sed over into
show business. "The guy who owned the one
theatre in town would stop by my grandfather's
shop and talk about movie stuff. It
sounded much more exciting and also more
pnjfilable than the shoe business," he begins.
The dollar numbers Joseph Corwin had noticed
when he allowed his acquaintance to tot
up his boxoffice receipts on the .shopcalculator
also pointed to a better business, so he bought
the theatre. That was in 1919, but soon the
Corwin clan decided to move west.
In Los Angeles, both of Joseph's sons, Lawrence
and Sherrill, would join the operation.
Sherrill, Bruce's father, eventually became
chief executive of the growing circuit. Among
METRO MAN: Metropolitan president and CEO Bruce Corwin
carries on the tradition ofgrandfather Joseph and father Sherrill.
the many magnificent theatres acquired in the
'20s and '30s were the Rialto, which boasted
the world's largest marquee; the United Artists,
built by David O. Selznick and Mary Pickford;
and the Orpheum, which in 1932 played two
movies and eight vaudeville acts for 28 cents.
Stars who appeared on its stage included Sophie
Tucker and the Andrews Sisters, and Nat
King Cole had his first job there.
Although the Orpheum remains open, the
other theatres have been converted into other
uses, including sites for swap meets and religious
meeting halls. But, as the decades progressed,
the Corwins strove to move with the
times and shifts in neighborhood population to
keep the moviehouses viable as long as possible.
(The flagship Broadway, for
example, didn't stop showing movies
until the late 1980s.)
Into the '50s, the theatres played
mainstream English-language,
first-mn product—as did key moviegoing
rival Hollywood Boulevard,
with its Egyptian and Chinese
venues. As the downtown changed
culturally. Metropolitan's programming
there kept in sync, during the
'70s showcasing the black exploitation
films of the "Shaft" and "Superfly"
era and then switching to
Spanish-language movies and
Spanish-subtitled American films.
But cultural preferences changed
again, and now first-mn American
movies, subtitled or not, have become
the prime choice in the Latino
community. Mexico, once the
resource for the majority of popular
Spanish-language movies, has developed
few new stars in recent
years. That counuy now makes just
a handful of movies annually, and
expenses for any one prcxiuction
there rarely go much higher than
$i(K),(X)0. Such films simply cannot
compete with the mammoth apjjeal
of Hollywood fare, so the local
Metropolitan theatres, which still
serve the Spanish-speaking market
extensively in such areas as Huntington
Park and El Monte, give audiences the
gusto. At the time of this interview that meant
"Godzilla" in English, with subtitles.
Corwin is sad about the decay and abandonment
ofdowntown's theatre palaces, with their
stunning pericxi interiors and marquees, but he
hopes it will be possible someday to restore the
areji. "I would love to see that happen," he says.
"They've managed it in New York and they

are doing it in Hollywood. It should happen
here, but it will take a much bigger company
with much deeper pockets than us.
"But if that company steps forward with
citywalk-style revival plans, I would certainly
be happy to be part of it."
Corwin,
bom in 1940, can't recall when
he realized his family was in show business.
It just seeped in. as was natural for
someone whose father was always full of stories
about vaudeville days and whose mother,
Dorothy Gould, had acted on the silent screen.
They seem much less judgmental," he says,
pleased to part of an easygoing community.
Continuing a family tradition of forming
close ties to the locales in which Metropwlitan
does business, Corwin is involved in nonprofit
organizations and supports local institutions
and events both in Los Angeles and Santa
Barbara. In L.A.. he was the founding president
of the Los Angeles Children's Museum
and for two years served as president ofthe Los
Angeles Fire Commission. Up north, there are
Corwin awards for screen and stage writing,
dance and music composition at UCSB and for
fomia and Colorado. Metro-Vista Theatres, a
joint venture with the Pacfic circuit, has placed
1 screens in Palmdale, Calif. With Enea Theatres,
16 EM Theatres screens serve three locations
in Livermore, Dublin and Pleasanton
in Northern California. In Loveland, Colo., a
tie with TransLux Theatres has led to the creation
of 12 MetroLux screens.
"We can't be where the big boys are,"
Corwin says. "We have to go under the radar
screen, find little niches, offer superb service,
be involved in the community. This is not a big
corporate place. This is a family business."
HOLLYWOOD PALACE: Metropolitan's grand Orpheum, a downtown L.A. showcase, programs current fare.
Each June, it is a favorite site of the annual Last Remaining Seats classic films event held by the Los Angeles Conservancy.
The family liked to visit both Santa Barbara
and Palm Springs, and their interest in those
communities led Metropolitan to expand into
those regions. Its first Santa Barbara theatre
was opened 50 years ago, and the first in Palm
Springs was launched 31 years ago.
There are now nearly 40 Metropolitan
screens in the Santa Barbara and nearby Goleta
areas, including the centrally located and restored
Arlington Theatre. "It's a great moviegoing
town." Corwin says of the vacation
haven (thanks to its beaches) and college town
(thanks to the presence of the University of
CaUfomia's Santa Barbara campus). "Pictures
that don't do well anywhere else do well there.
dramatic performance in the Santa Barbara
elementary and high schools. He shows off an
award, marked with a palm tree logo, presented
to him this year by the decade-old Santa
Barbara International Film Festival, honoring
him as a founding member.
Corwin is also a founding member of the
Palm Springs International Film Festival, an
event that is rapidly growing in prestige in a
city where his family first bought a vacation
home back in the '4()s. MetropoUtan now operates
31
screens in the Palm Springs area,
which includes Palm Desert and Indio.
More recent efforts at the company have
involved expansion via joint ventures in Cali-
Perhaps
inspired by his father's longtime
involvement in Democratic poUtics,
Corwin took a B.A. in poUtical science
at Wesleyan University. He served as the
Southern California chairman of the Democratic
Party ftom 1977 to 1978 but, though he
remains an avid behind-the-scenes supporter
of all things Democratic and his office includes
photos of himself and his wife Toni hobnobbing
with President Clinton, he long ago realized
his family life and family business were
more important to him than elective office.
His father was also the inspiration for his
business tactics and demeanor. Corwin is
proud ofreceiving the 1 997 Pioneer of the Year

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Award from the Foundation of Motion Picture
Pioneers, an honor his dad had also earned
decades back. "He said, 'Don't be afraid of
making mistakes, and remember that your reputation
is the most important thing you have,'"
Corwin says. "I don't think of it as a business.
The bottom Une is not the money part. Of
course it's important that my family is comfortable,
but making a difference is what's
really important. It's important to give back
that's what my father and mother taught me,
and that's what I believe."
He admits, however, that as the exhibition
landscape changes with circuits acquiring circuits
"it's tougher and tougher for a small
family business not to be swept up in merger
mania." Yet Metropolitan's head has resisted
the temptation to sell out for many reasons, the
most important being that one of his two sons,
David, 28, who joined the company in 1996,
"truly loves the business. He's so enamored of
it that he excites me with his enthusiasm."
Corwin screens upcoming releases for the
company staff and himself every Wednesday
in a 32-seat screening room located in the
oifice building on Third Street that Metropolitan
has occupied for 25 years. (A sign the
family theme extends beyond his home,
Corwin's assistant Jill Cowan has worked with
him almost all that time.)
As he makes his way along the corridor to
take an elevator to this plush red theatre,
Corwin provides further details on the family,
movie, political, civic, charity and sports memorabilia
filling almost all the available wall
space. Many a baseball item is up there, be-
cause he's a limited partner in both the major
league San Diego Padres and the Anaheim
Angels Class A team in Lake Elsinore.
His movements reveal the effects of multiple
sclerosis on his lower body, but Corwin
says he feels lucky to have been spared the
more virulent crippling that has attacked sc
many of the people he meets through his work
with national and regional MS charities.
"It's important
to give hack—
that's what my
father and mother
taught me, and
that's what
I believe."
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The seats in the screening room rock but
don't have cupholders. But Corwin is certainly
concessions-conscious when it comes to the
paying public, having overseen the launch in
the 1 970s of Metropolitan Concessions Industries,
which has grown to become what Corwin
calls the largest concession and food distributor
to West Coast theatres. The unit also provides
cleaning and sanitary supplies.
"We realized that we had to buy concessions
ftum someone, so we might as well buy them
from ourselves," says Corwin, proclaiming
himself just a "popcorn and Pepsi" consumer.
"We have all that other stuff, but when you cut
right through it's the popcorn and Pepsi that
counts, although you've still got to give them
all the choices." To aid the ancillary bottom
line. Metropolitan has engaged National Cinema
Network for onscreen slide advertising.
Corwin is pleased with recent sight and
sound innovations, and he likes such niceties
as armrests that Uft up to allow for date-night
closeness. And he believes that exhibitors'
concerted effort to clean theatres between
shows pays audience-satisfaction dividends.
But he thinks there are still ways to improve.
"People hate hnes," Corwin says. "The industry
has to figure out better ways to prevent
that." Possible answers to the problem, he
thinks, could be the use of credit cards and the
simultaneous pick-up of ticket
and concessions
at the boxoffice. On its end. Metropolitan
works closely with MovieFone for advance
schedule information and ticket sales.
Corwin resists Hollywood's trend toward
three-hour movies, which could continue due
to 'Titanic's" returns. If the program is longer,
he'd prefer to see it enhanced with one-reelers—^like
the Pete Smith slice-of-life observations
he loved growing up—and with cla.ssic
cartooas, starring the likes of Donald Duck.
"But we don't make 'em, we just show
'em," Corwin says. "We have no control over
the film. For our clients—and I like that word
betterthan 'customers'—all we can do to make
a difference lies in our people and .service.
"We want to make the clients feel our theatre
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INDEPENDENTEXHIBITION SHOWCASE
SMALL-TOWNHOSPTTAUTY
DRAWS PATRONS TO THE PLAZA
The Plaza Theater in Carpinteria, Calif.,
Offers Service With a Difference
by Cathy Thompson-Georges
operate it briefly and then sell it to someone
OPENING NIGHT: Nusrat and Zahid Sadiq welcomed their first patrons
to tt)e Plaza Theater on Jan. 15. 1993.
the early '90s, things looked grim for film
Inbuffs in the sunny coastal community of
Carpinteria, Calif. The only moviehouse in
town was sinking fast, showing second-rate
films and threatening to close its doors. The
only alternative for residents of the small oceanfront
town was a trip into metropolitan Santa
Barbara to visit a theatre there.
Today, the lone theatre operating in Carpinteria
is back in the black. The 200-seat,
single-.screen Plaza Theater is showing the
cream of the Hollywood crop and pax)viding a
neighborhood meeting place for the town's
13,000 inhabitants. Thanks to owner Zahid
Sadiq. an historical slice of Carpinteria has a
new lease on life.
The theatre first opened for basiness 70
years ago, in 1928, as the Alcazar Theatre,
complete with a ballroom and the facilities to
show the newfangled "talkies." During the
theatre's glory days it hosted magic shows, live
singers and community theatre, in addition to
screening the latest films. But by the '70s, it
had begun to slide into decrepitude, after a
number of changes of name and ownership.
If customers turn up
as a movie is starting,
the concession staff bring
their drinks and snacks
directly to their seats.
The iiiierior was not being maintained property
and the quality of the films being bcxiked was
slipping. It was facing closure in 1993.
Then Sadiq came along. The Pakislan-bom
real estate agent had no prior theatre experience.
He purchased the (heiitre intending to
else, but as he says, "I Uked it and I kept it."
Today, five years later, the Plaza is turning a
modest profit.
What made the difference? Just cleaning up
the theatre helped. When Sadiq took over, he
says, "It was in pretty bad shape, and that was
why the business was going down. A lot of
people had stopped going because it always
smelled pretty bad." He blames the use of
harsh industrial cleansers in the auditorium: "It
smelled like a clinic or something in there." A
switch to less pungent cleansers, a thorough
clean-up of the interior, and the addition of
some decorative murals on the pillars by the
screen gave the Plaza a low-cost facelift. Replacing
the broken and dilapidated seating
helped as well. The exterior of the theatre, with
its historic '20s balconied facade, has been left
intact. The walls still sport decorative balconies,
and the original panelling remains in the
lobby. And Sadiq decided not to split the large
auditorium up for a twinplex. The overall effect
was to spruce the theatre up without diluting
its '20s charm.
The clean-up was a good start but, according
to Sadiq, what really turned the Plaza around
was personal attention to detail and showing
customers that the management cared. The
Plaza offers a number of amenities to its faithful
clientele that they aren't likely to get elsewhere.
For one, Sadiq personally says "thank
you" and "good night" toevery patron. "I think
that [helps people to see that I'm] not an outof-town
owner who's running the theatre from
a distance and doesn't care," says Sadiq.
The theatre offers another service that differentiates
it irom the competition. If customers
turn up just as a movie is starting, the
concession staff will take their orders and
money as they hurry by and bring their drinks
and snacks directly to their seats so they don't
have to miss the beginning of the show.
Also helping to make the Plaza profitable
again is Sadiq's ptilicy of btxiking movies in
their third or fourth week of relea,se. instead of
eight or nine weeks into their mn as had been
the theatre's old practice. The theatre now
oflFers a mix of family-friendly PG or PG-13

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films, plus some "borderline art movies"
which draw a more sophisticated crowd.
Although the movies screened are relatively
new (intennediate run), ticket prices have remained
fairly low. at $5 for any seat, any time.
Sadiq has also introduced a concession stand
innovation which is popular with budgetminded
customers: jars of candy priced at 50
cents apiece. The candy particularly appeals to
kids, because "it gives them a little clout to buy
things they otherwise wouldn't," explains
Sadiq. "They sometimes don't have that much
money to spend after getting into the movie."
He says customers will even buy candy on
their way out of the theatre after a show
because the price is comparable to a supermarket
or convenience store. Of course, the
two rea.sons: one, I don't like them; and two, I
don't want to have big competitors looking
down at me and taking over the business," he
says. "If you are in smaller towns, distanced
iiom the big developers and the big cities, then
I think there is less chance that someone will
come and gobble you up." He is now considering
expanding his theatre holdings into other
small communities.
It's clear that the Plaza's patrons appreciate
its local orientation as well. "I have people who
come and see the movie a second time just
because they like to come here," says Sadiq. "I
have had people go and see Titanic' in the big
ArUngton [in Santa Barbara] with all the digital
sound and everything else, and then they come
here to see it because they feel [the Plaza] is
more to their liking—the place, the atmosphere
and the people."
Keeping it small is not without its difficulties.
Sadiq says that it's getting harder and
harder to obtain prints of desirable releases,
now that multiplexes are snapping up four
or five prints of the same film for multiple
showings. This is something that he thinks
small theatre owners should band together
to protest. "One piece of advice I have [for
independent theatres] is don't give up. Small
towns are small towns, and that's what is
great about them."
At 70 years old and still going strong, the
Plaza Theatre proves that small-town theatres
still have a lease on life, and that a night at the
movies can be a community social event.HH
"One piece of advice
I have for [independent
theatres] is don H give up.
Small towns are small
towns, and that's what is
great about them. "
traditional popcorn, soda and ice cream are
there as well.
Sadiq has been so successfiil with the Plaza
that he's been able to fund the construction of
a twin-screen theatre in Pahrump, Nev., a small
town about 15 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
The theatre—the only one in Pahrump
opened two years ago and is doing well.
The key to Sadiq's success, he believes, is
simple: sticking to the small towns. "I have no
desire to go into major metropohtan areas, for
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Favorite Concession Item:
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where you build a customer
base. That's how I
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COVER: Drive-ln Special
FIRST FEATURE:
1945 TO 1955
A Look Back at the Era in Which the Drive-In
Theatre Blossomed Across America
by Don and Susan Sanders
The
decade following the Second World
War was Uke no other time in the history
of America. Families were reunited.
Families were started. Employment was available,
and for the first time everyone went to
woric—not for the government or the war effort,
but for themselves. And they had money:
Money to buy houses, appliances, and radios.
They also had money to buy America's most
prized possessions carsl
The car was the ultimate expression of freedom,
and auto manufacturers operated around
the clock to keep up with the demand for new
cars. Highways became crowded as more people
were working, taking vacations, and going
on Sunday drives. Postwar prosperity nurtured
new enteiprises, and many found the overloaded
American road the perfect place to start
a new business
This article is
and take advantage of the
taken from the hardcover
book "The American Drive-ln
Movie Theatre, " published by Motorbooks
International, Osceolo, Wis.; the
price is $29. 95. Authors Don and Susan
Sanders may be reached via e-mail at
feedback@americandnvein.com, or hit
their www.americandrivein.com site.
traveling motorists. Souvenir shops, gas stations,
and drive-in restaurants were springing
to life everywhere, but the drive-in theatre
grew the most significantly.
Everyone enjoyed taking the moviegoing
experience outside. "Millions of the men and
women who were in the Armed Forces and to
whom outdoor life appeals, together with
many additional millions of factory and office
workers who are anxious to take their evening
entertainment out of doors in nature's own air
conditioning, are the people who desire to
enjoy their movies surrounded by good, clean,
fresh air which is untainted by the odors of
peanuts, garlic, onions, perspiration and other
man-made or created smells," wrote George
M. Peterson, a theatre owners' representative
during the postwar boom. "These persons prefer
to enjoy their movies in practically the same
privacy in which they enjoy reading the evening
newspaper in their own homes. These
persons are the nucleus of the comparatively
new branch of the picture industry which is
growing to undreamed-of proportions."
Before the onslaught of television, the drivein
theatre offered families and couples a private
in-home-style entertainment experience. This
meant great growth for the entertainment business,
and the drive-in theatre came out of
hibernation. No longer was it mom and pop
hanging a sheet in the tree on the back forty
and charging admission. The new theatres
were built to last. One individual who was
highly involved in the designing and building
of these theatres was S. Charles Lee. Lee had
been designing movie palaces since 1910, but
he quickly moved to designing elaborate outdoor
theatres with great attention to detail. He
would frequently combine a theatre's facade
with its marquee. This fusion helped create an
intricate billboard, which advertised the venue
as well as the movie playing. Another strategy
was to incorporate sharp angles and drastic
lines that gave the theatre a sense of movement.
All of these design techniques were intended
to attract the motoring public.
The focal point of any drive-in theatre is
the screen tower. Elaborate murals were
often painted on the side of the screen tower
that faced the highway. Most of the time,
these murals tied into the iconography of the
region. The Pike Drive-ln in Texas had a
cowboy whirling a neon lasso. The Circle,
near Baylor University, featured the school's
mascot, a bear, running through a stadium.
The Cowtown Drive-ln, located in a progressive
ranching community, featured a
huge steer looking out into the countryside.
The people commissioned to create these
murals went to great lengths to illustrate
some aspect of the community. And it
worked: Everyone was going to the drive-in.
Between 1946 and 1953, 2,976 drive-ias
were built. Because of the heavy publicity
surrounding this boom, the drive-in began to
receive various slang nicknames in newspapers
and n^de papers. Some of these names
included; 'fresh air exhibitors." "outdoorers,"
"open air operators," "underskyers,"
"rampitoriums," "mudholes," "cow pastures,"
and "under-the-stars emporiums." Nevertheless,
the nickname that would end up sticking
through the years was "ozoner."
GROWING PAINS
As the drive-in theatre gained in popularity
and number, it underwent continual change
and refinement to remain competitive. Owners
wanted to attract as many people as po.ssible;
and, after accomplishing that, they strove to

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provide a pleasant experience so those same
people would come again. Some difficulties
were resolved; others were not.
One problem that continually plagued the
ozoner was plain and simple: bugs. Many
theatres were located
in areas that were
pleasant to the eye but
much too hospitable
to mosquitoes and
other pestiferous insects.
One solution
was the Car Net, a thin
scrim that fit over the
frame of the window.
This allowed the
driver to roll down the
window yet not be attacked
by hungry
bugs. The manufacturer
found that this
type of item sold best
with families that had
a sleeping tot in the
back seat. Unfortunately,
the Car Net
didn't solve the problem,
so theatre owners
turned to chemicals.
Many would hire pilots
to fumigate the
theatre, much like
farmers dust crop
fields. However, a
more common and
perhaps less expensive
method incorporated fogging trucks. A
theatre owner might hire "fogging and dusting"
services to come in to spray the lot
regular intervals of about 10 days. The trucks
sprayed an oil-based compound called DDT.
If a family so wished, they could even have the
entire car fumigated with the pesticide. Surprisingly,
moviegoers were offended by the
strong kerosene-like smell of the
spray, not the chemical DDT itself.
The carcinogenic poison was officially
banned by the United States government
in 1972, and swatting
mosquitoes is still an ongoing tradition
at any drive-in theatre.
After Worid War n, theatre owners
were still facing the problem of providing
patrons with quaUty sound
without offending nearby neighbors.
Complaints were putting theatre
owners underpressure and, as aresult,
various methods were devised to help
cut down excess sound. An early attempt,
best illustrated be the San-Val
Drive-In, in Burbank, Calif., provided
each car with a rudimentary speaker
that sat right in front of the car. In
addition, each row of speakers could
be turned on or off, allowing the theatre
to shut down the rows not used on a slow
night and thus reducing the subsequent noise
pollution. These sjjeakers were all mastered by
one volume control, which was located in the
projection booth. A signal system was devised
between the ticket girl and the projection room
at
whereby, if a truck or train passed by and
drowned out the soundtrack, the ticket girl
could alert the projectionist to turn up the
volume. Cutting-edge technology like this
would cost an owner about $5,000.
DOWNS SYNDROME: Architect Jack Vogel was famed for tiis gorgeous designs.
Shown liere is his rendering of the Downs Drive-In in Cleveland (Mark Biaiek collection)
Another sonic system, developed by
W.G. Underwood, who co-owned a string
of ozoners in Texas, went by the name of
Sound in the Ground. In this case, patrons
pulled their car over a speaker planted in the
earth. A metal grate, much like a manhole
cover, protected the speaker, which rumbled
the sound up through the floorboards.
KINDRED SPIRITS: On a cool night in 1955, children sit outside their
parents' carat the Bay-Shore Sunrise (Sam Falk/New York Times).
Again, this system had no volume control
and simply did not solve the problem.
Itwasn'tuntil 1946 that RCA introduced the
drive-in speaker as we know it today. Although
the company develof)ed the system in 1941,
the war put a delay on the construction of new
drive-ins and the production of such a device.
These small speaker boxes would pump the
tinny sound right into one's automobile, and
the volume of each box could be controlled
separately, putting a halt to the complaints of
nearby neighbors losing
sleep.
Along with the ap>plication
of improved
sound technology
came the various promotions
for which the
drive-in is known.
Ozoners tried to attract
more moms by
offering "laundrywhile-you-wait."
In
Memphis, Tenn., Barney
Woolner put together
one such service.
Here, a housewife
could give her
laundry to an attendant
on entering the
drive-in and pick it
up—laundered and
dried—when the film
was over. Bottle
warmers were added
so parents could tend
to the young fries
while enjoying the
movie. At the Westbury
Drive-In Theatre
in Nassau County,
Long Island, N.Y., a
suf)ervised nursery was provided, and a telephone
service—for the professionally minded
businessman of the day—was available.
Other events and contests at the Westbury
included 25-cent pony rides, baby parades,
slipper kicking, pie throwing, beautiftil child
pageants, and talent
shows. Many of these
activities took place between the bottom ofthe
screen and the front row of cars.
Awards — generally tickets to next
week's show—were given away as
prizes. Paul Petersen, a theatre executive,
explained the logic behind such
promotions by saying,
"Unlike the
conventional theatre, which primarily
sells its screen attraction, drive-in theatre
advertising must concentrate on
the full evening's inexpensive entertainment
it offers to the entire family,
of which movies are only a part."
Advertisements would frequently
offerflowers forthe ladies or coupons
for a free gallon of gasoline. Local
service stations would often participate
and donate the gasoUne, knowing
very well that the customers
would continue to fiU up after using
the coupon. Oftentimes the patrons
would purchase oil or some type of
snack while their cars were being refueled. The
stations couldn't really lose money.
Theatre owners offered all kinds of offbeat
services and extravaganzas. Everything from
jump-starting cars, fireworks shows, live
music, dancing, and car stunts, to dancing

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monkeys and boxing matches were all held
within the property lines of the drive-in. It was
the sizzle that sold tickets at the drive-ins, not
the movies they played.
THE LURE OF THE UGHTS
One thing early architects did to attract patrons
was to incorporate extravagant neon artwork
into drive-in murals. As mentioned
trimmed with bright swirls of neon and
mazdas, are converted into imposing facades.
Marquee-like structures, towers, panels,
and all sorts of ingeniously designed
lighting mounts serve as attention-getters
and distinctive signatures."
Not only did the beautiful neon attract patrons
from across the state, but it made an
attempt to represent cultures from across the
manner is a factor of considerable import in the
phenomenal growth of the drive-in from a roadside
curiosity to a vital component of the entertainment
industry in a span of two decades."
Architect Jack Corgan recalls, "We had to
worry about vandals getting to the neon. . .so we
wanted to put it high enough so no one could
easily reach it." As far as vandals were concerned,
this worked. (However, as the years
AUTO DELIGHT: This time-exposure photograph shows a theatre lot that offered open-air bench seating upfront (A.J. Roquevert collection).
previously, murals became a way in
which
drive-ins could connect with their customers.
They would reflect the community or region.
However, many theatres soon began to detail
or outline portions of these murals with
neon lacing. The idea was to attract
impulse customers — patrons
who would otherwise not
stop at the drive-in. Because
ozoners were typically located
along highways on the outskirts
of town, owners would attract
passing motorists with brilliantly
lit neon. The bright colors would
stand out against the twilight sky
and offer a cheerful invitation to
travelers. Companies such as
Poblocki and Sons, Wagner Sign.
Texas Neon Sign, and Federal
Sign were only a few of the businesses
that were commissioned
to create this artwork.
Not surprisingly, the drive-in
indastry widely supported the ase
of such elaborate neon. "Being a
branch of show business, it is important
that the theatres SHOW
the public what they have to
offer," explained a 1956 Theatre
Owners Guide. "The most direct method of
achieving this is by the use of marquees. Backs
of screen towers, painted with murals or
nation. "The imaginatively designed attraction
boards and novel lighting displays of the outdoor
theatres have transplanted bits of Times
Square glamour along highways winding fixim
the historical New England countryside
GLOW SHOW: An ozonerin Pueblo, Colo., beckons to roadway passersby
with its theatrically themed neon design (Steve Fitch collection).
through the waving Kansas wheatfields to the
Pacific. The showman's touch in dressing up
the front of the outdoor theatre in an inviting
passed, parts of these signs would bum out or
break, giving the dieatres a broken-down look.
And maintenance was expensive. Trying to
preserve their images, theatres would strip
down the neon and simply repaint the back of
the tower. Occasionally, the
mural would be repainted, but for
the most part these renovations
took place in tlie late 196()s, well
after the fascination with outdoor
theatres had passed. Most owners
would simply strip the neon and
paint a solid color on the back of
the tower. If any na>n was salvaged,
it would be the nameofthe
theatre, which would still light up
across the top of tlie screen.)
Construction of new theatres
continued. Architects like Jack
Vogel and S. Charles Lee were
gainfully employed designing
new drive-ins. At the same time,
between 1948 and 1954, the
number of indoor theatres declined
by more than 1.30.000
screens. Everyone loved the ozoner.
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One entrepreneur, hoping to cash in on
the popularity of the outdoor theatre,
even went so far as to redesign the drivein.
hi his theatre, each car had its own
screen. The concept, known as the Autoscope,
combined the
luxuries of the
outdoor movie theatre with television.
Although the owner even tried to change
the name to "Cinema 360" to sound more
elaborate, the Autoscope never reached
the popularity of the bigger, more traditional
drive-in screen.
Ignoring the meek imitation, the true
drive-in marched on. Designs continued
to get more and more elaborate. No longer
was an old wooden screen tower enough.
Now, owners tried to give their theatres
themes. Some built them to look like
Southern homes; others were constructed
to resemble colonial mansions. Water
shows were installed in front of some
theatres with synchronized dancing water
fountains. The Gratiot Drive-hi in Detroit,
Mich., and the Kallet Drive-in in Syracuse,
N.Y., both featured huge waterfalls
on the back of the screen tower. Patrons
would come early to stand in front of the
screen tower and have the water cascade
down in front of them. The cool mist feh
good in the summer. It was the next best
thing to Niagara Falls—and without the
cost of an airplane ticket.
The drive-in theatre industry as a
whole was getting bigger by the day.
Although it had more muscle as an organized
effort than ever before, however,
it wasn't powerful enough to generate
any significant suppwrt from other industries
and government. As an example,
theatre owners once banded together to
lobby the large automakers. Their hope
was to persuade car manufacturers to halt
production of the tinted window, which
darkened the drive-in screen's image. In
addition, theatre owners wanted Detroit
to make the front windshield bigger, for
better drive-in viewing. Unfortunately,
both attempts were futile, but the very actions
of the theatre owners brought added
respectabiUty to the drive-in industry.
Business was booming. Owners were
pulling together with new ideas and concepts.
Plans were drawn up for various spinoffs.
One such concept was a two-screen,
800-car, indoor drive-in theatre resort. It was
to have giant ventilation blowers in the roof
to pull exhaust from the cars up and out of
the buildings. A two-level foyer around the
back of the theatre was to include a bowling
alley, miniature golf course, dancing floor,
and several restaurants. Other theatres were
designed around lakes where patrons could
dock their boats at giant marinas. They could
then sit in their boat and watch the movie
from the water. And various theatres were
built with indoor seating areas at the back of
the theatre. This allowed those who disliked
the automobile experience to relax in the
indoor theatre. In addition, it allowed the
drive-in to double as an indoor theatre
during the cold winter months.
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(Michael Witzel collection.)
Although watching a film from the
comfort of one's own car might sound
pleasurable on a cool summer night, it
was not so comfortable for those folks
in Southern states like Alabama, Louisiana,
and Florida. To remedy the
muggy nights, theatre owners came up
with various outdoor air-conditioning
systems. One early concept was an underground
central-air cooling device
built into the Lake Worth Drive-In in
Lake Worth, Fla. Here, a central airconditioning
system sat at the back of
the theatre lot. It operated during the
film and pumped cool air through asbestos
pipes that were laid underground
much like the speaker wires for the
sound system. A hose, which protruded
from the ground, could then be hooked
to the driver's-side window to allow
cool air to flow into the automobile.
However, like most drive-in inventions,
the system did have a major glitch.
Because the tubing was laid underground,
mice, bugs, and other small critters
would frequently crawl inside the
coolant's asbestos pipes during the day.
When patrons turned on the air-conditioning
device, they more than likely had
a mouse or other small varmint blown
into their lap. Sure, it might sound like an
inconvenience, but it might have seemed a
small price to pay forthe luxury of air-conditioning
in the great outdoors.
With all these grand themes, the drive-in
theatres continued to profit and to bring in
larger and larger crowds. But they weren't
all families anymore.
The mid-1950s saw the emergence of
the independent teenager. The young shavers
who had attended the drive-in with their
family in the late 1940s now drove to the
drive-in with their boyfriends or
girifriends. It was the first time teenagers
had affluence. They had money, they had
cars, and they wanted to do something.
Why not go to a movie in your car?
The ozoner offered teens a place to meet
and hang out. to get away from their parents.
The actual movie wasn't so important.
"It was the act of getting to the drive-in,"
explains author Michael Wallis. "[It was]
getting on a clean T-shirt and clean jeans
for the night— you've got the car washed,
it's all cleaned up, and the radio's all tuned
in. Everything's set.
'Then you go out and maybe you make a
pa.ss through the Dog ' n' Suds or the Steak '
n'
Shake, and you're seen and you have to be seen
and you kxik for the scosh position up tlien;. I
niciui, a lot of tliat 'American Grafiiti" stutf is
true." Of course, then there were those little
meetings tliroughoui tlie night under the yellow
neon of the snack bar. Who was with
who—? Who wore what? The gossip was
always moK important than the show.
Back then, everyone went: families,
dates, kids, and parents. The drive-in scene
was on fire!
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and also arranged for a series of showings across
the country wiiich allowed the artist some
measure ofrecognition before he died in 1 988.
Katten and his wife Judith have donated 41 of
their posters to the Accdemy, the rest being offered
for sale through New York's Hirschl &
Adler Gallaies at a range ofprices up to $ 1 0,000.
The posters in the collection, added to by
Academy purchases, are part of the Academy
Library's Charles M. Powell Repository of
Motion Picture Marketing Material, named
after the late motion picture executive and
Academy board member. Among the collection
is a particularly striking Madalena poster
ofthe German actor Emil Jannings, which was
donated by Powell's widow Jane. It depicts the
stem-faced actor, a trickle of blood running
down his face, in the 1928 movie "The Last
Command," for which Jannings won the first
ever Best Actor Oscar. Like all of Madalena's
posters—^work for which he was paid about
$50 a week—this compelling image is created
with the dash and flair of immediacy which
somehow highlights the essential lasting truth
of character or storyline.
The artist, bom in Italy in 1902, but soon after
brought to America by fosterparents, said, "I'd
try to get the momentum of the picture." He
also talked in the few interviews he gave—the
late Charles Kuralt is among those who featured
him on his CBS television newsmagazine—about
letting "the color of the paper be
in the piece."
So the art boards, be they simple beige or
subtle purple, are incixporated into character,
scenery,
and costumes with expert graphic
artist skill. Some particularly good use of background
and brash-stroke can be seen in the
lattice-work clothing on W.C. Fields and Carol
Dempster in the circus clown tale "Sally of the
Sawdu.st," and in a portrait of a hoydenish
Gloria Swanson in cloth cap, a drooping cigarette
in her lips, in "The Humming Bird."
His overlaid colors often have a startling,
exceptional brilliance. As Ellen Harrington,
Special Events and Exhibitions Coordinator
for the Academy, points out, he particularly
favored "a combination of chartreuse green
and citrus orange." "Colors most likely to
cause schizophrenia in mental patients," jokes
Linda Mehr, Director of the Academy's Margaret
Herrick Library on La Cienega Boulevard,
where the posters are vaulted. Clearly, as
Mehr notes, Madalena was well ahead of the
curve in understanding the use ofeye-catching,
head-tuming, screaming psychedelic colors
which market research proves get attention,
good or bad.
Madalena 's posters
depict an era when the
silence and the black-andwhite
image allowed the
audience 's imagination
much more free rein than
the literal explicitness
of today.
Stars' faces were sometimes flesh-toned
but often color fantasied for heightened effect.
Rudolph Valentino, in his last film, "Son of the
Sheik," is depicted with a grey face, set off by
orange touches to his robe against a black
background. Douglas Fairbanks, in the 1925
swashbuckler "Don Q, Son ofZorro," is greenfaced
on a purple background, again highlighted
with orange. Sometimes Madalena
would paint the female stars with the bold
extravagance of a make-up artist; sometimes
he would go for surprising subtlety.
"Look—he's painted in her freckles," Anne
Coco, who is cataloguing all the Academy's
collection of more than 1 8,0(X) movie posters,
points out as she shpws off Madalena's image
ot Bebe Daniels in a movie titled "His
Children's Children," a poster which includes
a much lengthier ad line than Madalena usually
added: 'Too Much Money. Is that what's
wrong with the children of today?"
In contrast among the posters, some of
which show signs of the wet and warp from
the time in the alley, is a much more Art Deco
style depiction of the flamboyant Pola Negri,
her eye sockets deep purple, her hair jet black,
her surroundings ornamented by those citrus
colors. Madalena's jxjsters recapture that period
when the stars had the sort of looks that
seized and held attention. They also depict an
era when the silence and the black and white
image, though augmented by subtitles and in
house orchestration, allowaJ the audience's
imagination much more free rein than the literal
explicitness of today.
Madalena painted six or seven difference
images for each movie and the Academy owns
more than one image fix)m some films, including
two from the 1924 railroad western "The
Iron Horse." directed by John Ford, and three
fk)m Colleen Moore's 1 924 "So Big," a romantic
drama based on an Edna Ferber's saga (which
was later remade in 1932 with Barbara
Stanwyck and again in 1953 with J;ine Wyman).
Although the Academy has not crosschecked,
it is likely that many of the films for
which Madalena painted posters no longer
exist, the estimate being that four out of five of
the movies produced in the cinema's early
years have been lost. But these posters remain,
fascinating not just as a record of a forgotten
era but for their own unique iirtistry, complete
with foibles and even mistakes in title spelling,
particularly with the placement of apostrophes.
While the .studios produced po.sters with
standard images and written copy, Madalena
stepped beyond those boundaries to create
something much more magical and alluring,
then and now.

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Distributors
Of Theatrical Motion Pictures (Includes Major Studios)
This chapter offers comprehensive rosters for ail major and independent film
distributors in North America. As in our other BUYERS DIRECTORY sections,
executive names, titles and phone numbers have been listed to assist you
in locating the contact you need. This chapter has been arranged
alphabetically by distributor for your convenience.
A
AQUARIUS RELEASING
321 West 44th Street
New York, NY 10036
212-245-8530, 212-245-8781; Fax:
212-397-7701
Presider\t, Terry Levene
Dir. of Acquisitions, Sarai Berenstein
NY Branch Mgr., Eddie Huie
Advertising, Wayne Wiel
Ancillary Dept., Lou Steddman
Telvision Syndication, Bruce
Grossbard
General/Art/Foreign/Specialized
ARROW RELEASING
135 W. 50th Street, Suite 1925
New York, NY 10020
212-258-2200; Fax: 212-245-1252
President, Dennis Friedland
Natl. Sales Mgr., Steve Fagan
E-MAIL: arrow@arrowfilms.com
URL: http: / /www.arrowfilms.com
General/Art/Foreign
ARTIFICIAL EYE FILM CO.
80 Fifth Ave., Suite 1101
New York, NY 10011
212-255-1922; Fax: 212-255-9334
Head of Distributior\, Tracey Errico
ARTISAN ENTERTAINMENT
(Formerl/ Lire Bntertalnment)
2700 Colorado Ave., 2nd Floor
Santa Monica, CA 90404
310-255-3716 ; Fax: 310-255-3730
Exec. VP Dom. Theatrical Distrib:
Steve Rothenberg
WESTERN BRANCH
2700 Colorado Ave., 2nd Floor
SanU Monica, CA 90404; Fax:
310-255-3740
Div. Manager: David Spitz
Dis(. Manager: Larry McCourt
SOUTHERN BRANCH
6060 North Central Expwy., Ste. 662
Dallas, TX 75206
214-692-0800
Fax 214-692-1110
Division Manager: Terry Graham
District Manager: Travis Blair
EASTERN/CENTRAL BRANCH
157 Chambers St., 12th Floor
New York, NY 10007; Fax:
212-577-2890
Eastern Div. Mgr.: John Gruenberg
Central Div. Mgr.: Frank Patterson
General/Specialized
ARTISTIC LICENSE
1416 45th Street, P.O. Box 19407
Sacramento, CA 95819
916-456-6046; Fax: 916-456-1534
Chairman, Tom Naygrow
E-MAIL: notso@earthlink.net
Art/Foreign/Specialized
ASA COMMUNICATIONS
24 Mt. View Circle
Amherst, MA 01002
413-256-8595; Fax: 413-256-8595
President, David Mazor
AUDIO CINE FILMS
8462 Sherbrooke St. East
Montreal, Quebec, HIL 1B2
514-493-8887, 800-289-8887; Fax:
514-493-9058
President, Benoit Lachance
Vice President, Salvatore Gallo
Treasurer: Michel Tetrault
E-MAIL: sgallo@film.com
URL: www.acf-film.com
Exclusive non-theatrical distributor.
BV. MGM/UA, Universal
B
BERKSHIRE LITCHFIELD
FILMS
P.O. Box 590
Great Barrington, MA 01230
413-528-3164
President, Albert M. Schwartz
Art/Forelgn/Speclallzed
BEVERLY PICTURES
1300 Summit Ridge Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
310-550-8581, 310-858-8213
President, Herbert Bregstein
Art/Foreign/Specialized
BRIGHT STAR FILMS
100 Yongc Street, Suite 1205
Toronto Ontario, M5C 2WI
416-362-5890; Fax: 416-362-1218
Executive Director, Orval Fruitman
General/Art/Foreign/Specialized
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CAPITOL ENTERTAINMENT
6205 Adelaide Drive
Bethesda, MD 20817
301-564-9700; Fax: 301-564-0797
President, Ted Goldberg
VP/Marketing & Sales, Ronnie
Goldberg
E-MAIL: ted@capitolent.com
URL: www.capitolent.com
Art/Foreign/Specialized
CHARLES CHAPLIN
ENTERPRISES
318 Hillhurst Blvd.
Toronto, Ontario, M6B 1N2
416-781-0131, 416-781-5600; Fax:
416-781-0834
CEO-President, Charles S. Chaplin
General/Adult/Art/Forelgn/Speciallzed
CIFEX CORP.
1 Peconic Hills Court
Southampton, NY 11968
516-283-9454, 516-283-4795; Fax;
516-283-4210
President, Gerald J.
Rappoport
General/Art/Forelgn/Specialiad
THE CINEMA GUILD
1697 Broadw.iy, #506
New York, NY 10019
212-246-5522; Fax: 212-246-5525
Co-Chairman, Philip Hobel
Co-Chairman, Mary-Ann Hobel
Distribution General Manager, Gary
Crowdus
E-MAIL: thecinemaG@aol.com
URL: www.cinemaguild.com/
cinemaguild
General/Art/Foreign/Specialized
CINEMA PARALLEL
601 River Kd.
Sykesville,MD 21784
410-442-1752; Fax: 410-442-1768
President, Robert Tregenza
E-MAIL: office@cinemaparallel.com
URL: www.cinemaparallel.com
Art/Foreign/Specialized
CINEMA VILLAGE FEATURES
594 Broadway, Suite 908
New York, NY 10012
212-431-5119; Fax: 212-219-1877
Managing Dir., Ed Arentz
E-MAIL: cinvil@earthlink.net
Art/Forelgn/Specialized/Animation
CINETEL FILMS
8255 Sunset l!lvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90046
213-654-4000; Fax: 213-650-6400
President/CEO, Paul Hertzberg
Executive VP, Lisa Harisen
Chief Financial Officer, Nick Goren
Consultant, Milt Goldstein
VP Business Affairs, Benjamin Rcd<
VP Creative Affairs, Catalaine Knel
General Release
CINEVISTA
2044 Prairie Avenue
Miami Beach, FL 33139-1515
305-532-3400; Fax: 305-532-0047
President, Rene Fuentes-Chao
VP,JohnR.Tilley
Susan Alvarez, Video Sales Dir.
E-MAIL: cinevista©msn.com
Art/Foreign/Specialized

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STUDIO EXHIBITOR RELATIONS
BUENA VISTA
HOME OFFICE:
350 S. Buena Vista St.
Burbank.CA 91521-1293
800-247-1887; FAX: 818-566-1050
Contacts: Nancy Klueter, Susan Levin
EASTERN:
212-735-5421; FAX: 212-735-5491
Contact: Michael Ricciardi
CANADA:
800-263-2853 (Canada only);
416-964-9275; FAX: 416-964-8537
Contact: Tony Schittone
SOUTHEAST:
800-241-0045; FAX; 770-246-8949
Contact: Chuck Cromer
MIDWEST:
800-323-0134; 847-384-3955
FAX: 847-384-3993
Contact: Mike VVozny
SOUTHWEST:
800-527-6851;214-363-9494
FAX: 214-363-9967
Contact: J.T. Capps
WESTERN:
800-247-3419; FAX: 818-972-9543
Contacts: Meiko Just, Christina Nedelec
DREAMWORKS
HOME OFFICE;
16030 Ventura Blvd., Fourth Floor
Encino, CA 91436; FAX: 818-733-7775
Contacts: Pat Gonzales, 818-733-7755;
Juliet Fang, South, 818-733-7757; Eric
Tabak, Western, 818-733-7758; Shawnie
Bilic, Eastern, 212-588-6220; Craig
Elliott, Central, 818-733-7771
FOX
P.O. Box 900 #89-351
Beverly Hills, CA 90213
310-F6X-3295; FAX: 310-FOX-3823
Contacts; Branden Miller, Michelle Baert
Fox Searchlight: Shannon Simpson,
310-FOX-5707; FAX: 310-FOX-3823
MGM/UA
HOME OFFICE:
2500 Broadway St., Suite 4127
Santa Monica, CA 90404-3061
310-449-3331; FAX: 310-449-3008
Contacts: Dax Mark, 310-449-3331; Joe
Whitmore, 310-449-3328
TORONTO:
416-703-9579 xl04; FAX 416-504-3821
Contact: Marisa Contardi
EAST/CENTRAL:
212-708-0391; FAX; 212-245-1481
Contact: Ira Miller
SOUTHAVEST:
310-444-1624; FAX 310-444-1698
Contact; Debbie Lasater
MIRAMAX
99 Hudson St., Ninth Floor
New York, NY 10013
212-965-4719; FAX: 212-965-4790
Contact: Jeff Goldman
NEWUNE
HOME OFFICE:
116 N. Robertson Blvd., L.A. 90048
FAX: 310-657-5263
Kristina Warner, 310-967-6913; Jennifer
Sandler, 310-967-6983
EASTERN: 21 2-649-4890
Contact: Anthony Laulette
SOUTHEAST: 770-952-0056
Contact; .Mike Simonds
SOUTHERN: 214-696-0755
NEW LINE (cont.)
Contact; Sharon Malczewski
CENTRAL: 214-696-0755
Contact: Kristi English
WESTERN: 818-380-7311
Contact; Mark Johnstone
PARAMOUNT
HOME OFFICE:
5555 Melrose Ave.
Marathon Bldg. 4112
Hollyivood,CA 90038
213-956-4836; FAX: 213-862-1054
Contacts: Mark Mulcahy, Steve Gorman
EASTERN:
212-654-7794; FAX 212-654-4722
Contacts; Joel Gajewski, Steve Barrett
SOUTHERN:
972-387-4400; FAX 972-701-8359
Contacts: Elvira Golden (xl06), Janice
Talbert(xl05)
MIDWEST/WEST:
800-285-3218; FAX 818-380-7853
Contacts; Bill Saugez (Midwest), Sue
Francis (West)
POLYGRAM
9333 Wilshire Blvd.
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Polygram Contact; Suzanne LeRoy
310-385-4061; FAX: 310-385-4006
Gramercy Contact: Krissy Gray
310-385-4451; FAX: 310-385-4404
SONY
10202 VV. Washington Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232
310-244-8008; FAX: 310-244-1361
Contacts: Ed Clegg, Ann Elizabeth Grotty
UNIVERSAL
HOME OFFICE:
100 Universal City Plaza
Universal City, CA 91608
Contacts; Steve Ellman, Tom Pepper
818-777-1768; FAX; 818-866-1481
Lisa Holland, 818-777-3817; FAX:
818-866-3356
EASTERN: 212-605-2783
Contact; Paul Francis
NEW ENGLAND/
CENTRAL: 617-426-8760
Contact; Jack Kenn
SOUTH/MIDWEST:
214-360-0022 x223
Contact; John Hail
WESTERN: 818-777-0111
Contact: Scott Carson
WARNER BROS.
HOME OFnCE:
4000 Warner Blvd.
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LTD./LAGOON VIDEO
P.O. Box 5730
Santa Monica, CA 90409
310-823-4024; Fax: 310-574-1950
President, Mike Kaplan
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FILMS OF INDIA
P.O. Box 48303
Los Angeles, CA 90048
213-383-9217
President, R.M. Bagai
Art/Foreign/Specialized
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Art/Foreign/Specialized
CLARK FILM CO.
1405 University Blvd. N
Jacksonville, FL 32211
904-744-4500; Fax: 904-745-0078
President, Belton Clark
Vice President, Troy Clark
General/Art/Foreign/Specialized
subdistributor
COBRA MEDIA
650 N. Bronson Ave.
HoUywood,CA 90004
213-466-3388
President, Herman Cohen
General/Art/Foreigr}
CONCORDE/NEW HORIZONS
5855 D Live Oak Parkway
Norcross, GA 30093
770-849-9910; Fax: 770-849-9773
President, David Rand
Natl. Print Controller, Lewis Owens
General/Adult/Art/Foreign/Specialized
COPRODUCERSCORP.
2670 N.E. 24th St.
Pompano Beach, FL 33064
954-781-2627; Fax: 954-781-2627
President, John F. Rickert
General Release
CREATIVE EXPOSURE
2236 Queen St. E.
M4E 1G2
Toronto Ontario,
416-690-0775; Fax: 416-690-0755
President, Tom Litvinskas
Consultant, Paul Ennis
Publicist, Carmelo Bordonaro
E-MAIL: gotcha@cycor.ca
Art/Foreign/Specialized
CREST FILM DISTRIBUTORS
116 N. Robertson Blvd. tWO.T
Los Angeles, CA 90048
310-652-8844; Fax: 310-652-5595
President, Jerry Persell
General/Art/Foreigrt/Specialized
CRITERION PICTURES
47 17 Cannery Place
Delta, BC V4K 3X8
800-663-0991 , 604-940-9540;
Fax: 604-940-9541
West. Branch Mgr., Carol Burgoyne
E-MAIL: cburgoyne©
media.criterionpic.com
General/Arl/Foreign/Specialized
CROWN INTERNATIONAL
H701 Wilshirc Blvd
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
310-657-6700; Fax: 310-657-4489
Pre»ident/CEO: Mark Tenser
Sr. VP Bus./Legal: ScoH Schwimer
VP Intl. Sales: Herb Fletcher
VP Finance/ Admin., Controller;
Willie De Leon
Dir. Pub. & Adv.: LiM Agay
Producer; Marilyn J.
Tenser
DOVE INTERNATIONAL
8955 Beverly Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90048
310-786-1600, 310-786-1647;
Fax; 310-246-6544
VP Sales & Acqu., Gene L. George
www.doveaudio.com/dove
Art/General/Foreign/Specialized
DREAMWORKS SKG
100 Universal Plaza
Building 477
Universal City, CA 91608
818-733-7000; Fax:818-733-6322
Principals: David Geffen, Jeffrey
Katzenberg, Steven Spielberg
Features: Laurie McDonald, Walter
Parkes
Ar\imation: Ron Rocha
Interactive: Glenn Entis
Consumer Products: Brad Globe
Publicity & Marketing: Terry Press
Distribution: Jim Tharp, Don Harris
Distrib. Ops.: Mark Christinsen
F
FILM FINDERS
718 Westboume Drive
West Hollywood, CA 90069
310-657-6397; Fax: 310-657-6608
President, Sydney Levine
Exec. VP, Peter Belsito
E-MAIL:
fiImfinders@compuserve.com
URL: www.filmfinders.com
FILM GALLERY PICTURES
2440 E. Tudor Road, Suite 120
Anchorage, AK 99507
907-562-0089; Fax: 907-561-3299
President/General Manager, Rand
Thonwley
E-MAIL:
filmgaIlery®compuserve.com
Art/Foreign/Specialized
FILMOPOLIS PICTURES
1 1300 W. Olympic Blvd., #625
Los Angeles, CA 90064
310-914-1776; Fax: 310-914-1777
CEO, Ray Kavandi
E-MAIL: polyfilm@aol.com
FILMS ENTERTAINMENT OF
PUERTO RICO
V.O. liox l(>()22
Monterey, CA 93942
408-393-0303, 800-538-5838; Fax:
408-393-0304
President, Kit Parker
Secty. /Treasurer, Lawrence Martin
E-MAIL: info©kitparker.com
FINE LINE FEATURES
888 7th Ave, 19th Floor
New York, NY 10106
212-649-4800; Fax 212-956-1942
WEST COAST
116 N.Robertson Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90048
310-854-5811; Fax 310-854-1824
President: Mike Ordesky
Exec VP, Fine Line Intl.: Camela
Galano
Sr. VP Distrib.: Steve Friedlander
Sr. VP Prod. & Acquis: Rachel
Horovitz
VP Publ. & Promos: Martin
Koltai-Levine
VP Advertising: Brian Caldwell
VP Creative Services: Tod Abrams
VP Coprod. & Acquis: Emma Clark
General/Art/Foreign/Specialized
FIRST LOOK PICTURES
8800 Sunset
Los Angeles, CA 90069
310-855-1199; Fax: 310-855-0152
Sr. VP of Distribution & Mktg., M.J.
Peckos
VP of Distribution, Dermis O'Connor
VP of Mktg. & Publ., Erica Potter
E-MAIL: mjpeckos@flp.com
URL: www.flp.com
Art/Foreign/Specialized
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GLOBAL PICTURES
4774 Melrose Ave.
Hollywood, CA 90029
213-665-5257; Fax: 213-665-6473
President, Harry Novak
Vice President, Carmen Novak
General Release
GRAMERCY PICTURES
9333WilshlieBl\d,
Beverly HiUs,CA 90210
310-385-4400; Fax: 310-385-4408
President: Russell Schwartz
Exec. VP Publicity: Claudia Gray
Exec. VP Marketing: Steve Flynn
Exec. VP Distribution; Paul
Rosenfeld
VP Field Pub. & Promo.: Adriene
Bowles
Parent Company: Polygram Filmed
Entertainment
GREYCAT FILMS
3829 Delaware Lane
Las Vegas, NV 89109
702-737-0670; Fax: 702-734-3628
Co-President, David Whitten
Co-President, Suzanne Bowers
Whitten
E-MAIL: greycatrelOmsn.com
Art/Foreign/Speclalized
HARRY NOVAK &
ASSOCIATES
4774 Melrose Ave.
Hollywood, CA 90029
213-665-5257; Fax: 213-665-6473
President, Harry Novak
VP, Carmen Novak
General Release
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IFEX INTERNATIONAL
1 Peconic Hills Court
Southampton, NY 11968
516-283-9454, 516-283-4795; Fax:
516-283-1210
President, Gerald J.
Rappoport
Art/Foreign/Specialized
IFM FILM ASSOCIATES
1541 N. Gardner St.
Los Angeles, CA 90046
213-874-4249; Fax: 213-874-2654
President, Antony I. Ginnane
Executive VP, Ann Lyons
Sales Exec., Anthony Lyons
E-MAIL: ifmfilm@aol.com
Art/Foreign/Specialized
IFM FILM ASSOCIATES
9 Heywood St., Caulfield North
Victoria 3161, Australia
61395717671; Fax: 61395713391
General/Art/Foreign/Specialized
IMAGE ORGANIZATION
9000SunM-t Bl\a.,Suito^>15
Los Angeles, CA 90069
310-278-8751 Fax: 310-278-3967
President: Lawrence Goebel
VP Int'l. Distrib.: Erik Saltzgaber
VP Tech. Ops.: Lee Matis
Sr. VP Creative Aff.: Clark Petersoi
Sr. VP Production: Noel A. Zanitsc
CFO: Carol Diesel-Allison
VP Contract Admin.: Adele
Yoshioka
Dir. Accounting: Misty White
VP Acquisitions: Cheri Turner
Dir. Worldwide Srvcs: Joan Lee
Smith
Mktg. Mgr.: Lisa Johnson
VP Creative Affairs: Ken Sanders
INDEPENDENT ARTISTS
P.O. Box 3020
Cherry Hill, NJ 08034
609-423-6990; Fax: 609-224-0224
President, John Burzichelli
General Release &
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400 Perrine Road
Old Bridge, NJ 08857
732-727-8500; Fax; 732-727-8881
Pres., Samuel M. Sherman
Chairman, Daniel Q. Kermis
Exec. VP, Jeffrey Hogue
VP, Linda S. Sherman
Dir. of Mktg., Stepharue H. Sherman
General Release/Art/Foreign
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JACOBS ENTERTAINMENT
£ 48 East 43rd St. 7th l-loor
. . J| New York, NY 10017
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212-986-7488; Fax; 212-986-2524
President, Jeffrey Jacobs
Art/Foreign/Specialized
JAGUAR PICTURES
P.O. Box 1075
Hollywood, CA 90078-1075
310-281-5516
President, Robert F. Slatzer
General Release
K
KINO INTERNATIONAL
333 West 3yth St., Suite 503
New York, NY 10018
212-629-6880; Fax; 212-714-0871
President, Donald Krim
General Manager, Gary Palmucci
E-MAIL; kinoint®infohouse
URL: www.kino.com
Art/Forelgn/Specialized
KIT PARKER FILMS
p. O. Box 16022
Monterey, CA 93942
408-393-0303, 800-538-5838;
Fax; 408-393-0304
President, Kit Parker
Manager, Sharon McKeown
E-MAIL; info@kitparker.com
URL: kitparker.com
General/Art/Foreign/Specialized
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LEGACY RELEASING
1800 N. Highland Ave., Suite 311
Hollywood, CA 90028
213461-3936; Fax: 213-461-5287
COO, Gene Irwin
President, Mark Borde
Gen. Sales Mgr., Paul Ripps
E-MAIL: legacy films.©aol.com
URL; legacyfilms.com
Geiwral/An/Foreign/Specialized
LEISURE TIME FEATURES
40 Worth St., Suite 709
New York, NY 10013
212-267-4501; Fax; 212-267-4501
President, Bruce Pavlow
Art/Foreign/Specialized
LIBERTY INTERNATIONAL
ENTERTAINMENT
2029 Century Park East, #1010
Los Angeles, CA 90067
310-203-4511, 310-479-6755; Fax;
310-203-4522
Chairman, Irv Holender
President, Randy Naft
General Release
LIONS GATE FILMS
U.S. Offices:
561 Broadway, Suite 12B
New York, NY 10012
212-996-4670; Fax: 212-944-2843
Sr. VP, Michael Paseomek
VP of US Distribution, Mark Urman
Canadian Offices:
2 Bloor St. West, Suite 1901
Toronto, Ontario, M4W3E2
416-944-0104; Fax: 416-944-2843
President, Jeff Sackman
CEO, Andre Link
Executive VP, Christian Larouche
3600 Boulevard Thimens
St. Laurent Quebec, H4R 1V6
514-342-2340; Fax: 514-342-1922
Art/Foreign/Speclalized
M
MANGA ENTERTAINMENT
727 North Hudson Street, Ste. 100
Chicago, IL 60610
312-751-0020; Fax: 312-751-2483
CEO, Marvin Gleicher
Gen. Mgr., Mike Egan
Natl. Dir. of Sales: Greg Forston
E-MAIL; manga@manga.com
URL: www.manga.com
Anime/Forelgn/Specialized
MARLIN MOTION PICTURES
211 WatlineAvp. Suite 202
Mississauga, Ontario, L4Z 1P3
905-890-1 500, 800-865-7617;
Fax: 905-890-6550
905-890-6550
President, John L. Taylor
Educational
MARVIN FILMS
2 1 Icit/ ri.ia'
Hicksville, NY 11801
516-931-3456; Fax: 516-931-3496
President, Marvin Friedlander
Generai/Art/Foreign/Speciallzed
MOP WORLDWIDE
1925 Century Park E., Suite 1700
Los Angeles, C A 90067
310-226-8300; Fax; 310-226-8350
CEO, Mark Damon
President, Dick Kiratsoulis
General/Adult/An/Foreign/Specialized
M.D. WAX/COURIER FILMS
1560 Broadwa)', Suite 706
New York, NY 10036
212-302-5360; Fax: 212-302-5364
President, Mort Wax
E-MAIL: Mortwax@woldnet.att.net,
Art/Foreign/Specialized
MEDALLION
ENTERTAINMENT
22309 Lanark St.
West Hills, CA 91304
818-992-6109; Fax: 818-883-7173
President, Mitchell A. Blum
E-MAIL: medallione@aol.com
General/Art/Foreign/Specialized
METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER
2500 Broadway Street
Santa Monica, CA 90404-3061
310-449-3000; Fax: 310-449-8750
Chairman/CEO: Frank G. Mancuso
Vice Chairman: A. Robert Pisano
Sr. Exec VP: William A. Jones
Sr. Exec. VP/CFO: Michael Corrigan
Sr. Exec. VP & Gen. Coimsel;
David G. Johnson
Exec. VP Distr. & Info Ser.;
Deborah Snyder
Exec. VP Fin. & Corp. Dev.:
Charles Cohen
Sr. VP Fin. Ops.: Daniel J. Rosett
MGM PICTURES
President: Michael Marcus
Exec. VP; Greg Foster
Exec. VP; David Ladd
VP Development; Elizabeth Carroll
Dir. Creative Affrs.: Kim Ciliberto
UNITED ARTISTS PICTURES
President; Lindsay Doran
Exec. VP Prod.: Rebecca
Pollack-Parker
Sr. VP Prod.: Jeff Kleeman
VP Prod. & Development:
James Middleton
Director, Development; Ricki Specter
PRODUCTION
Exec. VI' I'roduction: Robert Relyea
MGM ANIMATION
Sr. VI': J.iy I'ukuto
MGM/UA HOME
ENTERTAINMENT AND
CONSUMER PRODUCTS
Pres. ,ind CCXl: Richard B. Cohen
MGM/UA MUSIC
Exec. VP: Mike Sandoval
MGM/UA DISTRIBUTION
Pres. Worldwide Theatrical
Distribution: Larry Gleason
Exec. VP Distrib.: Andy Gruenberg
Sr. VP & Gen. Sales Mgr.: Erik Lomis
Sr. VP Sales Admin.: Jay Sands
VP Non-Theat. Sales: Jan Sirridge
MARKETING AND PUBLICITY
Pres, Woridwido Mktj;: Cimtv Rich
Sr. VP Creative Ad.: Randi Braun
Sr. VP Creative Ad.: Tom Kermedy
Sr. VP World Pub.:
Amanda Marashinsky
Sr. VP Media; Jeff Killingsworth
Exec. VP Worldwide Promos &
Corp. Sponsorships; Karen Sortito
VP Mktg Admin.; Charlene Perron
Exec. Dir. Exhib. Rel.;
Nancy Seidman
VI' Exhib Rel., East Coast: Ira Miller
INTERNATIONAL MARKETING
Exec Vl'inl'l Mist.d Mklg
Guy Laurence
VP Int'l Mktg; Randy Greenberg
BUSINESS AFFAIRS:
Consultant: Frank Davis
Exec. VP: Darcie Denkert
DIVISION OFFICES
DALLAS:
Three Forest Plaza
12221 Merit Drive, #1610
Dallas, TX 75251
214-387-1500; Fax: 214-419-6271
VP Southern Div. Mgr.; Mike Bislo
LOS ANGELES:
11111 Santa Monica Blvd., Third Fir.
Los Angeles, CA 90025
213-444-1600; Fax: 213-312-3372
VP Western Div. Mgr.: Joe Griffin
NEW YORK:
1350 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10019
212-708-0300; Fax: 212-245-1418
VP Eastern Div. Mgr.; Bill Lewis
VP Central Div. Mgr.: Tom Mihok
CANADA:
720 King Street West, Suite 611
Toronto, Ontario M5V 2T3
416-703-9579; Fax: 416-504-3821
VP Canada Gen. Mgr.: Don Popow
MILESTONE FILM & VIDEO
275 West 9nth St., Suite 28C
New York, NY 10025
212-865-7449; Fax: 212-222-8952
President, Amy Heller
Vice President, Dennis Doros
Fumiko Takagi, Intl. Sales
E-MAIL: milefilms@aol.com
Art/Foreign/Speciaiized
MIRAMAX FILMS
(A Oitision of the Walt Disney Company)
NEW YORK:
375 Greenwich
New York, NY 10013
212-941-3800; Fax: 212-941-3836
LOS ANGELES:
7966 Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90048
213-951-4200; Fax; 213-951-4218
Co-Chairmen: Robert &
Harvey Weinstein
General/Adult/An/Foreign/Specialized
MOTION INTERNATIONAL
33 YongoSt.,Suito 1020
Toronto Ontario, M5E 1S9
416-956-2000; Fax: 416-956-2020
VP, Distrib. & Mktg., Dan Lyon
Dir., Theatrical Distrib., Jim Murphy
VP, Intl. Sales & Quebec,
Jean Bureau
Dir. Theatrical Distrib. (Quebec),
Marie-France Godbout
General/Art/Foreign/Specialized
MOTION INTERNATIONAL
465McC.ill
Montreal Quebec, H2Y4A6
514-844-3542; Fax: 514-985-4461
President, Stephen Greenberg
VP, Distrb. & Mktg., Andre Paquette
VP, Intl. Sales, Jean Bureau
Dir., Theat. Dist., Jacqueline Morin
General Release
MOTION PICTURE
CORP. OF AMERICA
1401 Ocean Avenue 3rd FUxir
Santa Monica, CA 9(M01
310-319-4500; Fax: 310-319-9501
Co- President, Brad Krevoy
Co-President, Steve Stabler
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MOVIEWORLD
ENTERTAINMENT
1 1 7 Town & Country Village, #335
San Jose, CA 95128
408-294-6006; Fax: 408-294-0999
President, Howard L. Taormino
E-MAIL: www.moviefun.com
Cult & Classic 35mm theatrical
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NEW LATIN PICTURES, LLC
P.O. Box 16022
Monterey, CA 93942
408-393-0303, 800-538-5838;
Fax: 408-393-0304
President, Lawrence Martin
Secty. /Treasurer, Kit Parker
E-MAIL: info@newlatin.coin
URL: newlatin.com
NEW LINE CINEMA CORP.
(Also see Fine Line Features)
NEW YORK:
888 7th Ave., 20th Floor
New York, NY 10106
212-649-4900; Fax: 212-649-4966
LOS ANGELES:
116 N.Robertson Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90048
310-854-5811; Fax: 310-854-1824
Chairman & CEO: Robert Shaye
President & COO: Michael Lynne
CFO: Stephen Abramson
Sr. Exec. VP Bus. &
Legal Affairs: Ben ZiiJcin
Exec. VP Bus. Dev.: James Rosenthal
Exec. VP Bus. Aff.: Judd FurJc
Sr. VP Bus. Affairs: David Alper,
Sara Frith, Amy Gittleman,
Lori Silfen, Sonya Thompson,
Suzanne Rosencrans
VP Bus. Affairs: Erik Ellner, Virginia
Martino, Andrew Matthews
VP Business Devel.: Jane Williams
NEW LINE PRODUCTIONS
Chairman: Sara Risher
President: Michael De Luca
Sr. Exec. VP: Richard Saperstein
Exec. VP: Carla Fry, Lynn Harris
Sr, VP: Claire Rudnick
Polstein, Jay Stem
Sr. VP Prod.: Erik Holmberg,
Jody Levin
Sr. VP, East Coast Prod: Mark Tusk
Sr. VP, Production
Finance: Paul Prokop
VP, Prod. & Devel. East
Coast: Amy Henkels
VP, Post Prod.: Evan Edelist, Brent
Kaviar, Richard Keeley, Sara King
VP, Development: Donna
Langley, Brian Witten
VP Production: Leon Dudevoir
Exec. Dir, Creat. Affrs: Janis Chaskin
VP Feat'r Casting: Valerie McCaffrey
Director: Richard Brencr
Creative Executives: Carolyn
Manetti, Cindy Guidry
NEW LINE MARKETING AND
DISTRIBUTION
Prfsidrnt: Mitchell f ioUlm.m
NEW LINE DISTRIBUTION
Pres. Dom. Theal, Distr,: Al Shapircj
Sr. VP Sales Admin.: David Keith
Sr. VP West. Div.
Mgr.: Lawrence Levy
St. VP East. Div. Mgr.; Jonathan Beal
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VP Cent. Div. Mgr.:
Scott Huneryager
Sr. VP S. East Div.
Mgr.: Donald Osley
Sr. VP South'n Div.
Mgr.: John Trickett
VP Print Control: Gisela Corcoran
Dir of Print Control: Thomas Mertz
Asst. Print Controller: Sue Hill
NEW LINE THEATRICAL
MARKETING
President: Cheryl Boone Isaacs
Exec. VP Media/Co-op
Advertising: Diane Charbanic
Sr. VP Creative Ad.: Lori Drazen
Sr. VP, Publicity &
Promo: Frank Lomento
Sr. VP Co-op Ad.: Susan Russell
Sr. VP Fin. Admin.: Robert Kobus
Sr. VP Publicity: Mary K. Donovan
VP Field /Interact. Pub.: Elissa Greer
VP National Promotions: Mary Goss
VP Pub., West Coast: Mic Kramer
VP Natl. Promo., East
Coast: Dana Laufer
VP Photography: Helene Steel
VP Corporate Publicity: Steve Elzer
VP Creative Ad.,
Print: Tracy Weston
VP Creative Ad., Audio/
Visual: Tim Sommerfeld
Dir Spec. Events: Susan Kaplan
NEW LINE INTERNATIONAL
RELEASING
President: Rolf Mittweg
Exec. VP & European Supervisor:
Camela Galano
Sr. VP Sales & Adm.: Nestor Nieves
Sr. VP Fin. and Adm.: Robert Mott
VP Marketing: Teri Grochowski
VP Finance: David Burkhardt
VP Distribution: Ralpho Borgos
VP Intl. Home Video: Robert Remley
DIVISION OFFICES:
ATLANTA:
4501 Circle 75 Parkway
Atlanta, GA 30339
404-952-0056; Fax: 404-952-9152
Sr. VP So. East. Div.
Mgr.: Don Osley
DALLAS:
6060 N. Central Expressway
Dallas, TX 75206
214-696-0755; Fax: 214-360-9465
John Trickett: Sr. VP So. Div. Mgr.
Scott Huneryager: VP
Cent. Div. Mgr.
LOS ANGELES:
116 N. Robertson Blvd., 5th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90048
310-652-1600; Fax: 310-659-1453
Larry Levy: VP Western Div.
NEW YORK
888 7th Ave, 16th Floor
New York, NY 10106
212-469-4900; Fax: 212-956-1944
Jon Beal: Sr. VP East. Div. Mgr.
NOBLE PRODUCTIONS
1615 South Crest Ur.
Los Angeles, CA 90035-3315
310-552-2934; Fax: 310-552-3508
President, Ika Panajotovic
General Release
NORTHERN ARTS
ENTERTAINMENT
P.O. Box 763
Williamsburg, MA 010%
41 3-268-9301 , 413-268-9302;
Fax:413-268-9309
Chairman, John Lawrence Re
Chairman & CEO, David S. Mazor
Art/Forelgn/Speclallad
OCTOBER FILMS
(Parent Co.: Universal)
65 Bleecker St.
New York, NY 10012
212-539^000; Fax: 212-539-4099
Co-Managing Exec, Bingham Ray
Co-Managing Exec, Scott Greenstein
Co-Managing Exec, John Schmidt
VP Theatrical Distribution, Michael
Silberman
VP Publicity, Sara Eaton
URL: www.octoberfilms.com
E-MAIL: jcassidy@octoberfilms.com
General/Art/Foreign/Specialized
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PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL
ENTERPRISES
1133S. Riverside, Suite 1
Medford, OR 97501
541-779-0990; Fax: 541-779-8880
President, Arthur R. Dubs
VP, Sales/Acquisitions,
Am S. Wihtol
Secretary / Treasurer:
Barbara J.
Brown
Controller/Office Mgr., Andy Gough
General Release
PARAMOUNT PICTURES
(Subsidiary of Viacom Inc.)
Viacom Inc.
1515 Broadway
New York, NY 10036
212-258-6000
Paramount Pictures
5555 Melrose Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90038
213-956-5000
VIACOM INC.
Chairman: Sumner M. Redstone
Viacom Entertainment Group
Chairman: Jonathan Dolgen
Exec. VP: Thomas McGrath
VP: Richard Cooperstein
PARAMOUNT PICTURES
GROUP
Exec. VP Paramount Pictures:
William Bernstein
Exec. VP Chief Fin. and Admin.
Officer: Patrick Purcell
Sr. VP Planning: Mark Badagliacca
Sr. VP & Treasurer: Alan J. Bailey
Sr. VP Human Res.:
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VP Production Finance: Michael Hill
VP Creative Affairs: Brad Kessell
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Sr. VP Music Bus. Aff.: Kevin Koloff
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VP Sales - Nat. Accounts:
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VP Marketing (Canada): Greg Ferris
VP Motion Pic. Legal: Lyrm Flaisher
VP Legal: Alan B. Heppel
VP Credit & Title Adm.:
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VP Intellectual Prop.: Scott Martin
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Exec. VP Sales Ops.: Steve Rapaport
Sr. VP Ass't. Gen. Csl.: Paul Springei
Sr. VP Paramount
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VP South Div.: Royce Brimage
VP Eastern Division: Mike Share
VP Sales Admin.: John Hersker
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Pres. World. Mktng: Arthur Cohen
Exec. VP Nat'l Adv. /Promotion:
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Exec. VP Creative
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Sr. VP Int'l Marketing: Leslie Pound
Sr. VP/Media Dir.: Susan Wrenn
VP Mrkting Admin.:
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VP Promotions: Lisa Di Marzio
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Chairman; Kerry McCluggage
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EASTERN DIVISION
1633 Broadway
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Boston/New Haven Mgr.; Victoria
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Washington/Cleveland Mgr.:
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Chicago/San Francisco Mgr.: Robert
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RM FILMS INTERNATIONAL
P.O. Box 3748
Holl>'WOod,CA 90078
213-466-7791; Fax: 213-461-4152
President, Russ Meyer
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ROB-RICH FILMS
4463 Winner's Circle, Suite 1426
Sarasota, FL 34238
941-925-1672
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3125 16th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
415-431-3611; Fax: 415-431-2822
CEO, Bill Banning
VP Theatrical Distribution, Rick
Norris
Sr. VP, Elliot Levine
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7551 Sunset Blvd., Suite 104
Los Angeles, CA 90046
213-845-1455; Fax; 213-845-4717
CEO, Jonathan A. Cordish
Pres., Ehud Epstein
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Maria Bjorkdahl, VP
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Oren Bitan, VP Acqu. & Marketing
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31 Thorpe Rd. Suite 200
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617-449-7490; Fax; 617-449-5412
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E-MAIL: fastrack@web-credit.com
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SONY PICTURES
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10202 West Washington Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232
310-244-4000; Fax; 310-244-2626
President and CEO; John Calley
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Exec. VP; Yuki Nozoe
Exec. VP & CFO; Ted Howells, Jr.
Exec. VP: Jon Feltheimer
Exec. VP, Gen. Counsel & Corp.
Secty: Ronald Jacobi
Exec. VP Corp. Dev. & Strategic
Plarming; Yair Landau
Sr. VP and Treasurer; Joe Kraft
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Asst. Sec; Robert Eichom
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COLUMBIA TRISTAR
MOTION PICTURE GROUP
10202 West Washington Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232
310-244-4000
Vice Chairman; Lucy Fisher
Co-Vice Chairman; Gareth Wigan
President; Kenneth Lemberger
Exec. VP; Paul Smith
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Pres., World. Mktg.; Robert Levin
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Sr. VP Creative Adv.; Dana Precious
Sr. VP Finance: Pat Walters
Sr. VP Strategic Mktg.;
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VP Worldwide Mrktng; Mimi Burri
VP Publicity; Andre Caraco
VP Creative Adv.: Neil Dick
VP Publicity: Jamie Geller Hawtof
VP Photo Serv.: Barbara Lakin
VP Publicity: Susan Levin
VP Pub, East Coast: Ginny De Liagre
VP Creative Adv.: Pam Rodi
VP Canadian Media & Coop Adv.:
Donna Slack
VP Nat'l Field Ops; Melanie Steele
VP Worldwide Media Relations:
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Exec. VP, Music: Burt Berman
Exec. VP, Post Prod'n: James Honore
Sr. VP, Prod'n Admin.; Bill Ewing
Sr. VP, Prod'n Admin.: Ray
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VP Music Lie: Monica Ciafardini
VP Prod'n Admin.: Pete Corral
VP Music Leg. Aff.; Michael Frisby
VP Prod'n Admin.; Kathy
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VP Post Prod'n: Russ Paris
VP Music Admin.: Raul Perez
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10202 West Washington Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232
310-244-4000; Fax: 310-244-2626
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President, Prod.: Christopher Lee
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VP Bus. Aff. Contract
Admin: Thomas Stack
VP Bus. Affairs: Mark Wyman
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10202 West Washington Bhd.
Culver City, CA 90232
310-244-4000; Fax: 310-244-2626
PRODUCTION
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Exec VP Production: Lauren Lloyd
VP Production; Rob Le\'ine
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Sr. VP Bus. Affairs: Jon Gibson
Sr. VP Bus. Affairs: Gary Hirsch
Sr. VP Bus. Affairs; John Levy
Sr. VP Post Prod'n; Sol Lomita
VP Legal Affairs: Luis Allen
VP Legal Admin.:
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VP Bus. Aff. Admin.;
Mark Horowitz
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550 Madison Ave., 8th Floor
New York, NY 10022
212-833-8833; Fax; 212-833-8844
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Co-President; Marcie Bloom
VP Large Format Sales: Mark Katz
VP Operations: Grace Murphy
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10202 W. Washington Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232
310-244-4000
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VP Exhibitor Relations:
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VP Mktg. Worldwide: Mimi Burn
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Los Angeles, CA 90067
310-277-1081
Fax: 310-277-6351
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818-990-5600
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Executive VP: Tim Swain
Executive VP: Sergio Aguero
Exec. VP Prod'n: Jonathan
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Senior VP Theatrical Div.: Ray Price
Senior VP Worldwide
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VP Publicity: David Elzer
VP Publicity: David Van Houten
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733 Ninth Ave.
New York, NY 10019
212-757-4555
Fax: 212-399-9885
President: Lloyd Kaufman
VP: Michael Herz
Bus. Affairs/Sales &
Dist.: Josh Piezas
Acquisitions: Patrick Cassidy
Marketing: Noah Fischel
Special Projects: Patrick Cassidy
L.A. BRANCH OFFICE:
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650 N. Bronson, Ste. 103
Los Angeles, CA 90004
213-960-4012; Fax: 213-960-4013
Dir. of L.A. Ops: David Schultz
TROMA UK:
Avon House
360 Oxford Street
London WIN 9HA, UK
TEL: (01) 71-491-2262;
Fax: (01) 71-491-2282
Managing Director: Mo Claridge
General/Art/Foreign/Specialized
TURBULENT ARTS
673 Oak St., Suite 1
San Francisco, CA 941 17
415-552-1952; Fax: 415-552-3620
Pres., Marc Smolowitz
E-MAIL: turbarts©siriu8.com
URL: www.slowbum.
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Art/Foreign/Speciallzed
TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX
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10201 W. Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90035
P.O. Box 900
Beverly Hills, CA 90213
310-277-2211; Fax: 310-203-1558
NEWS CORP.
President/COO: Peter Chemin
FOX FILMED
ENTERTAINMENT
Chairman/CEO: Bill Mechanic
Chairman, 20th Domestic Film
Group/Sr. Exec. VP: Tom Sherak
President, Worldwide
Marketing: Robert Harper
Exec. VP Bus. and Legal
Affairs: Greg Gelfan
Sr. VP, CFO: Simon Bax
Exec. Dir. Talent
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Pres. 20th Century Fox,
Film Prod'n: Tom Rothman
President Domestic
Distr.: Bruce Snyder
Pres. 20th Cent. Fox
Intl.: Jim Gianopulos
Pres. Fox Consumer
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Exec. VP Gen. Sales Mgr.:
Richard Myerson
Exec. VP Intl. Sales &
Dist.: Julian Levin
Exec. VP Marketing,
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Exec. VP Legal Affairs,
Deputy General. Counsel:
Lyman Gronemeyer
Exec. VP Fox Music: Robert Kraft
Exec. VP Bus. Affairs: Steven Bersch
Exec. VP Lgl Affairs: Robert Cohen
Exec. VP Production: Elizabeth
Gabler, Jorge Saralegui
Exec. VP Physical
Prod'n.: Joe Hartwick
Exec. VP Post Prod'n.:
Theodore Gagliano
Exec. VP Intl. Mktg: Scott Neeson
Sr. VP Production: Hutch
Parker, Sanford Panitch
Sr. VP Fox Shidio Ops: Gary Ehrlich
Sr. VP Mrktng & Creative
Adv.: Anthony Sella
Sr. VP European/Near East &
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Sr. VP Legal Affairs/ Asst. Gen.
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Sr. VP Lgl & Bus. Aff.: Jamie Samson
Sr. VP Bus. Affairs: Daniel Ferleger,
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Sr. VP Fox Music Group: Matt Walker
Sr. VP Pub. and Promo.:
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Sr. VP Personnel: Leslee Perlstein
Sr. VP Acquisitions: Tony Safford
Sr. VP Prod'n: Fred Baron
Sr. VP Finance: Peter Cyffka
VP Feature Prod'n: Kimberly Cooper
VP Nat'l Publicity: Debbie
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VP Corporate Comm. &
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VP Promotional
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VP Field Ops and Promotions:
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VP Mrkt Research: Pam Levine-Katz
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VP Creative Advertising Intl.
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VP Midwestern Div.
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VP Western Div. Mgr.:
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VP New York/ AtlanHc Div.
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Dir. of Acquisitions: Isabel Rosenthal
FOX 2000
President: Laura Ziskin
Exec. VP: Kevin McCormick
Exec. VP: Alex Gartner
Sr. VP: Carla Hacken
VP Production: Ashley Kramer
Dir. of Development: Jack Leslie
FOX ANIMATION STUDIOS
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Sr VP & General Manager:
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Seruor VP Production: Jon
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VP Production: Melissa
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Dir. of Development: Tracey Trench
FOX SEARCHLIGHT
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Senior VP Prod'n: Claudia Lewis
Senior VP Mrkmg: David Dinerstein
Sr. VP Bus. Affairs: Joseph De Marcc
Sr. VP Distribution: Bob Cheren
Sr. VP Acquisitions: Tony Safford
VP Acquisitions: Bob Aaronson
VP Legal Affairs: Charles Moore
VP Prod'n & Dev.: Joe Pichirallo
VP Pub. Rel.: Valerie Van Galder
Exec. Dir. Finance Admin.: Jill Gwen
Dir. of Prod'n: Jim Wilson
Dir. Pos Prod'n: Alexandra Helfrich
Dir. Mrktg.: Marc Weinstock
Dir. Field Ops: April Loncar
Dir. Great. Mrktg.: Gordon Donlou
FOX INTERACTIVE
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Exec Dir. Product Development:
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Dir. Bus. & Creative
Develoment: Scott Marcus
FOX STUDIOS AUSTRALIA
President: Kim Williams
FOX TELEVISION
President Fox Ent't Group:
Peter Roth
Chair and CEO FOX
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Exec. VP Pay TV/Pay Per View:
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214-392-0101; Fax: 214-392-1007
VP South. Div. Mgr.: Bert Livingston
Dallas Br. Mgr.: Redmond Gautier
Okla. City Br. Mgr.: Chester Layfield
New Orleans/Memphis Br. Mgr.:
Woodrow Townsend
Atlanta Br. Mgr.: Jerry Smith
Jacksonville Br. Mgr.:
Marsha Weaver
WESTERN DIVISION
14242 Venhira Blvd., 3rd Fir.
Sherman Oaks, CA 91423
818-382-7282; Fax: 818-382-7289
VP Western Div. Mgr.: James Naify
Los Angeles Br, Mgr.:
Robert McCormick
Los Angeles Br. Sales
Mgr.: Corey Ballaban
San Francisco/Denver
Br. Mgr.: Gary Erickson
Salt Lake City Sales
Mgr.: Pam Loo Mayer
Seattle/Portland Br.
Mgr.: Blayne Becker
MIDWESTERN DIVISION
120O1 N. Central Expressway,
Suite 650, LBl 17
Dallas, TX 75243
214-392-0101; Fax: 214-392-1007
VP Midwest Div.
Mgr.: Robert Kaplowitz
Chicago/Minneapolis
Br. Mgr.: Doris Payne
Detroit/Indianapolis
Br. Mgr.: Cai Schmidt
Kansas City /St. Louis
Br. Mgr.: Dave Hansen
Des Moines/Omaha/ Milwaukee
Br. Mgr.: Laura Kennedy
20TH CENTURY FOX CANADA:
TORONTO
920 Yonge St., Suite 218
Toronto, Ontario M4W 3C7
416-921-0001
Fax:416-921-9062
VP Gen. Mgr.: Buddy Golden
Branch Mgr.: Dave Forget
Sales Mgr.: Barry Newstead
MONTREAL
445 St. Francis Xavier
Montreal, Quebec H2Y 2T1
514-282-8080
Branch Mgr.: Suzanne Villeneuve
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UNIVERSAL PICTURES
100 Universal City Plaza
Universal City, CA 91608
818-777-1000
445 Park Ave.
New York, NY 10022
212-759-7500
UNIVERSAL STUDIOS INC.
Chairman and CEO:
Frank J. Biondi jr.
President and COO: Ron Meyer
Exec. VP and CFO: Bruce Hack
Sr. VP: Hellene S. Runtagh
Sr. VP and Gen.
Couns.: Karen Randall
Sr. VP Corp. Communications and
Public Affairs: Deborah Rosen
UNIVERSAL PICTURES
Chairman: Casey Silver
COO: Chris McGurk
Exec. VP: Jon Gumpert
Exec. VP, Legal & Bus.
Affairs: Jeffrey Korcheck
Sr. VP Int'l Ops.: James A. Burk
Sr. VP Planning &
Ops.; Bahman Naraghi
Sr. VP Legal Affairs: Mary Ledding
VP Bus. Affairs: Jeff Goore
VP Bus. Affairs: James Horowitz
VP Controller: Carlos Penera
VP Prod. Fin.: Bret Johnson
UNIVERSAL PICTURES
PRODUCTION
President: Stacey Snider
Exec. VP Production: Kevin Misher
Exec. VP Phys. & Post
Prod: Don Zepfel
Sr. VP: Amy Brecker
Sr. VP: Mary Parent
Sr. VP Production:
Leonard Komberg
Sr. VP Music: Harry Garfield
Sr. VP Physical Prod'n:
Andrew Given
VP Feat. Budget &
Est.: Bill Greenberg
VP Prod'n, East Coast: Peter Amoff
VP Music Bus. Affairs: Phil Cohen
UNIVERSAL PICTURES
MARKETING
President: Marc Shmoger
Exec. VP Intl. Mrktng:
Nadia Alves-Bronson
Sr. VP Markefing: Eddie Egan
Sr. VP Media & Res.: Mark Kristol
Sr. VP Creative Advert.:
William Loper
Sr. VP Media & Co-op Advertising:
Anthony Evergates-Price
Sr. VP Dist. & Mktg.: Alan Sutton
VP Special Projects: Hollace Davids
VP Creative Advert.: Pam Postrel
VP Creative Advertising:
Ann Frame-Russo
VP Creative Advert. Ops: Dan Wolfe
VP Int'l Pub.: Thomas Castaneda
VP Mktg Services: Pam Blum
UNIVERSAL PICTURES
DISTRIBUTION
President: Nikki Rocco
Exec. VP & Gen Sales
Mgr.: Nick Carpou
Exec. VP & Gen Sales
Mgr.: Mark Gaines
Sr. VP Dist. & Mktg.: Alan Sutton
VP General Mgr.—Universal Films
Canada: Eugene Amodeo
VP k Division Mgr: Jack Finn
VP & Div. Mgr.: Albert Quaedvlieg
VP & Division Mgr: Dave Richoux
VPNat'l Exhibitor
Relations: Steve Ellman
VP Print Conh-ol: Harold Goldberg
Mgr. Nat'l Exhibitor
Rel'ns: Lisa Holland
Dir. Administration: Mary Costello
Dir. Branch Operations: Mark Link
Dir. Sales Admin.: Gary Chong
BRANCHES
NEW YORK
445 Park Ave.
New York, NY 10022
212-605-2828
Gary Rocco, N.Y. /Pitts. Branch Mgr.
Steve Turner, Wash. Branch Mgr.
Charles Sampayo, Phila Branch Mgr.
BOSTON
95 Winchester St.
Boston, MA 02116
617-426-8760
Joan Corrado, Boston/
New Haven Branch Mgr.
JoeCrimi, Albany/Buff./
Cinciruiati Branch Mgr.
DALLAS
7502 Greenville Ave., Ste. 200
Dallas, TX 75231
214-360-0022
Bruce Thompson, Dallas/
Oklahoma City Branch Mgr.
Doug Coons, Jacksonville
Branch Mgr.
James Dixon, Atlanta/
Charlotte Branch Mgr.
Dana Poindexter, Kansas
City / Memphis /New Orleans
Branch Mgr.
Jack Botaro, Chicago/
Milwaukee Branch Mgr.
Gordon Ward, Cleveland/
Detroit Branch Mgr.
Jim Agliata, Des Moines/Omaha/
Indianapolis/St. Louis/
Minneapolis Branch Mgr.
LOS ANGELES
100 Universal City Plaza
Building 509 - Suite 1900
Universal City, CA 91608
818-777-0002
Lynne Francis, L.A. Branch Mgr.
Robert Taylor, San Francisco,
Denver Branch Mgr.
Marji McCormick, Portland /Salt
Lake City /Seattle Branch Mgr.
PUERTO RICO
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P.O. Box 11308
San Juan, PR 00910-2408
787-725-1353
Wilfred Momeau, Branch Mgr.
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4771 .Mulrusc Ave.
Hollywood, CA 90029
213-665-5257;
Fax: 213-665-6473
President, Harry Novak
Vice President, Carmen Novak
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THE WALT DISNEY CO.
500 S. Buena Vista St.
Burbank, CA 91521
818-560-1000
Chairman of the Board,
CEO: Michael D. Eisner
Vice Chairman of the
Board: Roy E. Disney
Chairman Walt Disney
Studios: Joe Roth
Sr. Exec. VP & Chief of Corporate
Operations: Sanford M. Litvack
Sr. Exec. VP & Chief Financial
Officer: Tom Staggs
Exec. VP Corp. Aff'rs: John F. Cooke
Exec. VP & CFO Walt Disney
Studios: Rob Moore
Exec. VP & Chief Strategic
Officer: Peter Murphy
Sr. VP Planning & Control:
John J.
Garand
Corp. Secretary: Marsha L. Reed
WALT DISNEY MOTION
PICTURES GROUP
500 S. Buena Vista St.
Burbank, CA 91521
818-560-1000
Chairman: Richard Cook
President Touchstone Pictures:
Donald De Line
President WDP & Hollywood
Pictures: David Vogel
Pres. Buena Vista Pictures
Mrktng: John Cywinski
Pres. Buena Vista Intl.: Mark Zoradi
Pres. Music: Kathy Nelson
Pres. Hollywood Records:
Robert Pfeifer
Exec. VP: Bemardine Brandis
Exec. VP Acquisitions,
Development & New
Business: Susan Lyne
Sr.VP Music Bus./Legal
Affairs: Scott Holtzman
Sr. VP & CFO: Robert Murphy
Sr.VP Prod'n Mng.:
Bruce Hendricks
Sr. VP Character Voices &
Dubbing: Jeffrey Miller
Sr. VP Walt Disney Theatrical
Productions: Robert McTyre
TOUCHSTONE PICTURES/
WALT DISNEY PICTURES/
HOLLYWOOD PICTURES
500 S. Buena Vista St.
Burbank, CA 91521
818-560-1000
President Touchstone
Pictures: Donald De Line
Exec. VP Touchstone
Pic: Mike Stenson
Sr. VP Touchstone
Pics.: Alex Schwartz
Sr. VP Touchstone
Pics.: Todd Gamer
Sr. VP Touchstone
Pics.: Jordi Ros
Dir. Dev. Touchstone
Pics.: Mark Vahradian
Dir. Dev. Touchstone
Pics.: Christy Callahan
Dir. Dev. Touchstone
Pics.: Jason Reed
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President Walt Disney Pics. &
Hollywood Pics: David Vogel
Sr. VP Walt Disney Pics:
Michael Roberts
VP Walt Disney Pics:
Gregg Hoffman
Creative Exec. Walt Disney
Pics: Jeff Bynum, Julie Beckett,
Paige Goldberg
Sr. VP Motion Pic.
Prod'n; Bruce Hendricks
Sr. VP Motion Pic.
& TV Prod'n: Dave McCann
VP Prod'n Fin.: Paul Steinke
VP Participation & Residuals:
William Clark
VP Music Prod'n: Andy Hill
VP Labor Relations:
Robert W. Johnson
VP New Tech. & Dev.: Bob Lambert
VP Casting; Marcia Ross
BUSINESS & LEGAL AFFAIRS
Sr. VP Music: Scott Holtzman
VP Music: Sylvia Krask
Attorney/Music: Liz McNicoll
Sr. VP Bus. & Legal
Affairs: Phillip Muhl
VP Bus. Affairs: Doug Carter,
Chris Floyd, Steve Gerse,
Howard Safenowitz
Dir. Bus. Affairs: Jeff Diach
Sr. VP Legal Affairs: Steve Bardwil
VP Legal Affairs: Rick Schlesinger
Legal Affairs Attorney: Anne
Bowman, Carolyn Clark, Sherri
Feldman, Beth Machlovitch,
Carol McDermott, Lee Pamell,
Joe Quigley, Kal Walthers, Paige
Wright, Jonathan Zweig
WALT DISNEY FEATURE
ANIMATION
2100 Riverside Dr.
Burbank, CA 91506
818-560-8000
President: Peter Schneider
Exec. VP: Thomas Schumacher
Sr. VP: Tim Engel
VP Communications: Laura Rivera
WALT DISNEY TELEVISION
AND TOUCHSTONE
TELEVISION
500 S. Buena Vista Street
Burbank, California 91521
(818) 560-5000
Chairman Buena Vista Television
Productions: Lloyd Braun
President Walt Disney Network
TV & Touchstone TV:
David Newman
President Walt Disney Television:
Charles Hirschhom
THE DISNEY CHANNEL
3800 West Alameda Avenue
Burbank, California 91505
(818) 569-7500
President: Anne Sweeney
DISNEY CONSUMER
PRODUCTS
500 S. Buena Vista Street
Burbank, California 91 521
(818)560-1000
Chairman: Barton K. Boyd
President: Anne Osberg
President Europe, Middle East &
Africa: Pierre Sissmann
President Asia Pacific: John J.
Feenie
President—The Disney Store
Worldwide: Tom llcymann
WALT DISNEY PUBLISHIN6
114 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10011
(212)633-4400
Sr .
VP: Tom Conforti (Interim)
BUENA VISTA HOME VIDEO
350 S. Buena Vista Street
Burbank, California 91521
(818) 560-1000
Pres. Dom. Home Video: Ann Daly
Pres. Buena Vista Home Ent.:
Michael O. Johnson
WALT DISNEY IMAGINEERING
1401 Flower Street
P.O. Box 25020
Glendale, California 91221-5020
(818) 544-6500
Vice Chairman & Principal
Creative Exec.: Marty Sklar
Exec. VP Creative Tech.: Bran Ferren
President: Ken Wong
DISNEY INTERACTIVE
500 S. Buena Vista Street
Burbank, CA 91521
(818) 543-4300
President: Steve McBeth
Pres. Disney Online: Jake Winebaum
Sr. VP & Mgr. Disney
Software: Steve Fields
Sr. VP Disney Online/
Disney.com: Winnie Wechsler
BUENA VISTA PICTURES
MARKETING
500 South Buena Vista Street
Burbank, California 91521
(818) 560-5151
President: John Cywinski
Sr. VP Creative: Oren Aviv
Sr. VP Publicity: Terry Curtin
Sr. VP Promos /Field
Ops: Brett Dicker
VP Media Ops: Nina Anderson
Sr. VP Media: Kristy Frudenfeld
VP Publicity: Denise Greenawalt
VP Publicity: Lisa Halliday
VP Print Advertising: Alan Lobel
Sr. VP Research: Dana Lombardo
VP East Coast Pub.: Charlie Nelson
VP Nat'l Promos: Cherise McVicar
VP Markting & Synergy:
Michael Mendenhall
VP Field Ops: Georgia O'Connor
VP Creative Film Services:
Constance Wells
BUENA VISTA
INTERNATIONAL
500 South Buena Vista Street
Burbank, California 91521
(818) 560-1000
Pres. Buena Vista Int'l: MarkZoradi
Sr. VP Bus. Affairs &
Acquisitions: Jere Hausfater
Sr. VP & Gen. Mgr.:
Lawrence Kaplan
Sr. VP Latin America & The
Carribbean: Diego Lemer
Sr. VP Character Voice &
Dubbing: Jeffi-ey Miller
Sr. VP Publicity: Teri Ritzer
Sr. VP Distrib. & Gen.
Mgr. Europe: Stuart Salter
Sr. VP Marketing: Fred Tio
VP & Gen. Mgr. Germany:
Woflgang Braun
VP & Gen. Mgr. Sweden:
Eric Broberg
VP & Gen. Mgr. U.K.: Daniel Battsek
VP & Gen. Mgr. France:
Jean-FrancoisCamilleri
VP & Gen. Mgr. South
Korea: S.I. Kim
VP & Gen. Mgr. Austria:
Ferdinand Morawetz
VP & Gen. Mgr. Italy:
Sandro Pierotti
VP & Gen. Mgr. Spain:
Javier Vassalo
VP & Gen. Mgr. Benelux:
Paul Zonderland
VP Sales i Mrktng Asia: Jeff Forman
VP Distribution: Anthony Marcoly
VP Fin. & Sales Admin.: Ann Mather
Gen. Mgr./Switzerland: Roger Crotti
General Manager Japan: Dick Sano
General Mgr. Taiwan: Rudy Tseng
VP Marketing: Ignacio Damaude
BUENA VISTA PICTURES
DISTRIBUTION
350 South Buena Vista Street
Burbank, California 91521
818-567-5000; Fax: 818-972-3905
President: Phil Barlow
Sr. VP & Gen. Sales
Mgr.: Chuck Viane
Sr. VP & Gen.
Counsel: Bob Cunningham
Sr. VP/Operatior«: Gary Weaver
Sr. VP/Finance: Deborah Morrison
VP/Exhibitor Relations:
Nancy Klueter
VP/Special Events: Lylle Breier
BRANCHES:
EASTERN DIVISION
NEW YORK
500 Park Ave.
New York, NY 10022
212-593-8900; Fax: 212-735-5491
Phil Fortune, VP & Division Mgr.
Leo Fisch, Branch Mgr.
New York /New Haven 2
Debbie Finegold, Branch
Mgr.—Philadelphia/Cincinnati
BOSTON
990 Washington St., Suite 11 IS
Dedham, MA 02026
617-461-0870; Fax: 617-461-0126
John Molson, Branch
Mgr.—Boston /Albany/
Buffalo /New Haven
SOUTHEASTERN DIVISION
ATLANTA
1190 W. Druid Hills Dr., Ste. T-75
Atlanta, GA 30329
770-246-8930; Fax: 770-321-6140
Rod Rodriguez, VP & Division Mgr.
Dick Malek, Branch
Mgr.— Jacksonville
Jim Pierce, Branch
Mgr.—Washington
Al Webster, Branch
Mgr.—Atlanta/Charlotte
MIDWESTERN DIVISION
9700 1 lifiK'"^ R"''^^' ^''-'' ''50
Rosemont,lL 60018
847-696-0900; Fax: 847-384-3993
Rick Rice, VP & Division Mgr.
Ken Caldwell, Branch
Mgr.—Minneapolis / Milwaukee
Dean Gordon, Branch Mgr.
Detroit/Cleveland / Pittsburgh
Marsha Levin, Branch Mgr.
Indianapolis/Omaha/Des Moines
SOUTHWESTERN DIVISION
10000 N. Central l:\prvsswav #850
Dallas, TX 75231
214-363-9494; Fax: 214-363-9967
Jim Nocella, VP & EHvision Mgr.
Leon Ittel, Branch
Mgr.—Dallas/Oklahoma
City /New Orleans
Bill Crane, Branch Mgr.—Kansas
City /St. Louis/Memphis
WESTERN DIVISION
241 1 Wi-st Olive Ave., Suite 700
Burbank, CA 91521-7485
818-558-2700; Fax: 818-972-9543
Pat Pade, VP & Division Mgr.
Paul Holliman, Branch Mgr.—L.A.
Jeff Prill, Branch Mgr.—
Denver/Salt Lake City
Steve Getzler, Branch
Mgr —SF /Seattle/Portland
BVPD CANADA
1235 H,iv street. Suite 901
Toronlo, t )ntdrio M5R 3K4
416-964-9275; Fax: 416-964-8537
Anthony Macina, Sales Mgr.
WARNER BROS.
4000 Warner Blvd.
Burbank, CA 91522
818-954-6000
75 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10019
212-484-8000
WARNER BROS. INC.
Chairman & Co-CEO:
Robert A. Daly
Chairman & CO-CEO:
Terry Semel
Exec. VP & COO: Barry Meyer
Exec. VP Int'l
Enterprises; Richard Fox
Exec. VP Mktg &
Planning: Sanford E. Reisenbach
Exec. VP & Gen. Csl: John Schulman
Exec. VP & CFO: Edward Romano
Exec. VP Bus. &
Acquisitions: James R. Miller
Sr. VP Corporate Communications:
Barbara Brogliatti
Asst. to Chmn & VP
Corp. Sr\'s.: Marina O'Neil
WARNER BROS. PICTURES
President Worldwide Prod.:
Lorenzo di Bonaventura
Exec. VP Theafl
Prod.: Robert Guralnick
Exec. VP Theat'l
Prod'n: Tom Lassally
Exec. VP Worldwide
Prod.: Steven Papazian
Sr. VP Production; William Young,
Diana Rathbun, Courtenay
Valenti, Jeff Robinov
VP Production: Michael Andreen
VP Production: Basil Iwanyk
VP Production: Lionel Wigram
VP Feature Prod.: Mark Scoon
Prod'n Exec. Feature Prod.:
Chris de Faria, Bill Draner
Exec. Prod'n Mgr.: Lynn
Morgan, Phil Rawlins
Sr. VP Talent: Marion Dougherty
VP Post-Production: Marc Solomon
VP Feature Estimating:
VinceHeileson
FEATURE ANIMATION
President; Max Howard
Amanda Seward
WARNER BROS. INT'L
THEATRES
President: Millard Ochs
Exec. VP: Chris Adelmann
WARNER BROS. THEATRICAL
MARKETING
President: Brad Ball
Exec. VP Worldwide Creative
Advertising Projects: Joel Wayne
Exec. VP Special Projects: Joe Hyams
Exec. VP Theatrical Publicity/
Promo: Charlotte Kandel
Sr. VP Mktg Research:
Richard Del Belso
Sr. VP Mktg Research: Dan Rosen
Sr. VP Worldwide
Creative Adv.: Chris Carlisle
Sr. VP Adv. and Pub.: Dawn Taubin
Vp Creative Adv.: Massch Rafani
VP Worldwide
Media: Lynn Whitney
VP Publicity: John Datigue
SVP Publicity: Nancy Kirkpahick
VP Nat'l Field & Promo: Ernie J
VP Admin.: Dennis Tange
Sr. VP Theatrical Mktg & New
Media: Don Buckley 1
Dir. of Graphic Arts: Kirk Freeman|
Dir. of Media Contracts & Control:
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Dir. National Promos: Shannon R
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Dist.: Jeff Goldstein
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VP Systems &
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VP Sales Ops: Richard A. Shiff
VP Print Control: Nancy Sams
Dir. Exhibitor Svs.: Kelly O'Connor
BRANCH OFFICES/WESTERN
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15821 Ventura Blvd., #525
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818-784-7494 ; Fax: 818-986-7559
Jeff Goldstein, Sr.VP
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Shirley Becker, Mid-West'n
Div. Mgr.
Scott Forman, West'n Div. Mgr.
Allison Fields, Chi/Milwaukee/
Indianapolis Branch Mgr.
Ralph Albi, Seattle/Portl'd/
Omaha / Des Moines /
Minn. Branch Mgr.
Mike Viane, S.F. Branch Mgr.
Jennifer Amaya, Denver/Salt
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Darla Pierce, K.C./St. Louis/
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GiGi LeStak, L.A. Sales Mgr.
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Darmy Chinich,
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Bill Talbert, Dallas/OK/New
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Linda Ray, Atlanta Branch Mgr.
Ron MacPhee, Memphis/
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416-250-8384 ; Fax: 416-250-7403
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Florent Boulet, Western Dist. Mgr.
Nancy Michener,
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NEW YORK
1 325 Avenue of the Americas
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New York, NY 10019
212-636-5100; Fax: 212-636-5237
Frank Carroll, Eastern Div. Mgr.
Andy Silverman, Eastern Div. Mgr.
Charles Barcellona, Metro.
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Bruce Blatt, Cleveland/Buffalo/
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Andy Strulson, Phil. /Detroit
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Roberta Peterson,
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Millie Gautier, N.Y. Sales Mgr.
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617-848-2550; Fax: 617-849-6270
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Theresa Craven, Boston/
New Haven Branch Mgr.
Kevin Strick, Cincinnati Sales Mgr.
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520-797-3363; Fax: 520-797-2940
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Index of Manufacturers
and Suppliers
The following index indicates the page on which full
company information for manufacturers and suppliers of
exhibition-related products is listed.
(Alphabetical By Category)
ADVERTISING/
DISPLAYS
CHANGEABLE
LETTERS
Arrow (p66)
Berioc Sign Co. (p66)
Bux-Mont (p66)
Change Ad (p68)
Fast-Ad (p70)
Gemini (p72)
Hadden (p72)
Jarco (p74)
Schult (p82)
Wagner Zip (p86)
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CASES/EASELS
Berioc (p66)
BGW (p66)
Bux-Mont (p66)
Jarco (p74)
Lazarus (p76)
Lavi (p76)
MDI (p76)
Schult (p82)
MARQUEE BACK-
GROUND PANELS
Arrow (p66)
Berioc (p66)
Bux-Mont (p66)
Gemini (p72)
Jarco (p74)
Lazanis (p76)
TriMotion (p84)
Wagner Zip (p86)
Xetjex (p88)
PROGRAMMABLE
SIGNS/MESSAGE
CENTERS
AAMI/TDS (p64)
AASCn"DS (p64)
Arrow (p66)
Bux-Mont (p66)
Ecotech (p70)
Gamma (p72)
Indiana (p74)
Lazarus (p7e)
Schult (p82)
Signature (p82)
Sunnywell (p84)
Ticketpro (p84)
Trans-Lux (p84)
TrtUotion (p84)
SIGNS/DISPLAYS
AAMI/TDS (p64)
AASC/TDS (p64)
Arrow (p66)
Bass (p66)
Berioc (p66)
CFS/Rentec (p66)
Concepts (p68)
Ecotech (p70)
Gamma (p72)
Indiana (p74)
Jarco (p74)
Koryn Rolstad {p74)
MDI (p76)
Mica (p76)
Movie Ad (p76)
Premier Datavis. (p80)
Schult (p82)
Signature (p82)
Speclzd. Grphcs (p82)
Trans-Lux (p84)
Visual Mktg. (p86)
Wagner Zip (p86)
Xebex (p88)
BOXOFFICE
EQUIPMENT/
SUPPUES
ADMISSION
CHECKERS
Roelants (p80)
ADMISSION SIGNS
AAMin"DS(p64)
AASC/TDS (p64)
Berioc (p66)
EIMS (p70)
Jarco (p74)
Roelants (p80)
Schult (p82)
CASH REGISTERS/
PAYMENT SYS.
AAMI/TDS {p64)
AASC/TDS (p64)
AASI/TDS (p64)
Datavislon (p68)
EIMS (p70)
Glotie (p72)
Indiana (p74)
Pacer/CATS (p78)
Radiant (p80)
RDS (p80)
Sensible (p82)
Theatre Support (p84)
Ticketpro (p84)
Westar/ICE (p88)
PHONE SYSTEMS
AAMI/TDS (p64)
AASC/TDS (p64)
AASI/TDS (p64)
Jarco (p74)
Metro Tel (p76)
Pacer/CATS {p78)
Radiant (pBO)
Smart (p82)
TALK-THROUGH
EQUIPMENT
Globe (p72)
Haven (p72)
Jarco (p74)
Metro Tel (p76)
Norcon (p78)
Schult (p82)
Talk-A-Phone (p84)
Xebex (p88)
TICKET ISSUING
AAMI/TDS (p64)
AASC/TDS {p64)
AASI/TDS (p64)
Automaticket (p66)
Cemcorp {p66)
CPI (p68)
Grain Atlanta (p68)
Di-An (p70)
Dillingham {p70)
EIMS (p70)
Elec. Creations (p70)
Globe (p72)
Pacer/CATS (p78)
Practical (p80)
Radiant (p80)
RDS (p80)
Ready (p80)
Roelants (p80)
Sensible (p82)
Theatre Support (p84)
Ticketpro (p84)
Westar/ICE (p88)
TICKETS
AAMI/TDS (p64)
Advantix (p64)
CPI (p68)
Dillingham (p70)
Globe (p72)
National Ticket (p7B)
Omniterm (p78)
Pacer/CATS (p78)
RDS (p80)
Roelants (p80)
Theatre Support (p84)
Weldon, Wms. (p86)
Westar/ICE (p88)
COMPUTERS
HARDWARE
AAMI/TDS (p64)
AASI/TDS (p64)
BGW (p66)
CPI (p68)
Datavision (p68)
Di-An (p70)
EIMS (p70)
Indiana (p74)
Omniterm (p78)
RDS (p80)
Ready (p80)
Sensible (p82)
Sys. Op. Solution (p84)
TDS (p84)
Theatre Support {p84)
Ticketpro (p84)
Westar/ICE (p88)
SOFTWARE
AASC/TDS (p64)
AASI/TDS (p64)
Advantix (p64)
CPI (p68)
Datavision (p68)
Di-An (p70)
EIMS (p70)
Elec. Creations (p70)
Indiana (p74)
Marble (p76)
McAllister (p76)
Omniterm (p78)
Pacer/CATS (p78)
Radiant (p80)
RDS (p80)
Sensible (p82)
Sys. Op. Solution (p84)
TDS (p84)
Theatre Support (p84)
Ticketpro (p84)
Westar/ICE (p88)
CONCESSION
EQUIPMENT
BEVERAGE
DISPENSERS
American Intl.
(p64)
China Mist (p68)
Clark Food (p68)
Cornelius (p>68)
Flomatic (p70)
Fort James (p72)
Gold Medal (p72)
Hollywood (p74)
Karma (p74)
Kloss (p74)
Multiplex (p78)
MVE (p78)
Robinson/Kirsh. (p80)
Slush Puppie (p82)
Unimar (p84)
Wilshire (p88)
BUTTER WARMERS/
DISPENSERS
American Intl. (p64)
C. Cretors (p66)
Clark Food (p68)
Gold Medal (p72)
Hadden (p72)
Hollywood (p74)
Jarco (p74)
Kloss (p74)
Lugo (p76)
Server (p82)
Stein (p82)
CANDY FLOSS
MACHINES
C. Cretors (p66)
Clark Food (p68)
Gold Medal (p72)
Hadden (p72)
Hollywood (p74)
Jarco (p74)
Kloss {p74)
Krispy Kist (p74)
Lugo {p76)
CARAMEL CORN
EQUIPMENT
C. Cretors (p66)
Clark Food (p68)
Gold Medal {p72)
Hollywood (p74)
Jarco (p74)
Kloss (p74)
Krispy Kist (p74)
Lugo (p76)
CARTS
All Star (p64)
Concepts (p68)
Gold Medal (p72)
Jarco (p74)
NCS Corp. (p78)
Stein (p82)
Supreme (p84)
COFFEE
Acorto (p64)
Coffee-Inn's (p68)
Crossroads (p68)
Hollywood (p74)
Jarco (p74)
Kraft (p74)
Krispy Kist (p74)
CONCESSION
EQUIP./SUPPLIES
AAMI/TDS (p64)
Beaver (p66)
C. Cretors (p66)
Clark Food (p68)
Connolly (p6>8)
Cres-Cor (p68)
Fort James (p72)
Gold Medal (p72)
G reat Western (p72)
Hollywood (p74)
Jarco (p74)
Kloss (p74)
Krispy Kist (p74)
Liberto (p76)
Lugo (p76)
Milen (p76)
NCS Corp. (p78)
Ready (p80)
Ricos (p80)
Roundup (p82)
Sen/er (p82)
Stein (p82)
Victor (p86)
Western (p88)
CONDIMENT
DISPENSERS
Clark Food (p68)
Connolly (p68)
Gold Medal (p72)
Hadden (p72)
Hollywood (p74)
Jarco (p74)
Server {p82)
Silver King (p82)
Stein (p82)
CONTAINERS/
PAPER BAG/
BOX/CUP
Clark Food (p68)
Dart (p68)
Fonda (p72)
Fort James (p72)
Gold Medal (p72)
Great Western (p72)
Hollywood (p74)
J.G. Clark (p74)
Kloss (p74)
Lugo (p76)
Packerware (p80)
Pescor (p80)
Western (p88)
CUP DISPENSERS
Fort James (p72)
Gold Medal (p72)
Kloss (p74)
Roundup (p82)
Stein (p82)
CUPHOLDERS/TRAYS
Caddy (p66)
Cy Young (p68)
Gold Medal (p72)
Hollywood (p74)
Jarco (p74)
Kloss (p74)
Western (p>B8)
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Pronto Combo Warmer
STATE OF THE ART
CONCESSIONS
NaMlmize CfMinicrtop Ipoce
Thermostatically
controlled hot-air
circulating system
Nickle plated wire
shelving
Sliding Lexan access
doors
• Bulk popcorn storage
Stainless steel bin door,
stainless steel rear
service door, stainless
steel chaff drawer
Auxilliary Electrical
outlet
•
Anodized aluminum
showcase lighting with
matching trim
Height: 46" (1165mm)
iVidth: 30" (762mm)
36" (915mm)
•Depth: 22" (559mm)
:lectric: 120V 60 cycle
230V 50 cycle
Aodel PCNC 30/36
98 Park Avenue
P. 0.60x159
/Ion, NY USA 11 702-01 59
Tel: 516-422-9000
Fax:516-422-9005
Response No. 120
JARCO
INDUSTRIES INC.

DISPLAY/COUNTERS
STANDS
Bass (p66)
Gold Medal (p72)
Hire Nelson (p72)
Hollywood (p74)
Jarco (p74)
Proctor (p80)
Roundup (p82)
Stein (p82)
DONUT MAKERS
Krispy Kist (p74)
FOOD HOLDERS/
WARMERS
Clark Food (p68)
Connolly (p68)
FUNacho (p72)
Gold Medal (p72)
Hollywood (p74)
Jarco (p74)
Kloss (p74)
Lugo (p76)
Roundup (p82)
Server (p82)
Star (p82)
Toastmaster (p84)
GRILLS/STEAMERS/
ROTISSERIES
Clark Food (p68)
Connolly (p68)
Gold Medal (p72)
Great Western (p72)
Hadden (p72)
Hollywood (p74)
Jarco (p74)
Kloss (p74)
Lugo (p76)
Roundup (p82)
Star (p82)
Toastmaster (p84)
ICE CREAM
DISPLAY CASES
Hollywood (p74)
Jarco {p74)
Silver King (p82)
Unimar (p84)
ICE CREAM
FREEZERS
American Intl. (p64)
Hollywood (p74)
Jarco (p74)
New England (p78)
Silver King {p82)
Unimar (p84)
ICE MAKING
MACHINES
Clark Food (p68)
Cornelius (p68)
Hollywood (p74)
Jarco (p74)
Proctor (p80)
Wilshire (p88)
MENU BOARDS/
DISPLAYS
AASC/TDS (p64)
Bass (p66)
Berloc (p66)
Concepts (p68)
Fast-Ad (p70)
Jarco (p74)
Libeno(p76)
Mainstreet (p76)
MDI (p76)
Radiant (p80)
Ricos (p80)
Schult (pe2)
Visual Mktg. (p86)
Your Place (p88)
POPCORN
WARMERS
C. Cretors (p66)
Clark Food (p68)
GkM Medal (p72)
Hollywood (p74)
Jarco {p74)
Kloss {p74)
Krispy Kist (p74)
Lugo (p76)
Proctor (p80)
Server (p82)
Star (p82)
Stein (p82)
Westar/ICE (p88)
POPPERS
C. Cretors (p66)
Clark Food (p68)
Gold Medal (p72)
Gottschalk (p72)
Hadden (p72)
Hollywood (p74)
Jarco (p74)
Kloss (p74)
Krispy Kist {p74)
Lugo (p76)
Milen (p76)
Morrison (p76)
Roundup (p82)
Server (p82)
Star (p82)
Stein (p82)
Unimar (p84)
REFRIGERATION
Hollywood (p74)
Jarco (p74)
Silver King (p82)
Stein (p82)
Unimar (p84)
STRAW/NAPKIN
DISPENSERS
Gold Medal (p72)
Hollywood (p74)
Jarco (p74)
Stein (p82)
VENDING
A&A (p64)
AAMI^DS(p64)
AASI/TDS (p64)
American Intl. (p64)
Concepts (p68)
Krispy Kist (p74)
Server (p82)
CONCESSIONS
FOOD
CANDY
Adams & Brooks (p64)
American Intl. (p64)
Amer. Licorice (p64)
Clark Food (p68)
Coast to Coast (p68)
Euro-American (p70)
Goetze's (p72)
Great Westem (p72)
Haribo (p72)
Herman Goelitz (p72)
Hershey (p72)
Hollywood (p74)
Just Bom (p74)
M&M/Mars (p76)
Multifoods (p78)
Nabisco (p78)
Necco-Stark (p78)
Nestle (p78)
Pearson (p80)
Promo in Motion (p80)
Sarnow (82)
Sunmark (p84)
Tootsie Roll (p84)
Trolli (p84)
CANDY FLOSS
Clark Food (p68)
Gold Medal (p72)
Hollywood (p74)
MultHooda(p78)
CARAMEL CORN
C. Cretors (p66)
Clark Food (p68)
Gold Medal (p72)
Hollywood (p74)
Krispy Kist (p74)
Multifoods (p78)
COOKIES
American Intl. (p64)
Coast to Coast (p68)
Euro-American {p70)
Hollywood (p74)
Multifoods (p78)
Nabisco (p78)
HOT DOGS/
MEATS
Eisenberg (p70)
Gold Medal (p72)
Hollywood {p74)
Hot 'N' Spicey (p74)
Kraft (p74)
Multifoods (p78)
Sfiofar (p82)
ICE CREAM/
YOGURT
American Intl. (p64)
Gefil's (p72)
Gold Medal (p72)
Multifoods (p78)
Nestle Ice Cream (p78)
New England (p78)
Slush Puppie (p82)
NACHOS
Clark Food (p68)
Curtice (p68)
FUNacho (p72)
Gold Medal {p72)
Great Western (p72)
Harlan {p72)
Hollywood (p74)
Kloss (p74)
Upton Monarch (p76)
Lugo (p76)
Multifoods {p78)
Ricos (p80)
Wyandot (p88)
NON-CARB. DRINKS
American Intl. (p64)
China Mist (p68)
Gold Medal {p72)
Emerald {p70)
Hollywood (p74)
Kloss (p74)
Multifoods (p78)
Rio Syrup (p80)
Slush Puppie (p82)
PACKAGED FOODS
American Intl. (p64)
Chef Amer. (p68)
Gehl's (p72)
Holfywood (p74)
Kloss (p74)
Multifoods (p78)
Ricos (p80)
POPCORN OILS/
SEASONINGS/
TOPPINGS
Cargill (p66)
Clark Food (p68)
Coast to Coast (p68)
Colfax (p68)
Curtice (p68)
Gold Medal (p72)
Great Westem (p72)
Hollywood (p74)
Kloss (p74)
Upton Monarch (p76)
Lou-Ana (p76)
Lugo (p76)
Morrison (p76)
Multifoods (p78)
Odell's (p78)
Ricos (p80)
Weaver (p86)
POPCORN
PROCESSORS
Amer. Pop Corn (p64)
Curtice {p68)
Great Western (p72)
Hollywood (p74)
K&W Popcorn (p74)
Krispy Kist (p74)
Lugo (p76)
Morrison {p76)
Multifoods {p78)
Vogel (p86)
Weaver (p86)
PRE-POPPED
Gold Medal (p72)
Great Western (p72)
Hollywood {p74)
Kloss {p74)
Lugo (p76)
Morrison (p76)
Multifoods (p78)
Ricos (pBO)
RAW POPCORN
Clark Food (p68)
Coast to Coast (p68)
Curtice (p68)
Gold Medal {p72)
Great Westem (p72)
Harlan (p72)
Hollywood (p74)
K&W Popcorn (p74)
Kloss (p74)
Krispy Kist (p74)
Lugo (p76)
Multifoods {p78)
Ricos (p80)
Vogel (p86)
Weaver (p86)
SNACK FOODS
American Intl. (p64)
Beer Nuts (p66)
Chef Amer. (p68)
Curtice (p68)
Frito-Lay (p72)
Gehl's (p72)
Hollywood (p74)
Krispy Kist {p74)
Liberto (p76)
Multifoods (p78)
Nabisco (p78)
Wyandot (p88)
SNOW CONES/
SLUSHIES
Clark Food (p68)
Gold Medal (p72)
Great Western (p72)
ICEE (p74)
Jarco (p74)
Kloss (p74)
Lugo (p76)
Rio Syrup (p80)
Slush Puppie (p82)
SOFT DRINK SYRUP
American Intl. (p64)
Clark Food (p68)
Coca-Cola (p68)
Dr. Pepper (p70)
Harlan (p72)
Hollywood (p74)
Kloss (p74)
Upton Monarch (p76)
Pepsi-Cola (p80)
Ricos (p80)
Rio Syrup (p80)
Victor (p86)
DRIVE-IN
EQUIPMENT
CAR COUNTERS
SPECO (p82)
IN-CAR
SPEAKERS
CPI (p68)
Hadden (p72)
Projected Sound (p80)
Reed (p80)
SPECO (p82)
JUNCTION BOXES
Projected Sound (p80)
Reed (p80)
SPECO (p82)
RADIO SOUND
SYSTEMS
Audio Visual (p66)
CPI {p68)
Hadden {p72)
LPB (p76)
Marble (p76)
Xebex (p88)
SCREEN PAINT
Technikote (p84)
SCREENS/
TOWERS
Arrow (p66)
Selby (p82)
MAINTENANCE/
SANITATION
BLOW/SWEEP/
VACUUM
Cinema Cleaning (p68)
Manutech (p76)
Upkeeper (p84)
CLEANERS/
CHEMICALS
Cinema Cleaning
(p68)
Clark Food (p68)
Colgate Palmol. (p68)
Hollywood (p74)
Imtek (p74)
JaniSource (p74)
Motsenbocker(p76)
Spurrier {p82)
ENERGY
SYSTEMS
AAMI/TDS (p64)
AASI^DS (p64)
Novar (p78)
TRASH
CONTAINERS
Clark Food (p68)
Clean City (p68)
Duralorm (p70)
Glassform (p72)
Hollywood (p74)
United Recept. (p84)
Upbeat (p84)
PROJECTION
APERTURE
PLATES
Ballantyne(p66)
CFS/Rentec (p66)
Christie (p68)
Cinemeccanica (p68)
Hadden (p72)
Kelmar(p74)
Lavezzi (p74)
MegaMax (p76)
Veronese (p86)
Westar/ICE (p88)
Xebex (p88)
Xetron (p88)
AUTOMATION
CONTROLLERS
Avask (p66)
Ballantyne (p66)
Big Sky (p66)
CFS/Rentec (p66)
Christie (p68)
Cinemeccanica (p68)
Component (p68)
CPI (p68)
Edio (p70)
Hadden (p72)
Kelmar (p74)
Marble (p76)
MegaMax (p76)
ORC (p78)
Raven (p80)
Reel Auto. {p80)
RGM {p80)
Smart (p82)
SPECO (p82)
Strong (p84)
Xetron (p88)
CARBONS
CPI {p68)
Hadden (p72)
Marble (p76)
CHANGEOVER
DEVICES/CUE
MARKERS
CFS/Rentec (p66)
Cinemeccanica (p68)
Component (p68)
CPI (p68)
Hadden (p72)
Kneisley (p74)
Marble (p76)
MegaMax (p76)
Raven (p80)
SPECO (p82)
Westar/ICE (p88)
Wolk (p88)
Xetron (p88)
CONSOLES
Ballantyne (p66)
Big Sky (p66)
CFS/Rentec (p66)
Christie (p68)
Cinemeccanica (p68)
Hadden (p72)
Kneisley (p74)
LP. Assoc. {p76)
ORC {p78)
Strong (p84)
Westar/ICE (p88)
Xetron (p88)
FILM CLEANERS/
LUBRICANTS
Bartco (p66)
CFS/Rentec (p66)
CPI (p68)
Electro Chem. (p70)
Goldberg (p72)
Hadden (p72)
Kelmar (p74)
Kinetronics (p74)
Marble (p76)
MegaMax (p76)
M-Service (p78)
ORC (p78)
SPECO (p82)
Tomakote (p84)
Westar/ICE (p88)
Xetron (p88)
FILM TRANSPORT
Ballantyne (p66)
CFS/Rentec (p66)
Christie (p68)
Cinemeccanica (p68)
Goldberg (p72)
Hadden (p72)
ORC (p78)
SPECO (p82)
Westar/ICE (p88)
Xebex (p88)
Xetron (p88)

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LAMPHOUSES
Big Sky (p66)
CFS/Rentec (p66)
Christie (p68)
Cinemeccanica (p68)
Hadden (p72)
Kneisley (p74)
L.P. Assoc. (p76)
MegaMax (p76)
Navitar (p78)
ORG (p78)
Strong (p84)
Veronese {p86)
Xebex (p88)
Xetron (p88)
LENSES
CFS/Rentec (p66)
Continental (p68)
CPI (p68)
Dimension 3 (p70)
Hadden (p72)
Jos Schneider (p74)
Kneisley (p74)
L.P. Assoc. (p76)
Marble (p76)
MegaMax (p76)
Navitar (p78)
ORC (p78)
Schneider (p82)
Super-V {p84)
Westar/ICE (p88)
Xebex (p88)
MAKEUP TABLES
Big Sky (p66)
CFS/Rentec (p66)
Christie (p68)
Cinemeccanica (p68)
Goldberg (p72)
Hadden (p72)
Kelmar(p74)
MegaMax (p76)
ORC (p78)
Robert Potts (p80)
SPECO (p82)
Westar/ICE (p88)
Xebex (p88)
Xetron (p88)
PLATTERS
Ballantyne (p66)
Big Sky (p66)
CFS/Rentec (p66)
Christie (p68)
Cinemeccanica (p68)
Hadden {p72)
MegaMax (p76)
Neps {p78)
ORC (p78)
Rotjert Potts (p80)
SPECO (p82)
Westar/ICE (p88)
Xebex (p88)
Xetron (p88)
PORTABLE
PROJECTORS
CFS/Rentec (p66)
Hadden (p72)
L.P. Assoc. (p76)
Veronese (p86)
Westar/ICE (p88)
Xetron (p88)
POWER
SUPPLIES
Big Sky (p66)
CFS/Rentec (p66)
Christie (p68)
Cinema Xenon (p68)
Cinemeccanica (p68)
Hadden (p72)
Kelmar(p74)
Kneisley (p74)
L.P. Assoc. (p76)
ORC (p78)
Veronese (pSe)
Xebex (p88)
Xetron (p88)
PROJECTOR
PARTS
CFS/Rentec (p66)
Christie (p68)
Cinemeccanica {p68)
CPI (p68)
Hadden (p72)
Intl. Cinema (p74)
Lavezzi (p74)
MegaMax (p76)
Romar/Herstal {p80)
Teco (p84)
Veronese (p86)
Westar/ICE (p88)
Wolk (p88)
Xebex (p88)
Xetron (p88)
PROJECTORS:
16MM PROJECTORS
Big Sky (p66)
Cinemeccanica {p68)
Hadden (p72)
Kneisley (p74)
Veronese (p86)
Westar/ICE (p88)
Xetron (p88)
35MM
PROJECTORS
Big Sky {p66)
Ballantyne (p66)
CFS/Rentec (p66)
Christie (p68)
Cinemeccanica (p68)
Hadden (p72)
IWERKS{p74)
MegaMax (p76)
Navitar (p78)
Raytheon (p80)
Strong (p84)
Veronese {p86)
Xebex (p88)
Xetron (p88)
35/70MM
Big Sky (p66)
CFS/Rentec (p66)
Cinemeccanica (p68)
Hadden (p72)
IWERKS (p74)
MegaMax (p76)
Westar/ICE (p88)
70MM PROJECTORS
Big Sky (p66)
CFS/Rentec (p66)
Christie (p68)
Hadden (p72)
IWERKS (p74)
MegaMax (p76)
Westar/ICE (p88)
Xebex (p88)
REELS
Christie (p68)
Cinemeccanica (p68)
Goldberg (p72)
Hadden (p72)
MegaMax {p76)
Westar/ICE (p88)
Wolk (p88)
Xebex (p88)
Xetron (p88)
REEL ARMS/
SUPPORTS
Big Sky (p66)
CFS/Rentec (p66)
Christie (p68)
Cinemeccanica (p68)
CPI (p68)
Kelmar(p74)
MegaMax (p76)
ORC (p78)
SPECO {p82)
Veronese (p86)
Westar/ICE (pSS)
Xebex (pSS)
Xetron (p88)
REFLECTORS
CFS/Rentec (p66)
Christie {p68)
Cinema Xenon (p68)
Cinemeccanica (p68)
CPI (p68)
Goldberg (p72)
Hadden (p72)
L.P. Assoc. (p76)
Marble (p76)
MegaMax (p76)
ORC (p78)
Westar/ICE (p88)
Xebex (p88)
Xetron (p88)
REWINDS
Big Sky (p66)
CFS/Rentec {p66)
CPI (p68)
Goldberg (p72)
Hadden (p72)
Kelmar (p74)
MegaMax {p76)
Westar/ICE (p88)
Xebex {p88)
Xetron (p88)
SUDE PROJECTORS
Ballantyne (p66)
CFS/Rentec (p66)
CPI (p68)
Eastman Kodak (p70)
Hadden (p72)
Navitar (p78)
Schult (p82)
Strong (p84)
SPLICERS/CEMENT
CFS/Rentec (p66)
CPI (p68)
Equipment Etc. (p70)
Goldberg (p72)
Hadden (p72)
L.P. Assoc. (p76)
Marble (p76)
MegaMax {p76)
Westar/ICE (p88)
Xebex (p88)
Xetron (p88)
XENON BULBS
Big Sky (p66)
CFS/Rentec (p66)
Christie {p68)
Cinema Xenon (p68)
CPI (p68)
Goldberg (p72)
Hadden (p72)
Kneisley (p74)
L.P. Assoc. (p76)
Martjie (p76)
MegaMax (p76)
Navitar (p78)
ORC (p78)
OSRAM (p78)
Westar/ICE (p88)
Wolk (p88)
Xebex (p88)
Xetron (p88)
Yumex (p88)
SOUND
EQUIPMENT
AMPS/PREAMPS
AB Intl. (p64)
Apogee (p64)
Ashly Audio (p66)
BGW (p66)
CFS/Rentec (p66)
Cinema Group (p68)
Cinemeccanica (p68)
Continental (p68)
CPI (p68)
EVI (p70)
Frazier (p72)
Hafler (p72)
Hadden (p72)
High Pertoimance (p72)
JBL (p74)
Kelmar (p74)
MegaMax (p76)
Odyssey (p78)
ORC (p78)
Peavey (p80)
QSC (p80)
Raven (p80)
RGM (p80)
Smart (p82)
Stage Accompany (p82)
Strong (p84)
Teccon {p84)
USL (p84)
Westar/ICE (p88)
Xebex (p88)
DC EXCITERS
CFS/Rentec (p66)
Component (p68)
CPI (p68)
Hadden (p72)
Kelmar {p74)
Kneisley (p74)
L.P. Assoc. (p76)
Marble (p76)
MegaMax (p76)
Odyssey (p78)
ORC (p78)
Raven (p80)
Smart (p82)
Westar/ICE (p88)
DESIGN
Apogee (p64)
CFS/Rentec (p66)
Dolby (p70)
Frazier (p72)
Hadden (p72)
High Performance (p72)
Kelmar {p74)
Lucasfilm/THX (p76)
MegaMax (p76)
Odyssey (p78)
Raven (p80)
Smart (p82)
DIGITAL
STEREO
CFS/Rentec (p66)
Cinema Group (p68)
Component (p68)
Continental {p68)
Dolby (p70)
DTS (p70)
Hadden (p72)
High Performance (p72)
Karasync (p74)
Odyssey (p78)
Raven (p80)
Sony (p82)
Westar/ICE (p88)
Xebex (p88)
EQUALIZERS
AB Intl. (p64)
Apogee (p64)
Ashly Audio (p66)
CFS/Rentec (p66)
Cinema Group (p68)
Continental (p68)
EVI (p70)
Frazier (p72)
Hadden (p72)
MegaMax (p76)
Raven (p80)
RGM (p80)
Smart (p82)
Stage Accompany (p82)
USL (p84)
Xebex (p88)
EXCITER LAMPS
CFS/Rentec (p66)
Component (p68)
CPI (p68)
Hadden (p72)
MegaMax {p76)
RGM (p80)
Smart (p82)
Westar/ICE (p88)
HEARING ENHANCE-
MENT SYSTEMS
Assoc. Hearing (p66)
CFS/Rentec (p66)
Cinema Group (p68)
CPI (p68)
Hitec (p72)
Koss {p74)
LPS (p76)
Marble (p76)
MegaMax (p76)
Odyssey (p78)
Raven (p80)
Schult (p82)
USL (p84)
Westar/ICE {p88)
Williams (p88)
NOISE REDUCERS
CFS/Rentec (p66)
Cinema Group {p68)
Continental (p68)
CPI {p68)
Dolby (p70)
Hadden (p72)
MegaMax (p78)
Smart (p82)
Westar/ICE (p88)
Xebex (p88)
PROCESSORS
Apogee (p64)
Ashly (p66)
CFS/Rentec (p66)
Chace (p66)
Cinema Group (p68)
Continental (p68)
CPI {p68)
Dolby (p70)
DTS (p70)
EVI (p70)
Hadden (p72)
JBL {p74)
Kelmar {p74)
Marble (p76)
Odyssey (p78)
Smart (p82)
Sony (p82)
USL (p84)
Westar/ICE (p88)
Xebex (p88)
SOUNDHEADS
CFS/Rentec (p66)
Component (p68)
Continental (p68)
CPI {p68)
Dolby (p70)
EVI (p70)
Hadden (p72)
Teccon (p84)
Westar/ICE (p88)
SPEAKERS
Apogee (p64)
BGW (p66)
CFS/Rentec (p66)
Cinema Group (p68)
Continental (p68)
CPI (p68)
EAW (p70)
EVI (p70)
Frazier (p72)
Hadden (p72)
High Perlotmance (p72)
JBL (p74)
Karasync (p74)
Klipsch (p69)
MegaMax (p76)
Miller & Kreisel (p76)
OmniMount(p78)
Smart (p82)
Stage Accompany (p82)
Strong (p84)
Total Audio (p84)
Xebex (pSe)
STEREO SYSTEMS
CFS/Rentec (p66)
Cinema Group (p68)
Continental (p68)
CPI (p68)
Dolby (p70)
EVI (p70)
Frazier {p72)
Hadden (p72)
High Perfomiance (p72)
JBL (p74)
Kelmar (p74)
Lucasfilm/THX (p76)
MegaMax (p76)
Odyssey (p78)
Raven (p80)
RGM (p80)
Smart {p82)
Total Audio (p84)
USL (p84)
Westar/ICE (p88)
Xebex (p88)
SYNTHESIZERS
CFS/Rentec (p66)
Chace (p66)
Cinema Group (p68)
Hadden (p72)
MegaMax (p76)
Smart (p82)
USL (p84)
Westar/ICE (p88)
STAGE
EQUIPMENT
CURTAINS/
CONTROLS/
TRACKS
Automatic Dev. (p66)
CFS/Rentec (p66)
CPI (p68)
DeClercq's {p70)
Eomac {p70)
Halgo (p72)
Northwest (p78)
Novelty (p78)
Southern Scenic (p82)
Tru-Roll (p84)
MASKING
CFS/Rentec {p66)
CPI (p68)
Eomac (p70)
Hadden (p72)
M.D.I. Screens (p76)
MegaMax (p76)
Nick Mulone (p78)
Northwest (p78)
Novelty (p78)
Pro-Tapes (p80)
Southern Scenic (p82)
Tru-Roll (p84)
Xebex (p88)
SCREEN CLOTH
CFS/Rentec (p66)
Eomac (p70)
Hadden (p72)
Southern Scenic (p82)
Technikole (p84)
Xebex (p88)
SCREEN FRAMES
CFS/Rentec (p66)
CPI (p68)
Eomac (p70)
Hadden (p72)
Huriey (p74)
MegaMax (p76)
Nick Mulone {p78)
Southern Scenic {p82)
Stewart Filmscr. (p82)
Technikole (p84)
Tnj-Roll (p84)
Xebex (p88)

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Manufacturers
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The following companies are manufacturers of specialized theatre equipment and
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easy for readers to find a particular company, this listing Is alphabetical.
A table listing these companies by product type appears under the heading
"Index of Manufacturers and Suppliers, " beginning on Page 58.
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A&A PARKWAY MACHINE CORP.
2301 York Road
Timonium.MD 21093
410-252-1020
FAX: 410-252-7137
Ed Kovens, President
A&A NORTH:
132-12 11th Avenue
CoUege Point, ^4Y 11357
718-747-3025
FAX: 718-747-3029
Michael Kinsley, Mgr.
Vending machines and supplies
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P.O.Box 4142
Seal Beach, CA 90740
562-434-1627, 562-434-9947
FAX: 562-434-9948
R. B. Hoffman, Chairman
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systems, computerized LEDS,
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ARROW SIGN CO.
1 03 1 46th Avenue
Oakland, CA 94601
510-533-7693
FAX: 510-533-0815
Chuck Sterne, President
Custom electric Signs, marquees &
neon; drive-in screens/towers
ASHLY AUDIO INC.
847 Holt Rd.
Webster, NY 14580-9103
716-872-0010
FAX: 716-872-0739
Dave Parse, VP Sales & Mktg.
E-MAIL: info@ashly.com
URL: www.ashly.com
Professional audio equipment
including power amplifiers & signal
processing
ASSIGNED SEATING & MFG.
GROUP INC.
102 N. California Street
City of Industry, CA 91744
626-333-1464
FAX: 626-968-5316
Chuck Kaplan, President
E-MAIL: seatn\anl@earthlii\k.net
Manufacturer and renovator of
auditorium seating & custom
seating for screening rooms
ASSOCIATED HEARING
INSTRUMENTS
6796 Market St.
Upper Darby, PA 19082
800-253-3442
FAX: 610-352-2469
Dan Libby, VP
Gary Bond, Principal
Assistive listening devices for the
hearing impaired: FM & infrared
AUDIO VISUAL SYSTEMS
320 St. Louis Ave.
P.O. Box 2107
Woonsocket, RI 02895-2351
401-767-2080
FAX: 401-767-2081
Rita Y. Adams, President
FM-Stereo radio sound systems for
drive-in theatres
AURA LIGHTING
779 N. Benson Ave.
Upland, CA 91786
909-985-3864, 800-942-8880
FAX: 909-985-5938
Dick Niccum, President
Dan Whisler, Prod. Mgr.
David Edison, Sales Mgr.
Decorative low voltage lighting
products
AUTOMATIC DEVICES CO.
2121 S. 12th St.
Allentown, PA 18103
610-797-6000
800-360-2321
FAX: 610-797-4088
John A. Samuels, President
URL: wwTV.automaticdevices.com
Curtain tracks, motors & stage
hardware
AUTOMATICKET
110 Industry Lane
P.O.B. 296
Forest Hill, MD 21050
410-879-3022
410-838-0036
FAX: 410-838-8079
Gorman W.White Jr.,
VP/Operations
E-MAIL: info®hurleyscreen.com
URL: www.hurleyscreen.com
Ticket issuing and boxoffice control
equipment
AVASK INC.
75 West Forest Ave.
Englewood, N] 07631
201-567-7300
FAX: 201-569-6285
Robert Bredin, President
Harry Sadel, VP
Leslie Kaplan, VP Sales
An automatic tension-sensing device
which protects platters &
projectors from high-tension
headwraps
AVC
Box 7735, Newark, DE 19714
FAX: 302-292-0595
David H. Goodman
AVL SYSTEMS INC.
5540 S.W. 6th Place
Ocala, FL 34474
352-854-1170, 800-ACU-STIC
FAX: 352-854-1278
J. Philip Hale, President
Karen Hale, VP
Terry D. Putty, Sales Mgr.
Mike Baker, Sales
Racquel Robson, Sales
Acoustical wall & ceiling panels;
diffusers
B
BALLANTYNE OF OMAHA/
STRONG INTERNATIONAL
4350 McKinley St.
Omaha, NE 68112
402-453-4444; FAX: 402-453-7238
John Wilmers, President & CEO
Ray F. Boegner, Sr. VP
URL: www.strong.cinema.com
Projection & sound equipment for
commercial theatres and special
venue applications; xenon slide
projectors & spotlights
BARTCO CO.
924 N. Formosa
HoUywood,CA 90046
213-851-5411
LeRoy E. Bartels, President
Walter]. Bartels,VP
Susan R. Foley, Sec./Treas.
Cleaning solvents, film cleaning
machinery
BASS INDUSTRIES INC.
380 N.E. 67th Street
Miami, FL 33138
305-751-2716, 800-346-8575
FAX: 305-756-6165
Robert M. Baron, President
Eric Finnegan, Vice President
Irma Baron: Vice President
E-MAIL: sales@bassind.com
URL: www.bassind.com
Display cases, poster frames,
marquees, boxoffice signs,
concession & candy cases
BEAVER (MACHINE O'MATIC LTD.)
1341 Kcrrisdalc Blvd.
Newmarket, Ontario
CANADA L3Y7V1
905-836-4700, 800-265-6772
FAX: 905-836-4737
Josef Schwarzli, President
Bemic Schwarzli, VP
Brian Horton, Sales Mgr.
E-MAIL: sales@beavervending.com
URL: bcavcrvcnding.com
Confection dispensing machines
BEER NUTS INC.
103 N.Robinson St.
Bloomington, IL 61702-1327
309-827-8580, 800-233-7688
FAX: 309-827-0914
Joyce Komnick, Sales Ops. Mgr.
Lin Walkington, Natl. Sales Mgr.
E-MAIL: bnil@aol.com
URL: www.beer-nuts.com
Sweets salty nuts; peanuts, cashews
& almonds
BERLOC MFG/SIGN COMPANY
7405 Greenbush Ave.
N. Hollywood, CA 91605
818-503-9823, 800-290-SlGN
FAX: 818-503-0934
Joan Adams, Owner
Ten McClain, Secretary
E-MAIL: berloc@pacbell.net
Control ropes/posts/railings, menu
boards, display & directional signs
BGW SYSTEMS INC.
13130 Yukon Ave., P.O. Box 5042
Hawthorne, CA 90250
800-468-AMPS, 310-973-8090
FAX: 310-676-6713
Barbara Jo Wachner, President
Joe DeMeo, Sales Mgr., Cin. Prods.
URL: www.bgw.com
E-MAIL: sales@bgw.com
Audio power amps, rack-mount
computers and self-powered sub
woofer systems
BIG SKY INDUSTRIES
259 Center Street
Phillipsburg,NJ 08865
908-454-6344; FAX: 908-454-6373
Mark Smith, President
fi/totion picture projection equipment
& supplies
BOSTON LIGHT & SOUND
290 North Beacon St.
Boston, MA 02135-1990
FAX: 617-787-4257
John Gallucci
BREJTFUS ENTERPRISES INC.
410 S. Madison Drive, Suite 1
Tempe, AZ 85281
602-731-9899; FAX: 602-731-9469
Ron Brejtfus, President
Michael A. Regan, VP
Kristina Wood, Office Mgr.
David Stephens, Plant Mgr.
E-MAIL: mregan@primenet.com
Artistic acoustically efficient wall
panels
BUX-MONT ELECTRICAL
ADVERTISING SYSTEMS
221 Horsham Rd.
Horsham, PA 19044
215-675-1040; FAX: 215-675-4443
William Sweigart, Owner
Theatre marquees, electrical signs &
letters, flags & flagpoles
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CADDY PRODUCTS
10.501 Florida Ave. South
Minneapolis, MN 55438
612-828-0030; FAX: 612-829-0166
Peter Bergin, Managing Director
Phil Rafnson, President
URL: pagcs.prodigy.com/
exixlus/mts.htm
Cupholders for theatres & stadiums
CARGILL VEGETABLE OILS
P.O. Box5693/MS93
Minneapolis, MN 55440-5693
612-742-6627
FAX: 612-742-5503
Roy A. Johnston, Marketing
Manager
Popcorn oils
CATCO MARBLE & GRANITE (A
DIVISION OF CATCO)
200 Markley St.
Port Reading, NJ 07064
732-602-9600, 800-526-2826
FAX: 732-602-0665
Sammy S. Tawil, Natl Sales
l\/larble, granite, limestone & porcelain
tiles for exterior & interior
C. CRETORS & COMPANY
3243 N. California Avenue
Chicago, IL 60618-9964
773-588-1690; FAX: 773-588-2171
Gino Nardulli, VP, Sales & Mktg.
URL: home.navisoft.com/cretors
Popcorn, caramelcorn & cotton candy
machines, kettle cleaners, butter
flavor salt & supplies
CELESTIAL LIGHTING
14009 Dinard Ave.
Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670
562-802-881 1 , 800-233-3563
FAX: 562-802-2882
Jaime Nunez, Regional Manager
E-MAIL: JPNunez@aol.com
Lighting manufacturer of decorative
lighting and aisle and step lighting
with an LED or incandescent
system.
CEMCORP
110 Industry Lane
POB 296
Forest Hill, MD 21050
410-838-0036, 410-879-3022
FAX: 410-838-8079
Gorman White Jr., VP, Operations
E-MAIL: info@hurleyscreen.com
URL: www.hurleyscreen.com
Ticket issuing and boxoffice control
equipment
CFS/RENTEC
3820 N. Big Spring Drive SW
Grandville, Ml 49418
616-249-9400
FAX: 616-249-9422
Thomas M. O'Hara, Sales Rep.
E-MAIL: cfsren@aol.com
URL: www.cfsren.com
CFS/RENTEC CALIFORNIA:
779 N. Benson Ave.
Upland, CA 91786
909-931-9318
FAX: 909-949-8815
Ron Offerman, CEO
Dick Niccum, Presidei\t
Bill Noyes, COO
Richard Crane, Sales
CFS/RENTEC COLORADO:
3840 S. Helena Street
Aurora, CO 80013
303-699-7477
FAX: 303-680-6071
T.C. Costin, VP, Sales
Manufacturer of all motion picture
equipment: consoles, platters,
projectors, sound systems, special
venue
CHACE PRODUCTIONS
201 S. Victory Blvd.
Burbank,CA 91502
818-842-8346; FAX: 818-842-8353
Robert Heiber, President
E-MAIL: audio©chace.com
Sound processors, sound
enhancement, stereo synthesizer

Later this year, Hollywood labs will start the transition to cyan dye soundtracks.
Ultimately, all projectors have to be modified from the traditional tungsten exciter
lamp to a red light source. Our JAXLIGHT^"^ is a simple solution for the conversion.
Compatible with both conventional silver and new cyan dye soundtracks
Plugs directly into exciter lamp socket
Works with existing power supplies, slit
Lowers distortion and extends frequency response
Long life, economical and environmentally sound
lenses and photocells
Lamp Specifications
Typical Installation
Voltage Range:
Wave length:
Expected life:
Replaces BXM exciter lamps
3-12vac@50/60Hz
4-15vdc
655(±5)nm
greater than I Ok hours
l-USLjnc.
Quality Cinema Products
181 Bonetti Drive, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401, USA
Telephone [805] 549-0161 • FAX [805] 549-0163
(e-mail usl@uslinc.com

CHANGE AD LEHER CO.
20954 Currier Rd., Walnut, CA 91789
909-598-1996, 800-866-7676
FAX: 909-598-2251
Susie Alofaituli, VP
Marquee letters, ctiange arms,
storage celts & accessories
CHEF AMERICA
20 Inverness Dr. East
Englewoocl,CO80112
303-790-0303, 303-790-2103
FAX: 303-790-2589
Rob Nelson, VP, Sales/Mktg.
Prepared foods/Hot Pockets
CHINA MIST TEA CO.
7435 East Tierra Buena Lane
Scottsdale, AZ 85260
602-998-8807, 800-242-8807
FAX: 602-443-8384
Wally Hankins, Natl. Accounts Mgr.
URL: www.chinamist.com
Fresh brewed iced teas & equipment
CHRISTIE INC.
10550 Camden Dr., Cypress, CA 90630
714-236-8610; FAX: 714-229-3185
Jack M. Kline, Exec. VP/COO
Craig M. Sholder, Dir. of Mktg.
Joe Delgado, Director of Sales
Sevan Wright, Engineering Manager
James Dukes, Field Service Engineer
P35GP/A T 35mm gearless projector
w/LED Soundhead/SLC Xenon
Console/A WSAutowind/Champion
xenon bulbs/special venue proj.
CINE-LINE/DECOUSTICS
P.O. Box 615, Getzville, NY 14066
416-675-3983, 800-387-3809
FAX: 416-675-5546
John Balog,VP Sales
E-MAIL: sales@decoustics.com
URL: www.decoustics.com
Acoustical wall panels and ceiling
systems
CINEMA CLEANING SYSTEMS
3102 Oak Lawn, Suite 700
Dallas, TX 75219
800-959-2052; 214-528-1 132
FAX: 214-528-9690
Tyler Struve, President
Johiuiy E. Solis, VP
Carlos Reyes, President, Operations
Gary Andersen, VP National Sales
E-MAIL: info@cinemacleaning.com
URL: www.cinemacleaning.com
Nationwide theatre cleaning services,
carpet cleaning, screen cleaning,
full line of chemical supplies
CINEMA GROUP LTD.
23679 Calabasas Rd., Suite 518
Calabasas,CA 91302-1502
800-582-9690, 818-225-8030
FAX: 818-225-8029
Clyde McKinney, VP Sales
E-MAIL: sales@cinemagroup.com
Line of professional cinema audio
equipment including digital cinema
processors, monitors, crossovers,
amplifiers etc.
CINEMA XENON INTL. INC.
261 Valk'V Vi-.t.i Drive
Camarillo, CA 93010-1655
888-669-7271 , 805-383-7226
FAX: 805-389-9611
CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS;
3915 13th Way NE
St. Petersburg, FL 33703
813-522-7732; FAX: 813-522-7826
Richard |. Sitxrkton, President
Ix-igh StiKkton, CFO
Dean IX'Negri, VP
E-MAIL: cini'xenonSaol .com
Yumex xenon theatre lamps
CINEMECCANICA U.S. INC.
8753 Lion Street
Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730
909-481-5842
FAX: 909-481-5845
Victor Nicelli, President
Thomas H. Brenner, VP Operations
Jeff Corman, Chief Technical
Engineer
fi/lanufacturer/distributor of
projectors, consoles, lamphouses,
power supplies & sound systems
lor cinema exhibition
CLARK FOOD SERVICE INC.
432 Front Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55117
612-489-2133
FAX: 612-489-8317
Marilyn Larsen, Dir. of Concessions
Concession supplies
CLEAN CITY SQUARES INC.
324 S. Newstead
P.O. Box 15239
Saint Louis, MO 63110
314-652-8622, 800-231-1327
FAX: 314-652-3788
Vicki Guidice, Merchandise Mgr.
Benches, planters, litter receptacles
COAST TO COAST
POPCORN AND CANDY
25 Denton Ave, P.O.B. 1 140
New Hyde Park, NY 1 1040
516-358-5114, 800-343-2676
FAX: 516-352-4307
Robert Bruck, President
Steven Bruck, VP & CPA
Pat Poll, Office Mgr.
Distributor of movie related candy,
popcorn & supplies: concession
sizes only
COCA-COLA USA FOUNTAIN
P.O. Drawer 1734
Atlanta, GA 30301
404-676-2121
FAX: 404-676-3605
Lisa Juris, Group Mgr. Creative Sol.
Post-mix fountain syrups: Coca-Cola,
Tab, Sprite, etc.
COFFEE-INN'S
2362 West Shangri-La Rd. Bldg. 200
Phoenix, AZ 85029-4724
800-528-0552
FAX: 602-997-6203
Stuart P. Kaner
Marc Israel
Manufacturer oficed-tea and coffee
brewing equipment; dollar bill
changers
COLFAX IN&.
38 Colfax street
Pawtucket, RI 02860
800-556-6777, 401 -724-3800
FAX: 401-724-4313
Lawrence Dressier, VP, Mktg. &
Sales
Manufacturer ofpopcorn popping &
topping oils: canola, corn, coconut,
sunflower & peanut
COLGATE PALMOLIVE COMPANY
191 F.. Manover Ave.
Morristown, Nj 07962
973-631-9000; FAX: 973-292-6028
Bob Blanchard, President
Gary Ponder, VP Sales
Ed Gagliardi, VP Mktg.
Sam Perrone, Controller
Barbara E. Kiefel, Natl. Accts. Mgr.
E-MAIL: Barbara kicfel®colpal.com
Complete line of institutional cleaning
products: Ajax cleaners,
degreasers, bathroom
disinfectants, liquid soap
COMPONENT ENGINEERING INC.
4237 24th Ave. West
Seattle, WA 98199
206-284-9171
FAX: 206-286-4462
Bill Purdy, President
LED sound readers, sound system
accessories, automation systems
and cue detectors
CONCEPTS IN VENDING
153 Connecticut Mills Ave.
Danielson,CT 06239
860-774-0033; FAX: 860-774-0114
Rob Schmidt, President
E-MAIL: concepts.rschmidt@snet.net
Bulk dispensing & coin-operated
vending equipment
CONNOLLY ROLL-A GRILL CORP.
12 First St./P.O.B. 398
Pelham, NY 10803
914-738^333, 800-468-4681
FAX: 914-738-2186
Robert Foster, Gen. Sales Mgr.
Concession equipment, grills, ovens,
bakers, warmers & condiment
stations
CONTINENTAL FAR EAST
3-18-9 Roppongi, minato-Ku
Tokyo 106, JAPAN
(3) 35838451; FAX: (3) 35890272
Ike Morikubo, Mktg. Mgr.
E-MAIL: cfepro@tokyo.email.ne.jp
CONTOUR SEATS INC.
P.O. Box 509, Allentown, PA 18105
610-395-5144, 800-247-4509
FAX: 610-398-7099
Greg L. Butz, Pres.
Raymond L. Federici, VP
Lee A. Butz, Treas.
Eric R. Butz, Assist. Secty.
Shari McKeever, Secty.
John R. Forsht III, Gen. Mgr.
Fixed, blow-molded plastic spectator
seating
CORNELIUS WILSHIRE
CORPORATION
2401 N. Palmer Drive
Schaumburg, IL 60196
847-397^600, 800-323-4789
FAX: 847-397-0250
William G. May, President & CEO
David Noble, President, Canada
David May, Exec. VP
Joeseph Asfour, Exec. VP, Sales &
Mktg.
Robert Wonder, VP, Sales & Mktg.
Equipment for beverage dispensing &
ice making & dispensing
CPI (CINEMA PRODUCTS
INTERNATIONAL)
1015 5th Avenue North
Nashville, TN 37219
615-248-0771,800-891-1031
FAX: 615-248-2725
Ron Purtee, President
Elizabeth E. Langley, Admin. Asst.
Sharon Dendy, Accounting &
Software Specialist
E-MAIL: sales®cinprod.com
URL: www.dnprod.com
Boxotfice equipment supplies,
software, projection & sound
equipment and supplies, aisle
lighting & crowd control
CRAIN/ATLANTAINC.
2786 Decatur Road, #250
Decatur, GA 30033
404-299-3400
FAX: 404-299-1226
Ken Crain, President
Theatre ticketing & concessions
systems
CREATIVE IMAGES
3205 Inspiration Drive
Weatherford, TX 76087
817-821-1911; FAX: 817-596-5849
Tony Monje, President
E-MAIL: tonymonje@aol.com
Manufacture & distribute training
videos related to the movie theatr
industry
CRES-COR
12825 Taft Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44108-1683
216-851-6800, 800-321-7174
FAX: 216-851-9734
George E. Baggott, Chairman
Clifford D. Baggott, President
Mobile foodservice equipment
CROSSROADS ESPRESSO
1801 BayshoreHwy.
Burlingame, CA 94010
650-342-1 1 1 1, 800-552-4424
FAX: 650-697-6464
Frank Manfredonia, Regional Sales
Manager
Commercial espresso machines
CROWN INDUSTRIES
151 North Park Street
East Orange, NJ 07017
973-672-2277
FAX: 973-672-7536
Gene Loebner, President
M. Camerota, VP
URL: www.gocrown.com
E-MAIL: support@gocrown.com
Control ropes, posts, railings
CURTICE BURNS FOODS
90 Linden Oaks, P.O. Box 20670
Rochester, NY 14602-0670
716-383-2439
FAX: 716-383-8337
Gary Vernon, Dir. of Natl. Accts.
Cheese sauce, snacks S popcorn
CY YOUNG INDUSTRIES INC.
711 E. 14th Ave.
North Kansas City, MO 641 16
816-474-1776, 800-729-2610
FAX: 816-474-1900
J.R. (Rick) Young, SR, President,
CEO
Carrie E. Young, VP, COO
Cy Young cupholder armrests: seat
reupholstery: children 's booster
seats & cupholder patron trays
D
DART CONTAINER CORP.
500 Hogshai-k Koad
Mason, Ml 48854
517-676-.3800
FAX: 517-676-3883
Bob Williams, Administrative Sale
Mgr.
Disposable food service products,
cups and containers
DATAVISIONINC. |
2835 Aurora Ave., Suite 1 15-385 '
Naperville.lL 60540
800-252-0308, 630-904-8244
FAX: 630-904-8255
Melinda Grady, Retail Systems
Manager
E-MAIL: mgrady@datavision.com
URL: www.dalavision.com
Manufacturer/Distributor of point ot
sale equipment

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DAVID TYSON LIGHTING, INC.
4549-24 St. Augustine Rd,
Jacksonville, FL 32207
800-385-3148; FAX: 800-385-3149
David Tyson, President
Long-life lighting products for theatres
DECLERCQ'S THEATRICAL
SPECIALTIES INC.
724 Kevin Court
Oakland, CA 94621
510-633-5110, 800-200-6873
FAX: 510-633-5114
Joe DeClercq, President
Paul OeClercq, VP
E-MAIL: info@declercqs.com
URL: www.declercqs.com
Tl)eatre draperies, rigging hardware,
wall treatment systems
DI-AN CONTROLS INC.
530 West St., Braintree, MA 02184
781-848-1299; FAX: 781-848-1659
Robert D. Kodis, President
John Sheehy, Sales Mgr
Boxoffice equipment and supplies,
computers and service, concession
registers
DIGITAL THEATER SYSTEMS, INC.
5171 Clareton Drive
Agoura Hills, CA 91301
818-706-3525; FAX: 818-706-1868
Terry Beard, Chairman
Dan Slusser, CEO
BUI Neighbors, President/COO
James Ketcham, VP Engineering;
Andrea Nee, VP Operations
E-MAIL: info@dtstech.com
URL: www.dtstech.com
DTS 6-track digital playback for movie
theatres: 6-track digital cinema
processor w/automation; analog &
digital equipment
DILLINGHAM TICKET CO.
781 Ceres Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90021
213-683-4415
FAX: 213-623-2758
Mike O'Keefe, Account Executive
Ticket printing of all kinds including:
thermal, gift certificates, coupon
books, roll tickets & passes
DIMENSIONS
5240 Medina Rd.
Woodland Hills, CA 91364-1913
818-592-0999
FAX: 818-592-0987
Daniel Symmes, President
3D glasses, camera & projection
equipment
DOLBY LABORATORIES INC.
100 Potrero Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94103
415-558-0200
FAX: 415-863-1373
Bill Jasper, President
loan Allen, VP
David Watts, VP Mktg.
Bob Warren, Cinema
Products
E-MAIL: info@dolby.com
URL: www.dolby.com
DOLBY LOS ANGELES:
3375 Barham Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90068
213-845-1880
FAX: 213-845-1890
David W. Gray, VP, L.A. Film Div.
DOLBY NEW YORK:
1350 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10019
212-767-1700
FAX: 212-767-1705
Michael V. DiCosimo, VP, East
Coast Division
DOLBY U.K.:
Wootton Bassett
Wiltshire SN4 8QJ, ENGLAND
1793-842100
FAX: 1793-842101
URL: www.dolby.com
E-MAIL: info@dolby.com
Equipment for Dolby Digital, Dolby
SR. and Dolby Stereo cinema sound
DR. PEPPER
P.O. Box 655086
Dallas, TX 75265
214-360-7000
FAX: 214-360-7789
Johnnie Brown, Director of Trade
Relations
Dr Pepper, 7-Up, Sunkist, Tahitian
Treat & Canada Dry.
DURAFORM
1435 Santa Fe Ave.
Compton, CA 90221
310-761-1640
800-823-1121
FAX: 310-761-1646
Joe Bonadona, VP & General
Manager
E-MAIL: duraform@earthlink. net
Trash receptacles & benches:
manufacturers of Duraform
products: custom molding
E
EASTMAN KODAK CO.
6700 Santa Monica Blvd.
Hollywood, CA 90038
213-464-6131
800-621-FILM
FAX: 213-468-1568
Terry Westhaser, Theater
Coordinator
URL: www.kodak.com/go/motion
Manufacturer of Eastman color print
film for release prints: conduct
training seminars for projection &
film handling
EAW (EASTERN ACOUSTIC
WORKS)
One Main Street
WhiHnsville, MA 01588
508-234-6158
FAX: 508-234-8251
Mark Mayfield, Director,
Cinema Products
Frank Loyko, VP, Sales & Mktg.
Denise Munro, Cinema Sales
Coordinator
Sandy MacDonald, Rep.
Loudspeaker systems for cinemas
ECONOPLEAT/EASTWEST
CARPET MILLS
1 1 143 W. Washington Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232
310-559-RUGS
FAX: 310-559-6357
Larry Sperling, President
Patented acoustical wall drapery
system
ECOTECHINC.
3K1 Blair Kd.
Avenul, NJ 07001
732-636-1500
FAX: 732-636-1813
Joel PetriKy,VP Sales
Theatre signs design S mft.:
computer controlled marquee:
pre-fab stainless steel diners
EDLO INDUSTRIES
435 Morrissee Avenue
Haledon, NJ 07508
201-445-5519
FAX: 201-444-7793
Ed Hausleben, President
Automation, dimmers, sound
EIMS INC.
P.O. Box 195
Wauna, WA 98395-0195
253-884-5802, 888-4-SPLYCE
FAX: 253-884-5803
Michael Von Ditter, President
Cheryln Morrell, Sales Mgr.
E-MAIL: debbie@eims-inc.com
URL: www.eims-inc.com
32-bit Windows based POS Mgmt
system: touchscreen ticketing,
concession, kiosk, corp. home
office, retail & food
EISENBERG SAUSAGE CO.
3531 North lllston Ave.
Chicago, IL 60618
773-588-2882
FAX: 773-588-0810
Ed Weinshenker, Sales Mgr.
Gourmet beef franks
ELECTRO CHEMICAL PRODUCTS
CORP.
460 Van Emburgh Ave.
P.O. Box 578
Washington Twp., NJ 07675
201-612-0234
FAX: 201-612-9824
Thomas Gallik, President
John Gallik, Sales Manager
Manufacturer of film cleaning
machines and chemicals
ELECTRONIC CREATIONS INC.
1153 Inspiration Lane
Escondido, CA 92025
760-480-1002
FAX: 760-480-6830
Bruce Hall, President
Trisha Yeager, Mktg. Mgr.
E-MAIL: brucehall®
ticketingsystems.com
URL: www.ticketingsystems.com
Manufactures & distributes electronic
theatre managment systems
including ticketing, concessions &
more
ELECTRONIC THEATRE
CONTROLS INC.
6640 Sunset Blvd., Suite 200
Hollywood, CA 90028
213-461-0216,608-831-4116
FAX: 213-461-7830
David Lincecum, Regional Manager
E-MAIL:dlincecum@etccormect.com
URL: www.etccormect.com
Lighting and dimming equipment for
TV, film & stage lighting
applications
EMERALD ISLE
21718 S. Vermont Ave., Suite 201
Torrance, CA 90502
310-533-5936; FAX: 310-533-5952
Spencer L.M. Chun, President/CEO
E-MAIL: emerald@exo.com
Frozen fresh fruit drinks & California
Smoothies
EMERGENCY LIGHTING SERVICES
INC.
150 Brookside Rd.
Waterbury,CT 06708
800-225-0263
FAX: 203-756-6312
Dick Clark, President
Emergency lighting products &L.E.D.
exit sign retrofits
EOMAC LTD.
2505 Dunwin Drive
Mississauga, Ontario
CANADA L5L ITl
905-608-0100
FAX: 905-608-0103
Mark Elliott, President
E-MAlL:eomac-ltd@sympatico.co
EOMAC U.K.:
Onslow Bridge Chambers
Bridge St., Guilford
Surrey, ENGLAND GUI 4R4
441491638276
FAX: 441491638916
Mark Elliott, President
Manufacture, supply, design and
installation of acoustic wall panels
& ceiling systems
EQUIPMENT, ETC.
P.O. Box 1194
Snellville,GA 30078
770-979-FlLM; FAX: 770-979-0919
Meenaxi M. Dave, VP
35mm film splicer & mini marquee
for theatre
EURO-AMERICAN BRANDS INC.
15 Prospect Street
Paramus, NJ 07652
201-368-2624; FAX: 201-368-2512
Dite W. Van Clief, President
Importer of Bahlsen gummi bears an
assorted gummi products: Bahlsei
cookies.
EVI AUDIO
600 Cecil St., Buchanan, Ml 49107
616-695-6831, 800-234-6831
FAX: 616-695-1304
Monte Wise, National Sales Managt
URL: www.eviaudio.com
Electro-Voice and Altec Lansing
loudspeakers and electronics
F
FAST-AD LEHERS
220 S. Center St.
Santa Ana, CA 92703
800-451-1907, 714-835-9353
FAX: 714-835-4805
Guy Barnes, President
Len Goss, VP
Kathie Barnes, Secty./Treas.
Brigitte McNaughton, Inside Sales I
Cust. Svc.
Changeable marquee & menu board
letters, extension pole letter
changers S letter storage cabinets
FUVORWEAR
28425 S. Cole Grade Road
Valley Center, CA 92082
800-647-8372; FAX: 760-749-6164
Martin Anthony, President
Lawrence Schlcif, Account Executi\
E-MAIL: flavorwt@ix.netcom.com
URL: www.flavorwear.com
High-quality 100% polyester colorfat
uniform accessories: Vests, apron
& neckwear. Custom programs
available.
FLOMATIC INTERNATIONAL
5924 SK 47th Ave.
Portland, OR 97206
503-775-2550, 800-435-2550
FAX: 503-771-0068
John Cochran, VP & COO
Post-mix dispensing valves, parts &
accessories

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toy from a "Premier" skill crane machine by Mission Crane. This classy machine, with its
all-black Lexan surface and "movie premier" neon graphics, will look fabulous in your theater
lobby.
Thousands of upscale locations have discovered our profitable, easy, and no cost "turn
key" program. Let your customers enjoy the play. And you pop the check we send you each
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FONDA GROUP INC.
1 5-2 1 Lower Newton St., P.O. Box 329
St. Albans, VT 05478
802-524-5966
FAX: 802-527-2582
David Fredrickson, Product Mgr.
Popcorn cups, holders, paper cold
and hot cups, toad trays
FORT JAMES CORPORATION
P.O. Box bOOll Rn er Park
Norwalk, CT 06856-6000
203-854-2372; FAX: 203-852-0535
Gary R. Simons, VP, Sales
Paper products
FRAZIER DIVISION,
SOUNDCRAFT SYSTEMS
3030 Canton
Dallas, TX 75226
214-741-7136, 800-422-7757
J.E. Mitchell, VP/ Gen, Manager
Full range controlled directivity
loudspeaker devices
FRITO-LAYINC.
7701 Legacy Drive, Piano, TX 75024
I? 972-334-7000; FAX: 972-334-5280
Snack foods and chips
FUNACHO
2165 Central Parkway
Cincinnati, OH 45214
800-386-2246; 513-241-9300
FAX: 513-352-5122
Michael Grause, President
E-MAIL: mike@hjnacho.com
URL: wAvw.hjnacho.com
Nacho chips, cheese sauce, chili &
salsa; 3. 75 oz. cup cheese
G
GAMMA TECHNOLOGIES INC.
6959 NW 82nd Ave.
Miami, FL 33166
800-522-SIGN, 305-477-7567
FAX: 305-477-7637
Shai Dirwri, President
E-MAIL: mail@gamma-tech.com
URL: www.gamma-tech.com
Electronic moving message displays:
indoor, outdoor, single color,
multi-color
GEHL'S GUERNSEY FARMS INC.
N. 1 1 6 W. I .SM70 Main Street
P.O. Box 1004
Germantown, Wl 53022-2600
414-251-8570,414-251-8572
FAX: 414-251-9318
Cindy Jach, Customer Service Rep.
Dairy-based foods: cheese sauces,
puddings, evaporated milk & iced
cappucino
GEMINI INC.
KB Mensing Way
Cannon Falls, MN 55009
800-533-0520, 800-LETTERS
FAX: 800-421-1256
JimWeinel,CEO
Harry Kahnert, CFG
Tom Grzechowiak, Gen. Sales Mgr.
Jerry Boycc, Product Mgr.
E-MAIL: geminilftteraO
worldnet.att.net
URL: www.signlcttcr9.com
3 dimensional, snap-lock, slotted A S
B letters, changeable copy letters,
snap-lock frames: accessories
GUSSFORM
10639 Roselle St., Suite A
San Diego, CA 92121
800-842-1121, 800-995-8322
FAX: 630-761-8859
Cyndi Gardner, Sales Mgr.
Fiberglass trash receptscles, ash urns,
planters & benches
GLOBE TICKET AND LABEL CO.
3435 Empire Bl\d., SW
Atlanta, GA 30354
404-762-971 1 , 800-523-5968
FAX: 404-762-7019
David A. Hiatt, President
Phillip Raines, VP, Sales
Colette Acuff Coleman, Dir., Mktg.
Custom printed tickets
GOETZE'S CANDY CO., INC.
3900 E. Monument St.
Baltimore, MD 21205-2980
800-638-1456, 888-638-1456
Spaulding A. Goetze, SR, CEO
Mitchell Goetze, Dir., Admin. & Sales
URL: www.goetzecandy.com
Goetze's Caramel Creams, Cow Tales,
Old Fashioned Caramel Apple Sticks
GOLDBERG BROTHERS INC.
P.O. Box 17048, Denver, CO 80217
303-321-1099; FAX: 303-388-0749
Randall G. Urlik, ExecuHve VP
Film Shipping systems, port windows,
speaker brackets, lobby equipment,
platter accessories, film guidance
rollers
GOLD MEDAL PRODUCTS CO.
10700 .Medallion Dr.
CincinnaH, OH 45241-4807
51 3-769-7676; 800-543-0862
FAX: 513-769-8500
J.C. Evans, Chairman
Dan Kroeger, President
John Evans, VP, Sales
Robin Breth, Director of Mktg.
Gary Wood, Natl. Sales Mgr.
Roger Frazier, Intl. Sales Mgr.
E-MAIL: goldmel9@eos.net
URL: www.gmpopcom.com
GOLD MEDAL CAROLINA:
2119 S. Elm/Eugene St.
Greensboro, NC 27416-6556
336-273-3346; 800-888-3346
FAX: 336-271-8153
Kim Therrien, Branch Mgr.
GOLD MEDAL INDIANA:
1445 Brookville Way, Suite K
Indianapolis, IN 46239-1035
317-353-1015, 800-874-1090
FAX: 317-353-0239
Chuck Spillner, Branch Mgr.
GOLD MEDAL NASHVILLE:
746 Freeland Station Road
Nashville, TN 37228-1002
615-256-4000; 800-827-0440
FAX: 615-256-1973
Frank Connor, Branch Mgr.
GOLD MEDAL NEW ORLEANS:
5425 Powell St.
New Orleans, LA 70123-2306
504-733-7348, 800-460-3850
FAX: 504-733-8055
GOLD MEDAL ORLANDO:
7000-A Venhire Circle
Orlando, FL 32807-5330
407-671-3626, 800-433-1002
FAX: 407-679-3229
Justin Krivan, Mgr.
GOLD MEDAL PITTSBURGH:
519 Parkway View Drive
Pittsburgh, PA 15205-1410
412-787-1030, 800-3a3-2356
FAX: 412-787-7295
Jeff Roth, Branch Mgr.
Concession equipment and supplies:
popcorn poppers, cotton candy,
shave ice. pizza, pretzels, nachos
GOnSCHALK THEATRE IDEAS
208 Rosander Ave.
P.O. Box 181
Vale, SD 57788
605-456-2259
Ernie Gottschalk, Owner
H/lfg. & distributor of flex shafts for
old style Manley corn poppers
GRADUS LIGHTING
Park Green
Macclesfield, Cheshire
SKI 7LZ ENGLAND
441625428922
FAX: 441625430504
Paul Baker, General Manager
E-MAIL: sales@gradusworld.com
URL: gradusworld.com
Decorative S safety step & aisle
lighting
GREAT WESTERN PRODUCTS
30290 U.S. Hw 72
P.O. Box 466
Hollywood, AL 35752
256-259-3578
800-239-2143
FAX: 256-574-2116
Scott Martin, President
Ralph Ferber, VP
Mark Hamilton, Natl. Accounts Mgr
Keith Black, Special Projects Mgr
E-MAIL: info@gwproducts
URL: gwproducts.com
Manufacturers & processors of
concession supplies & equipment
H
HADDEN THEATRE SUPPLY CO.
10201 Bunsen Way
Louisville, KY 40299
502-499-0050
FAX: 502-499-0052
Louis Bomwasser, Owner
Rose Seidenfaden, Office Manager
Specialty equipment for projection &
sound
HAFLER
P.O. Box 1860
Tempe, AZ 85281
888-423-5371
FAX: 602-894-1528
Richard Gentry, Natl. Sales and
Mktg. Mgr
Will Lewis, Director
URL: www.hafler.com
Audio amplifiers for professional &
high-end home use
HALGO SPECIALTIES
16760 Stagg Street
Suite 209
Van Nuys, CA 91406
818-366-0744
818-786-4436
FAX: 81 8-780-3486
Norm Goldstein, President/Owner
E-MAIL: halgoone@aol.com
Drapery, custom track, rigging and
motor systems, crowd control,
projection screens
HANOVER UNIFORM CO.
529 West 29lh St.
BalHmorcMD 21211
800-541-9709
FAX:410-Z35-6071
John Mintz, Sales Mgr.
Uniforms of all types for the theatre
Industry
HARIBO OF AMERICA INC.
1825 Woodlawn Dr., Suite 204
Baltimore, MD 21207
800-638-BEAR, 41 0-265-8890
FAX: 410-265-8898
Christian Jegen, President
Margie Walter, Sales Coordinator
Dan Love, Western Regional
Sales Mgr.
Gummi Bears & other Gummi candies
HARLAN FAIRBANKS CO., LTD.
7121A 6th St. S.E., Calgary, Alberta
CANADA T2H 2M8
403-253-9214; FAX: 403-252-0920
Ralph Jarvis, Branch Manager
Popcorn products, nachos & syrups
HAVEN TECHNOLOGY CORP.
670 E. Parkridge Ave., Suite 105
Corona, CA 91719
909-340-0800
FAX: 909-340-2314
Timothy Lee, Sales Mgr.
E-MAIL: tim@haventech.com
URL: www.haventech.com
f^anufacturer of box office intercoms
& talk-through systems
HAYES EQUIPMENT & SUPPLY
CO. INC.
P.O.Box 29, Syracuse, NY 13211
315-432-8183
Jack Hayes, President
Manufacturer of auditorium seat
covers
HERMAN GOELITZ CANDY CO.
INC.
2400 N. Watney Way
Fairfield, CA 94533
707-428-2800, 800-522-3267
FAX: 707-423-4436
Herman G. Rowland, Chairman
Patrick Huffman, President
Peter F. Cain, VP of Marketing
Michael L. Bianco, VP of Mfg.
David B. Klabunde, VP Sales
E-MAIL: salesQjellybelly.com
URL: www.jellybelly.com
Concessions, candy: Jelly Belly Jelly
Beans
HERSHEY CHOCOLATE USA
14 E. Chocolate .Xve.
Hershev, PA 17033
717-534'-4200; FAX: 717-534-7694
S. Michael Hughes, Assoc. Sales
Dvlpmnt Mgr.
Chocolate and non-chocolate
confections: Twizzlers, Hershey's,
Reese 's. Kit Kat. Amazin ' Fruit &
Heide
HIGH PERFORMANCE STEREO
64 Bowon Street
Newton Centre, MA 02459
617-244-1737; FAX: 617-244-4390
John F. Allen, President
Sound equipment, HPS-4000 sound
systems
HIRE NELSON CO.
325 Factory Road
Addison, IL 60126
630-.543-9400; FAX: 630-543-5334
Alan Bosworth, Gen. Mgr.
Concession cabinetry & counters
HITEC GROUP INTL. INC.
8160Madi.st)n
Burr Ridge, IL 60521
630-654-9200, 800-288-8303
FAX: 630-654-9219
Richard Uzuanis, VP
URL: www.hitcc.com
E-MAIL: spn@hitcc.com
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HOLLYWOOD EXPRESS LTD.
I'.O, Box UN, Longridge Rd.
Preston, PR2 5DA ENGLAND
441772830830; FAX: 441772831831
Brian Hobbs, Managing Dir.
E-MAIL:brianhobbs@hollyexp.co.uk
Concessionswholesaler/distributor
HOT 'N' SPICEY INC.
6180 Olentangy Blvd. #200
Worthington, OH 43085-3866
SOO-641-5661; FAX: 614-848-5640
Gourmet sausage line
HURLEY SCREEN CORP.
no Industry Lane/P.O.B. 296
Forest Hill, MD 21050
410-836-9333, 410-879-6757
FAX: 410-838-8079
Gorman W. White Jr., VP, Ops
E-MAIL: info@hurleyscreen.com
URL: www.hurleyscreen.com
Custom made screens, frames &
masking: screen brushes &
attaching springs
HUSSEY SEATING CORP.
38 Dyer Street Extension
North Berwick, ME 03906
207 676-2271, 207-676-0366
FAX: 207-676-2222
Adam Pearson, Theatre Sales Mgr.
Sean O'Leary, Install/Major Projects
E-MAIL:apearson@husseyseating.com
URL:www .husseyseating.com
Fixed & telescopic seating systems
I
ICEE
23660 Research Dr. A
^ Farmington Hills, Ml 48335
810-615-4433; FAX: 810-615-9212
Frozen carbonated beverages
IMTEK ENVIRONMENTAL CORP.
P.O. Box 2066, Alpharetta, GA 30023
770-667-8621; FAX: 770-667-8683
D.J. Keller, President & CEO
E-MAIL:imtek@noOodor.com
URL:www.no-odor.com
Environmentaliy friendly odor &
pollution control products
INDIANA CASH DRAWER CO.
1315 S. Miller St., P.O. Box 236
Shelbyville, IN 46120
61 5-269-741 1 ; FAX: 61 5-269-7338
Steven B. Hicks, Regional Mgr.
EAST:
290 Turnpike Rd., Suite 418
Westborough, MA 01581-2843
508-754-6600; FAX: 508-799-9686
Stephen Toomey, Regional Sales Mgr.
SOUTH CENTRAL:
811 E. Piano Pkwy. #118
Piano, TX 75074
972-424-6797; FAX: 972-424-5765
Glenn Jones, President
Electronically or manually activated
cash drawers, receipt printers &
keyboards
INTERNATIONAL CINEMA
EQUIPMENT CO. INC.
100 N.E. 39th St., Miami, FL 33137
305-573-7339; FAX: 305-573-8101
Steven H.Krams, CEO
Dara Reusch, Exec. VP
URL: www.iceco.com
E-MAIL: iceco@aol.com
Westar prolection equipment
IRWIN SEATING CO.
3251 Fruit Ridge Kd. NW
P.O. Box 2429
Grand Rapids, MI 49501
616-574-7400, 800-579-7328
FAX: 616-574-7411
Bruce Cohen, Sr. VP, Sales & Mktg.
Bill Marsh, Sales Manager
Paul Winter, Sales Manager
Joe Hoy, Sales Manager
E-MAIL: dsales@irwinseating.com
URL: www.irwinseating.com
Complete line of standard and luxury
theatre chairs
IWERKS ENTERTAINMENT
4540 W. Valeric St.
Burbank, CA 91505
818-842-7165, 818-841-7766
FAX: 818-842-0921
Don Stults, VP, Linear-Loop
Projectors
Ron Schmidt, VP, Engineering
B.J. Seeley, Sales Mgr.
E-MAIL: linloop@aol.com
URL: www.iwerks.com
Linear-Loop 35mm & 70mm film
projection systems
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JANISOURCE PROFESSIONAL
PRODUCTS
370 Wabasha St. N.
St. Paul, MN 55102
612-293-2824
Kay Jansen
Commercial cleaning products
JARCO INDUSTRIES INC.
98 Park Avenue /P.O.Box 159
Babylon, NY 11702-0159
516-422-9000; FAX: 516-422-9005
Jeffrey Stein, President
Justin Stein, VP, Operations
Mike Carlin, VP, Production
Marianne ConK, Controller
E-MAIL: jarcoind@aol.com
Custom fabricators of concession
stands, boxoffices, lobby fixtures,
popcorn warmers, display cases &
related equipment
JBL PROFESSIONAL
8500 Balboa Blvd.
Northridge, CA 91329
818-895-3481; FAX: 818-830-7865
Chuck Goodseli, Dir., Cinema Mktg.
E-MAIL: cgoodsell@harman.com
URL: www.jblpro.com
Loudspeaker systems for any cinema
application, including amplifiers
and crossovers
J.6. CLARK CO.
1 1 71 W. Center St., Marion, OH 43302
800-274-4882; FAX: 800-538-2594
Ken Vance, Vice President
Dean Maccagnone, Sales
Concession and food service
packaging: folding cartons,
popcorn containers, tubs, combo
trays
JOS. SCHNEIDER OPTISCHE
WERKE KREUZNACH
RinKslr. 132
D-55543 Bad Kreuznach, Germany
49-671601280; FAX: 49-671601 108
Bruno Molitor, Product Mgr., Proj.
Len.ses
Prolection lenses & test film
JUST BORN INC.
1300 Stefko Blvd., P.O. Box 1158
Bethlehem, PA 18016
610-867-7568, 800-445-5787
FAX: 800-543-4981
Garey Logan, Regional Sales Mgr.
John Kerr, Group Mktg. Mgr.
Hot Tamales, l^ike & Ike assorted
fruit candies
K
K & W POPCORN CO. INC.
710 East 24th St., Box 275
Trenton, MO 64683
816-359-2030; FAX: 816-359-3026
William Kennebeck, President
E-MAIL: kenebeck@lyn.net
Popcorn processors
KARASYNC DIGITAL AUDIO INC.
17 Washington St.
Norwalk, CT 06854
203-899-0671; FAX: 203-348-1430
John Karamon, President
Jenene Karamon
All electronic system for multichannel
digital audio for film S video
KARMA INC.
500 Milford St., P.O. Box 433
Watertown, Wl
800-558-9565, 414-261-1424
FAX: 414-261-3302
Elizabeth Bergmann, VP, Marketing
URL: www.karma-inc.com
E-MAIL: karma@karma-inc
Beverage dispensers
KELMAR SYSTEMS INC.
284 Broadway
Huntington Station, NY 11746
516-692-6131; 516-421-1230
FAX: 516-421-1274
Andrew Marglin, President
Margaret Pearsall, Executive VP
Laurie Franz, Accounting
Thomas Mohr, VP Engineering
Projection and sound equipment
KINETICS NOISE CONTROL
6300 Irelan Place, Dublin, OH 43017
800-959-1229; 614-889-0480
FAX: 614-889-0540
Virgil Temple, President
Larry Holben, VP, Sales
Doug Eberhart
E-MAIL: noisecon@aol.com
URL: www.kineticsnoise.com
Turn key acoustical treatment and
design: manufacturing, engineering
and installation
KINETRONICSCORP.
1778 Main St., Sarasota, FL 34236
941-951-2432; FAX: 941-955-5992
Eric Stasen, Sales Mgr.
E-MAIL: info@kinetronics.com
URL: www.kinetronics.com
Anti-Static and dust control products
KLOSS MFG. CO./
POPPERS SUPPLY
737N. 13th SI, P.O.Box 1149
Allentown, PA 18105
800-M5-7100; 610-435-9071
FAX: 610-435-8764
Richard C. Kloss, President
Stephen P. Kloss, VP
E-MAIL: klossmfg0aol.com
Concession equipment, food, service
and repair
KNEISLEY ELECTRIC COMPANY
P.O.Box 4692, Toledo, OH 43610
419-241-1219; FAX: 419-241-9920
Harry L. Eweli, President
Betty Schiffler, Admin. Assist.
Joe Monks, Purchasing Agent &
Controller
John Crowl, Factory Foreman
Lamphouses, power supplies and
consoles
KOALA CORP.
11600 E. 53rd Ave., Unit D
Denver, CO 80239-2312
800-666-0363; 303-574-1000
FAX: 303-574-9000
Pamela Schmidt, Dir., Marketing
E-MAIL: koalaco@koalabear.com
URL: www.koalabear.com
Seat boosters, baby changing stations
KORYN ROLSTAD
STUDIOS/BANNERWORKS INC.
2610 Western .•\\-e., SeMttle, W'A 98121
206-448-1003; FAX: 206-448-1204
Koryn Rolstad, President/Owner
Laura Jackson, Public Relations
E-MAlL:bannerworks@krstudios.con
Decorative ceiling systems: banners
KOSS CORP.
4129 No. Port Washington
Milwaukee, WI 53212
414-964-5000; 800-USA-KOSS
FAX: 414-964-8615
Jill McCurdy, Dir. of Marketing
URL: www.koss.com
Stereophones, computer speakers,
microphones & boom microphone
headphones
KRAFT NORTH AMERICAN
FOODSERVICE
185 Technology Dr. West
Irvine, CA 92618
714-453-3599; FAX: 714-453-3754
John Diehl, Region Account Mgr.
Oscar t\Aayer hot dogs and meats.
General Foods coffee and beverage
KRISPY KIST MACHINE CO.
120 S. Halsted St., Dept. B03
Chicago, IL 60661
312-733-0900; FAX: 312-733-3508
J.C. Geiersbach, Mktg. & Operations
Snack food equipment
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LASERTAINMENT PRODUCTIONS
INTERNATIONAL
1901 OakcresI Avenue, Suite 1
Minneapolis, MN 55113-2617
612-633-8000; 800-527-3739
FAX: 612-633-8083
David T. Gamer, Dir., Sales & Mktg.
E-MAIL: lasers©wavefront.com
URL: www.lasertainment.com
Custom laser projection systems for
permanent or temporary shows
LAVEZZI PRECISION INC.
999 Regency Dri\ e
Glendale Heights, IL 60139-2281
630-582-1230
800-323-1772
FAX: 630-582-1238
Albert LaVezzi, President
Douglas Kremer, Executive VP
Stephanie LaVezzi, Sales/Mktg. Mgr)
E-MAIL: lpi@lavezzi.com
Precision projector components

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LAVI INDUSTRIES
27810 Avenue Hopkins
\'alencia,CA 91355
800-624-6225
805-257-7800
FAX: 805-257-4938
Ga\ riel Lavi, President & CEO
Stephan J.
Longo, Dir. of Mktg.
Bob Bamett, Dir. of Sales
E-VIAIL:rudyl@lavi.com
L RL: www.lavi.com
LAVI CHICAGO:
401 N. Michigan Ave., Suite 1200
Chicago, IL 60611
800-405-5284
,^1 2-280-5193
FAX: 312-943-7523
LAVI DALLAS:
14901 Quorum Drive, Suite 585
Dallas, TX 75240
888-213-8209, 972-503-5466
FAX: 972-503-5477
LAVI NEW YORK:
2 East Avenue, Suite 212
Larchmont, NY 10538
888-205-4864, 914-833-9214
FAX: 914-833-9218
Beltrac public guidance stancliions,
Directrac signage and brass railing
systems
LAWRENCE METAL PRODUCTS
260 Spur Drive South
FOB 400-M
Bay Shore, NY 11706
516 666-0300; FAX: 516-666-0336
Stephen Lawrence, President
David Lawrence, VP, Sales
E-N4AIL: service@lawrencemetal.com
URL: www.lawrencemetal.com
Crowd control, posts, ropes,
tensasabarrier, railing & signs
LAZARUS LIGHTING DESIGN INC.
4131 Vanowen Place
Burbank,CA 91505
818-956-3211
800-553-5554
FAX: 818-956-3233
Brett Jay Lazarus, President
GU Segal, COO
Gary Waters, Exec. VP
E-MAIL: lldinc@aol.com
URL: www.lldinc.com
Fibre optic displays: lighting
contractor
LEHIGH ELECTRIC PRODUCTS
6265 Hamilton Blvd.
Allentown, PA 18106
215395-3386
FAX: 215-395-7735
Lloyd H. Jones, President
Dimming and control systems
LIBERTO SPECIALTY/
RICOS PRODUCTS
621 S Flores, San Antonio, TX 78204
210-222-1415; FAX: 210-226-6453
Frank Liberto, President
Robert Scribner, VP
Ron Mulholland, VP
Tony Liberto, Sales & Mktg.
Nactios, snack foods, concession
trailers
LIGHTING & ELECTRONIC DESIGN
INC.
190 Sierra Court, Unit C-6
Palmdale,CA 93550-7607
800-70(V5483
805-575-2225
FAX: 805-575-2232
Janie Lynn, President
E-MAIL: led0as.nel
Aisle ligtiting systems, chandeliers,
light curtains, wall lighting, control
equipment, LED bulbs, stadium
lighting
UPTON MONARCH P.M.G.
100 Bellfiold Kd.
Rexdale, Ontario
CANADA M9W6N1
416-246-1860
FAX: 416-240-4851
Jayne Hughes
Nachos, popcorn oils, soft drink syrup
LOU-ANA FOODS (A DIVISION OF
VENTURA FOODS)
731 N. Railroad Ave.
Opelousas, LA 70570
80^-551-9080
318-948-6561
FAX: 318-942-6239
Richard Biggs, VP Concession Sales
High-quality popping and topping oils;
all Bag n Box oils
L.P. ASSOCIATES INC.
6650 Lexington Ave.
Hollywood, CA 90038
213-462-4714
FAX: 213-462-7584
Leonard Pincus, President
Projection equipment & supplies
LPB INC.
28 Bacton Hill Road
Frazer, PA 19355
610-644-1123
FAX: 610-644-8651
Edward W. Devecka Jr., President
Miriam C. McDonough, Business
Manager
John E. Devecka, Sales Mgr.
E-MAIL: lpbsa!es®lpbinc.com
URL: www.lpbinc.com
LPB CALIFORNIA:
20944 Sherman Way
Canoga Park, CA 91303
818-340-4590
Richard W. Burden, Principal
Sound systems for hearing impaired
and drive-in theatres
LUCASFILM LTD., THX DIVISION
P.O. Box 10327
San Rafael, CA 94912
415-492-3900
FAX: 415-492-3999
Monica L. Dashwood, Gen.
Mgr.,THX Div.
Jerry Zemicke, Oper. Mgr.,
THX Theatres
Kimberly Yost, Marketing Mgr.,
THX Div.
Custom designed sound system,
crossover and systems rack
LUGO CONCESSION SUPPLY CO.
1513 Sports Dr. #15
Sacramento, CA 95834
916-922-8300
Richard Lugo, President
Concessions, food and equipment:
popcorn, cotton candy, sno-cone,
etc.
M
MAINSTREET MENU SYSTEMS
1375 North Barker Road
Brookfield, Wl 53045
414-782-6000
800-782-6222
FAX: 414-782-6515
Louie Seabolt, President
Bruce Johnson, Natl. Sales Mgr.
Mike Brundidge, Intl. Sales Mgr.
Illuminated modular menu systems
M & M/MARS
High Street, Hackettstown, NJ 07840
800-631-7636; 908-852-1000
M & IVI's. Snickers, l\/lilky Way 3
l\Ausketeers, Twix, etc.
MANKO SEATING CO. INC.
50 W. 36th St., New York, NY 10018
212 695-7470; FAX: 212-563-0840
Norman Manko, President
E-MAIL: jefflaur@msn.com
Replacement seat covers, backs,
foam, cotton and fabrics
MANUTECH
2080 Sunset Drive P.O.Box 51295
Pacific Grove, CA 93950
408-655-8794, 800-676-2569
FAX: 408-655-8967
Angelo Villucci, Owner
URL: www.manutech.com
Electric backpack high performance
blowers and vacuums for theatre
cleaning
MARBLE
421 Hart Lane, P.O. Box 160030
Nashville, TN 37216
800-759-5905, 615-227-7772
FAX: 615-228-1301
Booth supplies, automations,
dimmers, lenses, sound processors
MCALLISTER ASSOCIATES INC.
274 Main Street, Suite 301
Reading, MA 01867-3611
781-942-0700; FAX: 781-942-0240
Richard A. McAllister, President
Computerized theatre management
systems: booking, film remittance,
concession, advertising S
accounting
MDI
38271 W. Twelve Mile Road
Farmington Hills, MI 48331
248-553-1900, 800-228-8925
FAX: 248-488-5700
Heidi M. Prior, Mktg. Ops. Mgr.
Ralph Baughn, West. Reg. Sales Mgr.
Gary Rigby Natl Sales Mgr.
URL: www.mdiworldwide.com
Postergrip. easy snap-open frames:
StoreWorks, modular sign system
M.D.I. SCREENS (MARCEL
DESROCHERSINC.)
1440 Raoul Charrette, Joliette, Quebec
CANADA H1W1A6
514-755-3795; FAX: 514-755-3122
Marcel Desrochers, President
Danielle Marotte, Director of Mktg.
E-MAIL: mdicinema.com
Programmable motors, cinema
screens and theatre equipment
MEGAMAX SYSTEMS
P.O. Box 4186
St. Augustine, FL 32085
904-829-5702; FAX: 904-829-5707
Larry Polla, CEO/ President
E-MAIL: info@870.com
URL: www.870.cam
A full-sen/ice provider of products
and services for the large-format
entertainment industry
METRO TEL CORP.
2.50S. MilpitasBlvd.
Milpitas,CA 95035
408-946-4600; FAX: 408-946-4069
Richard Wildman, Exec. VP
E-MAIL: mctrotelco®aol.com
URL: members.aol.com/metrotelco/
Telecom test equipment incl.
handheld test sets, transmission
test equip, pipe/cable location. CPE
C3ll handling equipment
MICA LIGHTING CO. INC.
717-L, S. State College Blvd.
FuUerton, CA 92831
714-738-8448
FAX: 714-738-7748
George von Eissler, VP
E-MAIL: micalighting@earthlink.net
Fibre optic displays, signs & lighting
systems
MILEN POPCORN-CONCESSION
SALE
2400 Florida Ave.
Richmond, CA 94804
800-659-0280
FAX: 510-620-0451
Popcorn & concession
equipmenV.supplies
MILLER & KREISEL SOUND CORP.
10391 Jefferson Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232-3511
310-204-2854; FAX: 310-202-8782
Ken Kreisel, President
Charles Back, Exec. VP
John Arce, VP Sales
Douglas Osborne, Nat'l Sales Mgr.
E-MAIL: dougosbome@mksound.com
URL: www.mksound.com
High resolution speaker systems
MOBIURIO, S.A. DE C.V.
Calle del Sol #3, San Rafael
Chamapa
Naucalpan. Edo. de Mexico, 53660
525-300-0620
FAX: 525-300-2136
Lie. Elvia Cevada M., Intl.
Commerce Mgr.
E-MAIL:mobihar@netmex.com.mx
Theatre chairs
MODULAR HARDWARE
P.O. Box 33398
Tucson, AZ 85740
800-533-0042; FAX: 800-533-7942
Robert Hotch, President
E-MAIL: modhdwe@modhdwe.com
URL: www.modhdwe.com
Toilet partition hardware, washroom
accessories S grab rails, ADA
approved
MORRISON FARMS POPCORN
Rural Route 1 - Box 50A
Clearwater, NE 68726
402-887-5335; FAX: 402-887-4709
Frank C. Morrison, President
Brett Morrison, VP
Nancy A. Dietz, Sales Mgr.
Popcorn products: 50 lb. bag,
popping oil, poppers & misc.
supplies
MOTSENBOCKER'S LIFT OFF INC.
P.O.B. 90947
San Diego, CA 92169
800-346-1633, 619-581-0222
FAX: 619-483-6965
Gregg Motsenbocker, President
Lewis Silverberg, Exec. VP
Spotting kits for carpet, upholstery:
Graffiti, gum. pop, coffee & protein
stain removers
MOVIE AD CORP.
3.5(X) N, Andrews Ave.
Pompano Beach, FL 33064
954-784-6767, 800-329-4989
FAX:954-784-07(X)
Emile Noah, VP, Sales
Title art, interior S exterior signs &
displays
MOVIELEAD
2491 San Ramon Valley
Suite 1-310
San Ramon, CA 94583
FAX: 408-294-0999

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INSURANCE AGENTS & BROKERS
THEATRE INSURANCE SPECIALISTS
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Stan Reynolds, President
Ron Fry, Executive Vice President
Ed Williamson, Vice President
Steve Gooding, Vice President 300 Walnut Street, Suite 200
Sandra Bell, Theatre Department Manager Des Moines, lA 50309-2244
Judy Gearhart, Account Manager 800-767-1724
Michelle Rahe, Account Manager FAX 515-243-6664

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P.O. Box 4?0051
D-53344 Alfter, GERMANY
49-222262105; FAX: 49-222265974
Peter Mueller, Rep.
Film cleaning
MULTIFOODS
P.O. Box 173774, Denver, CO 80217
800-880-9900, 303-338-6369
FAX: 303-338-6370
Mike Bates, Natl. Accts. Mgr.
Full service national concession
distributor
MULTIPLEX COMPANY INC.
230 Old Ballwin Road
Ballwin, MO 63021-4843
314-256-7777; FAX: 314-527-4313
David Tomber, Mgr., Ent. Venues
E-MAIL: multiplex-beverage.com
Full line of high-capacity beverage
dispensing equipment
MVE INC.
3505 County Road 42 West
Bumesville, MN 55306
800-247-4446, 612-882-5000
FAX: 612-882-5185
Don Anderson, Sr. VP
Paul Plooster, Gen. Mgr./ VP
Ross Petersen, Intl. Sales
Mary Nelson, Mktg. Mgr.
URL: wv^rw.mve-inc.com
Bulk C02 systems
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NABISCO BRANDS INC.
50 New Commerce Blvd.
Wilkes Barre, PA 18762-0001
800-858-6736
Randy Catalanotte, Dir., Tele-Sales
Convenience and single pack foods
NAMCO INC.
150 Charcot Ave., San Jose, CA 95131
408-383-3900; FAX: 408-383-0128
Masaya Nakamura, Chairman & CEO
Kevin Hayes, President & CEO
Kenji Hisatsune, Exec. VP & COO
Robert Weiss, Dir., Manufacturing
Lucinda Bender, Mgr., Adv. /Events
URL:www.namco.com
NAMCO EUROPE:
8, Acton Park Estate, The Vale
London, ENGLAND W3 7QE
441813246000; FAX: 441813246010
Masaya Nakamura, Chairman
Mike Nevin, Managing Dir.
Shane Breaks, Dir.
Gary Newman, UK Sales Dir.
Patrick Edwards, Commercial Dir.
NAMCO ILLINOIS:
877 Supreme Dr., Bensenville, IL 60106
630-238-2248; FAX: 630-238-9333
Frank Cosentino, VP, Sales & Mktg.
Tom Siemieniec, Eastern Sales Mgr.
David Swafford, Western Sales Mgr.
Emilio Cabrera, Intl. Sales Manager
Anita Platacis, Sales Coordinator
NAMCO JAPAN:
2-8-5 Tamagawa
Ota-Ku Tokyo 146, JAPAN
03-3756-2311; FAX: 03-3756-5967
Masaya Nakamura, Chairman & CEO
Akiyoshi Sarukawa, Exec. Dir., Sales
Takashi Nakazato, CM, Sales Dept.
Joji Hayashi, Mgr., Asia/Oceania
Yuri Yamaya, Sr Sales, Asia/Oceania
Video games, simulators,
coin-operated games
NATIONAL TICKET CO.
P.O.Box 547, Shamokin, PA 17872
800-829-0829, 717-672-2900
FAX: 800-829-0888
E-MAIL: ticket@nationalticket.com
URL: www.nationalticket.com
Thermal ticket stock; gift certificates
and coupon books: redemption
tickets for fun centers
NAVITARINC.
200 Commerce Drive
Rochester, NY 14623
716-359-4000, 800-828-6778
FAX: 716-359-4999
Julian Goldstein, President
Michelle Long, Advertising Mgr.
Jennifer Marsham, Mktg. Assistant
E-MAIL: info@navitar.com
URL: navitar.com
Presentation products including
Videoli/late (video slide projectors),
ScanMate S MicroMate
NCSCORP.
14499 Dale Mabry Hwy., Ste. 201
Tampa, FL 33618
800-733-7278, 813-962-0188
FAX: 813-908-9124
Roy Loveland, VP
URL: www.ncsco.com
Design, manufacture & install
concession systems, box offices,
candy carts. Supply & install food
service equip.
NECCO-STARK-HAVILAND
254 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02139
617-876-4700, 617-498-0500
FAX: 617-498-0526
Domenic M. Antonellis, President
Hans Becher, VP, Corporate Sales
Walter Marshall, VP, Corp.
Logistics & Planning
Tom McNulty, VP, Corp. Mktg. Dvlp.
Charles Blood, VP, Corp. Sales
Admin.
Candy
NEPS ENTERPRISES
Rural Route 3, Lacombe Alberta
CANADA TOC ISO
403-782-7649; FAX: 403-782-7649
Nelson Radmore, Vice President
Film handling equipment: platter
rings, etc
NESTLE FOOD COMPANY
3450 Dulles Drive
MiraLoma,CA 91752
909-360-7224; FAX: 909-361-0755
Mike Mosher,
Candy
NESTLE ICE CREAM CO.
30003 Bainbridge Road
Solon, OH 44139
216-498-7893
Ken Conerly, Special Markets Mgr.
Andrew Bradley, Sr. VP
Bon Bons ice cream nuggets, other
dairy products
NEW ENGLAND ICE CREAM CORP.
5 Annie King Lane
Dover, MA 02030
508-785-2485; FAX: 508-785-2495
Brure C. Ginsberg, President
Ice cream and ice cream freezers
NICK MULONE & SON
100 Highland Ave
Cheswick, PA 15024
724-274-3221, 724-274-3222
FAX: 724-274-4808
Nick Mulone, President
Screen frame, movable masking
hardware, masking boards
NORCON ELECTRONICS INC.
510 Bumside Ave., Inwood, NY 11096
516-239-0300; FAX: 516-239-8915
Norman Schlaff
Talk-thru communicator, TTU box
office, thru-glass intercom
NORTHWEST STUDIOS INC.
36415 Groesbeck Hwy.
Clinton Twp., Ml 48035-1551
810-792-1380; FAX: 810-792-1510
Steven J.
Bums, Secty. & Treas.
Stage curtains & tracks, rigging,
spotlights, equipment: Front ends,
acoustical walls, projection screens
& maskings
NOVAR CONTROLS CORP.
24 Brown St., Barberton, OH 44203
330-745-0074; FAX: 330-745-7401
David Weber, Exec. VP
Dean Lindstrom, Dir., Ntnl. Accounts
Energy Controls
NOVELTY SCENIC STUDIOS INC.
40 Sea Cliff Ave.
Glen Cove, NY 11542
516-671-5245, 718-895-8668
FAX: 516-674-2213
Howard Kessler, Treasurer
Leslie 1. Kessler, Vice President
Stage curtains, screen masking,
motors & tracks
N.T. AUDIO VISUAL SUPPLY INC.
1833 Centinela Ave.
Santa Monica, CA 90404
310-828-1098; FAX: 310-829-0881
Thomas McCormick, Pres. /Owner
E-MAIL: [name]@ntaudio.com
URL: www.ntaudio.com
35 & 70mm mylar leaders, specialized
& custom test
NURSE & CO.
Old Milbury Rd., Oxford, MA 01540
508-832-4295; FAX: 508-832-4295
Ray Nurse, VP
Burlap wall covering drapes
ODELL'S
P.O. Box 11336, Reno, NV 89510-1336
800-635-0436; 702-323-8688
FAX: 702-323-6532
Art Anderson, Ovmer
Michael Blout, Natl. Sales Manager
Popcorn toppings and popcorn
popping oil
ODYSSEY PRODUCTS INC.
5845 Oakbrook Pkwy, Suite G
Norcross, GA 30093
FAX: 770-825-0245
Eve Miller, Marketing Director
Ken Reeves, Design Engineer
E-MAIL: odysseyproducts®
mindspring.com
Theatre electronics, custom circuits
and products. Interface equipment,
sound accessories, fiberoptic
equipment
OMEGA PAHERN WORKS
1302 East Walnut Ave.
P.O. Box 1446
Dalton,GA 30722-1446
800-24 1 -4908, 706-226-2223
FAX: 706-272-7617
Joyce Maxwell, Print Div. Mgr.
Printed carpets tor commercial use
OMNIMOUNT SYSTEMS
1501 W. 17th St.
Tempe,AZ 85281-6225
602-829-8000; FAX: 602-756-9000
Garret E. Weyand, CEO
Monica Pershall, Sales/Customer
Service
URL: www.omnimount.com
Mounting devices for speakers &
monitors
OMNITERM DATA TECHNOLOGY
LTD.
2785 Skymark Ave., Unit 11
Mississauga, Ontario
CANADA L4W4Y3
905-629-4757; FAX: 905-629-8590
Edward S. Coman, President
Boxoffice ticketing systems, ATM's,
concession sales & inventory
management
ORC LIGHTING PRODUCTS
1300 Optical Dr., Azusa, CA 91702
626-815-3100, 800-755-LAMP
FAX: 626-815-3074
Jim Harp, VP, Sales & Mktg.
E-MAIL: orclight@aol.com
tl/lanufacturers of a complete line of
xenon projection lamps
OSRAMSYLVANIAINC.
P.O. Box 3305
Brentwood, TN 37024
800-394-0363; FAX: 615-661-4710
John Dawsey, Mgr., Theatre
Products
OSRAfi^ brand xenon lamps
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355 ln\-erness Drive S.
Englewood,CO80112
303-649-9818; FAX: 303-414-7805
Mark Kamiyama, VP, Sales
URL: wv«v.pacercats.com
PACER/CATS ASIA
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2 Handy Road, # 10-01, Cathay Bid
Singapore 229233
65-337-5037; FAX: 65-338-6538
Stefan Kruger, Gen. Mgr.
E-MAIL: ccscats@ccscats.com.sg
PACER/CATS GERMANY:
Max-Planck Strasse 15b
D-40699 Erkrath, GERMANY
49-211-20 90 20
FAX: 49-211-20 90 2-111
PACER/CATS LOS ANGELES:
8800 Sunset Blvd., Suite 600
Los Angeles, CA 90069
310-360-6000
FAX: 310-360-0405
Del Banjo, Exec. VP
Dan Haugen, Sr. VP
Eric Edwards, Exec. VP/CFO
E-MAIL: banjod®ticketmaster.con
PACER/CATS PARIS;
18-20 rue Edouard Jacques
F-75014, Paris, FRANCE
33-M3 20 05 05; FAX: 33-1-43 20 53
PACER/CATS U.K.:
York House, Empire Way
Wembley Middlesex, UK HA9 OV
441817959900
FAX: 441819029943
Steve Gould, Managing Director
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Computerized boxoffice, concessio
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23."0 Packer Road
Lawrence, KS 66044-0219
785-842-3000
FAX: 785-842-5086
Mike Jacob, Natl. Sales Manager
Concession supplies, personalized
plastic cups
PEARSON CANDY CO.
2140 U. 7th St, I'OB 64459
St. Paul, MN 55164
800-328-6507, 612-698-0356
FAX: 612-696-2222
Candy
PEAVEY ELECTRONICS
711 A Street
Meridian, MS 39301
601-483-5365
FAX: 601-486-1278
Ernie Lansford, Dir. of Worldwide
Sales
Full line of quality amplification and
loudspeaker systems
PEPSI-COLA COMPANY
1 Pepsi Way
Somers, NY 10589-2201
914-767-6000
Joseph Juliano, VP, Entertainment
Accts.
Peter Leyh, Nat. Accts. Mgr.
Entertain. Accts.
PEPSI GEORGIA:
180 Interstate North Office Park
Atlanta, GA 30339
770-612-1300
John Pemer, Natl. Accts. Sis. Mgr.,
Entertainment & Sports
Soft drinks
PERMUGHTINC.
422 W. 6th St.
Tustin,CA 92780
714-508-0729
800-286-4017
FAX: 714-508-0920
James F. George, President
E-MAIL: permlight@aol.com
LED lightpath theatre floor
illumination products
PESCORPLACTiCSINC.
3300 W. Bolt
Fort Worth, TX 76110
800-521-8779, 817-926-5471
FAX: 817-927-7542
Promotional plastic souvenir cups S
ottier vessels
PINPOINT RADIO
313 5th Ave.
New York, NY 10028
212-889-2700
Joey Dweck, Owner
PNC WEST INC.
83.=i W. Pdirway Dr. #2
Chandler, AZ 85224
602-917-1999
FAX: 602-917-1899
Cheryl Van Meter, President
Cris Ferguson
Turnkey auditorium wall
treatments/lighting/designaccents
PRACTICAL AUTOMATION INC.
45 Woodmont Rd.
Milford,Cr 06460
203-882-5640
FAX: 203-882-5648
Richard Banzaca, Sales & Mklg. Mgr.
URL: www.practicalautomation.com
E-MAIL: rbanzaca®
practicalautomation.com
Higt) speed ticket printers tor
computerized ticketing systems
PREMIER DATAVISION
l,=;,^h Colo BUd. Suite #340
Golden, CO 80401
303-232-1901; FAX: 303-232-1429
Blane O. Newton, President
David Doyle, Vice President
Tim Pitzer, Dir. Marketing & Sales
Automated directory and co-op ad
creation/delivery
PROCTOR COMPANIES
10497 Centennial Rd.
Littleton, CO 80127
303-973-8989; FAX: 303-973-8884
Bruce Proctor, President
Rick Greene, Vice President
Concession stands, popcorn
warmers, boxoffices, lobby fixtures
PROJECTED SOUND
469 Avon Ave.
Plainfield, IN 46168
317-839-4111; FAX: 317-839-2476
Tom Hilligoss, President
J. Hilligoss, Engineer
Drive-in speaker components
PROMOTION IN MOTION
COMPANIES INC.
3 Reuten Drive
P.O. Box 558
Closter, NJ 07624
201-784-5800
FAX: 201-784-1010
Michael G. Rosenberg, President
Jeff Scudillo, VP, Special Markets
Joseph Edwards, VP, Sales
Don Vick, VP, Foodservice
URL: www.register.com/promotion
E-MAIL: mail®
promotioninmotion.com
PROMOTION IN MOTION
TEXAS:
1217 Pecan Valley Drive
Garland, TX 75043
214-278-6319
FAX: 214-278-1658
Mel Bodweine, Natl. Sales Mgr.
Care Bears, Sour Jacks, Lemontiead,
Planters Chocolate Peanuts,
Sunmaid Chocolate Raisins,
Smarties, Slice, Mighty l\/lalts
PRO-TAPES & SPECIALTIES INC.
100 Northfield Ave.
Edison, NJ 08837
732-346-0900; FAX: 732-346-0777
Barry Hart, COO
Chris Hart, VP
E-MAIL: tapesup@aol.com
URL: www.protapes.com
Converters and distributors of
pressure-sensitive tape. Specialty
tapes including gaffer & glow tape
Q
QSC AUDIO PRODUCTS INC.
1675 MacArthur Blvd.
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
714-754-6175
714-957-7100
FAX: 714-754-6174
Barry Ferrell, Cinema Market Mgr.
Pete Kalman, Dir. of Sales
URL: www.qscaudio.com
E-MAIL: info0qscaudio.com
Professional power amplifiers with
the largest range of THX-approved
amplifiers for the cinema
marketplace
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RADIANT ENTERTAINMENT
1000 Holcomb Woods Pkwy.
Suite 330
Roswell,GA 30076-2586
770-518-7976
FAX: 770-587-0484
Chris Lybeer, President
William Budwitz, Managing
Director
A fully integrated theatre management
system including touchscreen
ticketing & concession point-of-sale
RAVEN LABORATORIES INC.
87 Central Ave.
Glen Rock, NJ 07452
201-445-5519
FAX: 201-444-7793
Warren Jenkins, President
Automation, lighting and sound
systems: cue detectors
RAYTHEON ANSCHUTZ GmbH
Zeyestr. 16-24
D-24106 Kiel
GERMANY
494313019250
FAX: 494313019604
Jurgen Rasmus, Rep.
Cinema projectors
RDS DATA GROUP INC.
101 Donly Drives.
P.O. Box 421
Simcoe, Ontario
CANADA N3Y4L6
519-428-2500
888-RDSDATA
FAX: 519-428-9441
Brad De Poorter, VP, Sales & Mktg.
John Freeborn, Natl. Acct. Mgr.
E-MAIL: info@rdsdata.com
URL: www.rdsdata.com
Box office ticketing & concession
system: Automated ticket
machines & cash registers
READY THEATRE SYSTEMS L.L.C.
8189 Verlynda Drive
Watervliet, MI 49098
616-463-8458
800-676-9303
FAX: 616-463^542
Robert Chabot
Computer box office and concession
systems
REED SPEAKERS
MANUFACTURING
ISOSwason Ave.
P.O. Box 3631
Lake Havasu City, AZ 86405
520-453-0055
805-934-1582
FAX: 805-934-4992
Shawn A. Gran, President
Theatre speakers, junction boxes &
repairs
REEL AUTOMATION
3508 Oak Ridge Drive
Chattanooga, TN 37415
423-876-1415
FAX: 423-876-1416
Crawford Harris, CEO
E-MAIL: sales©
reclautomation.com
URL: www.reeIautomation.com
Automation system for the projection
booth that needs no cue tape
RGM INDUSTRIES INC.
3342 Lillian BK il.
Titusville, FL 32780
407-269-4720
FAX: 407-269-4729
Ronald Goigel, President
Mary Schrage, VP
Beth Naylor, Purchasing
Stereo sound systems, automations
systems, lighting
RICOS PRODUCTS CO. INC.
621 S. Flores
San Antonio, TX 78204
210-222-1415
FAX: 210-226-6453
Frank Liberto, CEO
Robert Scribner, President
Rick Liberto, VP, Operations
Anita Watts, VP, Sales & Marketing
Mark Chapman, VP, Sales &
Marketing
E-MAIL: awatts@ricos.com URL:
www.ricos.com
Nachos, snack foods, cheese, chips,
salsa and peppers
RIO SYRUP CO. INC.
231 1 Chestnut St.
St. Louis, MO 63103-2298
800-325-7666
FAX: 314-136-7707
Phillip S. Tomber, President
E-MAIL: snocones@riosyrup
URL: www.riosyrup.com
Over 300 flavors for beverages, Italiai
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shaved ice
ROBERT L. POTTS ENTERPRISES
201 E. Sangamon
P.O. Box 867
Rantoul, IL 61866
217-893-0443
FAX: 217-893-4204
Robert Potts, Owner
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ENTERPRISES MISSOURI:
Route 1, Box 1343
Golden, MO 65658
417-271-4335
Sue Bright, Office Mgr.
Endless loop systems, platter
systems, selfprogramming/elect &
makeup tables
ROBINSON/KIRSHBAUM
INDUSTRIES
8915 So. La Cienega Blvd. #F
Inglewood, CA 90301
310-645-4993
FAX: 310-645-2034
Bruce Kirshbaum, Exec. VP
Bill Dumont, Natl. Acct. Mgr.
Jack Schantini, Florida Sales Rep.
E-MAIL: rkindstrj-Qaolcom
Beverage equipment S Water filtratioi
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ROELANTS-SCHIEDAM
Lango Haven 141
P.O. Box 42
Schiedam, Netherlands 3100 AA
0031 (10)4260260
FAX: 0031 (10)4270572
J. Schilperoort, President
Theatre tickets, printing cashrolls,
consumption tickets,
stickers/labels, etc
ROMAR/HERSTAL ASSOCIATES
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Suite 128
Anaheim, CA 92802
714-772-7863
FAX; 714-758-1 190
Robert Martin
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1025 VV, National Ave.
P.O. Box 206
Addison, IL 60101-0206
630-543-8650
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Thomas Krisch, VP, Mktg.
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SARNOW CANDY CO.
lOUl South Oyster Bay Road
Bethpage, NY 11714
516-576-9800
FAX: 516-576-0730
Bill Smith, VP
E-MAIL:samowbs@aol.com,
Full line concession distributor
SCHNEIDER OPTICS
28.T Oser Ave., Hauppauge, NY 11788
516-761-5000
FAX: 516-761-5090
Dwight Lindsey, Sr. Vice President
E-MAIL: info@schneideroptics.com
URL: www.schneideroptics.com
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318 Cedar, Pleasant Hill, MO
800-783-8998; FAX: 816-540-4790
Robert E. Schult, President
Shirley H. Schult, Exec. VP
Jeffrey L. Schult, Exec. VP
Keith E. Schult, Exec. VP
Bill Lustig, Sr. VP Sales & Mktg.
E-MAIL: sales@schult.com
URL: www.schult.com
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P.O. Box 1028, Willis, CA 95490
707-459-1735; FAX: 707^59-1717
T.D. "Dusty" Dillion, Owner
Linda Dillion, Owner
Decorative plaster products including
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SEATING CONCEPTS INC.
4901-600 Morena Blvd.
P.O. Box 1089
San Diego, CA 92117
619-581-5715
FAX: 619-581-5725
Jose Letayf, President
James Walsh, VP, Sales & Mktg.
URL: www.seatingconcepts.com
Theatre seating
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255 Shoreline Dr., Suite 400
RcdwcKKl City, CA 94065
650-802-3100
FAX: 650-802-3120
Al Stone, President
Ken Anderson, VP of Sales k Mktg.
Frank Pellegrini, VP New Business
Development
John Mill, Eastern Regional Sales Mgr.
E-MAIL: gmiranda@gameworks£om
URL: www.sfga.com
Exclusive distributor of Sega arcade
games for North S South America
SELBY PRODUCTS INC.
P.O. Box 267
Richfield, OH 44286
330-659-6631
800-647-6224
FAX: 330-659-4112
Jerry W. Selby, President
Drive-in screen towers
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419 Main Street
Franklin, TN 37064
615-790-7797
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Rusty Gordon, Owner
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STRONG INTERNATIONAL INC.
1350 McKinley Street
Omaha, NE 68112
402-453-4444; FAX: 402-453-7238
John Wilmers, President & CEO
Brad French, Secretary/
Treasurer/CFO
Ray Boegner, Sr. VP
Pat Moore, Motion Picture;Isco
Lens-West Coast & Pacific Rim
Bob Simminger, Eastern U.S.
Sales Mgr.
URL: www.strong.cinema.com
Projection & sound equipment for
commercial theatres and special
venue applications:xenon slide
projectors & spotlights
SUNMARK SPECIAL MARKETS
SI 55 New Hampshire Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63123
314-832-7575; FAX: 314-832-1754
Linda O'Donnell, VP Sales &
Marketing
Candy and seed items
SUNNYWELL DISPLAY SYSTEM
/ 30 Stimst>n Ave.
City ot Industry, CA 91745
626-369-7359; 800-322-0938
FAX: 626-369-5739
James Huang, President
URL: simnywell.com
E-MAIL: surmywell@earthlink.net
Electronic LED moving message
signs, POP displays, etc.
SUPER-VCQRP.
1311 N. Fairfax Avenue #15
West Hollywood, CA 90046-4749
213-851-8842; FAX: 213-874-9798
Barnard Sackeft, Pres./CEO
Roger Shanepeck, Sales Mgr.
Joseph W. Schmit, Techrucal
Consultant
Super-Vision image modifying
auxiliary projection optical system
SUPREME PRODUCTS INC.
605 East Loop 340
P.O. Box 154308
Waco, TX 76715-4308
254-799-4941; FAX: 254-799-4943
Pat H. Hood, President
Hugh D. Hood, Vice President
E-MAIL: h.hood@genie.geis.com
Vending carts, portable stands & food
& beverage vending trailers for
outdoor use
SYSTEM OPERATING SOLUTIONS
22833 Bothell-Lverutt Hwy.
Suite 1210, Bothell, WA 98021
800-434-3098, 360-805-9396
FAX: 360-805-0632
Paul Faulds, Mktg. Dir.
E-MAIL:solopsys@aoI.com
URL:www.busdir.com /systemoper
Ticketing and concession systems
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TAU-A-PHONECO.
5013 N.Kc-dzie Ave.
Chicago, IL 60625
773-539-1100
FAX: 773-539-1241
Robert Shanes, Marketing Director
URL: www.talkaphone.com
E-MAIL: info0lalkaphonc.com
Intercom systems, talk-through
equipment, Cat. 2F
TDS OF NEVADA
P.O. Box 71647
Reno, NV 89570-1647
702-825-3275
FAX: 702-827-9017
Bill Johnston, Managing Dir.
URL: www.theatron.net
Finance & leasing ofboxoffice,
concession and related equipment
& software
TECCON ENTERPRISES LTD.
686CliffsideDr.
P.O.Box 38
San Dimas, CA 91773
909-599-0817
FAX: 909-592-2408
Susan Adams Dimmers, President
Magnetic recording heads,
calibration/alignment, test films &
screening room electronics
TECHNIKOTE SCREEN
CORP.
63 Seabring Street
Brooklyn, NY 11231
718-624-6429
FAX: 718-624-0129
Sol Shurpin, President
Mitchell M. Schwam, VP, Sales
Philip Cluck, Office Mgr.
Anthony Tuccillo, Production Mgr.
Projection screens, screen frames,
paint, brushes
TECO/THEATRICAL ELECTRONICS
CO.
1122 Industrial Dr.
Mathews, NC 28105
800-863-8326
FAX: 704-845-1709
Bob Saunders, President
Projection equipment
TEMPO INDUSTRIES INC.
2002-A South Grand Ave.
Santa Ana, CA 92705
714-662-4860
FAX: 714-641-0944
Greg Smith, Sales Mgr.
Aisle lighting & carpeted stepnose
lighting systems
THEATRE SUPPORT SERVICES
INC.
310 SW 66th Terrace
Margate, FL 33068
954-971-7787
Jerry Chase, President
URL: idt.net/tssinc/index.html
E-MAIL: tssinc@idt.net
Ticketing programs & systems;
concession systems
TICKETPRO SYSTEMS
870 Mercury Dr.
Lawrenceville, GA 30045
800-552-0313
770-682-5485
FAX: 770-682-8397
John W.Shaw, CEO
URL: www.movie-info.com/
ticketpro
E-MAIL: ticketpro@sprynet.com
Boxoffice & concessions systems
TIVOLI INDUSTRIES INC.
1513 E.St Gertrude I'l.
Santa Ana, CA 92705
714-957-6101
FAX: 714-957-1501
Charles Kimmel, President/COO
Marie Paris, Marketing Mgr.
Bert Stieg, Sales Mgr.
E-MAIL: tivoliind@aol.com;
mariep®tivolind.com
Specialty low voltage lighting
products & systems for all theatre
needs
TOASTMASTER
(A MIDDLEBY CO.)
1400 Toastmaster Dr.
Elgin, IL 60120-9272
847-741-3300
800-323-2210
FAX: 847-741-0015
Allan Ahrens, Dir. of Sales
E-MAIL: alahrens@muddleby.com
URL: www.middleby.com
Cooking & warming equipment
TOMAKOTE
1618 E. Palmyra Ave.
Orange, CA 92866
800-459-8821
714-639-8809
Paula Ogbum Apodaca
E-MAIL: opodata@pacbell.net
Anti-Static film cleaner and lubricant
TOOTSIE ROLL INDUSTRIES INC.
7401 South Cicero Ave.
Chicago, IL 60629
773-838-3400
FAX: 773-838-3534
Janet Vasilenko, Mktg. & Sales
Robert Immen, Sales Mgr.
Candy.Junior IVIints and ti/lason Dots
TOTAL AUDIO
3006 Strong Ave.
Kansas City, KS 66106
913-362-3762
FAX: 913-362-5642
Richard Stevenson, Owner
Stage & surround speakers,
subwoofers & used equipment
TRANS-LUX CORP.
110 Richards Avenue
Norwalk, CT 06854
800-243-5544
203-853-4321
FAX: 203-855-8636
Richard Brandt, Chairman
Victor Liss, V. Chair, CEO &
President
Michael R. Mulcahy, Exec. VP
Gene Coyne, VP
E-MAIL: mike.quirk@
intemetmci.com
URL: www.trans-lux.com
Programmable signs, message
centers-indoor S outdoor
TRIMOTION DESIGN INC.
1735 Berkeley St.
Suite 209
Santa Monica, CA 90404
800-874-0035
310-449-9144
FAX: 310-449-9145
Rick Clemens, CEO
n/lotion marquee: internally lit
three-sided rotating poster case
TRIPLEHCORP.
One Triplett Drive
Bluffton, OH 45817
419-358-5015
FAX: 419-358-7956
Tony Augsburger, Mktg. Mgr.
Daniel Delong, President
Kyle Apkarian, VP Finance
Electronic test equipment
TROLU INC.
7951 SW. 6th St.
Suite 300
Plantation, FL 33324
800-826-7258
954-476-6133
FAX: 9.54-476-6135
Jennifer L. Moore, Product Mgr.
Dennis Alexander, VP, sales
URL: www.trolli.com
E-MAIL: trolliusa®aol.com
Gummi candies
TROY DIGITAL SOUND CONTROL
SYSTEMS
3420 S. Malt Ave.
Commerce, CA 90040
800-987-3306, 213-838-3676
FAX: 213-838-3686
Bruce Holden, VP, Mktg.
Sound-absorbing walls & ceilings for
theatres
TRU-ROLLINC.
622 Sonora Ave., Glendale, CA 91201
818-240-4835; FAX: 818-240-4855
Ralph CichetH, President
E-MAIL: sales@truroll.com
URL: www.truroll.com
Stage equipment, theatre furnishings
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UNIMAR
35 River Street
New Rochelle, NY 10801
914-576-5383; FAX: 914-576-1711
Henry Muench, VP
E-MAIL: unimar@prodigy.com
Refrigerated concession equipment
UNITED RECEPTACLE INC.
P.O. Box 870
Pottsville, PA 17901-0870
717-622-7715, 800-233-0314
FAX: 717-622-3817
Sam Weiss, Chairman and CEO
Richard Weiss, President and COO
John M. Knaut, Dir. of Mktg. /Sales
E-MAIL: united@unitedrecpt.com
URL: www.unitedrecpt.com
/Maintenance and sanitation
UPBEAT INC.
4350 Duncan Avenue J
St. Louis, MO 631 10
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800-325-3047,314-535-5005 I
FAX: 314-535-4419
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E-MAIL:custservice®upbeatinc.cnn
URL:www.upbeatinc.com
Urns, Ash n' Trash Receptacles,
waste receptacles
UPKEEPERCORP.
P.O. Box 23480, Charlotte, NC 28225
704-545-7040
800-451-3466
FAX: 704-545-5834
Paul C. Mclntyre, President
Mike Robinson, VP
URL: www.upkeeper.com
E-MAIL: upkeeper@ix.nctcom.com
UPKEEPER INTERNATIONAL
5 Beasenoserd St. John St.
Liverpool L20 8BH ENGLAND
01519332525
FAX: 01519332666
Paul Mclntyre, Director
E-MAIL: Upkeeper®zemet.uk.co
Powerful lightweight portable cleanint
systems;accessories
USL INC. (ULTRA-STEREO LABS)
181 Bonciti Dri\i'
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
805-549-0161; FAX: 805-549-0163
James A. Cashin, President
Felicia Cashin, Vice President
Clint Koch, Sales Dir.
E-MAIL: usl@uslinc.com
Cinema products-processors, booth
monitors, crossovers, ADA
devices, Jaxlight exciter lamp &
test equipment

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125 E. Sir Francis Drake Blvd, #300
Larkspur, CA 94939
415-464-4500; FAX: 415-464-4510
Laura Rime, Dir., Corp. Communicatioris
E-MAIL: info@utosoft.com
URL: www.utosoft.com
Utopia/Enterprise Support Center for desktop
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VERONESE PAOLO CINEMATOGRAFIA
Via Montefior No. 12, 20128 Milano, ITALY
39-2-2591988; FAX: 39-227201704
Paolo Veronese, Owner
Cinematographic 16 & 35mm fix & portable
projectors & accessories
VICTOR PRODUCTS CO.
328 N. 18th St., Richmond, VA 23223
804-643-9091; FAX: 804-648-3601
Mitch Zinder, President
Fountain syrups, sundae toppings: concession
supplies & equipment
355 Inverness Dr. South
Englewood, CO 60112
(303) 649-9516
(303) 414-7805 Fax
Response No. 97
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EDW. H. WOLK, INC.
921 S. Jefferson St.
Chicago, IL 60607
Fax: 312-939-0654
Phone:312-939-2720
Response No, 213
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VISUAL MARKETING ASSOCIATES INC.
9560 Pathway St., Suite 1, Santee, CA 92071
619-258-0393; FAX: 619-258-0790
Dale R. Godfrey, President
Menu display systems, light boxes
VOGEL POPCORN CO.
7450 Metro Blvd., Edina, MN 55439
612-896-4328; FAX: 612-832-3468
Dan Gray, Dir., Sales & Mktg.
E-MAIL: dgray@vogelpopcom.com
URL: www.vogelpopcom.com
Popcorn grower and processor
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WAGNER ZIP-CHANGE INC.
3100 Hirsch, Melrose Park, IL 60160
800-323-0744; FAX: 800-243-4924
Robert C. Stanis, Major Acct. Exec.
James Leone, National Sales Mgr.
URL: wagnerzip.com
Marquee letters, background panels, mini-marquee
letters, time kits. ' movie rating/sound sys panels,
letter-changing poles
WEAVER POPCORN CO. INC.
130 E. Main St., P.O. Box 345
Van Buren, IN 46991-0395
765-934-2101
FAX: 765-934-4052
Joe Macaluso, Division Business Mgr.
Doug Dent, Business Mgr.
URL: www.popweaver.com
Popcorn processors and oil
WELDON, WILLIAMS & LICK INC.
711 .North ASlrivl
P.O.Box 168
Fort Smith, AR 72902
800-242-4995
FAX: 501-783-7050
J.D. Walcott, Jr, President
Jerry P. Hendricks, VP, Sales
Robert Marion, VP Production
Tracey Geren Secretary/Treasurer
Steve Lenising, Sales Representative
URL: www.wwlinc.com
Roll S folded tickets, computerized box office forms
S thermal stock, coupon books, discount cards
and distribution

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C-M-J CONVENTION
(!()MMIIItBI5ADVANCING THE AUSTRALIAN FILM INDUSTRY,
AUGUST 18 - 22
ROYAL PINES RESORT GOLD COAST, AUSTRALIA
The Australian Movie Convention is one of the nnost important events on the
Australian Filnn Industry's calender. It represents the only tinne of the year when
all the decision makers working within the industry gather together to discuss
the latest trends and developments. Each year it attracts record
numbers of delegates from Australia, New Zealand, Asia, the United States and
Europe.
Quality local & international guest speakers
Seminars & workshops
Trade show with up to seventy exhibitors
Sneak previews of the latest films from major and independent distributors
Attendance of local & international stars, Directors and Producers
Australian Box Office Achievement Awards (previous winners : Geoffrey Rush,
Paul Mercurio, Russell Crowe, Bill Hunter, Tara Morice, Jacqui McKenzie)
The Kodak Marketing Award For An Australian Feature Film
Social functions and an opportunity to interact with industry colleagues
REGISTRATION
FORM
ONE REGISTRATION FORM PER PERSON.
IF YOU REQUIRE ADDITIONAL FORMS. PLEASE COPY
PLEASE PFUNT CLEARLY
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NAME FOR BADGE : DAYS ATTENDING :
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CITY:
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n FULL REGISTRATION - if paid before July 16 1998 $ 510.00
n -ifpaid after July 16 1998 $650.00
O WEDNESDAY - DAY REGISTRATION $ 220.00
n THURSDAY - DAY REGISTRATION $ 220.00
D FRIDAY - DAY REGISTRATION $ 220.00
D SATURDAY - DAY REGISTRATION $ 220.00
D TRADE FAIR / SEMINARS ONLY $ 100.00
STATE;
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For further details, please contact :
Mrs. F^uline Parker
Motion Picture Exhibitors' Association Queensland
M.PE.AQ. RO. Box 103
1 , Stafford City.
Queensland 4053. Australia.
Tel /Fax: 617-3356.5671
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Response No. 85
Concession, Snack Bar and Janitorial Supplies
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P.O. BOX 148, MILI.ERSBURG, PA. 17061
TKl.KPHONE: (717) 692-4744 1-800-437-5505
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100 NE 39th Street, Miami, FL 331.V
305-573-7339; FAX: 305-573-8101
Steven Krams, President
Data Reusch, Vice President
E-MAIL: iceco@aol.com; URL: www.iceco.com
Westar Projectors, splicers, stereo processors, lenses,
xenon bulbs & distributors ofMagna-Tech EQ
WESTERN ASSOCIATED MARKETING
507(1 .Moon^tiine Court, S.in lose, CA 95136-2652
408-448-1535; FAX: 408-265-1347
William A. Messerly, Jr., Owner
Cups, Straws, cutlery, carry out trays & a variety of bags
WILLIAMS SOUND CORP.
10399 West 70th Street, Eden Prairie, MN 55344
612-943-2252, 800-328-6190; FAX: 800-843-3544
Paul Ingebrigtsen, VP, Marketing
Todd Bergum, National Sales Manager
E-MAIL: info@wilIiamssound.com
URL: www.williamssound.com
FM and Infrared hearing assistance systems
WILSHIRECORP.
23 Barr Road, Ajax, Ontario, CANADA LIS 3Y1
905-686-3212; FAX: 905-428-2062
David Noble, President, Canada
Equipment for beverage dispensing and Ice-maldng
WOLK, EDW. H. INC.
921 S. Jefferson St., Chicago, IL 60607-4422
312-939-2720, 800-621-4424; FAX: 312-939-0654
Charles Wolk, President
Norman Lauterbach, General Manager
Carol Prescott Davern, Export Manager
Precision rebuilt projection equipment and
replacement parts; Zipper electric changeovers &
Cinelite xenon bulbs
WYANDOT INC.
135 W\andot Ave., Marion, OH 43302
740-383-4031; FAX: 740-387-9751
Dave Shepard, Business Development Mgr. (West)
Peg Augenstein, Business Development Mgr. (East)
Snacl< foods
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XEBEX INC.
No. 11, Kanda Konya-Cho, Chiyoda-Ku
Tokyo, JAPAN
813-32517001; FAX: 813-32517017
Sadao Nobe, Director
Lamphouses, power supplies. Xenon bulbs
XETRON (A DIVISION OF NEUMADE PRODUCTS)
30-40 Pecks Lane, Newtown, CI 06470
800-526-0722; 203-270-1 100; FAX; 203-270-7778
URL: www.neumade.com
Walter Browski, Vice President, Sales/Marketing
Projection and sound equipment
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YOUR PLACE MENU SYSTEMS
26(X} Lockheed Way, Carson City, NV 89706
800-321-8105, 702-882-7834; FAX; 702-882-5210
John O'Neil, President
Indoor & outdoor menu systems: Menu boards
YUMEX lie CO. LTD.
399 Java Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089
408-745-7900, 800-347-2474; FAX: 408-744-0829
John Lucerl, President
URL: www.ilct.com
Xenon arc lamps; metal halide lamps

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Dealers
Of Equipment and Supplies
intlie U.S. and Abroad
The following companies are dealers in specialized equipment and supplies for
theatrical exhibition. In order to make it easier for readers to locate the dealer
of a particular product or service nearest them, these listings have been
presented alphabetically by U.S. state. A separate international index is provided
on the last page of this section.
ALABAMA
CINEMA EQUIPMENT
& SUPPLY INC.
131 2nd Ave. N.E, Box 2044
Decatur, AL 35602
256-353-5928
FAX: 256-353-5928
].A. Duncan, President
Cathy Wahl, Sec./Treas.
Theatre equipment sales S installation
SMITH SOUND & PROJECTION
THEATRE EQUIPMENT SUPPLY
3922 Nolen Ave. S.E.
Huntsville, AL 35801-1037
205-534-7008
FAX: 205-534-7008
E.H. Smith, Owner
Complete line of theatre
equipment S supplies
ARIZONA
FESTIVAL CONCESSIONS
4038 li, Superior
Phoenix, AZ 85040
602-437-0466
FAX; 602-437-3256
Pascal Agosta, President
Popcorn & concession equipment,
supplies
MASQUE SOUND
& RECORDING CORP.
1606 Wc",t 12th I'l.Kc-
Tempe, AZ 85281
602-829-8255
FAX: 602-829-8175
Scott H. Kalata, Mktg. Coordinator
Sound equipment sales,
service S rental
METRO FUN FOODS
420S. 53rd Ave.
Phoenix, AZ 85043
602-278-1010
FAX: 602-278-3232
Paul McClellan, Gen. Mgr.
Lyn Fortin, Dir. of Sales
E-MAIL: FunFoodsAZ@aol.com
Concessions: foods, maintenance,
equipment S sanitation
CALIFORNIA
ALAN GORDON ENTERPRISES
1430 N.Cahuenga Blvd.
Hollywood, CA 90028
213-466-3561
FAX: 213-871-2193
Grant Loucks, President
Wayne Loucks, Gen. Mgr.
Projection & sound equipment,
spotlights S screens
DARTCOCO.
924 N. Formosa
Hollywood, CA 90046
213-851-5411
FAX: 213-851-5413
Leroy E. Bartels, President
Ultrasonic film cleaners; solvents,
sales and service
BERLOC MFG./SIGN COMPANY
7405 Greenbush Ave.
N. Hollywood, CA 91605
818-503-9823
800-290-SIGN
FAX: 818-503-0934
Teri McClain, Secretary
E-MAIL:Berloc2PacBell.net
Marquees, directories, bulletin boards
S changeable letters
CINEMA EQUIPMENT
SALES OF CA, INC.
2301 1 Moulton Pkwy., Suite 1-5
Laguna Hills, CA 92653
949-470-0298
FAX: 949-470-0835
Carl William.s, President
Michael Smith, Gen. Mgr.
Worldwide sales, service, installation:
full line equipment, furnishings,
parts, supplies
ENTERTAINMENT
EQUIPMENT CORP.
6363 Santa Monica Blvd.
Hollywood, CA 90038
213-871-2194, 500-677-7126
FAX: 213-871-2196
James A. Lavorato, CEO
Gordon A. McLeod,
Dir. of Tech. Services
Full line Cinema & theatre equipment,
sales, sen/ice & design
HARRAH'S THEATRE
EQUIPMENT CO.
25613 Dollar St., Unit 1
Hayward, CA 94544-2542
510-881-4989
FAX: 510-881-0448
Jerry Harrah, President
Dennis Wilson,
Theatre Sales & Service
Theatre equipment sales and sen/ice
JBL PROFESSIONAL
8500 Balboa Bhd.
Northridge,CA 91329
818-894-8850
FAX: 818-830-1220
Chuck Goodsell,
Dir. of Cinema Mktg.
URL:www.jblpro.com
Loudspeaker systems for cinema
applications
METRO GOOD TIME FOODS
33508 Central Ave.
Union City, CA 94587
510-429-9800
FAX: 510-429-9828
Paul Lawson, Gen. Mgr.
Concessions: food, popcorn,
candy & equipment
METROPOLITAN CONCESSIONS
INDUSTRIES
9950 Mission Mill Rd,
Whither, CA 90601
562-695-0.541
800-394-5482
FAX: 562-695-6892
Ron R. Naslund,
Dir. of Sales & Mktg.
Food, popcorn, candy i equipment
MILEN POPCORN-
CONCESSION SALES
446 Queen.s Lane
San Jose, CA 95112
408-436-1615, 408-436-1623
FAX: 408-436-5563
E-MAIL: MILEN
SALES@compuserve.com
Concession S snack bar equipment &
supplies, service & repair
MTSWEST
1802 Victory Blvd.
Glendale, CA 91201
818-247-8667
FAX: 818-247-3508
Jerry Van de Rydt, Vice Pres.
E-MAIL: mtsnws@aol.com
Full line theatre equipment
NATIONAL CINEMA
SUPPLY CORP.
P.O. Box 2Ub
CastaicCA 91310-0206
888-900-1984, 805-257-1984
FAX: 805-257-1660
George A. Bruce Jr.,
Regional Sales Mgr.
URL: www.ncsco.com
Projection equipment sound
systems, cinema supplies,
concession stand casework &
products
PACIFIC CONCESSIONS INC.
1250 Bayhill Dr., Suite 301
San Bruno, CA 94066
650-871-8711
FAX: 650-871-8740
Dan Livak, Vice Pres.
E-MAIL:info@
pacificconcessions.comf/na/JC/nj
& concession services
QUAUTY CONCESSIONS SUPPLY
6081 RickenbackiT Kil
Commerce, CA 90040
213-721-1900
FAX: 213-721-6261
Kevin Fisher, Vice Pres.
Sandy Torres, Office Mgr.
Complete line of theatre concession S
janitorial supplies

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I
R.J. ALLEN CO.
P.O. Box 4906
West Hills, CA 91308^906
818-592-6033
FAX: 818-592-6467
Roy J. Allen 111, Gen. Mgr.
EMAIL: rjallen@pacbell.net
Candy, cheese and snacks
TEGTMEIER ASSOC. INC.
P.O. Box 776
Menlo Park, CA 94026
650-324-4335
FAX: 650-324-4336
John Tegtmeier, President
Seating, crowd control, posts & ropes
THEATRE SERVICE & SUPPLY
9582 Topanga Canyon Blvd.
Chatsworth, CA 91311
818-701-4475
FAX: 818-701-0394
Bill Miller, President
E-MAIL: theatreser@aol.com
Theatre design, equipment sales,
installation S sen/ice
VANDEMARK ELECTRONICS
P.O. Box 3472
Santa Rosa, CA 95402
707-545-4068
James Vandermark, Owner
Survey, develop, install sound systems,
design equipment
VANTAGE LIGHTING, INC.
175 Paul Dr.
San Rafael, CA 94903
415-507-0402, 800-445-2677
FAX: 415-507-0502
Marc AUsman, Gen. Mgr.
E-MAIL: vanitg@aol.com
URL: www.3000.com/vantage
Replacement lamps: logo, hologram, image &
special effects projectors; 3-D laser systems
W.L. MITCHELL & ASSOCIATES
1132 N. California St.
Burbank, CA 91505
818-845-9793, 818-845-9794
FAX: 818-954-0859
Bill Mitchell, Owner
Brokers for candy, cheese, nacho chips,
soft ice cream, popcorn
XTRACASHATMINC.
8787 Complex Dr.
San Diego, CA 92123
888-712-1600
FAX: 619-712-1617
Kevin Moyle, Marcom Mgr.
URL: www.xtracash.com,
ATM products S services including cash dispensing,
on-screen advertising, couponing etc.
COLORADO
NATIONAL CINEMA SUPPLY CORP.
1500 W. Hampden Ave., Suite 3-C
Englewood, CO 80010
303-781-6330
FAX: 303-781-6618
Dave Clingman, Branch Mgr.
URL: www.ncsco.com
Projection equipment, sound systems, cinema
supplies, concession stand casework
State-of-the-art sound and
automation control products.
Sound system products...
include Component Engineering's
high quality sound track readers for
installation in the projector's sound
head.
STRD-30S
Sound
Readers
STRD-30 for full
analog and Dolby
Digital®
. . . STR-30 for analog now but with
hardware in place ready
to add Dolby Digital®
... or model ASR-30 analog only
to fit in existing lens mounts.
All sound reader systems come with
the LS-30 Power Supply,
with choice of rack or
surface mount.
MS-100 Booth
Monitor Amplifier
. . . not only a means by which the
projectionist can listen to the film
being shown, but also a troubleshooting
diagnostic tool as well.
I MS-100
Enough inputs are provided that all
significant points in the theatre's
sound system can be sampled and
their condition quickly determined.
AD-1
Audio
System distributes high quality
audio from a central source to as
many as twenty remote locations.
VISIT OUR WEB SITE...
Automation and control devices .
TA-10 Automation
System ... a moderately priced
hybrid system which uses a microcontroller
based sequencer to
perform those tasks which are the
same in all programs, and a simple
cueing scheme which allows the film
itself to carry up
to seven discrete
commands, such as
sound format
changes, lens turret
masking controls,
and light dimmer
settings. Includes the
FM-35 Cue Detector
(see description below).
TA-10 Console
TA-10 Remote
Control/Status Box
. . . connects to a two-wire
data link and can communicate
with up to sixteen TA-10
units.
FM-35 M FM-35
Cue Detector
A proximity sensor style, triple-cue
FM-35 is intended as a stand-alone
direct replacement for mechanical
units, or with accessories, such as
the QX-10 Cue Expander, it can
upgrade simpler automation
systems to more flexible installations.
The FM-35 Cue Detector is also
an integral part of the TA-10
Automation System.
Component
Engineering
4237 24th Avenue West
Seattle, Washington 98199-1214
Phone: (206) 284-9171
Fax: (206) 286-4462
www.componentengineering.com
Response No. 1 50

.CONSULTANTS
] INTERNATIONAL INC.
Thank
You!!
Due to your
overwhelming response,
we have expanded
our phone system
to better serve
your needs.
Our new
numbers are:
412-343*3900
FAX 412-343 •2992
New & Used Equipment
• Projection • Sound • Parts
• Seatings • Xenon Bulbs
• Projector & Intermittent Rebuilding
• Concession Equipment
• Concession Counters
• Draperies • Low Voltage Lighting
For Your Convenience,
We Accept
Mastercard, Visa,
Discover
Home of "One Stop" Theatre Shopping
1250Brookline Blvd.
P.O. Box 9672
Pittsburgh, PA 15226
412-343-3900
Fax 412-343-2992
e-mail: info@cinemaequipment.com
Response No 109
PROCTOR COMPANIES
10497 Centennial Rd.
Littleton, CO 80127
303-973-8989; FAX: 303-973-8884
Bruce B. Proctor, President
E-MAIL: pcli@proctorco.com
URL:www. proctorco.com
Concession stands, popcorn
warmers: boxoffice & lobby fixtures
TANKERSLEY ENTERPRISES
P.O. Box 36009
Denver, CO 80236
303-716-0884
FAX: 303-716-0889
Robert K. Tankersley, CEO
Tlieatre equipment sales S service
CONNECTICUT
EMERGENCY LIGHTING
SERVICES, INC.
ISOBrooksideRd.
Waterbury, CT 06708
800-225-0263
FAX: 203-756-6312
Dick Clark, President
David Cordeau, Natl. Sales Mgr.
Emergency lighting S exit signs
NATIONAL CINEMA
SUPPLY CORP.
P.O. Box 549
Ridgefield,CT 06877
203-438-3405, 203-438-1274
FAX: 203-438-1419
Walter Beatty Jr.,
Vice Pres. & Gen. Sales Mgr.
Karen Raymond, Mktg. Assistant
URL: www.ncsco.com
Projection equipment, sound
systems, cinema supplies,
concession casework & products
NEW ENGLAND THEATRE
SERVICE INC.
295TreadwellSt.
Hamden, CT 06514
203-281-6583
FAX: 203-288-6484
Bob Peterson, President
Skip Gelati, Vice Pres.
Sales, installation S service of
projection/sound equipment
FLORIDA
CINEMA EQUIPMENT, INC.
1375 N.W. 97 Ave., Suite 12
Miami, FL 33172
305-594-0570
FAX: 305-592-6970
Bill Younger
E-MAIL:gyounger®worldnel.att.net
URL:www.miamicinema.com
Wew & used tlieatre & video equipment
DAVID TYSON LIGHTING, INC.
I'D. Box 1932
Callahan, FL 32011-1932
800-385-3148
FAX: 800-385-3149
David Tyson, President
Janet Tyson, Vice Pres.
Distributor of long-life ligtiting products
FLORIDA CHOICE FOODS, INC.
1413 N. State Rd. 7
Hollywood, FL 33021
954-989-7964, 305-625-1 185
FAX: 954-987-0367
Jerry Martin, President
EMAIL: FCFpopcom@aol.com
Theatre concession supplies,
equipment S janitorial products
HOLLYWOOD THEATRE
EQUIPMENT INC.
3300 N. 29th Ave., Suite 104
Hollywood, FL 33020
954-920-2832; FAX: 954-925-3874
Don R. Gallagher, President
E-MAIL: hwdtheatre@aol.com
Full line theatre equipment &
supplies, sales & service
INTERNATIONAL CINEMA
EQUIPMENT CO.
100 N.E. jyth St.
Miami, FL 33137-3632
305-573-7339; FAX: 305-573-8101
Steven H. Krams, CEO
Dara Reusch, Exec. Vice Pres.
E-MAIL: ICECO@aol.co
URL: www.ICECO.com
Full service organization,
sates, service, repair
MASQUE SOUND
& RECORDING CORP.
4221 Southwest 34th St.
Orlando, FL 32811
407-841-2371; FAX: 407-841-2421
Scott H. Kalata, Mktg. Coordinator
Sound equipment sales,
service & rental
NATIONAL CINEMA
SUPPLY CORP.
14499 N. Dale Mabry Hwy.
Suite 201
Tampa, FL 33618
URL: www.ncsco.com
Corporate Offices
813-962-2772
FAX: 813-962-3620
Daniel P. Miller,
President & CEO
Barney H. Bailey,
Exec. Vice Pres. & COO
Projection equipment, sound
systems, cinema supplies
Cinema Exhibition
Equipment Division
800-776-6271, 813-962-0188
FAX: 813-908-6277
Denise Reidy, Office Mgr.
Projection equipment sound
systems, cinema supplies,
concession casework & products
Concession Equipment Division
800-733-7278, 813-962-0188
FAX: 813-908-9124
Roy Loveland, Vice Pres.
Concession casework
& food service equipment
NATIONAL CINEMA
SUPPLY CORP.
Food Service Division
8406 Sunslate St.
Tampa, FL 33634
813-884-0445; FAX: 813-884-0544
Greg Thomas, Regional Sales Mgr.:
URL: www.ncsco.com
Projection equipment, concession
stand casework & confections

.
Carla
TVP—THEATRE & VIDEO
PRODUCTS, INC.
921 N.E. 79th St.
Miami, FL 33138
305-754-9136; FAX: 305-759-0863
Richard Fowler, President
John T. Gamble, Vice Pres.
E-MAIL: tvpmiami@webtv.net
A full line cinema equipment dealer;
custom sound systems
GEORGIA
CINEVISIONCORP.
3300 N.E. Expressway, Bldg. 2A
Atlanta, GA 30341
770-455-8988; FAX: 770-455-4066
Steve Newton, President
Saundra Conner, Vice Pres.
Sales, service and rentals of 16mm,
35mm S 70mm motion picture &
sound equipment
MTS, Inc.
423 S.W. 8th St.
Des Moines, lA 50309
515-243-6520; FAX: 515-243-4987
Ted Bohemann, Branch Mgr.
Full line theatre equipment dealer
& service company
NATIONAL CINEMA SUPPLY
CORP./CAPITAL CITY SUPPLY
2140 B Jackson Pkwy. .N.W.
Atlanta, GA 30318
404-792-8424; FAX: 404-792-1424
URL: www.ncsco.com
Don Howell, Chairman
Projection equipment, sound
systems, cinema supplies,
concession stand casework
Food Service Division
Tuscano, Southeast
Operations Mgr.
Foodservice
FAX: 630-860-5239
Harold Abbott Jr., President
Constantine A. Korose, Vice Pres.
Sales installation S service of motion
picture, concession S crowd
control equipment
CENTURY ENGINEERING
SOUND & SERVICE
308 Hiddenbrook Lane
Willowbrook, IL 60521-5409
630-654-3585, 888-694-0541
FAX: 630-654-3585
Paul A. Brenkus, Owner
E-MAIL:centuryengineering
©qualityservice.com
Ttieatre equipment, service, sales S
consultation
CINE-WAY, INC.
7200 N. Claremont Ave.
Chicago, IL 60645
773-764-6093, 773-764-7728
FAX: 773-274-9702
George Fukumizu, President
URL: www.123easy.com/
gcn/cineway
Ttieatre equipment and accessories
MONARCH THEATRICAL
EQUIPMENT
104 N. Sixth St.
Springfield, IL 62701
217-788-5200
FAX: 217-788-5207
Fred Walraven, Tech. Dir.
E-MAIL: FRED®
kerasotes.com
URL: w^ww. kerasotes.com
Ttieatre equipment sales, service.
consultation
NATIONAL CINEMA SUPPLY CO.
21 N. Skokie Hwy., Suite 106
Lake Bluff, IL 60044
847^182-0218
FAX: 847-482-0219
Edward McKnight,
Vice Pres. & Dir. of Oper.
URL: www.ncsco.com
Projection equipment, sound
systems, cinema supplies
Eastman Kodak
^^ Company
^"^
presents
Film Projection
FOR
Reel People
IDAHO
KANSAS
NORTHWEST THEATRE
EQUIPMENT CO.
.P.O. Box 258
Wendell, ID 83355
800-341-3846, 208-536-5489
FAX: 208-536-5308
John R. Eickhof, Owner
Philip Housh, Boise Rep.
208-893-0246
Full line equipment dealer &
emergency service in 7 Midwest &
Norttiwest states
ILLINOIS
[ABBOTT THEATRE
EQUIPMENT CO., INC.
3 CountT)' Club Dr.
enville.IL 60106
)-2121, 630-860-2122
NATIONAL CINEMA
SUPPLY CORP.
8246 Marshall Dr.
Lenexa,KS 66214
800-457-3357, 913-492-0966
FAX: 913^92-1744
Rob M. Jaynes, Vice Pres.
Eugene J. Krull, Sr. Vice Pres.
URL: www.ncsco.com
Projection equipment sound
systems, cinema supplies,
concession stand casework
REGAL DISTRIBUTING CO.
9734 Pflumm
Lenexa,KS 66215
913-894-8787
FAX: 913-894-4005
Lee G. Kopulos, President
Greg Kopulos, Chairman
Dean Kopulos, Exec. Vice Pres.
E-MAIL: regaIdist@worldnet.att.net
Concession: food service, equipment
& supplies
Film projection is an art... a craft... a learned skill. If
you think projection training consists of a "crash course"
followed by "push the button and pray...", think again!
Our new day-long seminar emphasizes film care, projection
cleaning and maintenance, and walks through
build-up, threading and everything involved in putting on
a first-class show.
Whether you're still at the "push the button and pray"
stage or are a veteran projectionist, this course will
expand your awareness and enrich your knowledge.
FILM PROJECTION FOR REEL PEOPLE is a comprehensive,
participator) training adventure. Scheduling it to
open soon at a theatre near you is only a phone call away.
Contact: JeffJohnson
(303) 751-2649
Response No. 39

KENTUCKY MARYLAND MASSACHUSETTS
617-244-1737; FAX: 617-244^390
John F. Allen, President
Exclusive distributors ofHPS-4000
ttieatre sound system
HADDEN THEATRE
SUPPLY CO.
102111 BunsenWay
LouisviUe,KY 40299
502-499-0050
FAX: 502-499-0052
Louis Bomwasser,
Owner
Full line ttieatre supply dealer &
designer
LOUISIANA
CINEMA CONCESSION
AND SUPPLY CO.
9810 Florida Blvd.
Baton Rouge, LA 70815
504-927-4820
J.
Randolph Ogden,
Owner
Theatre concession equipment
S supplies
JON BAJON INC.
2611N. DumontSt.
Baton Rouge, LA 70814
504-275-9914
FAX: 504-272-3841
Jon Bajon, President
Motion picture theatre equipment &
supplies & concession supplies
CARDINAL SOUND & MOTION
PICTURE SYSTEMS INC.
10219 Southard Dr.
Beltsville,MD 20705
301-595-8811; FAX: 301-595-5985
Neal Rockman, President
Cathy Rockman, Gen. Mgr.
Projection S sound equipment; sales,
sen/ice, installation & repair
METRO TECHNICAL SERVICES
8659 Cherry Lane
Laurel, MD 20707
301-470-2142; FAX: 301-490-4749
Noel Gregos, President
Jerry Sandy, Rentals
New and rebuilt equipment sales,
studio rentals, service & dailies
PHOENIX CINEMA
SPECIALTIES, INC.
P.O. Box 165
Woodbrine, MD 21797-0165
301-831-7360; FAX: 301-253-1941
Jay Blank, President
Theatre equipment, sales,
service & motor repairs
SOL-ELECTRIC COMPANY
19334 Churubusco Lane
Germantown, MD 20874
301-404-9043; FAX: 301-601-4307
Michael Marini, Owner
E-MAIL: mikem79810@aol.com
Theatre equipment, supplies & service
BOSTON LIGHT AND SOUND
290 N. Beacon St.
Boston, MA 02135
617-787-3131
FAX: 617-787^257
Tony Lazzaro, Mgr.
E-MAIL: tony@blsi.com
URL: www.blsi.com
Theatre projection & sound
equipment, sen/ice & installation
CINEMA SERVICE & SUPPLY INC.
271 Western Ave.
Lvnn, MA 01904-3017
781-599-9353, 800-231-8849
FAX: 800-FAX-CSS5
Brian T. Vita, President
E-MAIL: sales@cssinc.com
URL: www.cssinc.com
Full line cinema equipment,
sales & service & installations
EASTERN CINEMA SUPPLY &
SERVICE CO., INC.
36 East Washington St.
Hanson, MA 02341
718-871-0585, 718-294-0381
FAX: 718-871-0585
Leonard N. Miller, President
Sales & service of projection
& sound equipment
HIGH PERFORMANCE STEREO
64 Bowen St.
Newton Centre, MA 02459
SUMMIT FOODS
ENTERPRISES, INC.
P.O. Box 141
Dedham, MA 02021
781-830-0201, 781-830-0202
FAX: 781-830-0205
Paul Bonfiglio, Natl. Sales
Kevin Morrissey, Vice Pres.
PJ Gummi Bears, Klondike Movie
Bites, Good Humor Ice Creams,
bulk candy, & Naya spring water
TRIBORO CINEMA
SERVICE & SUPPLY
P.O. Box 2666
Attleboro Falls, MA 02763
508-699-2164; FAX: 508-695-3828
Bud Orton, Owner
Buy & sell new& used projection S
sound equipment & booth supplies
MICHIGAN
HITCHFIELD ENTERPRISES INC.
11055 Alberta Dr.
Brighton, MI 48116
810-632-9066
FAX: 810-632-9081
Gary Hitchens, President
Sales, service, install new & used
theatre equipment S supplies
ELECTRIC BACKPACK BLO-CLEANER
This lightweight, twin motor, 3.4 horsepower electric
backpack blower produces a concentrated blast of
pressurized air from a unique jet-compression system,
capable of moving even heavy objects. Constructed of
durable, high impact ABS, it features low noise yield
and comes with a full one year warranty. See your
theatre supply dealer or call us at (800) 676-BLOW
Manufactured by IIT MANUTECH '"
P.O. Box 51295 • Pacific Grove, CA 93950
(408) 055-8794
http://manutech.com
Response No. 92
This lightweight, 2 stage motor, 2.3 horsepower electric
backpack vacuum produces a high volume, high lift
suction, capable of inhaling even large debris. Constnjcted
of high impact polymers, it comes with 2 'A"
hose and accessories, reuseable 2 'A gallon cloth bag
and quick release latches for easy emptying. See your
theatre supply dealer or call us at (800)676-2569.
/Manufactured by ffT MANUTECH "
P.O. Box 51295 • Pacific Grove, CA 93950
(408) 655-8794
http://manutech.com
Response No. 92

NATIONAL CINEMA
SUPPLY CORP.
P.O. Box 654
Royal Oak, MI 48068-0654
248-280-1816;
FAX: 248-280-1836
Jim Fox,
Dir. of Tech Support Svcs.
URL: w^vw.ncsco.com
Projection equipmenl. sound
systems, cinema supplies,
concession casework & products
MINNESOTA
MISSISSIPPI
M & B CONCESSIONS CO.
2713 Bailey Ave.
Jackson, MS 39213
601-982-4477
FAX: 601-982-4479
J.R. Moran, Owner
Concession supplies & equipment
MISSOURI
NEBRASKA
SLIPPER THEATRE SUPPLY INC.
618 North 19th St.
Omaha, NE 68102
402-341-5715
402-341-5716
FAX: 402-341-7856
Mrs. C.A. Slipper, Owner
Gary Peterson,
Pres., Purchasing & Sales
Full line theatre supply & sen/ice
FAX: 201-939-0823
Scott H. Kalata, Mktg. Coordinator
E-MAIL: skalata@aol.com
URL:www.masquesound.com
Sound equipment sales, installation,
service & rental
STAR CINEMA SYSTEMS, INC.
10 Ivy Lane, Suite 9
Englewood, NJ 07631
201-894-8750
FAX: 201-894-8685
Steven Tanney, President
Complete line of motion picture
equipment & supplies
MTS (MEDIA TECHNOLOGY
SOURCE)
10501 Florida Ave. S.
Minneapolis, MN 55438
612-829-0161;
FAX: 612-829-0166
Philip L. Raftison,
President
John P. Ayotte,
Exec. Vice Pres.
Ttieatre equipment dealer, large
screen video, specialty venues
NEBCO/
EVANS DISTRIBUTION
4150 Berkshire Lane
Plymouth, MN 55446
612-475-5739;
FAX: 612-551-1048
John Loehr,
Dir. of Sales
Full line theatre concessions
REGAL DISTRIBUTING CO.
3950 N. 20th St.
Ozark, MO 65721
417-581-2602
800-326-2022
FAX: 417-485-2609
Mike Brasvk'ell, Branch Mgr.
Janitorial S concession supplies
& equipment
RINGOLD CINEMA
EQUIPMENT CO. INC.
11155-D South Towne Square
St. Louis, MO 63123
314-487-3283
314-487-3677
FAX: 314-487-3297
John M. Mattler, President
Mike Mattler, Vice Pres.
Sales & service of theatre equipment
and supplies
NEWJERSEY
HERBACH & RADEMAN CO.
16 Roland Ave.
Mt. Laurel, NJ 08054
609-802-0422
800-848-8001
FAX: 609-802-0465
Stan Jacobs, Sales
E-Mail: Sales@Herbach.com
URL: www.herbach.com
New & surplus gearhead & stepper
motors, controls, lasers & robotic
equipment for design
MASQUE SOUND
& RECORDING CORP.
100 Redneck Ave.
Moonachie, NJ 07074
800-307-8666; 201-934-8666
NEW YORK
ADVANCED SALES & MARKETING
39 Hancock Place
Valley Stream, NY 11580
516-823-9462
FAX: 516-872-9546
Melvin H. Colbert, President
Candy brokers
ALL CINEMA SALES AND SERVICE
CORP.
8 Vernon Valley Rd.
East Northport, NY 11731
800-628-5788; FAX: 516-754-2213
James Kelly, President
Thomas Kelly, Exec. Vice Pres.
Complete design, installation,
equipment sales & custom
equipment modifications
''Best concession trailer we've ever seen!"
"It really produces!"
"Great results!"
CalL..
See what the buzz is all about!
PilCE PRODUCTIONS
The Newport Company
with the Hollywood Connection
j^m-.
PHONE (401) 846-8890 ~ FAX (401) 847-0070
PO Box 300 ~ Newport, Rhode Island 02840 USA
Response No. 145 Iiilv. 1998 95

AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL
CONCESSION PROD. CORP.
P.O. Box 379
Malveme, NY 11565
516-420-1868
FAX: 516-420-4042
Paul Sciortino, President
Christopher Sciortino,
Vice Pres., Sales
Candy, snack foods, syrups,
icecream & theatre
concession supplies
CAPITOL MOTION PICTURE
SUPPLY CORP.
630 Ninth Ave.
New York, NY 10036
212-757-4510
FAX: 212-265-5648
Ben Perse, President
Larry Perse, Exec. Vice Pres.
Distributors Of sound
& projection equipment
EAST COAST LAMP SALES INC.
8 Vernon Valley Rd.
East Northport, NY 11731
800-628-5788
FAX: 516-754-5655
Tom Kelly, Vice Pres.
Jim KeUy, President
Distributor of general purpose &
specialty bulbs, lighting fixtures
energy saving products
ENTERTAINMENT
EQUIPMENT CORP.
712 Main St., Buffalo, NY 14202
716-855-2162, 500-677-7126
FAX; 716-852-4330
James A. Lavorato, CEO
Gordon A. McLeod,
Dir. of Tech. Services
Nationwide full line cinema
equipment, sales, service & design
FREEMAN THEATRE
SERVICE, INC.
5 Hudson Rd.
Garden City, NY 11530
516-488-2753
Omar Freeman, President
Carol Freeman, Vice Pres.
Sound & projection,
consulting sales & service
HAYES EQUIPMENT & SUPPLY
P.O. Box 29
Syracuse, NY 13211
315-432-8183
Jack Hayes, President
Theatre seating, seat covers, chair
parts, installation
MASQUE SOUND
& RECORDING CORP.
630 Ninth Ave., Suite 410
New York, NY 10036
212-245-4623; FAX; 212-262-1013
Scott H. Kalata, Mktg. Coordinator
Sound equipment sales, rental & service
NOVELTY SCENIC STUDIOS
40 Sea Cliff Ave.
Glen Cove, NY 11542
516-671-5245, 718-895-8668
FAX; 516-674-2213
Howard Kessler, Treas.
Leslie 1. Kessler, Vice Pres.
Stage curtains, wallcoverings, trades,
motors & rigging
THEATRE CONFECTIONS, INC.
795 Monroe Ave.
Rochester, NY 14607
716-271-0858
FAX; 716-271-0859
David Kates, President
Jeff Dodge, Vice Pres. Sales
Richard McGlynn, Exec. Vice Pres.
Concession food & equipment
sales & services
NORTH CAROLINA
AMERICAN THEATRE SUPPLY CO.
4324 Barringer Dr., Suite 102
Charlotte, NC 28217
704-527-6077
FAX: 704-527-6078
Richard Cobb, Gen. Mgr.
Lee Helms, Assistant Mgr.
Full line theatre equipment &
concession supplies
NATIONAL CINEMA SUPPLY
CORP./CAPITAL CITY SUPPLY
421 Greenway Dr.
Eden, NC 27288
336-627-7551
FAX: 336-627-7551
Bill Moore, Sales, Carolina Office
Complete theatre equipment &
concession supplies
WORRELL SOUND & PROJECTION
1319 Military Cutoff #119
Wilmington', NC 28405
800-552-7502, 910-509-1506
FAX: 800-552-7501
Bruce Worrell, Owner
Diann Worrell,
Marketing Coordinator
Projectors, sound systems, booth
supplies: consultation, sales,
service, installation
OHIO
AMERICAN THEATRE
EQUIPMENT CO.
4126 Anson Dr.
Hilliard, OH 43026-2206
614-876-6262
FAX: 614-876-6262
John Williamson, President
E-MAIL:ateco@cave.net
Complete theatre supply: sales,
sen/ice, rentals
FREMONT THEATRE SUPPLY
303 N. Ohio Ave.
Fremont, OH 43420 1
419-334-2758,800-513-2939
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FAX; 419-334-2758
Richard C. Smith Jr., Owner
Sales, service, installation of all new
and used theatre equipment
NATIONAL CINEMA
SUPPLY CORP.
1150 W. 8th St., Suite 110
Cincinnati, OH 45203
800-543-0418, 513-352-0606
FAX: 513-352-0701
URL: www.ncsco.com
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THEATRE & VIDEO PRODUCTS
CINEMA SOUND SYSTEMS
DIGITAL AND ANALOG
8-6-4-2 CHANNEL FORMATS
ALL MAJOR SOUND PROCESSORS
QSC AMPLIFIERS
SOME PEOPLE
IN THE INDUSTRY
BELIEVE
THE INDEPENDENT EXHIBITOR
IS DEAD.
We disagree. In fact we specialize in filling the
equipment and supply needs of the
independent exhibitor and small circuit.
We offer guaranteed same-day order processing
and a large in-house inventory of parts and supplies.
220 VOLT SYSTEMS
FOR EXPORT AVAILABLE
LITERATURE ON REQUEST
I PROJEaiON BOOTH EQUIPMENT
I SOUND SYSTEMS
MARQUEES/SIGNS
UCHTING SYSTEMS
I CONCESSION EQUIPMENT
I THEATRE SCREENS/FRAMES
I XENON LAMPS
SEATING
ISUPPUES/PARTS
I AUTOMATION EQUIPMENT
305-754-9 136 92 1 N.E. 79th ST.
305-759-0863 FAX MIAMI, FL 33138
E-MAIL: tvpmiami@webtv.net
RICHARD FOWLER JOHN GAMBLE
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TOLL FREE: 800448-1656 'VOICE MAIL: 50M77-7126
• www.entequip.com • E-MAIL: entequlp@aol.com
Response No. 27
Resoonse No. t17

Barbara Cammack,
Vice Pres. & Branch Mgr.
Projection equipment, sound
systems, cinema supplies,
concession casework & products
Food Service Division
Kathy Bass,
National Acct. Mgr.
Foodservice
OKLAHOMA
MOTION PICTURE
PROJECTION SERVICES
21519 East 33rd St S.
Broken Arrow
OK 74014-1159
918-355-1452
FAX: 918-355-1452
Ben Kehe, President
E-MAIL; mppsinc@aol.com
Sales and sen/ice of projection and
sound equipment
OKLAHOMA
THEATRE SUPPLY
628 West Sheridan Ave.
Oklahoma City, OK 73102
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405-236-8691
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FAX: 405-236-8691
Maxine Peek,
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President
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Theatre & concession
equipment & supplies
PENNSYLVANIA
ASSOCIATED HEARING
INSTRUMENTS
6796 Market St.
Upper Darby, PA 19082
800-253-3442; FAX: 610-352-2469
Dan Libby, Vice Pres.
Assistive listening devices for the
hearing impaired: FM & infrared
CINEMA CONSULTANTS &
SERVICES INT'L, INC.
P.O. Box 9672, Pittsburgh, PA 15226
412-343-3900; FAX: 412-343-2992
Ross Falvo, President
Projection, sound & concession
equipment & supplies;
auditorium seating
CINEMA SUPPLY CO. INC.
502 S. Market St., P.O. Box 146
Millersburg, PA 17061
800-437-5505; 717-692-4744
FAX: 717-692-3073
Van Troutman, Gen. Mgr.
Theatre equipment, concession
equipment & supplies
CINETECH, INC.
225 W. Howard St., Stowe, PA 19464
610-323-4847; 800432-4847
FAX: 610-323-1664
Bruce J. Fitzsinunons, Gen. Mgr.
E-MAIL: cinelech@aol.com
Booth, sound & general theatre
equipment, service S installation
GOLD MEDAL—PinSBURGH INC.
519 Parkway View Dr.
Pittsburgh, PA 15205
412-787-1030; 800-383-2356
FAX: 412-787-7295
Jeffrey Roth, Branch Mgr.
Food concession equipment, supplies,
sales & repair
REFRESHMENT SERVICES, INC.
1028 W. Saw Mill Run Blvd.
Pittsburgh, PA 15220
412-481-6575; FAX: 412-481-1336
Ken Boyle, Vice Pres.
Concession wholesaler:
popcorn, candy, paper products,
janitor supplies
ULTRATECHINC.
P.O. Box 436, Homestead, PA 15120
800-647-4795; 412-469-8324
FAX: 412-469-9351
Donald E. Wunderlich, President
E-MAIL: ultratech@ibm.net
Specializing in projection & sound,
sales, service S design
RHODE ISLAND
AUDIO VISUAL SYSTEMS
320 St Louis Ave.
P.O. Box 2107
Woonsocket, RI 02895-2351
401-767-2080; FAX: 401-767-2081
Rita Y. Adams, President
FM stereo radio sound systems for
drive-ins
SOUTH DAKOTA
GOnSCHALK'S
208 Rosander Ave.
P.O. Box 181
Vale, SD 57788
605-456-2259
Ernie Gottschalk, Owner
Joelen Gottschalk
Make and sell flex shafts for the old
style Manley Corn Poppers
TENNESSEE
MARBLE CO., THE
P.O. Box 160030
NashviUe,TN 37216
800-759-5905
615-227-7772
FAX: 615-227-7008
J.
William Blevins, President
Randy Bauch, Sales Mgr.
Lenses, splicers, booth supplies,
carbons, reflectors, Xenon bulbs,
exciter lamps & more
TRi STATE THEATRE SUPPLY CO.
151 Vance Ave.
Memphis, TN 38103
901-525-8249, 800-733-8249
FAX: 901-52^4300
Fred Blank, Mgr.
E-MAIL: tristateth@aol.com
Theatre equipment & supplies
Is YOUR AUDIENCE GETTING
THE BIG PICTURE. . .
Or are they sitting in your competitor's seats?
Stadium seating is the hot ticket for
today's moviegoers, a must-have for the
"big screen" movie experience. Now
Stadium Seating Erectors, a joint venture
of Birtcher Construction Services and
Daniel, Mann, Johnson & Mendenhall,
offers existing theatres a chance to protect
their maricetshare and compete against new
multiplexes featuring stadium seating.
Stadium Seating Erectors' patented
stadium seating retrofitting system features:
Installation in just seven to ten days
per screen.
Two to three screens retrofitted at a
time. The rest of the theatre can remain
ftilly operational.
DMJM
Daniel. Mann, Johnson, & Mendenhall
Stadium Seating
Erectors
Minimal construction equipment, plus
no cutting of concrete floors or welding
of steel.
Crews work out of the back door of the
theatre and out of sight of patrons.
Fast, simple installation process using a
Lejeune "twist-off torque bolt.
Stadium Searing Erectors also offers a
complete retrofit and remodel package,
including state-of-the-art sound and
lighring systems as well as fiirniture,
fixture and equipment upgrades.
Movies may be fantasy, but stadium
seating is here to stay
For more infonnation, call
800/451-6412 or 714/475-5600
18008 Skypark Circle, Suite 205, Irvine, CA 92714
BCS
Birtcher Construction
Services
Response No. 187

TEXAS
ASC TECHNICAL SERVICES CORP.
7027 Twin Hills Ave.
DaUas,TX 75231
214-265-9303; FAX: 214-691-8949
R.V. Gandolfi, Pres.
Roy Lisenbe, Mgr. /Equipment Sales
Sound & projection equipment
sales & service
DARDEN & DOZIER INC.
237 aik Hill Dr.
Trophy Club, TX 76262
817-430-8282; FAX: 817-491-1059
Charles Darden, President
D.L. Crombie, Vice Pres.
Raw popcorn, seasonings &
concession supplies
INDEPENDENT THEATRE
SUPPLY INC.
4038 N. Pan Am Expressway
San Antonio, TX 78219
210-226-3508; FAX: 210-226-8914
Clifford Anderson, President
Mary Anderson
Sales & service of motion picture
projectors & sound equipment
LIBERTO OF DALLAS
310 W. Mockingbird
DaUas, TX 75247
214-688-0021
FAX: 214-687-6739
Jennifer Oler, Sales Coordinator
Concession supplies & equipment
LIBERTO OF HOUSTON
4321 Old Spanish Irail
Houston, TX 77021
713-747-7757; FAX: 713-747-4423
Lloyd Carmack, Div. Mgr.
Concession supplies & equipment
SOUTHWESTERN THEATRE
EQUIPMENT CO.
500-C .\orth Shepherd Dr.
Houston, TX 77007
713-861-3344; FAX: 713-861-4298
R.S. Mortensen, President
Concession & janitorial supplies,
projection, sound, seating
TEXAS THEATRE SUPPLY
346 Senova Dr.
San Antonio, TX 78216
210-344-3823, 210-340-5766
FAX: 210-344-2522
Rosemary Olivarri, Owner/Director
Complete line ot theatre equipment
and supplies
UTAH
CLACO EQUIPMENT AND
SERVICE INC.
1212 South State St.
Salt Lake City, UT 84111
801-355-1250,801-355-1251
FAX: 801-355-1259
Clayton Stauffer, President/Owner
Dennis Lunt, Sales Mgr.
Complete theatre equipment
sales & service
GENERAL THEATRICAL SUPPLY
2153 South 700 E.
Salt Lake City, UT 84106
801-485-5012; FAX: 801^85^365
Keith Perry, President
URL: www.esta.org/homepages/qts
Turnkey motion picture theatre
packages, two-way radio & paging
systems lor theatres
WASHINGTON
AUDIO SERVICE CO., INC.
230 South 2nd St., Suite 202
Yakima, WA 98901
509-248-7041; FAX: 509-453-3074
Earl B. Harden, President
Kathi D. Mercy, Sec./Treas.
Theatre equipment sales,
service & installation
CIN-TRONICS
13905 Meadow Rd.
Everett, WA 98208
425-742-7486; FAX: 425-742-8254
Vernon Klingman, Owner
E-MAIL: VKlingman@prodigy.net
Full line dealer for projection,
sound & concession equipment
sales & service
MCRAE THEATRE
EQUIPMENT, INC.
101NickersonSt.,#210
Seattle, WA 98109
206-285-8393
FAX: 206-285-8375
David McRae, Vice Pres./Sec.-Treas.
E-MAlL:mcrae@wport.com
Motion picture projection & sound;
sales & service
WEST VIRGINIA
MOORE THEATRE
EQUIPMENT CO.
213 Delaware Ave., P.O. Box 782
Charleston, WV 25323
304-344-4413, 304-744-4019
Donald M. Moore, Owner
Sales, service & installation of new,
used & rebuilt equipment
INTERNATIONAL
COMPANIES
BELGIUM
XANTO SEARCHLIGHTS
Kartuizerstraat 50
8310 Brugge, Belguim
32-50356233; FAX: 32-50371382
Nadia Leynaert, Mktg. Rep.
E-MAIL: xanto@westsite.be
URL:www.westsite.be/xanto
Searchlights S lighting effects
WEAR
Presents:
"Show Biz!"
Fashion Accessories
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CINEMA SERVICES
We are proub to announce our
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MEN'S & WOMENS
Moi^ie Industry fcot^ Nationali-y anb
• Ties
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• Cummerbunds
• Scrunchles
• Aprons
• Headwear
Internationail-y.
SPECIALIZING IN
SALES. INSTALLATION & REPAIR
Front Ends
Curtain Tracking & Controls
V^l Drapery
Floor & Wall Carpeting
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Call or Fax for FREE
Brochure & Swatch
1-800-647-8372
FAX (760) 749-6 1 64
flavorwr@ix.netcom.com
28425 S. Cole Grade Rd.
Valley Center, CA 92082
Response No. 477
Projection
Acoustic Wall Paneling
Seating
Low-voltage Lighting
407 Old County Road. Belmont, CA 94402
Tel: 650-595-5496 • Fax:650-595-5197
E-Mail: Cnmaservcs@AOL.COM
International Ofpces in: Chih. Argentina, brazil & Mexico
Response No. 193
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CANADA
CINEMATRONIX
14366 109th Ave.
Surrey, British Columbia
Canada V3R0P6
604-585-2155
FAX: 604-585-2155
Kevin Eagle, President
David Moore, Service Mgr.
E-MAIL; kevinc@direct.ca
Sound & projection equipment sales,
service & new ttieatre equipment
installations
CINEMATRONIX (ALBERTA)
1703-16thAve. NW
Calgary, Alberta
Canada T2M 0L9
403-282-4282, 403-691-1993
FAX: 403-282-4282
Kevin Eagle, President
Nelson Radmore, Service Mgr.
Sound S Projection equipment sales,
service S new theatre equipment
installations
DOMINION THEATRE
EQUIPMENT CO. LTD.
343 Railway Street, Suite 204
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada V6A 1A4
604-682-1848
604-254-2949
FAX: 604-682-1848
D.V.K. Fairleigh, Mgr.
Theatre equipment S service
ENTERTAINMENT
EQUIPMENT CORP.
970 Queen St. East, Box 98021
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M4M IJO
800-448-1656, 500-677-7126
James A. Lavorato, CEO
Gordon A. McLeod,
Ehr. of Tech. Services
Full line cinema equipment dealer
G.A. MCLEOD ENTERPRISES
75 Pape Ave.
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M4M2V5
416-469-3235; FAX: 416-469-9811
Gordon A. McLeod, President
E-MAIL: gmcleod@direct.com
Sound systems design,
service & repair
INDEPENDENT THEATRE
SUPPLY LTD.
P.O. Box 3707, Station D
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada T5L 4J7
403-482-1611; FAX: 403-482-3520
Tom Hutchinson, President
E-MAIL: its@compusmart.ab.ca
Cinema equipment,
supplies & furnishings
KILCULLEN MARKETING, INC.
7 Watford St.
Brooklin, Ontario
Canada LOB ICO
905-655-8633
FAX: 905-655-5873
John Kilcullen, President
Sales, service & installation
of theatre equipment
KING CINEMA SERVICES LTD.
14566 Yellowhead Trail
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada T5L 3C5
403-455-1622
800-561-3581
FAX: 403-455-0663
Terry Yushchyshyn
Complete line of theatre
equipment & supplies
MARIPLEX CINEMA SUPPLY
610 East River Rd.
New Glasgow, Nova Scotia
Canada B2H 3S2
902-755-4864, 800-565-2727
FAX: 902-755-7640
Brian MacLeod, Gen. Mgr.
Cinema equipment S supplies;
projection, sound & concession
equipment
SUPPORT COMMUNICATION
4949 E. Metropolitan, #169
Montreal, Quebec
Canada HI R1Z6
514-498-3335
FAX: 514-498-3335
Pierre P. Pelletier, Gen. Mgr.
Motion picture supplies
MISSED OPPORTUNITY
If your company did not submit
a listing for this year's
BOXOFFICE Buyers Directory,
now is the time
to correct that omission.
Simply fill out the form on page 114
and fax it to Boxoffice at
(213)465-5049
to make sure you're included
in next year's edition.
CINEMA EQUIPMENT, Inc.
Theatrical and Motion Picture
Equipment Sales and Services
Systems Design
Interior Design
In-House Engineering and Designing
Authorized Distributor of:
JBL, SDDS, QSC, DTS, Irwin, Smart, Dolby,
Peavey, Strong, Component Engineering
Worldwide Distribution
One Stop Shopping Source
Professional Support Team
We Have Everything You Need For
Your Theater But The Movies!!
CINEMA EQUIPMENT
1375 N.W. 97th Avenue, Suite 12
Miami, Fl 33172
Tel (305) 594-0570 Fax (305) 592-6970
E-mail gyoungei@worldnet.att.net
Internet http://www.miamicinema.com
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Allied Goods
and Services
Alphabetized, by Subject Category
The following pages list firms that provide specialized services to the exhibition
industry, including: accessories and trailers; booking; construction; consulting;
insurance; entertainment center supplies; merchandising licensed products;
rentals; screen advertising; video displays; and miscellaneous goods and services.
ACCESSORIES/
TRAILERS/SHORTS
DEEP VISION 3-D
6457 Santa Monica Blvd., Box 38386
Hollywood, CA 90038
213-465-5819
Stephen Gibson, President
E-MAIL: post@3dglasses.com
URL: www.3dglasses.com
FILMACK STUDIOS
1327 S. Wabash Ave.
Chicago, IL 60605-2574
800-345-6225, 800-nLMACK
FAX: 312-427-4866
Robert N. Mack, President
Designers & producers of theatre
trailers S slides utilizing digital
picture & sound technology &
protecting rolling stock trailers
with 3M Scotchguard film coating
INTERMISSION
PRODUCTIONS LTD.
6179 Knoll Wood Rd., Suite #306
Willowbrook,IL 60514
630-654-0200
Michael Dawson, President
Barbara Scheuren, Secretary
Custom and generic trailers
METROLIGHT STUDIOS
5724 W. 1rdSt.,#4(J

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CINEMA SERVICE COMPANY
10300 N. Central Expressway, #172
DaUas, TX 75231
214-692-7555
FAX: 214-692-7559
Tim Patton, President
E-MAIL: cs

PROCTOR COMPANIES
UU97 Centennial Rd.
Littleton, CO 80127
303-973-8989; FAX: 303-973-8884
Bruce Proctor, President
Rick Greene, Vice Pres.
Project management of food service
areas for construction/renovation
RANACK CONSTRUCTORS, INC.
652 S. Countv- Rd. 9E
Loveland, CO 80537
970-667-3698; FAX: 970-667-3694
Cal Rankin, President
SELBY PRODUCTS, INC.
3920 Congress Pkwy., P.O. Box 267
Richfield, OH 44286
330-659-6631, 800-647-6224
F.AX: 330-659-4112
Jerry W. Selby
Drive-in screens
810-786-1934; FAX: 810-786-9240
John Kukawinski, President
E-MAIL: ampcreative®
compuserve.com
Promotional materials, graphic design
S operational consulting
AUSTIN & ASSOCIATES
1 Hardwood Hill Rd.
Pittsford, NY 14534
716-387-9820
Bruce A. Austin, President
E-MAIL: baagll@rit.edu
Research & consulting
BURDEN ASSOCIATES
20944 Sherman Way
Suite 213
Canoga Park, CA 91303
818-340-4590
Richard W. Burden, President
Radio sound systems
CINEMA LINKS
3 Snady Ridge Rd.
Brunswick, ME 04011-9334
207-725-6188, 207-725-0139
FAX: 207-725-0145
C. Gregory Melick
Principal & CEO
Bradley P. Smith, Principal
E-MAIL:gmelick@gwi.net
Promotions, account management,
business plan development
DALE SYSTEM, INC.
1101 Stewart Ave.
Garden City, NY 11530
516-794-2800, 800-645-6366
FAX: 516-542-1063
Harvey Yaffe, President
Alan Lowell, Treas.
URL: datesysteminc.com
Internal security services, mystery
shopping, traffic counts
EMERGENCY LIGHTING
SERVICES, INC.
150 Brookside Rd.
Waterbury, CT 06708
800-225-0263
FAX: 203-756-6312
Dick Clark, President
Bruce Bird,
Natl. Sales Mgr.
Design & updating of emergency
lighting & L.E.D. exit signs
GERHARD ASSOCIATES
5452 Evanwood Ave.
Agoura, CA 91301
818-706-3959
FAX: 818-706-3960
Louis Gerrard, President
Cathy Gerrard, Vice Pres.
E-MAIL: gai@grfxnet.com
Computer generated trailers,
theatre interior design
THEATRE SERVICE
NETWORK, INC.
2 ns. Bridge St.
P.O. Box 190
>orkville,IL 60560
(.30-553-0588; FAX: 630-553-0594
Steve Felperin, Executive Vice Pres.
1 -MAIL: theatres@earthlink.net
CONSULTANTS/
DESIGNERS
AMPERSAND CREATIVE
.52837 Karon Dr.
.Macomb Township, Ml 48042
CARDINAL SOUND & MTN. PICS.
SYSTEMS, INC.
10219 Southard Dr.
Beltsville,MD 20705
301-595-8811
FAX: 301-595-5985
Neal Rockman, President
Cathy Rockman, Gen. Mgr.
E-MAIL: r\rockman@
cardinalsound.com
Motion picture & sound system design
CINEMA CONSULTANTS &
SERVICES INTL. INC.
P.O. Box 9672
Pittsburgh, PA 15226
412-343-3900
FAX: 412-343-2992
Ross Falvo, President
DAVIS DURAND-HOLLISRUPE
ARCHITECTS
11103 West Ave., Suite 3
San Antonio, TX 78213
210-377-3306
FAX: 210-377-3365
Gabriel Durand-HoUis,
A/A Principal
E-MAIL: ddhrl7@aol.com
Planning services for cinemas
DPA ACOUSTICS
9319 LBJFwy., Suite 216
Dallas, TX 75243
972-644-2130
FAX: 972-644-2133
D. P. Ayyappan, Consultant
Services in the areas of acoustics
& noise control
GLATZ-JACOBSEN THEATRE
DESIGN CONSULTANTS
9961 W. 86th Place
Arvada, CO 80005
303-421-9516
FAX: 303-421-9516
Chris A. Jacobsen,
Architect/President
Theatre design nationwide
GUZZO GROUP, L.LC.
11909 England
Overland Park, KS 66213
913-451-1921
FAX: 913-451-1544
Vince Guzzo, President
E-MAIL: vguzzo®
primenet.com
Construction management & design
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As I went to sit in my seat
my hands held a drink cold & sweet,
but when I sat down
my face showed a frown,
cause my drink spilled all over my feet.
Since then I
have been to a place
that provides me a neat little space,
where I can sit back
with my cup in a rack,
and relax with a smile on my face.
Are your patrons smiling?
Call, The Caddy Guys
1.800-845-0591
Caddy Products • 10501 Florida Avenue • Minneapolis, MN 55438 • 612-828-0030 • Fax 612-829-0166
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JACOBS ENTERTAINMENT, INC.
48 East 43rd St.
New York, NY 10017
212-986-7488; FAX: 212-682-7323
Jeffrey Jacobs, President
Lisa Eocchini, Assoc. Film Buyer
Film Buying, film distribution &
exhibition consultants
JOHN MEYER CONSULTING
120 Bedford Rd.
ArmorJc, NY 10504
914-273-5225; FAX: 914-273-2102
John Meyer, PE, PP
Joseph Sarchino, RLA
Richard Pearson, PE
E-MAIL: jmeyercons@aol.com
Theatre site planning, feasibility
studies: civil

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THE SCREENING ROOM INC.
3131Sherid.inl)r.
Amherst, NY 14226
716-837-0376
FAX: 716-837-0376
Bob Golibersuch, President
Video theatre consulting
THEATRE SERVICE
NETWORK, INC.
211 S. Bridge St., P.O. Box 190
Yorkville, IL 60560
630-553-0588
FAX: 630-553-0594
Buck Kolkmeyer, President
Steve Felperin, Vice Pres.
E-MAIL: theatres@earthlinkjiet
THOMAS BERKES ARCHITECT
4801 -Abbcvvillo .Ave.
Woodland Hills, CA 91364
818-222-1485
FAX: 818-222-1486
Thomas Berkes, A.I.A., Principal
E-MAIL: aiatjb@aol.com
Specializing in design, construction,
remodels S multiplexing
THORBURN ASSOCIATES
P.O. Box 20399
Castro Valley, CA 94546-8399
510-886-7826
FAX: 510-886-7828
Steven J. Thorbum, P.E., Principal
E-MAIL: ta@ta-inc.com
URL: www.ta-inc.com
Acoustical consulting &
audio visual design
TK ARCHITECTS INC.
106 West nth St., Suite 1900
Kansas City, MO 64105
816-842-7552
FAX: 816-842-1302
Theodore Knapp, AIA, President
Michael A. Cummings, AIA, VP
E-MAIL: tkapo@tkarch.com
URL: tkarch.com
Theatre specialists: design, planning,
renovations & expansions
TOTAL THEATER DESIGN
P.O. Box 499
Washingtonville, NY 10992
914-496-9125
FAX: 914-496-1692
Harvey A. Berg, Architect /Engineer
Andrew J. Hennessy, Sr. Associate
Mark S. Olson, Sr. Associate
E-MAIL: haberg@aol.com
Architectural firm specializing in design
& cost-effective theatre planning
TOWER PINKSTER TITUS
ASSOCIATES, INC.
678 Front Ave. N.W., Suite 255
Grand Rapids, MI 49504
616-456-9944
FAX: 616-456-5936
Michael Van Schelven, Project Mgr.
Architecture & engineering for
multiplex theatres
VANDEMARK ELECTRONICS
P.O. Box 3472
Santa Rosa, CA 95402
707-545-4068
James Vandemark, Owmer
Design & build theatre sound systems
VONDERHAAR CINEMA
MARKETING
P.O.Box 222
Osseo, MN 55369
612-422-8535
FAX: 612-422-8236
Mike Vonderhaar, Owner
E-MAIL: vondymovie@msn.com
ENTERTAINMENT
CENTER
EQUIPMENTAND
SUPPLIES
COLORADO HARDSCAPES
7803 E. Harvard Ave.
Denver, CO 80231
800-447-1888, 303-750-8200
E-MAIL: cohardscapes@mho.net
URL: www.coIoradohardscapes.com
Simulated rock formations for places
where natural materials can't be used
IMAX CORP. (CORPORATE
HEADQUARTERS)
2525 Speakman Dr.
Mississauga, Ontario
Canada L5K IBl
905-403-6500
FAX: 905-403-6450
E-MAIL: info@imax.com
URL: www.imax.com
Large format filmmaking equipment,
state-of-the-art sound systems,
projectors, distribution & IMAX 3-D
IWERKS ENTERTAINMENT
4540 W. Valerio St.
Burbank, CA 91505-1046
L ocation-based entertainment
attractions
LASER FANTASY INTERNATIONAL
8411 154th Ave. N.E.
Redmond, WA 98052
425-881-5356
FAX: 425-883-7169
Rikki Rothenberg-KIein,
Vice Pres. Mktg.
E-MAIL: events®
laserfantasy.com
URL: www.Iaserfantasy.com
Lasers & laser light shows
LASERTAINMENT PRODUCTIONS
INTERNATIONAL
1901 Oakcrest Ave., Suite 1
Minneapolis, MN 55113-2617
612-633-8000, 800-527-3739
FAX: 612-633-8083
E-MAIL: lasers@wavefront.com
URL: www.lasertainment.com
Maufacturer of Stinger and custom
laser prolection systems for
permanent or temporary shows
& installations
NAMCO AMERICA INC.
150 Charcot Ave.
San Jose, CA 95131
408-383-3900
FAX: 408-383-0128
Masaya Nakamura,
Chairman & CEO
Kevin Hayes, President & CEO
Kenji Hisatsune,
Exec. Vice Pres. & COO
Robert Weiss, Dir. of Mfg.
Lucinda Bender,
Mgr., Advert. & Events
URL: www.namco.com
Video games, simulators, kits &
redemption/novelties,
coin-operated games
RIDE DEVELOPMENT CO.
I'.O. Box 13610
Salem, OR 97309
503-371-9490
FAX: 503-371-9517
Henry Gorgos, Mgmt. Consultant
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SEGAGAMEWORKSL.L.C.
255 Shoreline Dr., Suite 400
Redwood City, CA 94065
650-802-3100
FAX: 650-802-3120
Al Stone, President
Ken Anderson,
Vice Pres. Sales & Mktg.
Barbara Joyiens,
Dir. of Sales & Mktg.
Frank Pellegrini, Vice Pres. New
Business Development
Exclusive distributor of Sega arcade
games for Nortti & Souttj America
SHOWSCAN
ENTERTAINMENT INC.
3939 Landmark St.
Culver City, CA 90232-2315
310-558-0150
FAX: 310-559-7984
Russell Chesley, Vice Pres.,
Worldwide Sales/Mktg.
E-MAIL: rchesley®
compuserve.com
Movie-based entertainment
attractions, ride simuiation. large
screen theatres, & 15/70 giant
screen format (2D/3D/Dome)
VIRTUALITY, INC.
7801 Mesquite Bend Dr., Suite 105
Irving, TX 75063
972-869-7655
800-ILLUSION
FAX: 972-869-7688
Mindy V. Moore,
Mktg. Mgr.
URL: www.virtuality.com
E-MAIL: enquiries®
virtuality.com
Immersive virtual reality
entertainment systems & software
INSURANCE
MAROEVICH, O'SHEA & COGHLAN
425 Market St., 10th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
415-957-0600, 800-951-0600
FAX: 415-957-0577
Van Maroevich, President
Steve Elkins, Entertainment Mgr.
E-MAIL: staff@maroevich.com
URL: wwTV.maroevich.com
Entertainment insurance company
REYNOLDS & REYNOLDS INC.
300 Walnut, Suite 200
Des Moines, lA 50309-2244
515-243-1724, 800-767-1724
FAX: 515-243-6664
Stanley J. Reynolds, President
Ron J. Fry, Exec. Vice Pres.
E-MAIL: info@mr-inc.iix.com
URL: www.iix.com/mr_inc
All lines of insurance
WILLIAM TUFT CORP.
P.O. Box 10167
Peoria, IL 61612-0167
309-674-2673; FAX: 309-691-8340
William H. Tuft, President
MERCHANDISING
BASSTQY INTERNATIONAL
71 Barber Greene Rd.
Don Mills, Ontario
Canada M3C 2A2
416-445-0544
FAX: 416-445-2894
Brian A. Stewart, President
E-MAIL:104362.1210@
compuserve.com
URL: www.tribute.ca
Entertainment based promotions
BUENA VISTA PICTURES
DISTRIBUTION
350 S. Buena Vista St., ROD-170
Burbank, CA 91521-1293
818-560-6200
FAX: 818-566-1050
Nancy Klueter, Vice Pres.,
Exhibitor Relations
Joel Masket, Exec. Dir., Natl. Promos
COLPACLTD.
728 W. Jackson Blvd., #1002
Chicago, IL 60661
312-382-1537
FAX: 312-466-0139
Theodore Alpert, Agent, U.S.
Marketing to children to encourage
attendance, foodservice sales
GEORGE FENMORE INC.
250 West 54th St.
New York, NY 10019
212-977-4140; FAX: 212-977-4404
George Fenmore, President
Souvenir programs & other
promotional merchandise
HOLLYWOOD DREAM FACTORY
1842 Sylvania Ave.
Toledo, OH 43613
419-474-3065; FAX: 419-474-9740
Tom Martin
Hollywood-related products: clapper
and reel clocks, watches: Vintage
movie memorabilia
MGM/UA DISTRIBUTION CO.
2450 Broadway St., 2nd Floor
Santa Monica, CA 90404
310-449-3835; FAX: 310-449-3277
Beth BortOiurst, Exec. VP,
Lie. & Merch.
PARAMOUNT PICTURES
5555 Melrose Ave. Zukor 2134
Los Angeles, CA 90038
213-956-8525; FAX: 213-956-8411
Alan Cordova, Vice Pres.,
Exhibitor Services
PROMOTIONAL MGT GROUP
5700 Broadmoor, Suite 912
Mission, KS 66202
913-831-7644; FAX: 913-831-7577
Dave Johnson
E-MAIL: djohnson@pmg-online.com
URL: www.pmg-online.com
SONY PICTURES RELEASING
10202 W. Washington Bl\ d.
Culver City, CA 90232
310-244^747, 310-244-8007
FAX: 310-244-1361
Ann Elizabeth Crotty,
Dir. Exhibitor Relations
Ed Clegg, Dir. Exhibitor Relations
TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX
P.O. Box 900
Beverly Hills, CA 90213
310-203-3295; FAX: 310-203-3823
UNIVERSAL MERCHANDISING INC.
100 Universal City Plaza
Universal City, CA 91608
818-777-5577; FAX: 818-508-6452
Elizabeth Gelfand, Vice Pres.
Mktg. Strategy
Nancy Cushing-Jones, Pres.t, Pub.
Consumer products
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A complete Windows 95 1 NT solution
Touch Screen Box Office Cashier Workstations
Customer Self-Serve Kioslcs (ATMs)
Intelligent Concession Workstations
Total Site Management Back Office software
Rapid Debit and Credit Card acceptance
Head Office Integration
Plug and Play modularity
Customizable to meet your chain's specific needs
Hundreds of installed & functional ATMs
Flexible support offerings including 800 Help Desk
Concession Inventory Management display
'RDS
DATA
GROUP INCl
101 Donly Drive South, P.O. Box 421
Simcoe. Ontario, Canada N3Y 4L5
(888) RDS-DATA that's (888) 737-3282
Check out our web site: HHW.rdsdata.COm
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UNIVERSAL PICTURES
100 Universal Citv Plaza
Universal City, CA 91608
818-777-1768
FAX: 818-733-1481
Steve Ellman, Vice Pres.,
Nat'l. Exhibitor Relations
Lisa Holland,
Mgr., Nat'l. Exhibitor Services
WARNER BROS./LCA
4000 Warner Blvd.
Burbank,CA 91522
818-954-7980
Dan Romanelli, President
MISCELLANEOUS
A-1 PREMIERES, INC.
5188-C Europa Dr.
Boynton Beach, FL 33437
561-364-7630
561-364-7631
Edward LaPidus, President
Searchlights, red carpet, security,
permits, premiere specialists
in NYC area
ALCOPS, INC.
6701 W. 64th St., Suite 221
Overland Park, KS 66202
913-362-0104
FAX: 913-362-5859
Mickey Gitlin, President
Teri Gitlin, Sec./Treas.
Theatre investigating & security
sen/ices, pre-employment
screening
ALEXANDER FILMS VIDEO
SERVICES
1075 Elkton Dr.
Colorado Springs, CO 80907
719-531-6311; FAX: 719-531-7731
Regina Hutchison, Owner
E-MAIL: videohutch@aol.com
Film to video, foreign conversions,
blank tapes, duplication
ALL NATION'S FLAG CO. INC.
1 14 W. 5th St.
Kansas City, MO 64105
800-533-3524; FAX: 816-842-3995
Greg Wald, President/Chvner
Custom flags, banners & related
products
BANNERWORKS, INC./KRS
2h 1 Western Ave.
Seattle, WA 98121
206-448-1003; FAX: 206-448-1204
Koryn Rolstad,
President/OwTver/Designer
E-MAIL:bannerworks@krstudios
Sculptural ceiling-hung designs for
corporate & public spaces
BASELINE
838 Broadway
New York, NY 10003
212-254-8235; FAX: 212-529-3330
Lee Royle, President
E-MAIL: info@pkbaseline.com
URL: viTvw.pkbaseline.com
Online database for the entertainment
& communications media
industries
BEDROCK
COMMUNICATIONS INC.
Facihties Mag., 650 First Ave., 7thR
New York, NY 10016-3240
212-532-4150; FAX: 212-213-6382
Michael Caffin, Managing Editor
E-MAIL: bci@inch.comBEST
BEST LOCKER SERVICE
4602 Kenmore Dr., N.W.
Washington, D.C., 20007
800-LOCKER-4, 202-333-8580
FAX: 202-333-4287
Bemice Silverman, President
E-MAIL: bestlckr@erols.com
Coin-operated checking lockers
BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE
6640 Sunset Blvd., Suite 100
Hollywood, CA 90028
213-465-1186; FAX: 213-465-5049
Kim Williamson, Editor-in-Chief
Christine James, Managing Editor
Robert M. Vale,
Natl. Advertising Director
E-MAIL: boxoffice@earthIink.net
URL: www.boxoffice.com
l\/lonthly trade magazine covering all
business aspects of ttie motion
picture industry
BOSTON CONCESSIONS
GROUP, INC.
Ill Sixth St.
Cambridge, MA 02141
617-499-2700; FAX: 617-661-3023
Joe O'Donnell
Joe Armstrong
Operates concession stands
in theatres
BRAUN BRUSH CO.
43 Albertson Ave.
Albertson, NY 11507
516-741-6000, 800-645-4111
FAX: 516-741-6299
Lance Cheney, President
E-MAIL: braunbrush@juno.com
URL: www.braunbrush.com
Screen S maintenance brushes,
popcorn squeegees,
environmentally safe cleaning
chemicals
BUX-MONT FLAGPOLE CO.
221 Horsham Rd.
Horsham, PA 19044
215-675-1040; FAX: 215-675-4443
William Sweigart, Ov^ner
Rick Crawford
Flags of all nations, signs, marquees
CFI (Consolidated Film
Industries)
959 Seward St.
Hollywood, CA 90038
213-960-7444; FAX: 213-960-7491
Bob Beitcher, President
URL: www.cfi-hollywood.com
Film lab & video tape services, stage
& editing room rentals
CINEMA CLEANING SYSTEMS
3102 Oak Lawn Ave., Suite 700
Dallas, TX 75219
800-959-2052
Tyler Struve, President
Cinema cleaning systems S products
CINEMA LINKS
3 Sandy Ridge Rd.
Brunswick, ME 0401 1-9334
207-725-6188, 207-725-0139
FAX: 207-725-0145
C. Gregory Melick, Principal & CEO
Bradley P. Smith, Principal
E-MAIL:gmelick@gwi.net
Demographics, business plans,
advertising, 'Queue Cards'
(800) 726-2609
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INSTALLATION
AUDIO RACKING
THX RECERTIFICATIONS
TECHNICAL CONSULTING
24 HOUR ANSWERING SERVICE
VIDEO PROJECTION
INTERMITTENT REPAIR
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AND PRODUCTS
INCLUDING
EQUIPMENT
PROJECTION SERVICE*
SOUND SERVICE*
PARTS
BOOTH SUPPLIES
'Annual Contracts or l)emand Service
XENON BULBS
SOUND SYSTEMS
CONCESSION EQUIPMENT
LOBBY FIXTURES
FRONT ENDS
LENSES
USED EQUIPMENT
P.O. Box 10799
New Orleans, Louisiana 70181
GOOD SIGHT, GOOD SOUND
THE KEY TO GREAT CONCESSIONS
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CINETYP, INC.
843 Seward St.
Hollywood, CA 90038
213-463-8569; FAX: 213-463-4129
John H. Bell, President
E-MAIL: cinetyp@aol.com
Foreign language subtitles & deaf
captions. LASER subtitles
CY YOUNG INDUSTRIES, INC.
#711 East 14 Ave.
North Kansas City, MO 64116
816-474-1776, 800-729-2610
FAX: 816-474-1900
John (Rick) Young, Sr., Pres. & CEO
Carrie E. Young, Vice Pres. & COO
Catherine L. Young, Vice Pres. of
New Product Development
Replacement seat covers,
cup-holders, patron trays,
booster bags & safety covers
DATA QUEST
INVESTIGATIONS LTD.
667 Boylston St., Suite 200
Boston, MA 02116
800-292-9797, 617-437-0030
FAX: 617-437-0034
Russ Bubas, President
E-MAIL:rbubas@dqil td.com
Full service loss prevention &
detection agency; mystery
shopping, undercover
investigations, pre-employment
screening
DRIVE-IN SPEAKER NEWSLEHER
30 Wanda Drive, Unit B
Forestville, CT 06010-7846
860-589-0556; FAX: 860-589-0556
David Brian Lounder, Editor
Monthly newsletter of the Drive-ln
Theatre Preservation Society, Inc.
EARTH COMMUNICATIONS
OFFICE
12021 Wilshire Blvd., Box 557
Los Angeles, CA 90025
310-656-0577
FAX: 310-656-1657
Larry Kopald, COB
Bruce Hartzell,
Distribution Coordinator
URL: www.oneearth.org
E-MAIL: ecoffice@earthlink.net
EASTMAN KODAK CO.
343 State St.
Rochester, NY 14650-0310
716-724-4848
FAX: 716-724-9702
Films used to make features
ENTERTAINMENT
MARKETING GROUP
8913 1/2 Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90069
310-358-8566, 310-358-8564
FAX: 310-659-9558
Phil Alexander, President
URL: secretspot.com
E-MAIL: emgmail@aol.com
Television, radio & print promotions:
corporate sponsorships:on-line
promotions
ENTERTAINMENT
MEDIA SERVICES
71 Barber Greene Rd.
Don Mills, Ontario
Canada M3C 2A2
416-445-0544
FAX: 416-445-2894
Sandy I. Stewart, President
Development & production of custom
media & advertising for the
entertainment industry
EXHIBITOR RELATIONS CO., INC.
116 N. Robertson, Suite 606
Los Angeles, CA 90048
310-657-2005
FAX: 310-657-7283
John N. Krier, President & Owner
Paul Dergarabedian, Exec. Vice Pres.
Motion picture research &
boxoffice tracking
EXHIBITOR SUPPORT
PARTNERSHIP
1160OgdenDr.,#207
Los Angeles, CA 90046
213-848-8775
FAX: 213-654-4120
Mark Schulte, Partner
Doug Endicott, Partner
Film buying S full service
consulting business
FILM FINDERS
718 Westboume Dr.
West Hollywood, CA 90069
310-657-6397
FAX: 310-657-6608
Sydney Levine, President
Peter Belsito, Exec. Vice Pres.
E-MAIL:filmfinders@
compuserve.com
Finding features for acquisition by
clients: domestic & international
buyers
HOLLYWOOD DREAM FACTORY
1842 Sylvania Ave.
Toledo, OH 43613
419-474-3065
FAX: 419-474-9740
Tom Martin
Hollywood-related products: clapper
and reel clocks, vi/atches: Vintage
movie memorabilia
INDEPENDENT MARKETING EDGE
827 Blackmore Place
Bozeman, MT 59715
406-587-1251
FAX: 406-586-1571
Dan Klusmann, President
E-MAIL: movieinfo@aol.com
Bi-weekly newsletter for
theatre managers
KIDS TRIBUTE
71 Barber Greene Rd.
Don Mills, Ontario
Canada M3C 2A2
416-445-0544
FAX: 416-445-2894
Sandy I. Stewart, President
In-theatre entertainment magazine
LEXiS-NEXIS
4520 East-West Hwy., Suite 610
Bethesda,MD 20814
301-951-4702, 301-215-8100
FAX: 301-215-8128
Meg Zelinsky, Dir. of Mktg.
E-MAIL: margaret.hargreaves@
lexis-nexis.com
URL: www.lexis-nexis.com
Online entertainment library
containing information about the
entertainment industry, including
Hollywood news
LOMMAGOLFCO.
1120 S. Washington Ave.
Scranton, PA 18505
717-346-5559, 717-346-5555
FAX: 717-346-5580
Gary Knight, Exec. Vice Pres.
E-MAIL: info@lommagolf.com
URL: www.lommagolf.com
Portable, prefab miniature golf
courses, indoor/outdoor
1 Cinema Products International
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MEGASYSTEMS
1 10 Ribori.i St.
St. Augustine, FL 32085
904-829-5702; FAX: 904-829-5707
Larry PoUa, CEO/President
E-MAIL: info@870.com
Full service provider of products &
sen/ices for tfie large-format
entertainment industry
MIRREX INC.
2i)25 East Linden Ave.
Linden, NJ 07036
800-346-0386, 908-486-181
FAX: 908-486-2347
Ernest L. Piano, Gen. Mgr.
Classless mirrors for scenery
MISSION CRANE SERVICE INC.
1641 S. SunkistSt.
.Anaheim, CA 92806
SSS-660-7253; FAX: 714-978-3056
Glenn A. Kassel
E-MAIL: GKassel@aoLcom
Premier skill crane machines: no cost
turn key' program
MODULAR HARDWARE
P.O. Box 35398
lucson,AZ 85740
S0l)-533-0042; FAX: 800-533-7942
Kcibert J. Hotch, President
1 -MAIL: modhdwe@modhdwe.com
LRL: www.modhdwe.com
Partition hardware & washroom
accessories
MOVIETONES
18056 Lake Encino Dr.
EncincCA 91316
S18-344-9896; FAX: 818-344-9897
Robert G. Kardashian, President
Music for movie theatre lobbies
S auditoriums
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MOVIEADCORP.
3300 N. Andrews Ave.
Pompano Beach, FL 33064
800-329-4989
FAX: 954-784-0700
Emil T. Noah Jr., President
Supply ad slicks, title art,
concession mylars & translites
MOVIEFONE
4 World Trade Center, Suite 5280
New York, NY 10048
212-450-8000
Telephone movie guide & advance
ticket sales
MOVIELINE INTERNATIONAL
9461 LBJ Fwy., #208
Dallas, TX 75243
972-234-6192; FAX: 972-234-8571
John Shaw, President
E-MAIL: mlifbo@aoI.com
E-MAIL: johnshaw@texas.net
Film information fax & newsletter
service for film buyers
NATIONAL CRANE NETWORK
11100 Dana Circle
Cypress, CA 90630
888-262-6747; FAX: 714-890-3133
Joe Bates, President
Ty Bishop, Vice Pres. Ops.
Heidi Haller, Dir. of Mktg.
No cost program that installs custom
skill cranes games in movie theatres
PACIFIC CONCESSIONS, INC.
1250 Bayhill Dr., Suite 301
San Bruno, CA 94066
650-871-8711; FAX: 650-871-7480
Alan Kates, President
E-MAIL:info@paci ficconcessions.com
Financing & concession sen/ices
"YOU PROVIDE THE POPCORN,
WE PROVIDE THE CLEAN...
365 DAYS PER YEAR!"
• Imagine A Clean Environment
• Reliable Detailed Service
• On Site Supervision
• Always Consistent
Theater Cleaning
Specialists!
visit our Web Page at:
http://members.aol.com/MagNorth/Home.html
Or, e-mail us at: MAONOFiTH@AOL.COM
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WESTCHESTER, CT.
1 -800-7V3-5852
MANHATTAN
1 -2 1 2-36&54 1 2
QUEENS
1-718-27&6202
LONG ISLAND
1 -800773-5852
1 -5 1 6-732-4577 FAX
PRE-VUE
ENTERTAINMENT MAGAZINE
7825 Fay Ave.
La Jolla, CA 92037
619-456-5577; FAX: 619-542-0114
Frank Lane, President
Penny Langford, Publisher
E-MAIL: prevuemag@aol.com
URL: www.pre-vuemagazine.com
Pre-Vue in-iobby movie magazine
(free to patrons)
PREMIER DATAVISION, INC.
1536 Cole Blvd., Suite #340
Golden, CO 80401
303-232-1901; FAX: 303-232-1429
Blane O. Newton, President
Automated directory &
co-op ad creation/delivery
S. ROSE, INC.
2516 Olive St.
Racine, WI 53408
414-638-2089; FAX: 414-638-1989
Scott Bose, President
Scott Barber, Vice Pres.
E-MAIL: bosefam®
virtualempire.com
Patented tJIOVIE MOVER film
shipping technology: interactive
media.CBT media & website design
S-H-O-W-T-l-M-E
(Div. Synergy Systems)
1224 N. Beverly Glen Blvd.
Bel Air, CA 90077
310-474-3363, 213-Showtime
FAX: 310-474-2981
Allen Mostow, President
E-MAIL: synergysys@tvincars.com
URL: www.tvincars.com
Telephone movie show
times/information
SEAR SOUND
353 West 48th St.
New York, NY 10036
212-582-5380
FAX: 212-581-2731
Walter Sear, Owner
Roberta Findlay, Studio Mgr.
l\/lusic recording studio for films
SOUND ASSOCIATES INC.
424 W. 45th St.
New York, NY 10036
212-757-5679
FAX: 212-265-1250
Bernard Fox, Studio Mgr.
E-MAIL: bfox.70@
compuserve.com
Post-production audio-for-video
& recording services
SUMMIT VOICE
TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
27113 Brookpark Rd. Ext.
Suite 292
N. Olmsted, OH 44070
216-235-9788;
FAX: 216-235-1077
Chuck Sword, President
E-MAIL: Sword@en.com
Voice info system for movie show
times: advertising messages,
rating info, movie summaries &
special event listings
THE SCREENING ROOM INC.
3131 Sheridan Dr., Century Mall
Amherst, NY 14226
716-837-0376
FAX: 716-837-0376
Bob Golibersuch, President
Development S booking services for
the emerging electronic cinema
industry
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TRIBUTE MAGAZINE
71 Barber Greene Rd.
Don Mills, Ontario
Canada M3C 2A2
416-445-0544
FAX: 416^45-2894
Sandy A. Stewart, President
E-MAIL: 104362.1210®
compuserve.com
URL: www.tribute.ca
In-theatre entertainment magazine
TRICORP AMUSEMENTS, INC.
5 Verotuca Ave.
Somerset, N] 08873
732-846-7767
FAX: 732-846-0622
Charles Peitz, President
Alan Newell, Sec. /Treas.
Joseph Murtagh, Ops. Mgr.
Alan Tucker,
North East Area Mgr.
Operator of coin-operated amusements
TRIPLEHCORP.
One Triplet Dr.
Bluffton, OH 45817
419-358-5015
FAX: 419-358-7956
Tony Augsburger,
Natl. Sales Mgr.
Test equipment
UNET 2 CORP.
80EastllthSt.
New York, NY 10003
212-777-5463
FAX: 212-777-5534
James Monaco, Pres.
URL: www.unet.net
E-MAIL: jmonaco@unet.net
Provides electronic publishing
sen/ices to media companies
41^
RENTALS
AUDIO RENTS, INC.
1541 N. Wilcox Ave.
HoUywood, CA 90028
213-874-1000
FAX: 213-460-2676
Robert Burton, Engineer
E-MAIL: audmts@pacbell.net
Post production audio equipment,
Dolby SR for exhibition
BOSTON LIGHT & SOUND, INC.
124 Brighton Ave.
Boston, MA 02134
617-787-3131; FAX: 617-787^257
David Dowling, Mgr.
E-MAIL: info@blsi.com
URL: www.blsi.com
Projection equipment, dailies
CARDINAL SOUND & MTN. PICS.
SYSTEMS, INC.
10219 Southard Dr.
Beltsville,MD 20705
301-595-8811; FAX: 301-595-5985
Neal Rockman, President
Cathy Rockman, Gen. Mgr.
E-MAIL:nrockman®
cardinalsound.com
Sound systems &
motion picture systems
CHARTER FINANCIAL
153 East 53rd St.
New York, NY 10022
212-805-1000; FAX: 212-805-1050
Jerome Rosen
URL: www.chartfin.com
Leases & finances theatre equipment
W^
ON-SITE
RE-UPHOLSTERY
CY YOUNG
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& CUP HOLDER INSTALLATION
HIU TOP PRODUCTIONS
309 Lomita St., P.O. Box 4752
Santa Fe, NM 87501
505-982-3191, 505-984-4966
FAX: 505-982-3191
Bill Hill, CEO
E-MAIL: hilltop@sfoI.com
Professional 16 & 35 mm projection
systems, dual-system, mag/optical,
locations dailies specialist
SCREEN
ADVERTSING
C&AADVERTISING,INC.
4725 Merle H.n Rd., Suite 100
Des Moines, lA 50322
800-735-5748
515-334-5222
FAX: 515-334-5226
Shirlee Ludemann, President
Complete on-screen
slide advertising program
CAPTIVE COMMERCIALS, INC.
775 Kennesaw
Birmingham, MI 48009
248-647-4050
FAX: 248-647-4050
Jack Metzel, President
E-MAIL: issuespc@ix.netcom.com
URL: www.issuesprocon.org
Theatre screen advertising sales
NATIONAL CINEMA ADVERTISING
1300 E. 104th St., Suite 1002
Kansas City, MO 64131
800-SCREEN-l, 816-941-8489
FAX: 816-941-2980
Nancy Hubacher,
Sr. Vice Pres., Sales
E-MAIL: i\hubacher@
ncninc.com
URL:www.ncninc.com
Movie trailers for theatres
NATIONAL PRE-VUE NETWORK
7825 Fay Ave.
La Jolla,CA 92037
619^56-5577
FAX; 619-542-01 14
Frank Lane, President
Penny Langford,
Vice Pres. of Ops.
E-MAIL: prevuemag@aol.com
URL: www.pre-vuemagazine.com
Rolling stock commercial advertising
on screens (military market)
POT O'GOLD PRODUCTIONS, INC.
2211 RogeroRd.
Jacksonville, FL 32211^099
904-744-7478
800-146-5330
FAX: 904-744-7488
Clarke Mazza, President
Martha Mazza, CFO
Kim Magdalein,
Gen. Sales Mgr.
E-MAIL: comazza@aol.com
SILVER SCREEN ADVERTISING
6101 France Ave. South
Edina, MN 55410
612-920-7938
FAX: 612-338-3944
David Peterson, President
E-MAIL: ssaslide@aol.com
35mm slide entertainment/advertising
programs for movie theatres:
computer-based production house
Same unbeatable optics
the Xenex II
35.5" of std. rack space
as
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panels
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WILL OBTAIN THE HIGHEST PICTURE QUALrTY AVAILABLE.
Write or call for descriptive literature.
STARTING AT $28.50 EA.
1-800-729-2610
Response No. 67
KNEISLEY
ELECTRIC
COMPANY P O Box 4692
Toledo, Ohio 43610
(419) 241-1219 FAX (419) 241-9920
Response No. 4 )

UNIQUE SCREEN AD
PRODUCTIONS
P.O. Box 2165
St. Cloud, MN 56302-2165
320-654-6578, 800-358-1818
FAX: 320-202-2916
Eugene Schreder, President
E-MAIL: mediapro®
mediaproinc.com
URL: www.mediaproinc.com/
usa.html
Specializes in screen advertising
VAL MORGAN CINEMA
ADVERTISING (AMERICA)
247 N. Goodman St.
Rochester, NY 14607
716-244-6400; FAX: 716-244-8245
Cheryl Magiros, President
John Schroth, Vice Pres./Dir. of Ops.
E-MAIL: adaml2b@aol.com
"Screen Seen At The Movies" slide
program; in-house production
SERVICE
AMPAC THEATRE CLEANING
SERVICES
P.O. Box 421
Monterey, CA 93942
408-372-3728; FAX: 408-372-3728
Arnold Meltzer, Owner
Ttteatre cleaning services
ASC TECHNICAL SERVICES CORP.
7027 Twin Hills Ave.
Dallas, TX 75231
214-265-9303; FAX: 214-691-8949
R.V. Gandolfi, President
Bruce Schroeder, Dir. of Field Ops.
E-MAIL: asccompanies.com
URL: asccompanies@worldnet.com
Sound and projection service,
equipment and parts sales
BONDI ASSOCIATES
970 South 2nd St.
San Jose, CA 95112-5825
408-293-7006; FAX; 408-294-2000
John C. Bondi,
Div. Vice Pres. & Gen. Mgr.
James J. Becher, Mgr., Engineering
CAUFORNIA SEATING AND REPAIR
12455 Branford St., Unit 2
Arleta,CA 91331
818-890-SEAT; FAX: 805-581-0226
William (Tim) McMahan, President
Installation, rentals, seating repair &
sales of used chairs
CAPITOL SEATING COMPANY
P.O. Box 938, Belton, TX 76513
817-939-1853; FAX: 817-939-0917
Terry L. Mantz, CEO
Todd Mantz, Vice Pres.
Delane Redden, Sales Mgr.
URL: www.capitolseahng.com
Complete theatre seat refurbishing
CARDINAL SOUND & MTN. PICS.
SYSTEMS, INC.
10219 Southard Dr.
Beltsville, MD 20705
301-595-8811; FAX: 301-595-5985
Neal Rockman, President
Cathy Rockman, Gen. Mgr.
E-MAIL: nrockman@
cardinalsound.com
Motion picture systems, projectors,
sound repair & maintenance
CLINE ENTERPRISE INC.
P.O. Box 1236
Burleson, TX 76097
817-293-2468, 817-929-8494
FAX: 817-568-1786
Chris Cline, Owner
E-MAIL: emcline@email.msn.com
Stadium seating (retrofits)
CY YOUNG INDUSTRIES, INC.
#711 East 14 Ave.
North Kansas City, MO 64116
816-474-1776, 800-729-2610
FAX: 816-474-1900
John (Rick) Young, Sr., Pres. & CEO
Carrie E. Young, Vice Pres. & COO
Catherine L. Young, Vice Pres. of
New Product Development
Reupholster seating, molded cushions
DECLERCQ'S THEATRICAL
SPECIALTIES, INC.
724 Kevin Ct., Oakland, CA 94621
510-633-5110; FAX: 510-633-5114
Joe DeClercq, President
Paul DeClercq, Vice Pres.
E-MAIL: info@declercqs.com
URL: www.declercqs.com
Theatre rigging, hardware, draperies
& screen cleaning
EMERGENCY LIGHTING
SERVICES, INC.
150 Brookside Rd.
Waterbury, CT 06708
800-225-0263, 6-8148
FAX: 203-756-6312
Dick Clark, President & CEO
Bruce Bird, NatT Service Mgr.
Specializes in service, repair &
preventive maintenance of all types
of battery po v/ered emergency
lighting (Nationwide)
FRANK BOLKOVAC
103 Sunset Dr.
Monroeville, PA 15146
412-373-7968
Frank Bolkovac, Owner
Re-building & re-conditioning
projector intermittants;
hard-to-get parts
HALLS CINEMA PRODUCTS
2106 Villawood Lane
Garland, TX 75041
972-414-8229
FAX: 972-414-8229
Jeff Johnson, President
Malcolm Daly, Ops.
E-MAIL: screens@flash.net
URL: www. .screencleaning.com
Screen cleaning & other front end'
services
MAG NORTH, INC.
P.O. Box 309
Selden, NY 11784
516-698-7911
800-773-5852
FAX: 516-732-4577
George F. Greene, Vice Pres. Ops.
George F. Greene, II, District Mgr.
E-MAIL: magnorth@aol.com
URL:members.aoI.com/magnorth/
home.html
Theatre cleaning specialists
NATIONAL CINEMA SERVICE
1512 Edwards Ave., Suite 3
Harahan, LA 70123
504-734-0707
FAX: 504-734-0700
Charlie A. Achee, Jr., President
Chris Pierce, Controller
Sound & projection service,
equipment & parts sales
TEXAS
THEATRE
SUPPLY
Full line of Theatre &
Entertainment Supplies at
Reasonable Rates
•Prof. Lighting, Sound and Speciaf Effects
•Projection Equipment and Xenon Bulbs
•Screens
•Seating
•Crowd Control Systems
•Production Direction
•Costume Design & Consultation
•Replacenwnt Lighting
coo
E.G. Ollvarrl, Jr.
(210)344-3823
346 Senova Or.
San Antonio, TX
78216
CEO
Rosemary OHvarrl-Taylor
(210[340-5766
362 Senova Dr.
San Antonio, TX
78216
Fax:(210)344-2522
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Hosponse No. 184
TAKING THEATERS TO
NEW HEIGHTS
STADIUM SEATING RETROFITS
LOW $$$$
TURN KEY
HIGH QUALITY
EXPERIENCED
4 FAST INNOVATIVE
Jq Chris CiiriB
general contractor
OFFICE (817)293-2468
MOBILE (817)929-8494
FAX (817)568-1786
P.O.BOX 1236 BURLESON, TX 76097 EMAIL: CMCIine@emall.msn.com
Response No. 498
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PINKSTON SALES & SERVICE
Rt, 1, Box 72-H, Sadler, TX 76264
903-523-4912
Pinky Pinkston, Owner
Rebuilds intermittents, projectors &
soundheads, Century or Simplex
SILVER SCREEN
THEATRE SPECIALISTS
1109 Lincoln Ave., Flint, MI 48507
313-233-6460
Tony Minca, President
Brian Minca, Vice Pres.
Screen cleaning, screen/sound
installation
THEATRE CONFECTIONS, INC.
795 Monroe Ave.
Rochester, NY 14607
716-271-0858; FAX; 716-271-0859
David Kates, President
Jeff Dodge, Vice Pres. Sales
Concession sen^ices
THEATREPLEX ENTERTAINMENT
PROPERTIES INC.
30 S. Wacker Dr., Suite 2811
Chicago, IL 60606
312-454-8328; FAX: 312-930-8542
Kathleen H. Hosty, Chairman/CEO
Cheryl S. Wilson, President
Ralph Cram, Exec. Vice Pres. Acquis.
Provides turnkey development
services & net-lease: construction
& acquisition financing to exhibitors
ULTRAFLAT
20306 Sherman Way
Winnetka, CA 91306-3108
818-884-0184
FAX: 818-884-0184
Herbert Bammerlin, President
Robert Caspari, Sales/Technical
URL:www.los-angeles-online.com/
ultrflt
Xenon reflector S motion picture
optics recoated. repolished &
repaired
VANDEMARK ELECTRONICS
P.O. Box 3472, Santa Rosa, CA 95402
707-545-4068
James Vandemark, Owner
Design S build theatre sound systems
3-D
AMERICAN PAPER OPTICS INC.
3080 Bartlett Corporate Dr.
Bartlett, TN 38133
901-381-1515, 800-767-8427
FAX: 901-381-1517
John Jerit, President
E-MAIL: optics3D@lunaweb.net
3-D glasses
DEEP VISION 3-D
6457 Santa Monica Blvd., Box 38386
Hollywood, CA 90038
213^65-5819
Stephen Gibson, President
E-MAIL: post@3dglasses.com
URL: www.3dglasses.com
DIMENSIONS
5240 Medina Rd.
Woodland Hills, CA 91364-1913
818-592-0999; FAX: 818-592-0987
Daniel Symmes, President
3-D consultation for motion pictures,
TV & print media
MARKS POLARIZED CORP.
275-D Marcus Blvd.,
Hauppauge, NY 11788
516-273-8900
FAX: 516-273-1190
Ronald Miller, President
E-MAIL: mpc@iacsoft.com
URL: www.iacsoft.com/mpc
Viewers (anaglyphic or polarized),
projector & camera adapters
STEREOVISION INTERNATIONAL
3815 Burbank Blvd.
Burbank, CA 91505
818-769-7332
818-841-1127
FAX: 310-547-4317
Christopher J. Condon, President
John Rupkalvis,
Tech. Advisor
3-D screens, projection lenses,
movies S rentals
TICKETING
SYSTEM OPERATING
SOLUTIONS INC.
22833 Bothell-Everett Hwy.
Suite 1210
BotheU, WA 98021
800-434-3098
360-805-9396
FAX: 360-805-0632
Paul Faulds, Mktg. Dir.
E-MAIL: solopsys@aol.com
URL: www.busdir.com/systemoper
Inventory reduction ticketing &
concession systems
UNIFORMS
ALL-BILT UNIFORM CORP.
38-09 43rd Ave.
Long Island City, NY HlOl
718-706-1414, 718-706-1414
FAX: 718-729-3423
Howard P. Wecksler, President
E-MAIL: webmaster@all.bllt.com
URL: www.all.bilt.com
In-Stock & custom uniforms
HANOVER UNIFORM COMPANY
529 W. 29th St., Baltimore, .MD 21211
800-541-9709; FAX: 410-235-6071
John Mintz, Sales Mgr.
Uniforms, vests, shirts, aprons, bow ties
VIDEO
ALL PRO
124 West 60th St., N.Y., NY 10023
212-582-4611; FAX: 212-582-5645
Sid Rubinstein, President
Moviewall, video displays & prod. svcs.
GENERAL AMUSEMENT CORP.
23241 Ventura Blvd., #213
Woodland Hills, CA 91316
818-222-1234; FAX: 818-222-5620
Lois P.Glezerman, President
E-MAIL:gacgames@aoI.com
Operator of video/pinball/
coin-operated equipment
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Also available: Automatickets, Roll Tickets, Custom-printed Souvenir Invitation
Tickets, Coupon Books and Gilt Certificotes
National
TICKET CO.®
P.O. Box 547
Shamol

Exhibitors Plioneboolc
A Directory of Important Organizations and Associations
What follows Is a brief listing of significant organizations and
associations that fall outside of the editorial parameters of the
main body of the BOXOFFICE BUYERS DIRECTORY but that BOXOFFICE
feels are of great significance to industry professionals.
They are alphabetized for your convenience.
ACADEMY OF INTERACTIVE
ARTS AND SCIENCES
106353 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 180
Los Angeles, CA 90025
Phone: 310-441-2280
Fax:310-441-2285
Chairman/President: Marc Teren
Serving as a bridge between
entertainment and
computer companies
ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE
ARTS AND SCIENCES
8949 Wilshire Blvd.
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
Phone: 310-247-3000
Fax: 310-859-9351
Sponsors ttie annual Academy
Awards, plus various ottjer
functions ttiat seel( to tjonor
and celebrate film
AFMA (AMERICAN FILM
MARKETING ASSOCIATION)
10850 Wilshire lilvd., .Ninth Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Phone: 310446-1000
Fax:310-446-1600
President: Mike Frischkom
AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE
1800 N. Highland Ave., Suite 717
Los Angeles, CA 90028
Phone:213-466-3456
Fax:213-461-9737
Exec. Director: Barbara Smith
Programming: Dennis Bartok
A nonprofit viewer-supported
cultural organization dedicated to
ttie celebration of ttie moving
picture in all its forms
AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE
2021 N. Wcsli-rn Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90027
Phone: 213-856-7600
Fax; 213-467-4578
Director; Jean Firstenberg
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF THE
MOVING IMAfiE
35th Avenue at 36th Street
Astoria, NY II 106
Phone: 718-784-4520
Fax: 718-784-4681
Chief Curator of Film and
Video: David Schwartz
Devoted to ttie art, history,
promotion and tectinology
of film, TV and video
AUSTRALIAN MOVIE CONVENTION
c/o Motion Picture Exhibitors
Association of Queensland
P.O. Box 1031
Stafford City, Queensland 4053
Phone/Fax: (07) 3356 5671
For more ttian a half-century,
the annual Australian/New
Zealand/Pacific distribution
and exhibition convention
BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE
6640 Sunset Blvd., Suite 100
Hollywood, CA 90028
Phone:213-465-1186
Fax: 213-465-5049
Editor-in-Chief: Kim Williamson
Natl. Ad Director: Bob Vale
Managing Editor: Christine James
Senior Editor (Theatre
Desk): Lisa Osborne
Editorial Assistant:
Linda Andrade
For eight decades, Boxoffice
has been the bible of the
exhibition business
BOXOFFICE ONLINE
URL: www.boxoffice.com
E-MAIL; boxoffice@earthlink.net
Founding Editor: Ray Greene
Editor-in-Chief: Kim Williamson
Natl. Ad Director: Bob Vale
Managing Editor: Christine James
Senior Editor (Theatre
Desk): Lisa Osborne
Editorial Assistant;
Linda Andrade
Founded in June 1994, BOXOFFICE
ONLINE is the oldest and most
established website dedicated to
the business of film
CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Comer vt Clark and North Avenues
Chicago, IL 60614
Phone:312-642-4600
Fax; 312-266-2077
CINEASIA
244 W. 49th Street
Suite 200
New York, NY 10019
Phone: 212-246-6460
Fax: 212-265-6428
Co-Directors: Jimmy and
Bob Sunshine
Annual Asian exhibition and
distribution convention
CINEMA EXPO
244 W. 49th Street
Suite 200
New York, NY 10019
Phone: 212-246-6460
Fax: 212-265-6428
Co- Directors: Jimmy and
Bob Sunshine
Annual European exhibition and
distribution convention
EARTH
COMMUNICATIONS
OFFICE (ECO)
12021 Wishire Blvd., Box 557
Los Angeles, CA 90025
Phone: 310-656-0577
Fax; 310-656-1657
Chairman of the
Board; Larry Kopald
Dedicated to serving the
environmental communities by
educating and inspiring the
entertainment industries toward
environmental action; provides
PSAs to theatres
ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY
FOUNDATION
11132 Ventura Blvd., Suite 401
Studio City, CA 91604
Phone: 818-760-7722
Fax; 818-760-7898
ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA
ASSOCIATION
1(178(1 S.in 1.1 Monica Blvd., Suite 210
Los Angeles, CA 90025
Phone:310-446-6244
Fax; 310-446-6255
President: Wendy James
Promotes awareness of
environmental issues in the
entertainment media
FOUNDATION OF MOTION
PICTURE PIONEERS
244 W. 49 St.
Suite 200
New York, NY 10019
Phone:212-247-3178
Fax; 212-265-6428
A networking organization dedicated
to the people and past of the
movie medium; for the
historically minded exhibitor, a
priceless resource
I.A.T.S.E.
(INTL. ALLIANCE
OF THEATRICAL
STAGE EMPLOYEES)
1515 Broadway, Suite 601
New York, NY 10036
Phone:212-730-1770
Fax: 212-730-7809
Intl. President: Thomas C. Short
Labor union representing stagehands,
technicians and craftpersons in the
film, TV and theatre industries
INDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT
104W. 29th St., 12th Floor
New York, NY 10001
Phone; 212-465-8200
Fax:212-465-8525
Exec. Director: Michelle Byrd
Provides assistance to independent
film projects; publishes Filmmaker
Magazine with IFP/West
INDEPENDENT FEATURE
PROJECT WEST
1964 Westwood Blvd., Suite 205
Los Angeles, CA 90025
Phone:310-475-4379
Fax: 310-441-5676
Director: Dawn Hudson
Co-publishes Filmmaker Magazine
INTERNATIONAL
DOCUMENTARY ASSOCIATION
\"->\ S lMilx-llMin,Suilr:0:
Los Angeles, C A 9(H)35
Phone:310-284-8422
Fax; 310-785-9334
Exec. Director: Betsy McLane
Pmmotes and supports nonfiction film
and video; publishes International
Documentary Magazine

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MID-ATLANTIC
INTERNATIONAL THEATRE
EQUIPMENT ASSN. (ITEA)
(fornwrhi THEATRE
EQUIPMENT
ASSOCIATION)
244 W. 49th Street, Suite 200
New York, NY 10019
Phone: 212-246-6460
Fax: 212-265-6428
President: Dan Taylor
LEAGUE OF HISTORIC
AMERICAN THEATRES
34 Market Place, Suite 320
Baltimore, MD 21202
Phone:410-659-9533
Fax:410-837-9664
Exec. Director: Terrance Demas
MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIA-
TION OF AMERICA (MPAA)
WASHINGTON, D.C.
1600 Eye St., N.W.
Washington, DC 20006
Phone: 202-293-1966
Fax: 202-296-7410
President: Jack Valenti
CALIFORNIA:
15503 Ventura Blvd.
Encino, CA 91436
Phone:818-995-6600
Fax: 818-382-1798
Sr. VP:Beth]ynJ. Hand
Chairman, Classification and
Rating Administration:
Richard M. Mosk
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
OF CONCESSIONAIRES
35 E. Wacker Dr., Suite 1816
Chicago, IL 60601
Phone: 312-236-3858
Fax:312-236-7809
President: Norm Chesler
Exec. Director Charles A. Winans
Dir./Comm.: Susan Cross
Trade association for the
concessions industry;
certification and video
employee training aids,
publications, regional
seminars and annual trade
stiow convention
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF
DISCOUNT THEATRES
7502 Greenville Ave., Suite 800
Dallas, TX 75231
Phone:214-696-1644
Fax: 214-369-9972
President: Randy Hester
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF
THEATRE OWNERS (NATO)
4605 Lankershim, Suite 340
\orth Hollywood, CA 91602
Phone: 818-506-1778
Fax: 818-506-0269
President: William F. Kartozian
Vice President & Exec. Director:
Mary Arm Grasso
Ttie largest international trade
association for film exfiibitors
in ttie world: publisties NATO
News: co-sponsors the annual
ShoWest convention
NATO AFFILIATES:
NATO
, P.O. Box 1830
Hampton, VA 23669-1830
Phone: 757-722-5275
Fax: 757-722-5276
Exec. Directon Jerome Gordon
NATO OF CALIFORNIA
116 N. Robertson Blvd., Suite 708
Los Angeles, CA 90048
Phone:310-652-1093
Fax: 310-657-4758
NATO OF KENTUCKY
P.O. Box 607
c/o Malco Theatres
Owensboro,KY 42302
Phone: 502-683-2727
Fax: 502-683^55
President Don Burchett
NATO OF MARYLAND/
VIRGINIA/
WASHINGTON, D.C.
P.O. Box 1830
Hampton, VA 23669-1830
Phone:757-722-5275
Fax: 757-722-5276
Exec. Director: Jerome Gordon
NATO OF NEW YORK STATE
244 W. 49th St., Suite 200
New York, NY 10019
Phone:212-246-6460
Fax: 212-265-6428
President: George Sautter
NATO OF OHIO
1320 State Route 37 West
Delaware, OH 43015
Phone:614-881-5541
Fax: 614-881-5390
President: Bill Duersen
NATO OF PENNSYLVANIA
111 Chestnut St.
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Phone: 215-592-8326
Fax:215-592-7061
President H. Donald Busch
NATO OF WISCONSIN &
UPPER MICHIGAN
759 N. Milwaukee St., Suite 421
Milwaukee, W] 53202
Phone:414-271-5935
Fax:414-271-8819
President: Paul J. Rogers
POPCORN MUSEUM
VVvandot Popcorn
Marion, OH 43302-3819
Phone:614-387-4255
Director: George Brown
A museum that lives up to its
name by preserving the past,
presenting the present, and
preparing for the future of
moviegoers' favorite snack
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Phone:416-969-7057
Fax:416-964-5839
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Prince Edward Island
Chairman: Dina Lebo
For more than a decade, the
premier venue for the
Canadian exhibition
marketplace
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Los Angeles, CA 90069
Phone:213-654-6742
Fax: 213-656-2647
Director: Caroline O'Connell
Explores the entertainment
media 's effects on audiences:
sponsors seminars
SHOWEAST
244 W. 49th Sh-eet, Suite 200
New York, NY 10019
Phone: 212-246-6460
Fax:212-265-6428
The East Coast's premier
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SHOWEST
116 N. Robertson Blvd., Suite 708
Los Angeles, CA 90048
Phone: 310-657-7724
Fax: 310-657-4758
President: Daniel Wheatcroft
Exec. Director: Herb Burton
Director: Laura Rooney
World's largest convention and
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Phone:770-455-8988
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Fax:914-761-3115
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152 .\. York Road, Suite 200
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EXHIBITION
BRIEFINGS
MORITZ CHOSEN TO
HEAD SHOWEST
Milton Moritz has been appointed president
and CEO of NATO of California/Nevada
and general chairman of NATO/ShoWest. He
replaces Daniel Wheatcroft, who resigned.
Moritz owned and operated his first motion
picture theatres while still in college. He
later joined American International Pictures,
where he rose to the level of senior vice
president of worldwide marketing. Moritz returned
to the exhibition industry as vice president
of advertising and publicity for Pacific
Theatres. Most recently, he had his own marketing
consulting firm working with entertainment-oriented
organizations.
He is past president of Variety Children
Charities of Southern California and a member
ofthe public relations branch of the Academy
of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
REGAL SALE COMPLETE
Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Inc. and
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. have completed
their joint purchase of Regal Cinemas,
the nation's second-largest motion picture exhibitor.
Founded in November 1989, Regal
Cinemas Inc. is currently operating 2,409
screens at 260 theatres.
LANDMARK SETS ITS
SIGHTS ON CHICAGO
Landmark Theatre Corp. is constructing a
seven-plex inside the building that once was
the Diversey Theatre, a 2,000-seat movie
palace, and is now the Century Shopping
Centre in Chicago's Lincoln Park/Lakeview
area. Slated to open in spring 1 999, the Century
Theatre will occupy the fourth and fifth
floors of its namesake mall. Adding a touch
of nostalgia. Landmark has undertaken to
preserve the Diversey's historic facade and
restore its marquee.
The Century Theatre will offer stadium
seating, wall-to-wall screens, an espresso bar
and validated discount parking for 400 cars.
This is Landmark's first new theatre project
since it was acquired by Dallas-based Silver
Cinemas in April.
Landmark is also developing a multi-screen
cinema complex in suburban Highland Park.
BIG PICTURE PLANS
FOR WINE COUNTRY
MegdSyslenis Int., a supplier of products
and services to the large-format film industry,
has joined forces with Magnum Cinema to
bring a new theatre and retail facility to the
historic Vintage 1870 complex in Yountville,
Calif., in the heart of Napa Valley.
Scheduled to open in spring 1 999, the Magnum
Cinema will be housed in the old barrel
room at the 1 28-year-old Crossinger Winery
that is now Vintage 1870. MegaSystems will
SHOWMANDISER PROMOTiON OF THE MONTH
Photo: Dawn Hurayt
Bill
handle construction and day-to-day operations
of the 130-seat cinema, which will be
equipped with the company's new Mega
8/70mm projection system.
MOVIES IN PARADISE
Kansas City, Mo. -based Resort Theaters of
America has signed a letter of intent to build
a 22-plex at Paradise Park—a 500,000-
square-foot entertainment village being constructed
by Lewis Homes Enterprises at
Fairplex in Pomona, Calif. The 80,000-
square-foot cinema will offer stadium seating
for 4,000 patrons.
and COO of AMC Theatres and the
Resort Theatres of America's four principals
are Ron Leslie, president and CEO; Brad
Krevoy, chairman of the board; Peter
Fornstam, president of international operations;
and Richard Lawrence, vice president
and general counsel. Leslie is the former president
former managing director of Warner Bros.,
Europe. Krevoy is an independent film producer
whose credits include "Dumb and
Dumber," "Jungle 2 Jungle" and "Kingpin."
He is also co-founder of Motion Picture Corporation
of America. Fornstam operates 80
screens in 28 markets in Sweden under the
name Svenska Bio. Lawrence is a real estate
attorney with 20 years of experience.
The company plans to build 48 theatres
with about 650 screens during the next five
years. Its first project is a five-plex currently
under construction in Aspen, Colo.
SAN ANTONIO GETS
INTO THE ACT
Act III Theatres is building an 18-plex in
Live Oak, Tex. at the junction of 1-35 and
Highway 1604. The theatre's auditoriums will
vary in size, ranging from 200 to 600 seats;
the complex will accommodate 4,500 patrons.
The Live Oak theatre will be THX certified
and utilize Dolby Digital, DTS and
SDDS sound systems. Groundbreaking will
occur in July and the theatre is expected to
open in spring 1999.
INDIE MOVIE BREAKS RECORDS
"The North End," which opened exclusively
at Showcase Cinemas Revere on May
29, has done so well at the boxoffice that
National Amusements Inc., Showcase
Cinemas' parent company, has extended its
McDaniel certainly made a "Deep Impact"
with this month's promotion campaign. Lobby
games at the Star Gratiot Theatre in Clinton
Township, Mich, included the "Comet Sling," in which
moviegoers fired sling-type Koosh balls at 3-D puzzle
models of the Eiffel Tower and Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Patrons also used an air-powered stomp rocket to try to
hit "Deep Impact" mobiles hanging in the lobby. And
taking the "heavenly bodies" theme to heart. ..the staff of
Hooters restaurant was on hand to serve Hooters chicken
wings as a final meal before "Impact." The ladies also
took cover in the inflatable Comet Shelter Moonwalk,
much to the delight of the 12-year-old and up male
demographic, says promotions manager McDaniel.
run. Directed by nearby Lynn native Frank
Ciota and set in Boston's historic North End,
the movie took in more than $20,000 during
its first week, outgrossing many of the major
releases showing at the theatre.
Shari E. Redstone, executive vice president
of National Amusements, says, "'The
North End' has been the most successful
independent film we have supported in recent
years." Ciota is searching for a distributor
for the movie.
MARCUS PLANS
MILWAUKEE GROWTH
Marcus Theatre Co. is organizing a major
expansion in Milwaukee, Wis. The company
is building a new 1 4-plex in Franklin with all
stadium seating and digital sound. It is also
adding four screens to its Northtown Cinema,
making it a 12-plex, and four screens to its
Ridge Cinema in New Berlin, producing a
10-plex. Three additional screens are planned
for the South Shore Cinema in Oak Creek,
bringing that complex's total to 1 6, and Marcus
Cinema in Menomonee Falls is getting
four new auditoriums, making it a 1 6-plex.
CLEARVIEW GOES ON
BUYING SPREE IN NEW JERSEY
Clearview Cinema Group Inc. is buying
three movie theatres in suburban New Jersey—the
Headquarters 10 in Morris County;
the Colony Cinemas, a triplex in Essex
County; and the West Milford Cinemas, a
four-plex in Passaic County.
The Headquarters 10 is currently operated
by AMC Entertainment and the other two are
run by Regal Cinemas.
SHOWMINDER
CALENDAR
Remember to save the following dates:
Australian Movie Convention, Aug. 18-22,
Gold Coast. Call 011-617-33-56-
5671...ShowSouth, Aug. 25-26, Callaway
Gardens and Resort, Pine Mountain, Ga. Call
(770) 455-8988.. .NAG Expo, Aug. 25-28,
Radisson Twin, Orlando, Fla. Call 312-236-
3858...ShowEast, Oct. 19-22, Trump Taj
Mahal, Atlantic City. Call 212-246-
6460...CineAsia, Dec. 8-10, International
Conference Center, Hong Kong. Call 212-
246-6460.

ROLLING OUT THE FIRST
DRIVE-IN THEATRE
by Mark J.
Biaiek
people want to watch their favorite stars at the movies, why not relax under a
Ifstar-lit canopy?" Perhaps this thought was going through Richard M.
Hollingshead Jr.'s mind in the early 1 930s as he perched a projector on top of
the family automobile and projected movies onto a makeshift screen in the driveway
of his New Jersey home. Recognizing that a car interior presented a comfortable
private box from which to watch movies, Hollingshead applied for a patent for a
unique type of motion picture theatre—the drive-in theatre. On May 1 6, 1 933, patent
number 1909537 was granted. Three weeks later, Hollingshead's new company,
IN HIS ELEMENT: Biaiek at Bengies Drive-ln
Theatre in Baltimore, Md. Photo by Lawrence R. Loy
Park-In Theatres inc., completed
construction of the world's first
drive-in theatre in Camden, N.J.
On June 6, 1933, the Camden
Drive-in Theatre admitted its first patrons.
The ticket price was 25 cents
per car, plus 25 cents per person. And
the opening attraction was "Wife Beware,"
a second-run feature from
1932. Even then, drive-in theatres
were regarded as "second-run" operations,
a reputation that would plague
them for years.
Hollingshead targeted his invention
not just at regular moviegoers
but at individuals who couldn't
readily drop what they were doing
to go and see a film. That group
included families with small children (up to 40 percent of the population at the
time); people who did not have proper attire for a social event; people turned off
by parking problems and fees; and those with disabilities—moviegoers that many
indoor theatres have had a difficult time providing for today.
The Camden drive-in boasted a 335 car capacity on a site that measured 500
feet by 600 feet. It had three 1 0-foot directional baffle speakers powered by RCA
High Fidelity sound equipment. The speakers were placed at appropriate angles
so that the sound would ovedap. Unfortunately, those sitting at the back
experienced a slight sound delay. It wasn't until later in the '30s, when the in-car
speaker was introduced, that the listening experience improved.
After the Camden Drive-In Theatre's premier, a patent battle developed between
Park-in Theatres Inc. and a number of individuals and companies who had embraced
this new form of movie entertainment and decided to construct their own drive-in
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NATIONAL
NEWS
TRAILER 1: MEL
Through Labor Day, Mel Gibson is appearing
as the star of the 1 998 Wi 1 Institute
Audience Collection Trailer on more than
20,000 stateside screens operated by about
20 circuits, including Regal, AMC, UATC,
Carmike, Cinennark, General Cinemas and
Edwards. The fund trailer, which debuted in
1936 with Bing Crosby and Shirley Temple,
is an annual summer tradition for the industry.
aggressively on several fronts to address the
root causes," said Goldwater, who added that
efficiency moves and hardware backlog
could lead to a brighter fourth quarter.
LAVI SHIPS IN SHIP'N OUT
Architectural products maker Lavi Industries
has acquired Brewster, N.Y. -based
metalmaker Ship'n Out. "These assets will
help accelerate our already rapid lead times
and will create a bi-coastal operation and
distribution for Lavi," said Gavriel Lavi, president
and CEO of the Valenica, Calif, firm.
ON THE MOVE
C.J. "Casey" Krasula, vp/marketing for
Wagner Zip-Change, has left the marquee
letter maker to form a consulting service...
One-time UATC and Litchfield exec Keith
Black is vp/operations for Babylon, N.Y.-
based concessions fixtures fabricator jarco
Industries. ..Patrick Murray is the new L.A.-
based vp/film operations for Imax Corp., signaling
the large-format supplier's hopes to
interest mainstream filmmakers. ..Dale Olson,
former BOXOFFICE West Coast editor and
longtimeentertainment publicist, is retiring to
devote his time to charitable activities.
NATNOTES...
The first
moviehouse to be fully outfitted
with Peavey Electronics' CinemAcoustics
sound line is the UA Bonita Lakes 9 in
Peavey's hometown of Meridian, Miss...TicketeerMoviePone
has launched in Milwaukee,
its 32nd city. ..Irvine, Calif.-based MBK Construction,
which opened a regional office in
Charlotte, N.C., saw revenue grow 108.9 percent
to $305 million in 1997.
TRAILER 2: SDDS
New — SDDS logo trailers "Jungle," "Underwater,"
"Volcano," plus "Quest," a compilation
of the three—have been sent to
theatres, with "Volcano" being attached to all
encoded "Godzilla" prints. "Our exhibition
customers recognize the benefits of informing
their patrons that their cinemas are equipped
with SDDS," said Gemma Richardson,
vp/worldwide marketing for Sony Cinema
Products. Nearly 6,000 screens worldwide are
equipped with the digital sound technology.
TRAILER 3: SETTING AT11
Dolby, which handles theatre sound at
Cannes, at the fest debuted a soundtrack loudness
meter. Said dir./film distribution Tim Partridge
at a "Are Movies Too Loud?" panel,
"We are answering the needs of audience
members who may be sensitive to trailer playback
loudness in the theatre." The Model 737
enables a sound mixer to monitor the subjective
loudness of trailer and film soundtracks.
"We're happy that all segments of the industry—led
by Dolby—are addressing this issue,"
said NATO president Bill Kartozian.
REWERKS
Large-format/ridefilm firm Iwerks is appealing
the circuit court summary judgment in favor
of Imax Corp. in Iwerks' 1996 antitrust action.
"The business issues in the marketplace which
prompted the lawsuit continue to exist," said
Iwerks pres. & CEO Charles Goldwater. Iwerks
also reported its latest financials: a third-quarter
loss of $5.1 million (vs. income of $270,000)
on revenue of $4.5 million (vs. $1 1 million); for
nine months, a loss of $9.1 million (vs.
$387,000 net) on revenue of $1 8.5 million (vs.
$30.7 million). "While our quarterly loss indicates
declines in several areas. ..we are moving
TAIL OF THE TAPE: Despite of-a-sizethat-counts
disappointment in "Godzilla's"
numbers—Carmike gave Wall Street a second-quarter
earnings warning, and despite its
hypery the TriStar release fell a respective $25
million and $4 million short of first-week
numbers for previous Memorial Day releases
"The Lost World" and "Mission: Impossible"—May
domestic boxoffice rose about 2
percent to $514.5 million, although ticket
sales slipped 1 percent to 91 million, according
to industry analyst Leonard Klady. Also
helping YTD tallies was a first-quarter
boxoffice up 6.2 percent over the '97 frame,
which was itself a record, according to
ACNielsen EDI. Still, with "Godzilla" diving
not into the boxoffice Hudson but into the
Mariana Trench, the pressure on—^yet possibilities
for—June releases only increases.
SOLOING, SO LONG: Following the
word that Sony would shutter its TriStar distribution
label and use just the Columbia
name, onlookers are expecting Buena Vista
to unite the Disney, Touchstone and Hollywood
labels under one president. Thirteenyear
Touchstone vet Donald De Line isexiting
as label president, and studio chairman |oe
Roth has long championed shaving output by
more than half, to 15 to 18 films annually.
David Vogel remains president of Hollywood
and Disney. The slowdown involves also
halving the studio's 70-some producer deals.
Exitees include Blue Relief, the shingle of
Diane Keaton (Buena Vista's success d'estime
"Unstrung Heroes"), who's moved over to
Polygram's Propaganda with a two-year firstlook
pact; eight-year vet Laurence Mark,
whose eponymous production is now sited at
Columbia for three years; and Sean Connery's
Fountainbridge and Francis Coppola's company.
Newly aboard, though, is Glenn Close
("101 Dalmatians"), whose Trillium PrcxJs.
has a first-look film and TV deal with Disney.
PROMO GUIDE: Sony Corp. president
Nobuyukildei has added co-chief executive
officer stripes, while at the Sony Pictures
group Howard Stringer has been tapped as
chairman, John Calley promoted to president
and CEO and Bob Wynne upped to
co-president and COO.
HOLLYWOOD UPDATES
SHIPSHAPE: "Titanic"
powered Viacom
unit Paramount cash flow by 27 percent to
$135.2 million in the first quarter; revenue
rose just 2 percent to $791.5 million. Although
analyst estimates that the film
whose rights Paramount must share with
Fox—would over the next year bring $150
million to $350 million to Viacom's bottom
line are, for example, smaller numbers than
the computed pounce that "The Lion King"
gave Disney (Paul Kagan Associates estimated
that animated film's tally for all windows
would clear $1 billion), the instant
impact was good enough to drop Viacom's
loss to $13.6 million from $33.7 million on
revenue of $3.08 billion, up 6 percent.
MANELY DOWN: MGM Inc. first-quarter
numbers showed a 32 percent higher net
loss, $18.6 million, on revenue of $316.4
million, up 60 percent; cash flow grew 7x
to $7.1 million. Although "Tomorrow Never
Dies'" worldwide boxoffice was $333 million
and "The Man in the Iron Mask's" $1 18
million (at that date), interest expense
leaped 65 percent to $18.2 million, thanks
primarily to Orion acquisition costs and
increasing production. Feature film revenue
rose 52 percent to $254 million; cash flow
gained 27 percent to $33 million.
STILL LIVELY: The production/distribution
entity formerly known as Live, now Artisan
Entertainment, has taken a miii(iiii\ ("i percent)
position in leading oveistas sales
agency Summit Entertainment and could
eventually acquire the entire company. A
five-year pact calls for Summit to handle all
fare for Artisan, which also recently made
news with an investment by Allen & Co.
Summit previously handled Cinergi offerings
and has deals with Paramount-based Mandalay
and indie outfit Constantin Films. Artisan
has closed its in-hmise foreign sales division.
SOMETHING ROGUISH THIS WAY
COMES: October Films, which in the early
'90s birthed a genre division called Mad
Dog Films, never to be heard from again
after its first two titles came and went, has
launched a new genre label called Rogue
Pictures. October's "Orgazmo" and "G's

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Trippin'" will now arrive via Rogue, which
has also acquired "Cherry Falls," a horrorshow
script by Ken Selden ("White Lies"),
and has a multi-picture deal with "Orgazmo"
helmer Trey Parker. Dennis Price,
new October pres./worldwide marketing,
will oversee global efforts for both labels.
SHORE THING: A dozen low-budget
indie features will be made over the next
three years by Jersey Shore, the new subshingle
of Universal-based Jersey Films.
Former Fine Line exec Jonathan Weisgal
will head New York-based Jersey Shore and
join Danny DeVito, Michael Shambergand
Stacey Sher as a partner in Jersey Films.
New York's Good Machine sales arm will
handle overseas; Universal's October specialty
arm (which will co-greenlight projects)
will distribute domestically.
Meanwhile, October also signed best-selling
British writer Will Self ("The Quantity
Theory of Insanity," "Great Apes") to a
multi-year, first-look agreement.
NEW DEAL: Gary Woods, a three-year
producer fixture at Miramax ("Kids," "Cop
Land"), has launched New York-based Independent
Pictures, with backing that includes
$10 million via new home New Line. The
five-year deal gives thedistributor North American
rights to four films annually.. .At Miramax,
the "Good Will Hunting" duo of Matt Damon
and Ben Affleck have signed a multi-year firstlook
deal that enlarges a previous two-pic
pact. .At DreamWorks, Denis Leary and jim
Serpico's Apostle house has signed a two-year
tlrst-look deal. Also at SKG, South Korea's CJ
Entertainment is now expected to retain its 1
percent stake, rather than put it on the block
due to Southeast Asia's economic downturn.
PRODIGALS: IndiemeisterJeffLipsky is returning
to his roots, with his Plainview Pictures
now part of the new Samuel Goldwyn
Co. Lipsky, who later founded October before
turning filmmaker with "Childhood's
End," was distribution vice president at Goldwyn
from 1982 to 1988. ..Roger Burlage,
president and CEO at Trimark before becoming
chairman and CEO of Live (now Artisan),
which he left in February, has joined
Trimark's board. Also at Trimark, Jonathan
Komack Martin has been promoted to exec
vp/production; meanwhile, with its cutback
of wide-release plans, Trimark has axed its
six-member field distribution staff.
INDIE EXPOSURE: New L.A.-based Voyager
Intl. Entertainment has established a
$500,000 rolling fund to finance independent
production entities; Voyager's co-venture
with Aurora Prods., Voyager Film Sales,
will also provide overseas sales capability.
Voyager Intl. president is Hollywood producer
Warren Wayne; its CEO is British
financier Nick Meredith.
A WORTHY MAN: Longtime producer
Marvin Worth ("Where's Poppa?," "The
Rose," "Malcolm X") died of cancer at age
72. He entered showbiz as a jazz promoter,
managing Charlie Parker and Billie Holiday,
and he brought to fame Lenny Bruce
later the subject of Worth's Broadway and
Hollywood productions, "Lenny." Most
lately, Worth was in pre-production on
Warner Bros.' "The James Dean Story."
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NORTHERN EXPOSURE
ShowCanada '98 Wrap-Up by Christine James
While in
Victoria, B.C., one of the whale-watching
capitals of the world, what else could one expect
to have but a whale of a good time? During
ShowCanada '98, which was held in Victoria from May
10-14, most of the massive mammals were spotted not in
the sea, but decorating the walls of the Host hotel, the
elegant Empress. The convention began with a Welcome
Cocktail at the Crystal Gardens, a lushly tropical setting
complete with flowers, waterfalls, flamingos and butterflies.
A calypso band and roaming bikini-clad models completed
the scene, and conventioneers were given free Polaroids of
themselves posing behind cutouts of beach-buff bodies.
Studios unspooled their product reels at breakfasts,
lunches, dinners and cocktails. Some of the themed meals
sponsored by studios included a Chinese lantern-festooned
dining room for Buena Vista's "Mulan," and Miramax's
enioyably schizophrenic lunch promoting "54" and
"Pleasantville": While the disco ball spun, strobe lights
pulsed and dancers gyrated, clean-cut waiters attired in
'50s-diner-style starchy blue shirts and paper hats served
hamburgers and hot dogs. Other highlights included a dinner
in a lumberjack camp (actually a ballroom in the Victoria
Conference Center); being led by bagpipe-playing
Scotsmen to the Sticky Wicket pub for darts, volleYDall,
virtual skiing and fishing; and Prom Night, in which the
Conference Center salon was transformed to a school gymtype
setting, and ShowCanada attendees were treated to an
act of the popular musical play "Red Rock Diner." (At the
end of the evening, ShowCanada co-chair Dina Lebo was
crowned Queen of the Prom by the handsome lead actor.)
In
addition to the impressively creative festivities, conventioneers
investigated the growing number of trade show
booths and attended the series of exhibition seminars.
A marketing workshop divided participants into groups
which were each charged with thinking up marketing ideas
for one of five Canadian films— "No," "eXistenZ," "Ladies
Room," "Big and Hairy" and "Rupert's Land." The ideas
generated from the session will be compiled and sent out
to theatres across the nation.
Disney University's Creative Leadership seminar gave
helpful tips on how to incite optimum performance levels
from one's staff, thereby ensuring patron satisfaction and
customer loyalty. Michael Adams' "Sex in the Snow" offered
insights into the different Canadian demographics and
how they can best be targeted. NATO president Bill Kartozian
spoKe on "Exhibition Today and Tomorrow," and
Cineplex Odeon's Howard Lichtman, via satellite, discussed
Canadian exhibition statistics, stating that in 1997,
boxoffice grosses were up C$405 million or 11 .5 percent
from 1996. He attributecl the increase in part to Canada's
recent new theatre openings. The average price per ticket
in 1997 was up 2.8 percent from 1996 to C$5.08.

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MIRANDA RITES: A Calypso band, complete
with a Carmen Miranda-esque dancer, entertained
at the Crystal Gardens opening cocktail.
LIFE'S A BEACH: ShowCanada conventioneers
receivedfree Polaroidsfrom Kodak
of their prop-prolific poses.
YEAR OF THE DRAGON: Elaborate costumed
characters were on hand to promote
Disney's animated epic "Mulan.
THEY ARE LUMBERJACKS AND THEY'RE
O.K.: The boys in plaid carved out a name for the
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EUROVIEWS
European News Notes by Kim Williamson
POLYGRAB
HILVERSUM—Mainly due to its value as a music company to
the entertainment giant, Polygram has been set for acquisition by
Seagram^ parent of Universal, tor $10.6 billion from Philips. The
tender offer calls for Seagram to pay about $59/share (80 percent
cash, the rest Seagram stock), with Philips (which holds 75
percent of Polygram stock) to end up with perhaps a 1 2 percent
stake in Seagram worth almost $2 billion. Seagram debt, currently
at $2.6 billion, post-deal would stand at $8.5 billion to $9
billion, according to Seagram head Edgar Bronfman Jr.
Polygram's music arm, the world's largest, will be merged into
Universal's music wing. The fate of Polygram Filmed Entertainment,
which Bronfman termed "somewhat duplicative of the
assets we have at Universal," rests in the hands of Goldman
Sachs, which has been retained to oversee the sale of PFE assets
(primarily its 1 ,500-title catalog) that analysts believe could bring
$500 million to $1 billion. Boutique-driven on the production
side, PFE has supplier deals with the likes of Propaganda, Working
Title, Interscope, Egg and Havoc; PFE also is full owner of
Gramercy and has a dozen national distribution operations, including
its U.S. unit, which launched last fall. The most value,
however, is placed on the catalog, two-thirds of which was
acquired by Polygram last year in its 1 ,051 -title CDR library buy
for a high-end $225 million. To help finance the new buy,
Seagram sold its remaining stake in Time Warner for about $91
million and is looking to offload its Tropicana juice division.
UIP RSVP
BRUSSELS—A hearing is likely in September regarding the
extension of United International Pictures' antitrust exemption.
UIP, the overseas arm ofMGM, Paramount and Universal, has been
waiting since 1993 for the European Union to decide whether to
grant it a second five-year approval. As we reported earlier, competition
commissioner Karel van Miert opposes an extension; UIP
tiled its response in mid-May. A decision could come in December;
if negative, the three studios would have to disband UIP and go
solo overseas, as do Warner, Fox and Buena Vista.
THE ECSAR AWARDS
BRUSSELS—^The European Union's national culture ministers
are backing the launch of a Euro film award to match Hollywood's
Oscars. In backing the initiative. Polygram Filmed Entertainment
CEO Michael Kuhn suggested the award ceremonies should be tied
to Cannes, already the locus of international attention.
SOUTHWARD PATHE
MILAN—A Torino 1
1-plex will be opened by French circuit
Pathe, which bested bids by UCI, Warner Village and local operator
Focus. The 2,350-seat facility, part of the Lingotto mall/hotel
complex, will require a reported 20 billion lire (US$17 million)
investment but gives France its first toehold in the Italian multiplex
market, previously dominated by American-backed firms.
MORE ITAL-ICS: At the recent Cannes fest, culture minister
Waller Veltroni, already at work easing regulations that have
slowed cinema development, reiterated his hope that distributors
would relea.se films in the traditionally movie-slight summer but
said that only Hollywood, not local-film distributors, had responded
to his endeavors. ..Italy's Academy Award submission will
now be chosen by the l(K)-member jury that nominates the
country's top film prizes, the David di Donatello awards; a jury of
eight to 10 representatives chosen by producer group ANICA had
handled the Oscar task. ..Ernesto Di Sarro is the new president
of Italy's national exhibitors association, ANEC, replacing
Carlo Bemaschi, who steps down after five years at the mast.
GALAXIE EXPANDING
PRAGUE—The Galaxie will be adding six
screens by
Christmas 1999, for a total of 14 and about 3,000 seats. The
Kino 2005-owned Galaxie opened in spring 1995 and, a
success from the get-go, accounts for about 1 2 percent of the
country's ticket sales. Kino 2005 also has a Prague 10-
screener and a Bratislava multiplex on its drawing boards.
ECHO, STAR
WARSAW—Polish circuit
Echo Cinema has signed a
joint venture agreement with Australia's expanding Greater
Union chain. Included is a three-fourths holdmg in Warsaw's
Femina moviehouse. Plans call for the development of a
number of multiplex sites in and outside the capital.
HOYTS DEUTSCH
BERLIN—Not to be outdone in the overseas wars, Down
Under circuit Hoyts is joint venturing with Germany's Theile
chain; some 250 new screens at 30 sites could result in the
next five years. The venture will initially operate 42 screens
(five plexes), with an option to own a dozen more.
$1S FOR THE ROAD
LONDON—Warner Bros. International Theatres and Village
Roadshow have set up a debt facility under which the two companies
can raise up to US$293 million to fund their exhibition
expansion plans in their joint- venture countries. Those markets are
the U.K., Germany, Italy and Austria, plus Taiwan.
DIGITALLY DONE
LONDON—Sony Cinema Products has pacted with Technicolor
Film Services, London, a unit of Carlton, to install an SDDS
recorder system at its West Drayton lab, which will be operational
this summer and be able to handle all standard digital and analog
formats. "There is now a clear demand for SDDS prints in Europe
and also for a facility that can support auad soundtracks," said
Technicolor managing director Ashley Hopkins. To date, about
5,600 screens globally are equipped to play SDDS.
EUROBRIEFS...
England's revamping Odeon circuit, which already had a ticketby-telephone
service, has launched the European market's first
online ticket selling system. ..British exhibitors looking to book
talent for special events now can do it at http://www.entertainers.net,
a database site of all types of U.K. entertainers. ..South
Africa's Ster-Kinekor, which has targeted the Continent, also has
slated 100 screens to bow in the Middle East (United Arab Emirates,
Lebanon, Egypt and Qatar) by 2000 at a cost of R 1 1 million
(US$20 million). It is also looking at sites in Oman and .lordan.
DO YOU HAVE AN EXHIBITION OR DISTRIBUTION
NEWS ITEM CONCERNING THE EUROPEAN MARKET?
CONTACT BOXOFFICE IN HOLLYWOOD AT
213-465-1186, OR FAX 213-465-5049, OR
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PACIFIC OVERTURES
Notes From the Pacific Rim by Lisa Osborne
NEW ZEALAND DEVALUES INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
WELLINGTON—New Zealand's decision to eliminate parallel
import protection for copyrighted works and thus devalue
U.S. intellectual property has provoked outrage from Jack
Valenti, chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association.
"By abandoning parallel import protection, the government
of New Zealand has now made it possible for a U.S. motion
picture in video or DVD format to be imported into that nation
without authorization from the actual copyright owner. In other
words, it is probable that under this structure, a video of a film
may be available even before that film has screened in New
Zealand. This is wrong. This is intolerable," says Valenti.
Parallel imports are products which are manufactured legally
but are imported without the permission of the copyright
owner or the exclusive licensee with the right to
distribute the product in that territory.
Valenti praised the strong response by U.S. trade representative
Charlene Barshefsky, who has initiated an out-of-cycle
review of New Zealand's intellectual property regime. He also
expressed hope that the New Zealand government would reconsider
its decision.
CHINA'S SANTA MONICA PROMENADE
BEIJING—Santa Monica Pictures has signed a letter of
intent with the China Film Co-Production Corp., China's official
agency for international co-productions, and Beijing-based
CPC International Financial Investment Inc. to co-produce
three feature films. The movies will be co-financed and shot on
location in China and Los Angeles, though a timeline has yet to
be established.
The first project will be an adaptation of Frank Shi's best-sellbook,
"Faraway to Canaan," which tells the story of a
Chinese man in post-revolutionary China who immigrates to the
United States.
Santa Monica Pictures will be allowed to do post-production
outside China on all three films. David Rose, chairman and CEO
of Santa Monica Pictures, reports that this is the first time that
China has granted an exception to its co-production guidelines.
Parent company Santa Monica Studios (SMS) has also entered
into a CO-venture with China to bring its proprietary digital
technology to Chinese moviehouses. The prototype for SMS'
digital film projection system is under construction in the U.S.
and will be showcased next year. SMS plans to establish a base
in Shanghai to manufacture parts.
It is also in 'advanced talks' with China's Ministry of Radio,
Film & TV and the heads of the regional film studios, including
Beijing, Shanghai and Changchun, to oversee the upgrading of
China's post-production film facilities. In a related move, SMS
signed a letter of intent with the Beijing Film Academy to help
develop a digital training center for the film industry.
GENERAL PROVES THERE IS MONEY IN REWRITES
TOKYO—Despite its sensitive subject matter, "Pride—The
Fateful Moment"—the Japanese movie about former prime
minister General Hideki Tojo, who was executed for his war
crimes—seems set to make reasonable money at the boxoffice;
totals topped $1.3 million during its opening weekend. The Toei
production, which portrays Tojo as a misunderstood hero who
wanted only to defend his country, has come under fire for
massaging the facts.
MURRAY JOINS FINE LINE
SYDNEY— Fine Line Features has hired Sue Murray,
former marketing director at the Australian Film Commission,
as a consultant. Murray will keep tabs on the
Australia and New Zealand movie markets from her Sydney
base.
SONY PLANS FIRST THEATRE IN JAPAN
TOKYO—Sony's first Japanese theatre, a 3,000-
seat 13-plex, will form part of its planned 300,000-
square-foot entertainment complex in Odaiba near
Tokyo Bay. Destined for completion in spring 2000, the
complex will house retail stores, game arcades and
restaurants in addition to the movie theatre.
NZ FILMMAKERS TO COMMISSION: MORE MAORI
WELLINGTON—Maori filmmakers are threatening
legal action against the New Zealand Film Commission
( NZFC) for its perceived failure to promote their language
and culture. The group claims that no Maori movies have
been produced since the 1994 boxoffice hit "Once Were
Warriors." Hopefully, newly-appointed NZFC board
members—Riwia Brown, scripter of "Once Were Warriors,"
exhibitor/distributor Barrie Everard of Everard Films and
head of South Pacific Pictures John Bamett—will be able to find
a way around this impasse.
GOOD MORNING, VIETNAM
HANOI—Hong Kong producer/distributor Media Asia has
decided to venture into Vietnam, signing a two year deal with
FaFilm (the government's film import-export company) to supply
movies for theatre presentations. This is despite a Motion
Picture Association warning about the prevalence of movie
piracy. Golden UIP, which represents both Golden Harvest and
United International Pictures, is also returning to Vietnam.
PARTNERSHIP DELIVERS THE GOODS
SYDNEY—The five-year production and distribution deal
between Warner Bros, and Village Roadshow is about to bear
fruit for the second time. Shooting for Renny Harlin's underwater
action flick "Deep Blue Sea" is scheduled to begin in August
at Fox's Baja Studios. Producers will be Tony Ludwig and Alan
Riche. Village Roadshow will have distribution rights to the
movie in Australia and New Zealand, while Warner will distribute
it everywhere else.
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WHATEVER •••
July 1998
DAY AND DATE: JULY 10
Starring Liza Weil and Chad Morgan.
Written and directed by Susan Skoog.
Produced by Susan Skoog, Ellin Baumel,
Michelle Yahn and Kevin Segalla. A Sony
Pictures Classic release. Drama. Rated R
for pervasive teen drug and alcohol use,
language including sexual dialogue,
sexuality and some violence. Running
time: 1 12 min.
Refreshingly
t o u g h - m i n d e d ,
Susan Skoog's
"Whatever" is a
warts-and-all portrait
of American youth
that manages to skirt
the cliches of sentimental
nostalgia and
heavy-handed simplicity
which usually
mar such ventures.
Set in the early
1980s when sex was
hard core, music
harsh and drugs
ugly— yet it still
seemed possible to
survive unending nihilism—the
movie
zones in on the coming
of a^e of a New
IJzM Weil in SI
Jersey girl, peer-pressured by the wild
side of nigh school life.
As Anna, who doubts her own appeal
and talents, Liza Weil gives a performance
that seeks no sympathy yet manages
ultimately to reveal the worthwhile
person beneath the angry and foolish exterior.
Although the scnpt assigns obvious
blame to bad parenting and includes the
kindly teacher who provides the needed
inspiration at the apt moment, confident
direction and assured acting eleva^me
adult roles above the expected and
allow Anna to ultimately find herself
without too much phony dialogue.
Like several excellent movies which
have shown youth failing to deal with
modern life— "Trainspotting" being the
most obvious recent example—the
movie doesn't shy
away from what is
'iterally a gob-spitting
look at the impact
of alcohol and
drugs. It also handles
the reality of sex
with a much more
dead-on eye than
slick mainstream
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Chad Morgan
gives a spirited performance
as Anna's
prettier friend
Brenda, who's careess
with a beauty
destined to be shortlived.
Frederic Forrest is perhaps a little
too quirky in bringing essential oddity
to Anna's art teacher, who tries to help
a pupil he believes shows promise.
But it is Weil who holds the camera
most arrestingly with a complexitv that
never resorts to the overwrought or falsely
winning, turning what might have IxH^n
just a clumsy lesson into an insightful
experience with afipeal iK-yond its time
and place. Bridget Byrne
CANNES
The Celebration R-95
Claire Dolan R-97
Dance Me to My Song R-96
Dr. Akagi R-98
The Dream Life of Angels R-95
Eternity and a Day R-96
Foolish Heart R-98
The General R-97
Goodbye, Lover R-94
Happiness R-94
Idiots R-97
The Impostors R-94
In the Presence of a Clown R-99
Last Night R-99
Life is Beautiful R-93
Little Tony R-99
Lulu on the Bridge R-98
l^y Name is Joe R-95
Passion R-98
The School of Flesh R-95
Slums of Beverly Hills R-94
Those Who Love IVIe R-97
Velvet Goldmine R-93
REVIEWS
Almost Heroes R-102
Broadway Damage R-102
Bulworth R-104
. R-103
Cousin Bette R-100
Dear Jesse R-100
Deep Impact R-104
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas .
Go Now R-105
Godzilla R-104
Hav Plenty R-100
Homegrown R-105
Hope Floats R-100
The Horse Whisperer R-104
the Hook-Up R-103
The Last Days of Disco R-102
Little Boy Blue R-103
A Perfect IVIurder R-100
Plump Fiction R-104
The Quest for Camelot R-104
Smoke Signals R-100
The Truman Show R-101
Woo R-105
DAY AND DATE: 7/1
Whatever R-92
SPECIAL FORMATS: IWERKS
DInolslandll R-103
FLASHBACK: 1961
The Parent Trap R-102
PREVIOUSLY REVIEWED
Coming films already reviewed ... R-101
REVIEW DIGEST
Our monthly release overview ... R-105

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CANNES REVIEWS
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What's Hot and What's Not at the
51st Annual Cannes Film Festival
Cannes
this year was a decidedly mixed bag. With some of the best advance
word in years, there were eagerly anticipated competition entries from
serious auteurs and acclaimed mavericks. Veteran filmmakers Terry
Gilliam, Lars Von Trier, John Boorman and Hector Babenco saw their works up
against those of relative newcomers Eric Zonca and John Turturro. With some
exceptions, however, the old pros disappointed while the newer talents proved
the ones to watch. Gilliam's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" was a major
letdown, and Von Trier's audacious "Idiots," the second film from the Danish
filmmaking cooperative Dogma, failed to match the brilliance of his "Breaking
the Waves." By contrast, in his first feature, "The Dream Life of Angels" (winner
of best actress honors), Eric Zonca made a promising debut.
There was much dispute on the Croisette about the declining international
view of American cinema and the competition's relatively poor representation
of American films. John Boorman's well-liked "The General" and Ken Loach's
"My Name is Joe" (winners of directing and male acting awards, respectively)
may bode well for the state of cinema in Great Britain, but American filmmakers
yvere not so fortunate. With the only significant jury prize going to Hal Hartley
for "Henry Fool," most other entries were shut out. Neither Lodge Kerrigan's
"Claire Dolan" nor Todd Haynes' "Velvet Goldmine" lived up to its advance
hype. Out of competition, however, Americans fared somewhat better. Tamara
Jenkins' debut "Slums of Beverly Hills" and Todd Solondz's "Happiness," both
playing in the Directors' Fortnight sidebar, were well received, with the black
comedy "Happiness" emerging as the most controversial, most praised, and most
mentioned surprise hit of this year's fest.
The big prizes went to Roberto Benjgni's much loved (and in Italy, hugely
successful) film "Life is Beautiful" and Theo Angelopolous' "An Eternity and a
Day." Benigni's tragicomic film, the popular favorite, earned the Grand Prize,
while the Greek filmmaker Angelopolous finally took home the Palme d'Or he
had long sought (and publicly bemoaned not winning in 1995, when "Ulysses'
Gaze" only received the Grand Prize). As if to prove that no Cannes festival is
ever entirely predictable, Angelopolous' film, a lyrical meditation on life, memory
and death, was a surprise winner. Lael Loewenstein
VELVET GOLDMINE •••
Starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Ewan
McGregor, Christian Bale and Toni Collette.
Written and directed by Todd Haynes.
Produced by Christine Vachon. A
Miramax release. Drama. Not yet rated.
Running time: 120 min. Opens Nov. 11.
Won Special Artistic Contribution Award.
Surely among the fest' s most anticipated,
most hyped and most-discussed films,
"Velvet Goldmine" comes from writer-director
Todd Haynes, who intrigued Cannes
audiences three years ago with "Safe." This
time Haynes takes up glam rock, setting his
story in two separate eras: 1 97 1 - 1 974, when
Britain's glam rock reigned supreme, and
1984, when reporter Arthur Stuart (Christian
Bale) is writing a story on the 10th
anniversary of a (fictitious) key event in
glam rock history: the faux assassination of
glitterati rock star Brian Slade (Jonathan
Rhys Meyers), who disappeared after the
failed publicity stunt.
With a complicated, avowedly "Citizen
Kane"-style framing device, Haynes has
reporter Stuart trace the rise and fall of
Brian Slade. Stuart, a glam rock fan in his
youth, has personal knowledge of these famous
musicians, and as he tracks down and
interviews key characters from Slade's life,
he also relives his own fascination with the
movement. Real-life androgynous glam
rock stars like David Bowie, Iggy Pop,
Bryan Ferry and Brian Eno are emulated m
the form of the provocative Curt Wild
(Ewan McGregor) and the outrageous
Slade. managed by the savvy Jerry Divine
(Eddie Izzard). Though Brian flaunts his
bisexuality, his wife Mandy (Toni CoUette)
stands by him. But when Brian becomes
inexorably drawn to Curt Wild, the obsession
ruins him. Unable to escape what he
has become, Brian stages a fake shooting,
which, when revealed to be a hoax, alienates
his fans. Brian goes underground for
several years, and Stuart is determined to
find out who or what he has become.
Though "Velvet Goldmine" is often a
fascinating reflection on the mythical power
of music idols and the nature of memory,
identity and nostalgia, it poses many more
questions than it answers and is finally a
frustrating viewing experience. There are
flashes of Haynes' imaginative style and
humor here—like the tiny pink hearts superimposed
on Brian's eyes when he finally
meets Curt Wild. Though some of the concert
scenes are mesmerizing, they run on too
long and become repetitive, dulling the potentially
visceral impact of the glam movement.
Nevertheless, the picture was honored
for "Special Artistic Contribution," an
award which, in retrospect, feels more like
a consolation prize. Lael Loewenstein
LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL (LA VITA E
BELLA)
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Starring Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta
Braschi and Giorgio Cantarini. Written by
Roberto Benigni and Vincenzo Cerami.
Directed by Roberto Benigni. Produced by
Elda Ferri and Gianluigi Braschi. A
Miramax release. Comedy/drama. Italianlanguage;
subtitled. Not yet rated. Running
time: 114 min. Won Special Jury
Grand Prize. Opens Oct. 23.
One of the few crowd-pleasing films at
this year's Cannes festival, "Life is Beautiful"
nabbed the Grand Prize and seems
destined to appeal to American audiences
as well. Based on its successful opening in
Italy (and its echoes, no doubt, of "II
Postino"), Miramax wisely picked up this
Italian picture for stateside release. Beautifully
told and attractively shot, Roberto
Benigni's film is both funny and moving,
with an unusual shift in tone midway
through. "Life is Beautiful," which calls
itself a fable, explores the power of laughter
to lift the human spirit even in the face of
extreme tragedy.
Set in Italy in 1939, amid a climate of
growing anti-Semitism and fascism, the
film follows Guido (Benigni), an enchanting,
childlike man whose warmth and
humor buoy him through various misadventures
in the Tuscan town of Arezzo.
Guido, whose comedic precursors are
Charlie Chaplin, Harpo and Chico Marx,
falls instantly for Dora (the luminous
Nicoletta Braschi), a beautiful schoolteacher
who finds him charming but is already
promised to another man.
Undeterred, Guido pursues her, and in
fairy-tale fashion, they fall in love and
marry. With the apparent effortlessness of
a great clown, Benigni sails through various
scenarios that call for physical comedy and
deft timing.
With key elements in place, the film
moves into its second half where its fairytale
opening gives way to a much darker
storyline.
A few years later, Dora and Guido are
happily married with a young son (Giorgio
Cantarini). Italy has been overrun by Fascists
who have been deporting Jews. When
Guido and his son are sent to a concentration
camp shortly before the war's end,
Dora voluntarily goes along though she is
separated from her husband and son.
Through it all, Guido is determined to protect
his son from the harsh reality they f^ce,
and uses his humor and imagination to concoct
games and stories to keep the boy's
spirits up. The film ends on a bittersweet,
undeniably moving note.
Although the mood shift is surprising and
extremely risky, it works, thanks to
Benigni's beautiful characterization of
Guido, the story's guiding force. Moreover,
its strong technical aspects keep the film
just slightly removed from reality. Tonino
Delli Colli's dehcate cinematography, with
its subtle shifts in lighting, combines
with Nicola Piovani's evocative score to
give the story the universal appeal of a fable.
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THE IMPOSTORS ^1/2
Starring Stanley Tucci, Oliver Piatt, Lili
Taylor and Alfred Molina. Written and
directed by Stanley Tucci. Produced by
Stanley Tucci and Beth Alexander. A Fox
Searchlight release. Comedy. Not yet rated.
Running time: 102 min. Opens Oct. 9.
The follow-up to his highly praised debut
film "Big Night," Stanley Tucci's "The Impostors"
was eagerly anticipated. Almost
impossible to dislike, "Big Night" was
witty, engaging and frequently hilarious.
That's what makes "The Impostors" such a
huge disappointment.
To his credit, Tucci spreads his wings by
attempting a different genre—this time
screwball farce. In this 1930s-style comedy,
two unemployed actors, Arthur (Tucci) and
Maurice (Oliver Piatt), are stowaways on a
cruise ship. Trying to avoid the famous
actor Jeremy Burtrom (Alfred Molina),
whom they have offended, they encounter
various passengers, including a disconsolate
ingenue (Hope Davis), a morose
crooner (Steve Buscemi), a mysterious
veiled woman (Isabella Rossellini), and the
ship's kindly social director (Lili Taylor).
Concealing themselves in different cabins,
they eavesdrop on conversations and unwittingly
learn ofnefarious plots: one couple plan
to murder an elderly lady for her money,
another man intends to bomb the ship.
The problem with this madcap farce is
that it's simply not all that funny. While
there are very obvious vestiges of the Marx
Brothers and even of silent comedy, more
often than not the gags misfire. There is far
too much taking place, scenes go on a little
too long and the pacing is not brisk enough
to evoke the same spint of comedy classics
like "Monkey Business" or "Duck Soup."
It's worth noting, however, that "The
Impostors" has one brilliantly funny sequence,
its opening scene. Played out in
silent exchanges between Tucci and Piatt at
an outdoor cafe as they engage in a mock
dispute over the affections of a lady, this
Chaplinesque bit is simply hilarious and
serves as a reminder of what Tucci can do
when he streamlines his themes and simplifies
his style. Lael Loewenstein
GOODBYE, LOVER •••
Starring Patricia Arquette and Dermot
Mulroney. Written by Ron Peer, Joel Cohen
andAlec Sokolow. Directed by RolandJojfe.
A Warner release. Thriller. Rated Rfor sexuality,
language and violence. Running
time: 102 min. Opens Sept. 18.
A stylistic departure for Roland Joffe,
this comic noir thriller has the elements of
a hit—an attractive marquee cast, a glossy
look, a tantalizing plot—if Warner can successfully
exploit those qualities instead of
repeating its disappointing marketing campaign
for the studio's last neo-noir, "L.A.
Confidential."
Sexy, predatory femme fatale Sandra
(Patricia Arquette), married to Jake
(Dermot Mulroney), is sleeping with his
brother Ben (Don Johnson). But guilt-ridden
Ben wants to end that affair so he can
date his innocent co-worker Peggy (Mary-
Louise Parker.) When he tells Sandra it's
over, she threatens to kill him. Instead, she
tells Jake, who subsequently flies into a
vicious rage and kills Ben in a struggle that
is later ruled accidental death.
But things are not as they seem in this film.
Part of its appeal is that Joffe only reveals
select details, gradually unveiling more and
more of the intricate plot as the action unfolds.
Characters are double- and then triplecrossed,
and just when you think you've got
it figured out, writers Ron Peer, Joel Cohen
and Alec Sokolow throw in a curve ball.
Tension is well maintained throughout,
thanks to fine acting (especially Arquette,
deliciously evil in the lead), music (John
Oilman's score recalls Bernard Herrman's
work for Hitchcock) and cinematography.
Dante Spinotte's camerawork and lighting
is more jagged and unpredictable than it
was in "L.A. Confidential," but equally
fine. The writers add a comic underpinning
through the banter of Ellen DeGeneres as a
cynical detective and Ray McKinnand as
her naive Mormon partner. It doesn't all
work: Sometimes the laughs feel labored,
and the crimes campishly grisly, but for the
most part, "Goodbye, Lover" is an entertaining
neo-noir and an effective updating
of the genre.
Lael Loewenstein
HAPPINESS ••••1/2
Starring Jane Adams, Dylan Baker,
Philip Seymour Hoffman and Cynthia
Stevenson. Written and directed by Todd
Solondz. Produced by Ted Hope and
Christine Vachon. An October release.
Black comedy. Not yet rated. Running
time: 134 min. Won International Critics
Prize. Opens Fall.
As he did in his 1996 Sundance fest grand
prize winner "Welcome to the Dollhouse,"
writer-director Todd Solondz has created a
superb black comedy that exposes the lewd
behavior and nefarious impulses bubbling
beneath placid surfaces in suburban America.
This time his work is considerably
darker—so much so that some will undoubtedly
be repulsed by its revelations and
put off by its tone. October Films faces a
real marketing challenge, but if the company
follows the strategy used on "In the
Company of Men"—that is, use the controversy
plus critical raves to generate buzz
"Happiness," which emerged as the only
bona fide must-.see film at Cannes, could
become a surprise hit.
The story interweaves incidents in the
lives of three sisters: Joy (Jane Adams),
who is romantically unfulfilled and professionally
adrift; Helen (Lara Flynn Boyle), a
glamorous, best-.selling author who considers
herself a fraud; and Trish (Cynthia Stevenson),
the suburban housewife who
thinks she has it all. Gradually, crosscutting
between different vignettes, Solondz reveals
key details of his characters' twisted
lives and psyches. Trish's husband (Dylan
Baker), a psychiatrist, is also a pedophile
with an appetite for boys. Helen's neighbor
(Philip Seymour Hoffman) is a sex pervert
who fantasizes about raping her. Joy's two
romantic relationships end badly—one in a
suicide, the other with a robbery.
What is so remarkable here is that
Solondz sustains the delicate balance of
comedy and repulsion throughout. It's a
fine line to walk and one which he could
have easily overstepped had he gone too far
in either direction. But everything works on
at least two levels: seemingly funny incidents
and dialogue are in fact creepily
tragic, while disgusting behavior carries an
almost irresistible undercurrent of humor.
Though it' s a bit long at well over two hours
(and could stand to lose at least 1 minutes),
the film is never dull. Exquisitely acted and
shot in bold, bright hues that serve as an
ironic counterpoint to the murky goings-on,
"Happiness" leaves viewers feeling disturbed,
amazed, and fascinated. Lael
Loewenstein
SLUMS OF BEVERLY HILLS •••
Starring Natasha Lyonne, Alan Arkin,
Marisa Tomei and Kevin Corrigan. Written
and directed by Tamara Jenkins. Produced
by Michael Nozik and Stan
Wlodkowski. A Fox Searchlight release.
Comedy. Rated Rfor strong sexual situations,
nudity, language and drug content.
Running time: 95 min. Opens Aug. 14.
An engaging coming-of-age comedy
from first-time director Tamara Jenkins,
"Slums of Beverly Hills" features solid performances
and surprisingly deft direction.
Set in 1976, the story follows the
Abromowitz family, comprised of father
Martin (Alan Arkin), daughter Vivian
(Natasha Lyonne) and her brothers Rickey
(Eli Marienthal) and Ben (David
Krumholtz). The poorest denizens of L. A. 's
richest district, they live in Beverly Hills to
benefit from the zip code and the prestige it
permits them, but move nomadically from
one dumpy apartment to another. When
Martin's unbalanced niece Rita (Marisa
Tomei) drops in having escaped a rehab
clinic, he agrees to take her in provided his
wealthy brother (Carl Reiner) will pay her
expenses. That extra income allows the
Abromowitzes to move again, this time to
their first decent apartment, replete with
orange shag carpeting. But their security is
threatened, and it's not long before the family
loses its brief tenure as members of the
middle class.
Jenkins does an especially fine job handling
awkward social and sexual situations
and playing them for laughs—whether it's
Vivian's menstrual spotting on the pristine
antique chair owned by an uppity society
woman (Jessica Walter) her father is courting,
her experiments with her cousin Rita's
vibrator, or her invitation to her drug-dealing
neighbor (Kevin Corrigan) to cop a feel.
The writer-director has a good ear for dialogue
and has done a notable job here fleshing
out the characters and adding intriguing
quirks. Some scenes go on longer than necessary,
and ultimately it's all a bit predictable—the
cyclical story more or less ends
where it begins—but it's nevertheless a
charming and delightful romp, with keen
observations about character, time and
place. Lael Loewenstein

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THE CELEBRATION (FESTEN) ifir
Starring Ulrich Thomsen, Henning
Moritzen and Thomas Bo Larson. Directed
by Thomas Vinterberg. Written by
Thomas Vinterberg and Mogens Rukov.
Produced by Birgitte Hold. An October
release. Drama. Danish-language; English-subtitled.
Not yet rated. Running
time: 104 min. Tiedfor Jury Prize.
This "Celebration" is the first film from
DOGMA 95, a collective of Danish film
directors. Their rules include a hand-held
camera, location shooting and no props not
found at the location. In this case, the form
is more interesting than the content.
Family and friends are celebrating the
60th birthday of Hekge (Henning Moritzen)
at his estate. His eldest son Christian (Ulrich
Thomsen) has returned home for the party,
while the other son Michael (Thomas Bo
Larson) shows up with his wife and family
even though he was not invited. Adding to
the tension, daughter Helene (Paprika
Steen) is staying in the same room where
her sister killed herself. Then, in his dinner
speech. Christian makes some shocking
revelations about his father and the party
begins to unravel.
Director Thomas Vinterberg' s style of
odd camera angles and constant movement
is appropriate for the story of a family
breaking apart. The cast is energetic but the
characters' relationships proceed without
much surprise. The revealed secrets seem
routine because they are much too familiar
subjects from numerous films and television
programs. Ed Scheid
THE DREAM LIFE OF ANGELS (LA
VIE REVEE DES ANGES) ••••
Starring Elodie Bouchez, Natacha Regnier
and Gregoire Colin. Written by Erick
Zonca, Roger Bohbot and Virginie Wagon.
Produced by Francois Marquis. A Sony Pictures
Classics release. Drama. French-language,
with subtitles. Notyet rated. Running
time: 113 min. Won Best Actress Prize.
A story of friendship between two solitary
young women in northern France, "The
Dream Life of Angels" was one of the most
widely praised films in this year's Cannes
fest. Its lead actresses, Elodie Bouchez and
Natacha Regnier, shared best actress honors,
and its director, Eric Zonca, earned a
reputation as a superbly talented filmmaker
who in this, his first feature, shows great
maturity and vision. The film's simplicity
is its strength: Two young working class
women, Isa (Bouchez) and Marie (Regnier),
meet on the job at a garment factory.
After the outgoing but homeless Isa befriends
Marie, who's shy and introverted,
Marie reluctantly allows Isa to stay at her
place. As it turns out, Marie's place is not
her own; she's house-sitting at the apartment
of a mother and daughter who are
hospitalized and comatose after a serious
car crash. Over time, the women grow
close, finding a sense of sisterhood in their
relationship. Later, however, various events
and divergent interests drive them apart.
Suffering from low self-esteem, Marie
grows obsessed with Chris (Gregoire
Colin), a wealthy, arrogant nightclub
owner. But Isa, ever the optimist, becomes
increasingly intent on helping the hospitalized
girl, whom she had never met but begins
to visit regularly. Eventually their
separate activities, compounded by Marie'
mounting sense of instability and desperation,
create an insurmountable distance between
them. Zonca ends things on a tragic
note of cruel irony that reinforces the film'
attitudes about the whimsical nature of life.
Zonca has created a sensitive, straightforward
film that thankfully avoids sentimentality
but nevertheless leaves a visceral
impact on its viewers. His camerawork
deftly underscores the evolving relationship
between the two women, going from
more comfortable medium shots to tighter
two-shots that emphasize the sense of enclosed
space so palpable when they are at
odds with one another.
Largely, the film
works so well because of its central performances.
Regnier and Bouchez are simply
riveting, creating flawed, fascinating portraits
of women who are both outsiders but
who have very different means of coping
with adversity. Lael Loewenstein
MY NAME IS JOE
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Starring Peter Mullan, Louise Goodall
and David McKay. Written by Paul Laverty.
Directed by Ken Loach. Produced by
Rebecca O'Brien. A Stratosphere release.
Drama. Not yet rated. Running time: 105
min. Won Best Actor Prize.
A sensitive, intimate portrait of a recovering
alcoholic set amid Scotland's working
class, "My Name is Joe" explores some
of the same themes Ken Loach probed in
"Carla's Song." Though that film was more
overtly political (and still has not received
U.S. distribution, presumably for its scathing
criticism of American foreign policy),
Loach's new work also deals with downon-their-luck
Glaswegians and their struggle
to make sense of their lives.
Working-class Joe Kavanagh (Peter
Mullan, who deservedly won the best actor
prize at Cannes) is an unemployed recovering
alcoholic who spends afternoons coaching
soccer with his mates Liam (David
McKay) and Shanks (Gary Lewis), and evenings
at AA meetings. Full of vitality but
long unattached, Joe is drawn to Sarah
(Louise Goodall), a social worker, but hesitates
to ask her out. Because Loach takes
some time developing the sequence of
events that bring them together, when they
finally do connect, it feels authentic. Both
in their late 30s, Joe and Sarah find something
neither knew they were searching for,
and Sarah, trained through her work to be
open-minded, proves remarkably understanding
when Joe admits to her his violent,
alcoholic past. These tender and funny
scenes are among the best in the film and
some of Loach's best work to date. In the
second half, the story darkens considerably
and the picture loses some focus: Joe reluctantly
agrees to do one last job for a local
crime boss in order to help get Liam out of
trouble, but conceals it from Sarah.
When she discovers the lie, she cuts him off
altogether. Losing Sarah threatens to ruin him.
Finding that he cannot extricate himself
from the deal, Joe flies into a desperate rage
and falls off the wagon. The film ends ambivalently,
on a tragic but hopeful note.
In the lead roles, Mullan and Goodall are
exceptional, bringing great warmth and
compassion to their good-hearted but
flawed and very human characters.
American audiences may struggle to understand
writer Paul Laverty's dialogue,
however, as the actors' thick Scottish dialect
proves a real challenge for unaccustomed
ears, but those who make the effort
will find "My Name is Joe" an affecting and
intimate experience. Lael Loewenstein
THE SCHOOL OF FLESH (L'ECOLE
OE LA CHAIR) ^^^1/2
Starring Isabelle Huppert, Vincent
Martinez and Vincent Hndon. Written by
Jacques Fieschi, based on the novel by
Yukio Mishima. Directed by Benoit
Jacquot. Produced by Fabienne Vonier. A
Stratosphere release. Drama. French-language,
with subtitles. Not yet rated. Running
time: 105 min.
French director Benoit Jacquot, who
etched a beautifully subtle portrait of a girl
at a turning point in "La Fille Seule," scores
again with 'The School of Flesh." This
time, he's concerned with a wealthy middle-aged
woman, Dominique (Isabelle
Huppert), who is irretrievably drawn to
Quentin (Vincent Martinez), a sexy young
bartender of little means and a shady past.
Occasionally cold and frequently unpredictable,
Quentin nevertheless exerts a
powerful sexual pull on Dominique and
soon she has invited him to move mto her
stark, pristine apartment. But Quentin will
not be tied down, and he betrays Dominique
by sleeping with the daughter of one of her
friends. The scene in which she learns of his
betrayal, in public, is a superbly realized
combination of tension, pain and dark
humor. While the dialogue remains polite
and superficial, characters' faces and
glances nevertheless make the bitter subtext
palpable.
As in "La Fille Seule," Jacquot shows a
keen ability to get under his characters'
skins, evoking their mental states not
through dialogue but rather through gestures
and carefully nuanced performances.
Jacques Fieschi 's spare script, taken loosely
from Yukio Mishima's novel, suits
Jacquot' s style well: Often what is unsaid is
more important than what is spoken. And in
Isabelle Huppert, Jacquot has an actress
who infuses her character with a rich inner
life. Cleverly playing with gender preconceptions,
Jacquot inverts the older manyounger
woman paradigm, but retains
certain elements of that original construction
by rendering Dominique the sexual
aggressor and Quentin slightly feminized.
In Jacquot' s world, characters are intimate
and remote at the same time, and sex—the
physical bond that ties characters together—is
the very thing that ultimately
proves their undoing. Lael Loewenstein

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ETERNITY AND A DAY V^^1/2
Starring Bruno Ganz. Directed by Theo
Angelopoulos. Written by Theo Angelopouhs,
Tonio Guerra, Petros Markaris
and Giorgio SilvagnL A Paradis Films production.
No distributor set. Drama. Greeklanguage;
English-subtitled. Running time:
140 min. Won the Palme d'Or.
Director Theo Angelopoulos' last film,
"Ulysses' Gaze," won the runner-up Special
Jury Grand Prize at Cannes in 1995.
This year, he received the top prize, the
Palme d'Or, for this drama in which the
protagonist, Alexander ("Wings of
Desire's" Bruno Ganz), finds a letter from
his dead wife which causes him to reflect
on his past and on his solitary life. As in
many of Angelopoulos' prior films, past
and present are often combined in the same
shot. In contrast to his current loneliness,
Alexander remembers the crowded and
happy social events when his vibrant wife
(Isabelle Renauld) was still alive.
The film contains many beautifiilly shot
scenes that emphasize Alexander's sense of
solitude; however, the director has given the
film a lethargic pace. The plot is rambling
without much dramatic incident, save for Alexander
meeting and trying to help a young
Albanian refugee. Alexander remains too
remote a character to sustain interest
through this overlong film. Ed Scheid
DANCE ME TO MY SONG ^^^1/2
Starring Heather Rose, Joey Kennedy,
John Brumpton andRena Owen. Directed
by Rolfde Heer. Written by Heather Rose,
Frederick Stahl and Rolf de Heer. Produced
by Rolfde Heer, Giuseppe Pedersoli
and Domenico Procacci. No distributor
set. Drama. Not yet rated. Running time:
102 min.
An impressive effort from Australian director
Rolf de Heer, "Dance Me to My
Song" works on several levels. On one
level, it's a brutally frank portrait of Julia
(Heather Rose), a woman with a serious
degenerative disease. On another, it's a bizarre
love triangle and a fascinating power
play.
In his last Cannes entry, "The Quiet
Room" (1996), de Heer demonstrated a
unique capacity for risk-taking and an understanding
of characters in various states
of isolation. Likewise, in this film, he directs
Rose, who suffers from severe cerebral
palsy, with great sensitivity and
imagination in a film that shows the extremes
of human kindness and cruelty.
Julia lives on her own, visited daily by
Madelaine (Joey Kennedy), her government-sponsored
caretaker. Unable to talk,
walk or perform bodily functions autonomously,
she moves about in a wheelchair
and communicates through a voice synthesizer.
The self-interested Madelaine,
however, is not your typical nurse. Disgruntled
with her job and plainly disgusted with
Julia, Madelaine is minimally efficient and
frequently irresponsible, inviting boyfriends
over for a sexual romp or leaving
Julia alone for hours at a time.
When Eddie (John Brumpton), a handsome
passerby, spots Julia on her front lawn
one day, she entreats him to come inside and
help her. Thus begins an unusual friendship,
with Eddie making regular stops at Julia's
house. Feeling overlooked and jealous,
Madelaine seduces him. But in an intriguing
power reversal, Julia has the last
laugh.
The acting is stellar all around. Rose
brings surprising humor and poignancy,
not to mention honesty, to her role. Kennedy,
saddled with playing an abhorrent
character, plays Madelaine as an intriguing
combination of desperation and
bossiness. And Brumpton shines as the
sympathetic Eddie, though his part is
woefully underdeveloped. Fortunately, de
Heer and co-writer Rose never go for the
sympathy vote, avoiding the kind of sentimentality
usually associated with mainstream
pictures about disabled people. That
discreet approach makes "Dance Me to My
Song" all the more fascinating an experience.
Lael Loewenstein
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IDIOTS (lOIOTERNE) -kirir
Starring Bodil Jorgensen, Jens Albinus
and Louise Massing. Directed and written
by Lars von Trier. Produced by Vibeke
Windelov. No distributor set. Drama.
Danish-language; subtitled. Running
time: 114 min.
"Idiots" is the second film from the Danish
directors making up the group called
DOGMA 95. It benefits from a better
screenplay than "The Celebration," the first
DOGMA film. The premise of "Idiots,"
written and directed by Lars von Trier, involves
a group of young people who pretend
to be mentally deficient to test the
reaction of middle class society to their
antics. Their activities range from drooling
to more extreme forms of anarchic behavior.
The "idiots" live in a house owned by
the uncle of one of the members. Idiocy is
used as an excuse to lose all restraint. A
woman named Karen (Bodil Jorgensen) becomes
fascinated by the group and eventually
joins them.
The DOGMA style of utilizing a handheld
camera with occasionally distorted
color fits into the directorial technique von
Trier used in "The Kingdom" and "Breaking
the Waves." The frequently blurred images
reflect the groups feverish activities.
Von Triers energetic direction holds the
sometimes unfocused film together.
Though "Idiots" lacks the emotional depth
of "Breaking the Waves," it is anchored by
Jorgensen' s bold performance as Karen, the
only character whose motivations are explained
in the film.
Ed Scheid
CLAIRE DOLAN ^^1/2
Starring Katrin Cartlidge, Vincent
D 'Onofrio and Colm Meaney. Written and
directed by Lodge Kerrigan. Produced by
Ann Ruark. No distributor set. Drama. Not
yet rated. Running time: 95 min.
Directed by the American Lodge
Kerrigan ("Clean, Shaven") and co-produced
by the French company MK2 Productions,
"Claire Dolan" has the look and
feel of a French film. Yet despite its simple,
character-driven story, arty cinematogra-
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phy and mostly European cast. "Claire
Dolan" never quite achieves the psychological
complexity of the films it emulates. In
telling the story of a call girl trying to make
a break with her past, Kerrigan seems obsessed
with things geometric. That shows
plainly in the angular features of his lead,
Katrin Cartlidge ("Career Girls"); in an
endless succession of detail shots of New
York buildings—windows, comers, towers;
and even m the simplicity and frequent
symmetry of the dialogue.
After her mother dies, Claire Dolan
(Cartlidge) skips town, walking out on
Roland Cain (Colm Meaney), the pimp to
whom she's in debt, and leaving behind
an essentially empty life. Relocating to
Newark, she takes a job as a beautician,
meets Ehon (Vincent D'Onofrio), and begins
a real relationship. When Roland
finds her and forces her back to work,
Claire plans to pay her debt and leave. With
Elton's consent, she conceives a child and
finally has the strength and means to leave
her past behind for good.
Kerrigan's characters live in a world that
is inorganic, full of cold materials like steel
and glass and very little that is natural or
alive. Clearly, he is making a point about
the impersonal nature of commercial sex,
but that point could have been made in a
more compelling and effective manner. As
it is, the chill that permeates his film makes
it difficult to care much about the characters.
Cartlidge gives such an aloof performance,
her voice almost totally devoid of
inflection, that one never really gets a sense
of what she is thinking or feeling.
D'Onofrio, slightly less reserved, fares
somewhat better. And Meaney, always enjoyable,
does a deliciously menacing
turn. Lael Loewenstein
Katrin Cartlidge stars as the title character
in "Claire Dolan."
THE GENERAL ^^^
Starring Brendan Gleeson, Adrian
Dunbar, Sean McGinley and Jon Voight.
Directed, written and produced by John
Boorman. No distributor set. Drama. Not
yet rated. Running time: 124 min. Won
Best Director.
In "The General," director John Boorman
is back in top form. Boorman received his
second Cannes Best Director Award for this
story of Irish master thief Martin Cahill,
shot in sharp black-and-white images.
The film opens with Martin Cahill' s murder
in Dublin in 1994, a death which is
applauded by the police. The film then
flashes back to Martin's youth. Young Martin
("The Butcher Boy's" Eamonn Owens)'
petty thefts are encouraged by his neighbors
as a way to fight back at the authority of the
police. The grown Martin (Brendan Gleeson)
moves on to bigger things, planning
ingenious and increasingly outrageous rob^
beries. He becomes a folk hero referred to
as "The General." Cahill stands up to all
authority—the police, the church, and most
dangerously, the IRA. Even his personal
life is without constraints: He fathers children
with both his wife (Maria Doyle Kennedy)
and her sister (Angeline Ball).
The story arc is familiar, but "The General"
gets extra life from Boorman' s extremely
accomplished direction. Boorman
captures both Cahill 's unique personality as
well as the various conflicts he faced
throughout his life. Boorman adeptly mixes
humor along with the crime and violence,
showing how "The General" is able to manipulate
everything to his advantage. The
film perfectly demonstrates Cahill s recklessness,
confidence and audacity by showing
him committing robberies while the
occupants are still at home. Brendan Gleeson
is charismatic as Cahill, and Jon Voight,
who starred in Boorman' s classic "Deliverance"
in 1972, brings a strong, authoritative
presence to the supporting performance of
the police chief who is determined to apprehend
Cahill. Gleeson' s scenes with Voight
are the high points of the film. Ed Scheid
THOSE WHO LOVE ME CAN TAKE
THE TRAIN (CEUX QUI M'AIMENT
PRENDRONT LE TRAIN) ••^
Starring Jean-Louis Trintignant,
Charles Berling, Pascal Greggory and
Vincent Perez. Directed by Patrice
Chereau. Written by Daniele Thompson,
Patrice Chereau and Pierre Trividic. Produced
by Charles Gassot. No distributor
set. Drama. French-language; subtitled.
Running time: 121 min.
Jean-Baptiste (played in flashback
scenes by Jean-Louis Trintignant) is an artist
who has died and requested that he be
buried in his home town of Limoges and
that "those who love me can take the train"
from Paris. A group of friends, relatives
and former lovers, both male and female,
meet up on the trip. Tension results from
confrontations both on the train and at the
funeral where Jean-Baptiste' s friends meet
the artist's bourgeois family. Old rivalries
erupt and scores are settled. Many relationships
will never be the same.
As in "Queen Margot," director Patrice
Chereau co-wrote this script with Daniele
Thompson. The screenplay only gradually
develops the various relationships of the
many characters. The plot idea may not be
particularly original, but like "Margot," this
film has strong performances by a large
cast, many of whom have worked on stage
and screen projects with Chereau. Pascal
Greggory ("Margot") and Charles Berling
("Ridicule") are particularly good. Greggory
portrays a former student of the dead
artist whose lover (Bruno Todeschini) is attracted
to a younger man (Sylvain Jacques)
along for the ride. Berling plays Jean-
Marie, the artist's nephew who has recently
separated from his wife (Valeria Bruni-
Tedeschi) because of her drug problem, but
then encounters her on the train. At Limoges,
Jean-Marie has a reunion with his father, the
twin of the dead artist, also played by
Trintignant. Vincent Perez, the romantic
lead of both "Indochine" and "Queen Margot,"
has a complete change-of-pace role.
The film is further propelled by Chereau 's
camerawork, which expertly captures the
train's movement which reflects the often
frenzied emotions of the passengers. Particularly
memorable are sweeping shots
of the Limoges cemetery, the largest in
Europe. Ed Scheid

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Starring Miguel Angel Sola, Maria
Luisa Mendonca and Walter Quiroz- Directed
by Hector Babenco. Written by Hector
Babenco andRicardo Piglia. Produced
by Hector Babenco and Francisco
Ramalho. No distributor set. Drama.
Spanish-language; English-subtitled. Not
yet rated. Running time: 132 min.
Coming from Hector Babenco, the director
of "Pixote" and "Kiss of the Spider
Woman," "Foolish Heart" is a major disappointment.
Juan (Walter Quiroz) is a young
man in Central America in the '60s. He
becomes involved in an elaborate experiment
to photograph the soul and falls in love
with Ana (Maria Luisa Mendonca), an unstable
young woman who participates in the
experiment.
Juan's story becomes a clumsy and unconvincing
combination of parental conflict,
mental illness and lovers on the run.
Anne Frank and "Jules and Jim" are also in
the mixture. Everything seems copied from
better films. Babencos direction is surprisingly
heavy-handed. Of the cast, only
Norma Aleandro ("The Official Story") in
the too-brief role of Juan's mother brings
some genuine emotion to the film. An older
Juan (Miguel Angel Sola) eventually returns
home after 20 years and is immediately
attracted to a woman he sees on
the street. These scenes are so melodramatically
overdone that the film becomes
laughably bad. Ed Scheid
DR. AKAGI (KANZO SENSEI) iririr
Starring Akira Emoto, Kumiko Aso
and Jacques Gamblin. Directed by Shoei
Imamura. Written by Shoei Imamura
and Daisuke Tengan. Produced by Hisa
Ino and Koji Matsuda.
No distributor
set. Drama. Japanese-language; English-subtitled.
Not yet rated. Running
time: 128 min.
"Dr. Akagi" is the latest film from Shoei
Imamura, a double Palme d'Or winner at
Cannes, most recently for "The Eel" last
year. In Japan during World War II, Dr.
Akagi ("The Eel's" Akira Emoto) is a family
doctor. He is known as Dr. Liver because
of his deep dedication to investigating the
hepatitis virus, the cause of many deaths in
Japan. As he runs through the village in his
white suit and straw hat, the doctor initially
seems a slightly foolish character, but
through Emoto' s performance the doctor
and his quest become comf)elling. The doctor
is aided by a colorful group of outcasts
including a drug-addicted surgeon
(Masanori Sera), a former prostitute
(Kumiko Aso) and an escaped Dutch POW
(Jacques Gamblin).
Outsideof an extremely stilted opening
involving American pilots discussing
bombing raids and an overdone finale involving
a whale, Imamura' s straightforward
directorial style effectively tells the
doctors story and the consequences when
his unusual quest turns into an obsession.
—Ed Scheid
CANNES
LULU ON THE BRIDGE iririr
Starring Harvey Keitel, Mira Sorvino,
Willem Dafoe and Vanessa Redgrave. Directed
and written by Paul Auster. Produced
by Peter Newman, Greg Johnson
and Amy J. Kaufman. A Glowing Stone
production. No distributor set. Drama.
Rated PG-13 for some violence, brief
strong language and sensuality. Running
time: 103 min.
This film is the solo writing/directorial
debut for author Paul Auster, who wrote the
screenplay for "Smoke" and co-directed the
improvisational spin-off to "Smoke," "Blue in
the Face". Auster' s script has rich dialogue
and a plot with some unusual coincidences.
Izzy Maurer (Harvey Keitel) is a jazz
saxophonist who is shot during a performance.
He recovers, but is unable to play
again. One evening he sees a dead body on
a deserted street. He takes the dead man's
briefcase, which contains a mysterious stone
and a napkin with a telephone number. He
calls the number, which is answered by Celia
(Mira Sorvino), a struggling actress who is
listening to a recording of Izzy. To fijrther the
synchronicity, Celia gets a part in a play
produced by a friend of Izzy s ex-wife.
Willem Dafoe plays a mysterious man who
interrogates Izzy about the missing stone
from the briefcase; he gives his character
both menace and a touch of playfulness.
Auster' s direction keeps the fantasy
scenes grounded in reality. Keitel gives a
complex performance, and Mira Sorvino
brings a sympathetic warmth to Celia.
Though Auster' s writing and direction falter
in a climactic chase scene, the film remains
an intriguing look at loneliness and
love. Ed Scheid
PASSION (SZENVEDELY) •••
Starring Ildiko Bansagi, Janos Derzsi
and Djoko Rossich. Directed by Gyorgy
Feher. Written by Gyorgy Feher and Beia
Tarr. Produced by John Arvai, Ferenc
Kardos and Eva Schulze. No distributor
set. Drama. Hungarian-language; subtitled.
Notyet rated. Running time: 138 min.
This film sets the James M. Cain classic
"The Postman Always Rings Twice" in the
desolate rural landscape of 1930s Hungary.
The grainy black-and-white images mirror
the raw emotions of the characters. A man
(Janos Derzsi) working on a farm has an
affair with the wife (Ildiko Bansagi) of the
owner (Djoko Rossich). The illicit relationship
leads to murder and blackmail.
Helmer and co- writer Gyorgy Feher' s direction
initially seems at odds with this
story of seething passion but works unexpectedly
well, except for an overly-stylized
opening. Feher uses broad strokes, never
naming the characters or giving them much
of a background. There is little dialogue.
Even the passion is wordless. The film is
very slowly paced. But the long takes are
suddenly broken by bursts of emotion
which convincingly establish a sense of
impending violence. The three leading actors
give gritly and realistic [jerformances,
particularly Bansagi as the adulterous
wife. Ed Scheid

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LAST NIGHT iri^irir
Starring Don McKellar, Sandra Oh,
Galium Keith Rennie, Sarah Policy and
David Cronenberg. Directed and written by
Don McKellar. Produced by Niv Fishman
and Daniel Iron. No distributor set. Drama.
Not yet rated. Running time: 95 min.
"Last Night" was one of the few genuinely
original films at this year's Cannes
Festival. Don McKellar, who co-starred in
"Exotica" and co-wrote "Thirty-two Short
Films About Glenn Gould," stars, scripts
and makes his feature directorial debut
This film takes place on Earth's final day
leading up to its midnight end. There is no
explanation for the end of the world and no
Hollywood superstar to save the day. Every
character must decide how to spend the
final hours. A married couple (Roberta
Maxwell and Robin Gammel) have organized
a final family meal as a celebration to
think back to happier times. Their son Patrick
(McKellar) wants to leave them to
spend his last hours alone. His sister (The
Sweet Hereafter's" Sarah Polley) and her
boyfriend plan to celebrate at a final "blowout"
party. Patrick's best friend (Galium
Keith Rennie) is spending his final day
trying to fulfill his sexual fantasies, including
one with his former French teacher
(Genevieve Bujold). Sandra ("Double
Happiness'" Sandra Oh) is desperately trying
to get home to fulfill a suicide pact with
her husband. And in an offbeat casting, director
David Cronenberg ("Crash") plays a gas
company bureaucrat determined &at service
will continue to the end. The characters
interconnect, often in unexpected ways.
McKellar has shot several striking scenes
of abandoned cars and stores and of city
streets where any semblance of order has
collapsed. An excellent cast shows the wide
range of emotions caused when the characters
all know the time of their death. Though
the film has some clever humor, the script
takes the characters seriously, leading to
some very moving scenes. It is a tribute to
McKellar as actor, director and writer that
Patrick's final decision becomes extremely
suspenseful. Ed Scheid
IN THE PRESENCE OF A CLOWN
(LARMAR OCH GOR SIG TILL)
*•••
Starring Borje Ahlstedt, Marie Richardson,
Erland Josephson, Pernilla August
and Peter Stormare. Directed and written
by Ingmar Bergman. An SVTproduction.
No distributor set. Drama. Swedish-language;
subtitled. Not yet rated. Running
time: 118 min.
A major event at Cannes was the screening
of "In the Presence of a Clown," a recent
film made for Swedish television by Ingmar
Bergman. Bergman continues the examination
of his family but in a different direction.
The focal character of this film is his favorite
relative, Uncle Carl. Carl is played by
Borje Ahlstedt, who played the part as supporting
roles in "Fanny and Alexander" and
"Best Intentions." "Fanny" (1983) is the
last film Bergman made for the cinema. He
O «ed-Blue/Green '-'
wrote the screenplay for "Intentions" which
won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1992.
Carl has been sent to a psychiatric ward
for beating his fiancee Pauline (Marie Richardson).
He has recurring visions of a
chalky-faced erotic female clown (Angeta
Ekmanner). Another patient is Professor
Osvald Volger (Bergman regular Erland Josephson).
Upon their release, Carl and Volger
decide to tour with the "living talkie,"
in which their troupe will read the dialogue
while a silent film is projected. Marie, who
is unable to end her relationship with Carl,
accompanies them.
Once again, Bergman masterfully uses
close-ups to eloquently explore the emo-
perate struggle between the two women.
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"living talkie" shows the playful side that
of Carl that endeared him to young Ingmar.
Pernilla August again portrays Bergman's
mother and Carl's sister-in-law who is one
of the few relatives with whom Carl has
maintained a close relationship. (August
won the Best Actress award at Cannes for
the same role in "Best Intentions.") Peter
Stormare ("Fargo") plays a member of the
traveling troupe.
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script gives a new exploration of illusion,
truth and the love of theatre and film
themes he has investigated in different ways
throughout his career. Ed Scheid
LITTLE TONY (KLEINE TEUN)
***1/2
Starring Annet Malherbe, Ariane
Schluter and Alex van Warmerdam. Directed
and written by Alex van Warmerdam.
Produced by Marc van Warmerdam, Tony
Schippers and Alex van Warmerdam. No
distributor set. Comedy/drama. Dutch-language;
subtitled Running time: 96 min.
"Little Tony" tells a story of a strange
triangle. Kate (Annet Malherbe) arranges
for her illiterate husband Brand (director/writer
Alex van Warmerdam) to be tutored
on their farm by a young woman
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The three leads create distinctive characterizations;
in particular, Malherbe's comic
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SMOKE SIGNALS
Starring Adam Beach, Evan Adams,
Tantoo Cardinal and Tom Skerritt.
Directed
by Chris Eyre. Written by Sherman
Alexie. Produced by Scott Rosenfelt and
Larry Estes. A Miramax release. Drama.
Rated PG-13 for some intense images.
Running time: 89 min.
Based on Sherman Alexia's 1993 collection
of short stories "The Lone Ranger and
Tonto Fistfight in Heaven," this story follows
Victor Joseph (Adam Beach)' s journey
to Phoenix to retrieve the ashes of his
deceased father who abandoned his family
10 years ago. The only way Victor can
manage the trip is to let Thomas Builds-the-
Fire (Evan Adams) tag along. Thomas has
a knack for storytelling and for constantly
annoying Victor; along the way, they argue,
get into trouble and eventually learn to respect
and like one another.
This is a movie of moments. Throughout
there are very good, intense dramatic
scenes, but as a whole the film falls short
and is unsatisfying. Being the first feature
written, directed and co-produced by Native
Americans is cause enough for pride,
but by failing to fan the flames of audience
interest, "Smoke Signals" will likely suffer
reduced visibility. Jose Martinez
COUSIN BETTE iririr
Starring Jessica Lange and Elisabeth
Shue. Directed by Des McAnuff. Written
by Lynn Sieferi and Susan Tarr. Produced
by Sarah Radclyff. A Fox Searchlight release.
Rated R for sexuality. Satirical
drama. Running time: 109 min.
A witty satire set in mid- 1 9th-century
France, "Cousin Bette" is a gleeful tale of
romantic revenge that provides a welcome
return to form for Jessica Lange. After
being wasted in too many ineffectual films
and roles, Lange is back with a smoldering
vengeance in this by turns bitingly funny
and archly revealing study of treachery, lust
and greed.
Based on the once taboo writings of
Honore de Balzac, "Cousin Bette" is about
the long-suffering black sheep of the Hulot
family (Lange), who has spent her life in a
futile rivalry with her beautiful cousin, Adeline
(a memorable cameo by Geraldine
Chaplin). At Adeline's death, Bette hopes
to at last rise to the position of mistress of
the Hulot homes, only to have the capricious
Hector Hulot (Hugh Laurie) ask her
to become his housekeeper instead. Bitter,
Bette remains in her shabby Paris apartment,
supporting herself as a costumer for
a burlesque show starring the toast of the
city, Jenny Cadine (Elisabeth Shue). Living
just above Bette is a starving young artist,
Wenceslas (Aden Young), with whom Bette
falls in love. She encourages him in his artistic
ambitions only to see him snatched away by
Hector's young daughter Hortense
('Trainspotting's" Kelly MacDonald).
Determined to wreak her revenge on
Hulot and Wenceslas, Bette craftily sets
about ensnaring everyone in her trap, including
the mayor of Paris, Monsieur
Crevcl (the always wonderful Bob Hoskins).
Making his directorial debut, playwright
and stage director Des McAnuff keeps the
pace brisk and adds some delightfully irreverent
and unexpected gags that never break
the luscious period detail provided by Hugo
Luczyc-Wyhowski's production design.
The only major distraction here is Shue,
who is never for a moment convincing as a
19th-century burlesque queen. MacDonald,
however, turns in a smart, skillful performance
that matches Lange' s in complexity
and depth. Luisa F. Ribeiro
DEAR JESSE ^^^1/2
Narrated, directed and written by Tim
Kirkman. Produced by Mary Beth Mann.
A Cowboy Booking International Release.
Documentary. Running time: 85 min.
Tim Kirkman, a gay filmmaker from
North Carolina, paints a fascinating, semiautobiographical
picture as he examines the
political longevity of Jesse Helms, a Senator
from Kirkman' s home state since 1972,
and probably the most outspoken anti-homosexual
in the country. The film's impact
comes not only from a surprisingly balanced
look at Helms, but from the filmmaker's own
story, as Kirkman explains the effect the
Senator's anti-gay stance had on his coming
to terms with his own sexuality.
To his credit, Kirkman never tries to
judge Helms. Rather, he lets archival footage
and some very telling interviews speak
for him. The result is a poignant tale which
shows, with delicious irony, that the lives
of both men are not as different from each
other as one would imagine. Just as important,
"Dear Jesse," which is subtitled "A
Movie About Truth, Justice and the American
Gay," shows that attitudes are changing
over time. Judd Hollander
HAV PLENTY •••1/2
Starring Christopher Scott Cherot and
Chenoa Maxwell. Directed and written by
Christopher Scott Cherot. Produced by
Christopher Scott Cherot and Robyn M.
Greene. A Miramax release. Drama.
Rated R for strong language. Running
time: 91 min.
With only a shoestring budget and a few
"How-To" books, filmmaker/star Christopher
Scott Cherot has crafted an indie gem
that fills a void in the market of urban-influenced
art-house films. "Hav Plenty" tells the
story of the impoverished Lee Plenty (Cherot)
and his upper-class friend Havilland (Chenoa
Maxwell). Lee is adown-on-his-luck aspiring
writer whom nobody takes seriously—at first.
It is clear to everyone but Havilland that
she's enamored with Lee; she's too busy
trying to get over her womanizing fiance to
acknowledge her feelings.
Cherot snows that a person doesn't have
to have big bucks to be desirable; common
sense and integrity are all you need. He also
proves this point by casting himself in the
title role: While Cherot's not a finely chiseled
leading man, he is authentic and compelling.
Occasional stumbled-over lines are
forgivable in light of the complex, multilevel
plotlinc. Dwayne E. Leslie
A PERFECT MURDER ^^1/2
Starring Michael Douglas, Gwyneth
Paltrow and Viggo Mortensen. Directed by
Andrew Davis. Written by Patrick Smith
Kelly. Produced by Arnold Kopelson, Anne
Kopelson, Christopher Mankiewicz and
Peter MacGregor-Scott. A Warner release.
Thriller. Rated Rfor violence, sexuality and
language. Running time: 106 min.
Despite an attempt at a radical reworking
of Alfred Hitchcock's "Dial M For Murder,"
the core setup remains the same: A
man plots his wife's perfect murder, only to
have the plan go disastrously awry when
she turns the tables on her would-be assassin.
In this incarnation, the husband is a
ruthless commodities trader (Michael
Douglas) who sees a chance to both dispose
of an unfaithful wife (Gwyneth Paltrow)
and seize her $ 100 million fortune by blackmailing
her ex-con, fugitive lover (Viggo
Mortensen) into doing the job.
"A Perfect Murder" simpers along with
relatively little suspense or thrills, and needlessly
complicates the original material's already
complex series of twists with new ones
either borrowed wholesale from better
movies or so hopelessly contrived that they
undermine the film's credibility altogether.
Fortunately, Davis has elicited far more
credible performances from his three leads
than the script merits. Wade Major
HOPE FLOATS ^^
Starring Sandra Bullock, Harry Connick
Jr. and Gena Rowlands. Directed by
Forest Whitaker. Written by Steven Rogers.
Produced by Lynda Obst. A Fox release.
Drama. Rated PG-13 for thematic
elements. Running time: 110 min.
When Birdee Pruitt (Sandra Bullock)
learns on national TV that her best friend is
having an affair with her husband, her life
falls apart. So, after shredding his shirts and
smashing all the windows in their house,
with daughter Bemice (Mae Whitman) in
tow, she heads home to Mom and the sleepy
town of Smithville, Texas. There she rebuilds
not only her self-esteem but also the
emotional ties to her parents Ramona (Gena
Rowlands) and Harry (James N. Harrell).
And whenever she gets down, in steps the
local hunk Justin Mafisse (Harry Connick
Jr.). bringing her as much TLC as she can
handle.
Rowlands paints a lovely portrait of Ramona,
Birdee's slightly eccentric mother
who holds the family together with her
warmth and humor. Harry Connick Jr. creates
in Justin a charismatic would-be suitor.
Cameron Finley is simply super as Birdee's
nephew Travis who amuses himself and his
grandmother by dressing up as different
animals. Birdee's daughter, however, is
very wooden. This is partly the fault of the
script which endows her with no childish
intuition or empathy. Bernice is not very,
likable, so there are few touching scenes!
between parent and child. The script also"
leaves Birdee and Bemice wallowing in self
pity far too long, ruining the momentum in
the second half of the movie and causing
hope to sink.—Lisa Osborne

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REVIEWS
Starring Jim Carrey, Ed Harris,
Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich,
Natascha McElhone and Holland Taylor.
Directed by Peter Weir. Written by
Andrew Niccol. Produced by Scott
Rudin, Andrew Niccol, Edward S. Feldman
andAdam Schroeder. A Paramount
release. Comedy/Drama. Rated PG for
thematic elements and mild language.
Running time: 104 min.
Rarely, if ever, has a film proffered such
a provocative premise as "The Truman
Show," much less risen to meet the
challenge of exploiting it. For it is not so
much the pairing of mega-star Jim Carrey
with acclaimed director Peter Weir ("Fearless")
to which the film owes its success,
but rather the extraordinary nature of the
story itself, a strange and wonderful fable
that would seem destined for status as an
immediate classic.
Literally raised from birth to be the star
of a television series. Truman Burbank
(Carrey) inhabits an exceedingly idyllic
world, a sparkling fantasyland of such delightfulness.
it's hard to imagine anyone
wanting to leave.
It is the perfect cage for the world's most
famous caged animal.
In truth, Truman's home town of
Seahaven, which he has never left for fear
of crossing the water which surrounds it, is
an entirely artificial entity, the brainchild of
a pseudo-fascistic television mogul named
Christof (Ed Harris).
For 30 years, billions of viewers throughout
the globe have watched Truman's life
with baited breath, eagerly anticipating
each successive drama.
Truman, of course, is unaware that his
entire life has been a fiction, that his friends
and family are but actors, or that the entire
town and island on which he lives is nothing
more than a massive set, housed in the
world's largest sound stage.
Human ingenuity and curiosity being
what it is, however, it' s only a matter of time
before even so naive an innocent as Truman
starts to piece the truth together, and in the
process pushes the envelope on ideas and
possibilities rarely broached by Hollywood
films. Questions of philosophy, science,
politics, economics, religion, ethics and
morality all play a part in "The Truman
Show's" deft dance of ideas, yet at no time
does the genteel fabric of the story give way
to the kmd of pretentiousness that often
absorbs "idea"-centered films.
For all of its intelligence and speculative
power, the film is
still about a real human
being with real emotions.
None of this would have been possible,
of course, without the superb original script
by Andrew Niccol who debuted as both a
writer and director with last year's
"Gattaca," a similarly-themed tale of an
individual struggling to break free of a different
kind of societal structure. While
Niccol' s sensibilities lie squarely with such
dystopian classics as "Brave New World"
and "1984," he nonetheless harbors a
greater optimism and a stronger affection
for the human condition than is present in
either of those more famous tales, qualities
which ultimately elevate "The Truman
Show" far beyond the level of a mere "cautionary
tale."
Inevitably, the film raises more questions
than it could ever hope to answer, almost
forcing audiences to pick up where the
filmmakers leave off. Their job, as they
undoubtedly see it, is to simply tell the story
well and convincingly. And on that count,
Weir, Niccol and Carrey acquit themselves
magnificently. Wade Major
PREVIOUSLY REVIEWED: JUNE/JULY/AUGUST FILMS
The alphabetical list behv/ notes the issue of BOXOFFICE in v/hich our
review of an upcoming film appeared, gives its star rating, and
provides new// updated distributor and release date information.
"Beyond Silence" ••1/2: Miramax, 6/5; see April 1997.
"Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss" ••••1/2: Trimark, 7/24; see April 1998.
"Buffalo 66" •••1/2: Lions Gate, 6/26 (NY/LA); see April 1998.
"East Palace, West Palace" •••1/2: Strand, 7/31; see Sept. 1997.
"First Love, Last Rites" •••: Strand, 8/7; see April 1998.
"Full Tilt Boogie" ••1/2: Miramax, 7/31; see April 1998.
"Henry Fool" •••: Sony Classics, 6/19; see April 1998.
"High Art" -k-k-k: October, 6/12; see June 1998.
"I MarriedA Strange Person" •*: Lions Gate, August, undated; see April 1998.
"I Went Down" •••: Artisan, 6/19; see April 1998.
"Keep the Aspidistra Flying" ••••: First Look, 7/3; see April 1998.
"Land Girls" -kl/l: Gramercy, 6/12 (ltd); see April 1998.
"Marcello Mastroianni, 1 Remember... " • • 1/2: First Look, 8/21; see April 1998.
"Marie Bale Des Anges" ••1/2: SPC, 6/19 (NY); see April 1998.
"Mr. Jealousy" •••: Lions Gate, 6/5; see April 1998.
"Next Stop, Wonderland" •••: Miramax, 8/21; see April 1998.
"Passion in the Desert" •••: Fine Line, 6/12 (NY/LA); see Feb. 1998.
"Pi" •••••: Live, 7/10 (NY); see April 1998.
"Talk ofAngels" •••: Miramax, 7/3 (NY/LA); see September 1997.
"Voyage to the Beginning of the World" ••1/2: Strand, 6/26; see Sept. 1997.
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ALMOST HEROES icir
FLASHBACK: 1961
Starring Chris Fariey, Matthew Perry
and Eugene Levy. Written by Mark Nutter
What BOXOFFICE Said About...
& Tom Wolfe & Boyd Hale. Directed by
Christopher Guest. Produced by Denise Di
Novi. A Warner release. Comedy. Rated
THE PARENT TRAP
Williams and Mara Hobel. Directed by
Victor Mignatti. Written by Victor THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO ^^1/2 The supporting males fall more in line
with the stiff, dysfunctional prep-school archetypes
that audiences have come to ex-
Mignatti. Produced by David Tope I. A Starring Chloe Sevigny and Kate
Jour de Fete release. Comedy/Drama. Unrated.
Running time: 110 min.
by Whit Stillman. A Gramercy release.
Beckinsale. Directed, written and produced
pect from Stillman: ad man Jimmy
Steinway (Mackenzie Astin), corporate
"Broadway Damage" opens with two Drama. RatedRforsome elements involving
lawyer Tom (Robert Sean Leonard), club
young actors' comically awkward audition
monologues for an unimpressed di-
Chat-meister Whit Stillman's concluding
sexuality and drugs. Running time: 112 min.
manager Des (Chris Eigeman) and assistant
D.A. Josh (Matt Keeslar).
rector. Unfortunately, when Marc chapter in his trilogy of yuppie gab-fests,
When they're not shaking their booties
(Michael Shawn Lucas) and Robert "The Last Days of Disco, ' follows roughly
on the dance floor, the trendy friends can be
(Aaron Williams) hit the streets of Greenwich
Village after their audition, the film ropolitan and "Barcelona," focusing on yet
the same pattern as its predecessors, "Met-
found engaging in idle chatter about everything
from the psycho-social ramifications
they inhabit turns out to be nearly as stiff another gaggle of interminably shallow. Ivy
of "Lady and the Tramp" to post-modem
and stagy as their acting. A would-be League pseudo-intellectuals as they grapple
reinterpretations of Shakespearean tragedies,
occasionally taking time out to vent
touching and zany tale of young bohemia, with love, life, meaning and the passing of
"Broadway Damage" feels like a student an era during the early 1980s.
the romantic and professional insecurities
film. Our two heroes explore the Village, At the center of the mostly male cast are
that have become a hallmark of Stillman
the theatre and life after college, looking the film's two female protagonists, Alice
characters.
for true love among the male "perfect and Chariotte (Chloe Sevigny and Kate
With the exception of Sevigny and the
10s" that surround them. The audience Beckinsale), aspiring New York book editors
by day, devoted clubgoers by night.
luminous Beckinsale, both of whom are
can easily see heartbreak ahead, resolved
outstanding in their respective roles, "The
by the tidiest of happy endings. The two The giris' friendship, however, is a fragile
Last Days of Disco" offers little beyond
leads, although attractive, seem uncomfortable
on camera. However, a welcome ities that seem to define the story's primary
one marked by radically divergent sensibil-
the usual Stillman prattle— precisely the
film that both admirers and detractors are
spark of life comes from Mara Hobel, playing
Marc's fiamboyant spendaholic room-
activity as opposed to "ferocious pairing
concern, namely the virtues of group social
probably expecting. As an added bonus
for fans, characters from both "Metropolitan"
and "Barcelona" appear in cammate;
Hobel is a vivacious screen presence, off." Alice is sincere but insecure while
and her Cynthia makes the film sporadically Charlotte is blissfully conceited and self
eos. Wade Major
come to life.— Cathy Thompson-Georges absorbed.
PG-13for crude humor and nudity. Running
time: 90 min.
comedy about a pair of twin girls raised sepa-
[July 29 is the release date ofBuena Vista's 1998 version of "The Parent Trap," a
Set in the American West in 1804,
rately who meet by chance and then swap places
this comedy finds prim aristocrat LesHe
Edwards (Matthew Perry) and boorish
tracker Bartholomew Hunt (Chris Farley)
in a scheme to get their parents back together.
Dennis Quaid plays the girls ' father, Natasha
Richardson their mother, and Lindsay iMltan
on a quest to beat their rivals, Lewis
takes on the dual role originated by Hayley Mills.
and Clark, to the Pacific Ocean. They
Here's BOXOFFICE's assessment of the 1961
quickly acquire the requisite band of
rag-tag misfits to help them on their
journey. Both Edwards and Hunt seem
film.}
Another brightly colored and delightfully
to have a knack for making enemies
amusing family film, the fourth in a row for
along their travels, and as a result, several
tussles ensue, providing the opportunity
Walt Disney, this will prove equally enjoyable
to the youngsters and their parents and has
for numerous instances of groin
popular Ingredients for the teenagers and the
kicking. One of Edwards and Hunt's old folks—and that takes in every moviegoer. Starring Hayley Mills, the British
crew keeps losing appendages, pointing up girl who scored in Disney's "Pollyanna" and recently won a special Academy
the writers' Monty Python deadpan-in-theface-of-the-bizarre
Award for "outstanding juvenile performance," the cast includes Maureen
influence, but to unfa-
O'Hara, more striking than ever, and the rugged Brian Keith as a divorced couple
vorable comparison. One of the more cringeinducing
comic comeuppances the writers Ruggles; the clucking Una Merkel; Leo G. Carroll of TV's "Topper" fame; the
reunited through the machinations of their twin daughters; lovable Charlie
cook up is a dewigging and decorseting of aristocratic Cathleen Nesbitt; Ruth McDevitt, whose prissy camp counselor role is
a pompous enemy. The only thing more a comedy gem; plus beautiful Joanna Barnes. David Swift directs with an accent
juvenik and trite they could have come up on comedy and human interest. Young Miss Mills, playing identical twins, is a
with would be a bird-excrement-in-the-face standout.
joke. That one's saved for the climax.
Everyone seems to be trying gamely
EXPLOITIPS:
here, but the Beavis and Butt-head-esque
In addition to the magic of the Walt Disney title, stress Hayley Mills and her
writing thwarts at every turn. Perhaps if
recent special Academy Award for "best juvenile performance" of 1960. Other
Guest had tapped into his Corky St. Clair
selling names are Maureen O'Hara, singing on the screen for the first time; Charlie
persona, the director who brought the (unmtentionally)
hilarious stage production
Ruggles; Una Merkel; and the title song warbled by Tommy Sands and Annette,
teenage favorites.
"Red, White and Blaine!" to life in "Waiting
for Guffman," "Almost Heroes" would
CATCHLINES:
have been almost funny. Christine James
Hayley Mills Plays a Double Role in a Double-Barreled Comedy Hit...Honorary
Academy Award Winner in Her Latest Walt Disney Comedy About Matchmaking
BROADWAY DAMAGE y^^l/2
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LITTLE BOY BLUE ^1/2
Starring John Savage and Nastassja
Kinsku Directed by Antonio TibaldL Written
by Michael Boston. Produced by Amedeo
Ursini. A Castle Hill release. Suspense.
Rated Rfor some strong sexuality, violence
and language. Running time: 107 min.
Ugh. An apparent attempt to out-nasty
"Blue Velvet" and "Seven" combined, but
without a tenth of those movies' style and
artistry, "Little Boy Blue" is a grueling
experience. John Savage does
his best Dennis Hopper imitation
as a sicko Vietnam vet
(writer Michael Boston seems
to take it for granted that participation
in that war is sufficient
to explain any amount of aberration)
who terrorizes his whinily
compliant bottle-blond wife
(Nastassja Kinski) and three
sons. Things just go downhill
from there, into a stew of murder,
kidnapping, forced incest
and other fun family activities.
Incredibly, none of these overthe-top
goings-on are played for
lurid laughs. Everyone proceeds
as though "Little Boy Blue" were
a television movie soberly exposing
some social evil; apparently,
director Antonio Tibaldi
believes that those crazy
Americans are up to all kinds of
ill behavior in their doublewide
trailers. A sensitive performance by
Ryan Phillippe as the oldest son is utterly
wasted. Cathy Thompson-Georges
FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS
VEGAS (no stars)
Starring Johnny Depp and Benicio Del
Toro. Directed by Terry Gilliam. Written by
Terry Gilliam, Tony Grisoni, Tod Davies
and Alex Cox. Produced by Laila Nabulsi,
Patrick Cassavetti and Stephen Nemeth. A
Universal release. Black comedy. Rated R
for pervasive extreme drug use and related
bizarre behavior, strong language, and brief
nudity. Running time: 118 min.
As grotesque a cinematic monstrosity as
has ever been inflicted on audiences, "Fear
and Loathing in Las Vegas" could easily be
the first major studio film in history completely
devoid of any redeeming value
whatsoever—cinematically, socially or
otherwise.
Adapted from the semi-autobiographical
1971 novel by legendary counterculture
journalist Hunter S. Thompson, the new
film from director Terry Gilliam (" 1 2 Monkeys")
is a two-hour slog through revulsion
and boredom, featuring Johnny Depp as the
Thompson-esque Raoul Duke and Benicio
Del Toro ("Excess Baggage") as his attorney
and partner in psychedelia. Dr. Gonzo
(based on Thompson's friend and Chicano
activist Oscar Zeta Acosta).
After inundating themselves with narcotics
and hallucinogens, the dreary duo head
for Las Vegas, where they continue their
debauched odyssey by trashing hotel
SPECIAL FORMAT: IWERKS 3-D
BOXOFFICE Senior Editor Lisa Osborne
evades "Dino Island's" T-rex.
DINO ISLAND II 3D—ESCAPE
FROM DINO ISLAND •••l/Z
Directed by Mix Ryan (pre-show)
and Jerzy Kular (main s/iowA Written
by Ryan and Sam Auster. Produced by
Ryan and Doug Yeilen. An Iwerks Entertainment
release. Running time: 8
min. 42 sec.
"Escape
from Dino Island"
is the
action-packed,
in-your-face
3-D sequel to
"Dino Island,"
Iwerks'
most successful
ride simulation
film to
date. Iwerks
subtly blends
3-D animation
with digital
surround
sound to captivate
its audience
and
then uses its
new Turbo-
Ride 3D!
technology to
dramatic ur-
inject movement and
gency into the mix.
Moviegoers strap themselves into
high-backed racing car seats, don stylish
3-D glasses and wait to be plunged
rooms, humiliating strangers, babbling incoherently,
vomiting, and desecrating just
about anything and everything that crosses
their path.
And lest anyone accuse the filmmakers
of being completely irresponsible, Depp occasionally
chimes in to narrate the proceedings
with one of Thompson's trademark
stream-of-consciousness ramblings, presumably
as a reminder to the audience that
there's a lesson to be learned. Just what that
lesson is supposed to be, however, is
anyone's guess.
It's little consolation that Depp, who
plays Duke as a cross between Charles
Buicowski, Timothy Leary and Groucho
Marx, manages the role with typically chameleon-like
aplomb. Everything else
around him is so horribly bad that it ultimately
doesn't make much difference. Del
Toro' s Gonzo is a noteworthy case in point,
a characterization so thoroughly repugnant
that it verges on the sadistic. Although most
of the blame for the film's failure is likely
to fall squarely on helmer and co-writer
Gilliam, it's unlikely that anyone else
would have been able to fare much better,
given the same material. An amorphous
blob of disjointed scenes and spaced-out
episodes, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"
is simply a film that should never have been
made. Wade Major
into the turbulent world of Tony the
Tyrannosaurus rex. The pre-show,
scripted as an emergency news report,
warns of imminent danger—the volcano
on Dino Island is erupting and
threatens to destroy the last dinosaurs
on earth. Moviegoers join members of
the international Earth Science Team
as they return to Dino Island on board
an all-terrain/submersible vehicle to
supervise the evacuation of the prehistoric
animals they discovered there
four years before. Within seconds,
viewers feel themselves falling through
the air into the ocean as the helicopter
which is air-lifting them to the island is
hit. Next, they're driving along the
ocean floor, dodging lava vents. Then,
after successfully escaping from a maternal
stegosaurus, a primordial
swamp and hordes of giant dragonflies,
they are ready to tackle Tony himself.
The 3-D effects are used sparingly to
maximize their impact; the strategy
works. The image of Tony's face, teeth
bared, seeming to push through the
screen provoked shrieks from the audience.
"Escape From Dino Island" is
one of those rare animals—the sequel
that's as good, if not better, than the
original. One word of caution; this is
a life-like action movie which engages
all the senses, so sufferers of motion
sickness should be prepared. Lk
Osborne
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I GOT THE HOOK-UP ^1/2
Starring Master P, A.J. Johnson,
Gretchen Palmer and Tommy "Tiny"
Lister. Directed by Michael Martin. Written
by Master P. Produced by Jonathan
Heuer. A Miramax release. Comedy.
Rated R for pervasive strong language,
crude sexual humor, nudity, drug content
and some violence. Running time:
101 min.
This urban comedy starring rap artist
Master P was not only financed by the rap
artist, but was written and executive produced
by him as well. He also used the
film's soundtrack to showcase artists represented
by his record label. Master P does
everything except capture the attention
span of a film audience.
Black (Master P) and Blue (A.J. Johnson)
set up a wireless cellular phone business
in the hood only to find that the old
chips used in the new phones don't work.
Because of this, the local gangster is looking
to be repaid when a $70,0(X) deal goes
wrong.
While the film starts out promisingly
with a comical funeral brawl and a humorous
performance by Johnson, the senseless
chases and unexplained affairs and alliances
soon wear on the patience of the
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GODZILLA
Starring Matthew Broderick, Jean
Reno, Hank Azaria and Maria Pitillo. Directed
by Roland Emmerich. Written by
Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin. Produced
by Dean Devlin. A TriStar release.
Thriller. Rated PG-13 for sci-fi monster
action/violence. Running time: 135 min.
The marketing campaign was brilliant;
the movie is not. To cut a long story short:
Godzilla, who is pregnant, decides to travel
to Manhattan to build its nest. But the only
apparent reason for this move is to produce
a plentiful supply of recognizable buildings
for the creature to knock down. As the lead
character, biologist Nick Tatopoulos (Matthew
Broderick), points out, animals often
travel long distances to mate. This is true,
but they go home, they don't venture forth
into foreign lands. While explaining
Godzilla's physiology adds interest—for
example, it can't be hit by a heat-seeking
missile because its cold-blooded and thus
cooler than the surrounding buildings—it
makes the creature seem more human—
victim, not a menace. Godzilla is simply a
new parent looking for a good place to bring
up its young. And it's killed solely because
it' s too big for the space it' s chosen, proving
yet again that "Size Does Matter."
"Godzilla" is basically a vehicle for special
effects—albeit good special effects
that lasts about 20 minutes too long and
needs a decent script. This is a big movie
with a lot of potential but, unfortunately,
delivers small satisfaction. Lisa Osborne
least partially redeem its many missteps. ers" and "Sling Blade," tends to upstage the
— Wade Major main feature.—Cathy Thompson-Georges
THE HORSE WHISPERER ^^1/2
Starring Robert Redford and Kristin Scott
Thomas. Directed by Robert Redford.
Written by Eric Roth and Richard
LaGravenese. Produced by Robert Redford
and Patrick Markey. A Buena Vista release.
Drama. Rated PG-13 for a disturbing accident
scene. Running time: 176 min.
Sort of a "Bridges of My Little Pony,"
"The Horse Whisperer" combines a soppy
forbidden romance with a soppy tale of
redemption after disaster. Put together,
that's tear-jerker heaven—for audiences
who like that sort of thing.
At the outset, adorable teen Grace
(Scarlett Johansson) is involved in a terrible
accident that leaves her best friend dead, her
leg amputated, and her horse Pilgrim horribly
scarred and untouchable. Like her
horse, Grace has become skittish and unreachable,
so her over-achieving mother
Annie (Kristin Scott Thomas) packs gal and
galloper up and hauls them from New York
to Montana to see "horse whisperer" Tom
Booker (Robert Redford), who boasts that
"I don't break horses—I gentle them." Tom
proves to be the sort of movie-romance guy
who's so wise and folksy and gentle yet
masculine that some might want to punch
him in the mouth.
Redford' s decision to cast himself in a role
as the sophisticated woman's Fabio seems a
bit hubristic, and Evans' dialogue grows from
trite to painful when Redford and Scott
Thomas pitch woo. 'The Horse Whisperer" is
a calculated heart-tugging machine, as soulless
and efficient in its own way as
"Twister" or "Independence Day"; instead
BULWORTH ^^1/2
of a "thrill-ride," it's a trip through the
Starring Warren Beatty, Halle Berry,
tunnel of love. Cathy Thompson-Georges
Jack Warden, Oliver Piatt, Paul Sorvino
and Christine Baranski. Directed by Warren
Beatty. Written by Warren Beatty & PLUMP FICTION ••
Jeremy Pikser. Produced by Warren Starring Tommy Davidson and Julie
Beatty and Pieter Jan Brugge. A Fox release.
Comedy. Rated R for pervasive Koherr. Produced by Gary Binkow. A Leg-
Brown. Directed and written by Bob
strong language and some drug content. acy release. Comedy. Rated R for strong
Running time: 110 min.
What begins as a promising, potentially
language and some comic violence. Running
time: 82 min.
brilliant political satire fast degenerates into The blood-drenched, hipper-than-hip
yet another celebrity soapbox in "Bulworth," films of Quentin Tarantino and legions of
Wairen Beatty's first foray into quadruple Tararitino wannabes are a ripe subject for
threat territory (writing, directing, acting and parody (although they were a lot riper in
producing) since 1980's"Reds.'
1995), and somebody could make a hilarious
Beatty stars as Democratic Senator Jay
send-up of them. "Plump Fiction,"
Bulworth, an unremarkable politician who, however, is not it.
on the eve of the 1996 election, comes "Plump Fiction" follows its model, "Pulp
apart at the psychological seams, suddenly
Fiction," in telling the tale of a dizzy hitman
dispensing with the old familiar (Paul Dinello) watching his boss' wife
tactics and formalities to baldly lay out (Julie Brown) for the afternoon. Following
the uncomfortable, back-door truth for all is an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink spoof
the world to hear.
of "Pulp Fiction," "Natural Bom Killers,"
To their credit, Beatty and Pikser seem
acutely aware of the narrative pitfalls associated
"Forrest Gump," "Nell" and a host of other
newish releases.
with overly dogmatic material, al-
In spite of a fine comedy cast including Dan
though they make the mistake of choosing Castellaneta, Sandra Bernhard, Kevin
the wrong remedy, a bizarre hired-assassin/suicide
thread that does little but fill the
Meaney and Colleen Camp, "Plump Fiction"
just isn't that funny. This type of scattershot
void between the public encounters.
parody is hard to sustain over the length of a
Boasting some of the year's cheekier Feature film—which might be why the accompanying
comedic moments thus far, "Bulworth"
short subject "Swing Blade,"
is smart enough in fits and starts to at running three minutes and spoofing "Swing-
QUEST FOR CAMELOT •••1/2
Voices by Jessalyn Gilsig, Cary Elwes,
Gary Oldman, Eric Idle and Don Rickles.
Directed by Frederick Du Chau. Written
by Kirk De Micco and William Schiffrin
and Jacqueline Feather & David Seidler.
Produced by Dalisa Cooper Cohen. A
Warner release. Animated. Rated G. Running
time: 86 min.
"Quest for Camelot" boasts a strong
story, interesting characters and great
music. Based on a book by Vera Chapman,
the movie follows Kayley (voiced by
Jessalyn Gilsig), a young girl in Arthurian
England who longs for adventure. She gets
her chance when Excalibur is stolen by the
Ruber (Gary Oldman), who bears a
evil
striking resemblance to Rocky Horror's
Riff-Raff on steroids. Kayley sets out for
the Forbidden Forest, where she meets a
blind swordsman named Garrett (Cary
Elwes) and a two-headed dragon destined
for comic relief (Eric Idle and Don Rickles,
one voice per head). The film takes the time
to give Kayley and Garrett complex, likable
personalities; the story is thrilling; and the
wonders and terrors of the Forbidden Forest
are exciting. The songs by Carole Bayer
Sager are far above par for an animated
feature, and the background music has an
appealing Celtic note.
The one weak spot in "Quest for
Camelot," is the animation. The backgrounds
are flat and garishly rendered and
the characters move jerkily . Audiences who
can overlook this, however, have a treat on
their hands. Cathy Thompson-Georges
DEEP IMPACT ••1/2
Starring Robert Duvall, Tea Leoni,
Morgan Freeman and Vanessa Redgrave.
Directed by Mimi Leder. Written by Michael
Tolkin and Bruce Joel Rubin. Produced
by Richard D. Zanuck and David
Brown. A Paramount release. Drama.
Rated PG-13 for intense disaster-related
elements and brief language. Running
time: 121 min.
There are two comets on a collisioncourse
with Earth. If they arrive, they will
kill most of the people on the planet. Part
disaster thriller, part emotional drama,
"Deep Impact" examines the human reactions
to imminent extinction.
The plot is divided into two parts: scenes
aboard the space shuttle Messiah, whose
six-member crew has been assigned the task
of destroying the comets or at least knocking
them off course, and then shots among
the general populace on Earth. The space
scenes are fast-paced and well written. But
time drags a bit during the Earth scenes,
when one gets tired of waiting for the inevitable
to happen.
Movies which depict end-of-the-world
scenarios, especially those that take themselves
seriously, should try to resist naming
structures 'The Ark' and gathering animals
"two by two.' And the 'Eden-like' ending is
nauseating.
In summary: self-sacrifice saves the race
while special effects and some good acting
save the movie. Lisa Osborne

—
—
REVIEWS
woo •
Starring Jada Pinkett Smith
and Tommy Davidson. Directed
by Daisy von Scherler
Mayer. Written by David C.
Johnson. Produced by Beth
Hubbard and Michael Hubbard.
A New Line release.
Comedy. Rated R for sexual
content and language. Running
time: 85 min.
Cute and vivacious Jada
Pinkett Smith is the Date From
Hell in a depressingly fake farce
that promises more laughs and
sex than it delivers. Pinkett
Smith plays Woo. a lonely single
girl looking for Mr. Right,
who gets hooked up on a blind
date with a nerd (a vacant
Tommy Davidson). The ensuing
plodess comedy of errors is just
an aimless parade of inane slapstick,
tired jokes and smart-ass
attitude in place of characters.
What characterization there
is consists of weak, stupid men
overpowered by dominant,
predatory women. No attempt
at comic style or timing is evident
in the limp direction by
Daisy von Scherler Mayer
("Party Girl"), probably because
David C. Johnson's moronic
script was hopeless from
the start. Dale Winogura
HOMEGROWN ^^1/2
Starring Billy Bob Thornton
and Hank Azaria. Directed by
Stephen Gyllenhaal. Written
by Nicholas Kazan and Stephen
Gyllenhaal. Produced by
Jason Clark. A Tristar release.
Comedy. Rated Rforpervasive
drug content and language,
andfor some violence and sexuality.
Running time: 100 min.
While "Homegrown" is an enjoyable
film with more on its
"mind than the wacky weed, it
does not have a strong enough
story to propel it to a higher level.
Jack (Billy Bob Thornton).
Carter (Hank Azaria) and Harlan
(Ryan Phillippe) are pot
farmers. During the day they
tend to their beloved crop, and
at night they inhale it. All in all,
it's a pretty lazy existence that
pays well and has nice perks.
But their mellow lives come to
a crashing halt when their boss
Malcolm (John Lithgow) is
killed. Soon, they're introduced
to the business end of drug dealing.
While the money is excellent,
there are drawbacks to
career advancement such as
buying off cops, getting involved
with the mafia, and almost
getting killed. It would be
worth it if the guys weren't
starting to mistrust each other.
Thornton and Azaria are such
engaging performers that even
when Jack and Carter make another
stupid mistake, you find
yourself rooting for their ultimate
success. That they make
so many stupid mistakes and
yet seem to be intelhgent individuals
is the result of the schizophrenic
screenplay. At one turn
a love story between Carter and
Lucy (Kelly Lynch), then a comedy
with Cheech and Chong
overtones, and finally a Tarantino-like
thriller, "Homegrown"
leaves you with an
empty feeling in the pit of your
stomach. Or maybe it's just the
munchies. Kristan Ginther
GO NOW iririr
Starring Robert Carlyle and
Juliet Aubrey. Directed by Michael
Winterbottom. Written
by Paul Henry Powell and
Jimmy McGovern. Produced
by Andrew Eaton. A Gramercy
release. Drama. Unrated.
Running time: 86 min.
"Go Now" is a touching
drama, but not quite touching
enough. Robert Carlyle ("The
Full Monty") gives a strong
performance as Nick, a spirited
Scottish craftsman and soccer
player who thinks life's at its
best: good mates, good fimes
and a good woman. Shortly
after moving in with his new
girlfriend, Karen (Juliet Aubrey),
however, Nick begins
having dizzy spells; a visit to
the doctor reveals he's suffering
from multiple sclerosis.
The subject matter is compel-
Ung, and is realistically played
out. Karen's dilemma is well-depicted;
she loves Nick, but is she
prepared to play nursemaid for
the rest of her Ufe? Nick' s friends
are in a similar conundrum, wondering
how to make Nick continue
to feel accepted despite his
disability. Nick realizes the situation
his loved ones are in, but the
frustrations of his limitations
cause him to lash out regardless.
While the scenario and characters
draw empathy, there's an
emotional distance at which the
audience is kept which prevents
a real connection with the protagonists.
One cause of this is that
true love between Nick and
Karen prior to the discovery of
Nick's illness isn't as solidly established
as seems to be presumed.
A clumsy comic reUef
device of turning onscreen action
into snapshots with marginally
funny captions also intrudes
upon any emotional momentum
that might have been developing.—
Christine James
Review Digest
Genre key: (Ac) Action: (Ad) Adventure; (Ani) Animated; (C) Comedy;
(D) Drama; (Doc) Documentary; (F) Fantasy; (Hor) Horror;
(M) Musical; (My) Mystery; (R) Romance; (Sat) Satire;
(SF) Science Fiction; (Sus) Suspense; (Th) Thriller; (W) Western.
Africa's Elephant
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August September Forthcoming
luslimore. 8/14. Com. Bill Murray. Olivia
Villiams. Jason Scliwartzman. Brian Cox.
)ir: West Anderson.
Thirteenth Warrior (aka Eaters of the Dead), Nov, Adv, SDDS, Scope. Antonio Banderas, Diane
Venora. Dir: John McTiernan. Enemy ol the Stale. Holiday. Will Smith. Gene Hackman.
Dir: Tony Scott. Mighty Joe Young. Dec, Adv/Dra, SDDS, Flat. Bill Paxton, Charlize Theron,
Dir: Ron Underwood. A Bug's Life, Ani, Dir: John Lasseter. A Civil Action. Dra, Flat John
Travolta, William H. Macy, James Gardolfini. Dir: Steve Zaillian. Holy Man. Com. Eddie Murphy.
Jeff Goldblum. Dir: Stephen Herek. My Favorite Martian, Com, Flat. Jeff Daniels, Christopher
Lloyd, Elizabeth Huriey, Ray Walston, Dir: Donald Petrie, The Other Sister, Diane Keaton. Juliette
Lewis, Dir: Gany K. MarshalL
Buena Vista
(818)567-5000
(212)593-8900
tnock Ofl. 8/21. Act, SR, SRD. Jean-Claude
Ian Damme, Rob Schneider, tela Rochon,
'aul Sorvino. Dir; Tsui Hark.
Gloria, Oct, Dra, Sharon Stone, Gena Rowlands, George C. Scott Dir Sidney Lumet. Apt Pupil.
Fall, Dra, R, Ian McKellan, Brad Renfro, Kevin Pollxk, David Schwimmer, Oir: Bryan Singer, The
Deep End ol the Ocean, Fall, Dra, SDDS, SR. Michelle Pteiffer, Treat Williams, Jonathan Jxkson,
Whoopi Goldberg. Dir: Ulu Grosbard. t Still Know (fomierly I Know What You Did Last Summer
2), 11/20, Hor, SDDS, SR. Jennifer Love-Hewitt, Freddy Prinze Jr. Dir: Danny Cannon. Endurance.
Nov. Dir: Wolfgang Petersen. Stepmom. 12/25, Com/Dra. Julia Roberts, Susan Sarandon, Ed Harris.
Dir: Chris Columbus. Eight Millimeter. 1st Qtr '99. SDDS, SR. Nicolas Cage. Joaquin Phoenix.
Dir: Joel Schumacher. Thirteenth Floor, 1st Qtr '99. Vincent D'Onofrio. Baby Geniuses, Com,
SDDS, SR, Kathleen Turner, Kim Cattrall. Dir: Bob Clark.
Columbia
(310)244-4000
(212)833-8500
In Dreams (formerly Untitled Neil Jordan
Project). Dra/Thr. Annette Boning, Robert
Downey Jr., Aidan Quinn, Stephen Rea,
Dir: Neil Jordan.
The Prince ol Egypt, 1 2/1 8, Ani, SR, SRD, Voices: Val Kilmer, Ralph Fiennes. Mrehelle Pfeiffer,
Sandra Bullock, Jeff Goldblum, Steve Martin, Martin Short Patrick Stewart. Dirs: Brenda Chapmari,
Steve Hickner, Simon Wells. Forces of Nature. 2/1 2/99, Ben Affleck Sandra Bullock. Dir:
Bronwen Hughes. Antz, 3/26/99, Ani, Voices: Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Sylvester Stallone,
Gene Hackman, Jennifer Lopez, Danny Glover, Christopher Walken, Dirs: Eric Darnell, Larry
Guterman, Tim Johnson. Road to El Dorado. 1 1/19/99, Ani, Voices: Kevin Kline, Kenneth
Branagh, Rosie Perez, Armand Assanle. Dirs: Will Finn. David Silverman Chicken Run. 2000.
Ani. Dirs: Nick Partt Peter Lord. Shrek, 2000, Ani. Voices: Eddie Murphy. John Lithgow
Kelly Asbury. Andrew Adamson. Also: Neanderthal, After Man, Arkansas, Keeper.
Dirs:
DreamWorks
(818)733-7000
(212)588-6000
Ilsturlilng Behavior. 8/21 , Thr. Katie Holmes,
bmes Marsden. Nick Stahl. Dir: David Nutter.
Velcome to Woop Woop. Com, R, 96 min,
)7S, SR. Johnathon Schaecti. Dir: Stephan
illiott.
One Man's Hero, 9/18 ltd, Dra/Adv. Tom
Berenger. Dir: Lance Hool.
Music From Another Room, Summer, RonVCom, PG-13, 104 min, DTS. Brenda Blethyn, Jude
Uw, Jennifer Tilly, Martha Plimpton. Dir: Chariie Peters. At First Sight, 10/23, Dra, DTS. Val Kilmer,
Mira Sorvino, Nathan Lane, Kelly McGillis, Steven Weber. Dir: Irwin Winkler. Renin, 11/13
Act/Adv. Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone, Stellan Skarsgard, Jonathan Pryce. Dir:
John Frankenheimer. Supernova. 12/18, SF/Thr, DTS. James Spader. Robin Tunney, Wilson Cruz.
Dir: Walter Hill. Fool on the Hill. Winter, Com. Jim Carrey. Carrie 2, 1/15/99, Thr. Amy Irving. Dir:
MGM/UA
(310)449-3000
Robert Mandel. Mod Squad. March '99. Tobey Maguire. Claire Danes. Omar Epps. Dir Scott Silver
Breakers, 1 999. Com, DTS. Molly, 1999, DTS. Bisabeth Shue, Aaron Eckhart. Dir: John Duigan.
Storefront Hitchcock, Doc, PG-13, DTS, SRD. Robyn Hitchcock. Dir: Jonathan Demme.
(212)708-0300
4, 8/7 wide. Ryan Phillippe, Neve Camptiell.
urBud: Golden Receiver. 8/14.
lent Stop, Wonderland, 8/21 NY/UVBos,
xp 8,28 S. 9/4. Hope Davis.
kO: Halloween, 8/28 wide. Her, Jamie Lee
urtis, Charles S. Outton, Michelle Williams,
lir Steve C. Miner.
Strike (formerly The Hairy Bird), 9/4 wide.
Gaby Hoffman, Kirsten Dunst Dir: Sarah
Kernochan,
Rounders, 9/1 1 wide. Matt Damon, Edward
Northon, John Turturro, Dir: John Dahl,
Detroit 9000, 9/18 NY/U, Alex Rocco,
Martha Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence, 10/2 NY/LA Monica Potter, Joseph Fiennes, Rufus
Sewell, The Castle, 10/9 NY/LA, Hard Core Logo, 10/16 NY/U Life Is Beautilul, 10/23 NY/LA.
The Mighty. 10/30 NY/LA, exp 11/6 & 11/13, Sharon Stone, My Son the Fanatic, 11/4. Dm Purl.
Rachel Griffiths, Stellan Skarsgard, Dir: Udayan Prasad. Velvet Goldmine 1111 SR. SRD. Ewan
McGregor, Jonathan Rhys-Myers, Christian Bale. Dir: Todd Haynes Down in the Delta. 11/18
Alfre Woodard. Little Voice, 11/25 NY/LA, 12/25 exp. Ewan McGregor, Shakespeare in Love.
12/4 NY/LA. 12/25 exp. Gwyneth Paltrow. Dancing About Architechire. 12/18 NY/LA. Madeline
Stowe. The Faculty, 12/25, SF. Dir: Robert Rodnguez. Children ol Heaven, 1/22/99 NY/LA,
Mohammad Amir Naji, Dir, Mjid Majidi, Harmony, 2/5fl9, B. Monkey, 1st Qtr '99, Asia Argenio
Miramax
(212)941-3800
(213)951-4200
.ush Hour, 8/28, Act/Com, DTS, SDDS,
R.SRD Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker,
in Brett Ratner.
Blade, 9/25, Thr, 120 min, SR, SRD, SDDS,
Scope. Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kris
Kristotferson, N'Bushe Wright Donal Logue,
Udo Kier Dir: Stephen Norrington,
Living Out Loud (forineriyThe Kiss), 10/16, Rom/Com, R. Danny DeVito, Holly Hunter,
Dir Richard LaGravenese. Pleasantville. 10/23, Com. Jeff Daniels, Joan Allen, Reese
Witherspoon Dir: Gary Ross. American History X, 11/6, Dra, 127 min, SDDS, SR, SRD. Edward
Norton, Edward Furiong, Fairuza Balk. Dir: Tony Kaye Blast From the Past (formerly Looking tor
Eve), 1/15/99 Brendan Eraser, Alicia Silverstone. Din Hugh Wilson The Corrupter Feb '99. Mark
Wahlberg. Chow Yun-Fat. Dir: James Foley. Freddy Versus Jason. Jun '99. Dir Rob Bottin.
Frequency. 1999. Dir: Penny Hariin. The Mask II, 1999. Unless That Someone Is You. 1999.
Untitled Johnny Depp (formerly The Astronaut's Wife), 1999. Johnny Depp, Charlize Theron.
Walter MItty, 1999, Jim Carrey.
New Line
(310)854-5811
(212)649-4900
nake Eyes, 8/7, Thr, SR, SRD. Nicolas Cage,
a/y Sinese, Caria Cugino, John Heard,
in Brian De Palma.
A Night at tlie Roxbuiy, Sep (could move to
Oct), SRD, Will Ferrell, Chris Kattan, Molly
Shannon, Dir: Peter MarMe,
A Simple Plan. 10/2. Bill
Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Bridget Fonda, Dir Sam Raimi,
Election. 10/30. Matthew Broderick. Reese Witherspoon. TTiora Birch. Dir: Alexander Payne.
The Rugrats Movie, 11/25, Ani. Voices: David Spade, E.G. Daly. Dir Igor Kovalyov.
The Out-of-Towners, Dec. Goldie Hawn, Steve Martin, John Cleese, Dir Peter Segal,
Star Trek 9, 1 Z'l 8, SF. Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner Jonathan Frakes, Dir Jonathan Frakes.
Beavis & Butthead 2, 5/28/99, Ani. Dir: Mike Judge,
The General's Daughter Dra. Michael Douglas
Payback (formerly Parker), 8/7, Mel Gibson, David Paymer James Cobum, Dir Brian Helgoland.
200 Cigarettes, Ben Affleck, Courtney Love, Martha Plimpton,
Paramount
(213)956-5000
(212)373-7000
««t Alter (formerly Untitled Cinderella Proja),
8/7, SR, SRD, Scope. Drew Banymore.
njeJica Huston. Dir: Andy Tennant.
A Cool, Dry Place, Dra, SR, SRD, Vmce Vaughn, Monica Potter Joey Lauren Adams, Dir John N, Smith.
How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Fall, Dra, SDDS, SR, SRD. Angela Bassett, Whoopi Goldberg, Regina
King. Dir Kevin Rodney Sullivan. Ghostrideis in the Sky Dm Jan De Bont. The Thin Red Line. Act'Dra
Sean Penn, Ben Chaplin. George Clooney Dir Terrence Malick Untitled Edwanl ZwkA Film Denzel
Washington. Dir: Edward Zwick. Untitled Jonathan Kaplan Film Bill Pullman Dir Jonathan Kapten
Untitled Mike Bartier Rim Alessandro Nivola, Reese Witherspoon. Dm Mike Barker.
20th Century Fox
(310)369-1000
Untitled Mike Judge Film Dir Mike Judge. Untitled Mike Newell Film. John Cusack. Dir Mike Newell.
Untitled Mik:ho ManchevsU Rim. Guy Pearce. Dir MUcho Manchevski. Untitled Sean Conneiy Project.
(212)556-2400
llRB, ^4, Tlir, DTS, SDDS. Jamie Lee Curtis,
Dnald Stithetland, Wiliam Baldwin, Dir: John
One True Thing, SH 8, Dra, DTS. Meryl Streep.
Renee Zellweger, William Hurt Din Carl Franklin,
Rocket Boys, 10/9, DTS,
Bride of Chucky,1(y23,
Meet Joe Black, 11/13, Rom/Ota. Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Claire Foriani, Dir Martin Brest
Babe: Pig in the City, 1 1/25, Fam, DTS. James CromwelL Magda Szubanski, Mickey Rooney,
Dir George Milter
Patch Adams, 12/18. Robin Williams. Dir Tom Shadyac.
Snow Falling on Cedars. Dec, Rom/Dra, DTS, Ethan Hawke. Dir Scott Hk;ks,
Universal
(818)777-1000
(212)759-7500
oigtully Accused, 8/7, DTS, SDDS, SR,
L Leslie Nielsen, Michael York, Richard
mna. Sandra Bernhard. Dir: Pat Proft.
) Avengers, S'l 4, DTS, SDDS, Hat Ralph
mes, Uma Thunnan, Sean Cornery,
Jeremiah Chechik.
< og of Flandeis, 8/14, DTS,John Voight,
•
hard Harris.
Goodbye, Lover, 9/18, R, 115 min, DTS,
SODS, SR, Patricia Arquette, Ellen DeGeneres,
Dermot Mulroney. Dir: Roland Joffe.
Mickey Blue-Eyes. 9/18, DTS, Hugh Grant, James
Caan. Dir KeityMakin.
Matrix. ^25 Keanu Reeves. Laurence Rshbume.
VWIioul Limits, Dra, PG-13, 118 min, DTS,
SDDS, SR. SRD, Scope, Billy Crudup, Dir Robert
Towne.
Practkal Magic, 1 119, DTS. Sandra BuPock, Nkxile Kdman, Dir Griffin Dunne,
Why Do Fools Fall In Love?, 1 (yi6. DTS, SDDS Flat Larenz Tate, Vivica A Fox, Hale Beny,
Leia Rochon. Din Gregory Nava.
SeMler, 10/23, DTS, Scope, Kurt Russell, Jason Scott Lee.
Home Fries, 10/30, Com. Drew Banymore.
Jack Frast, 1 1« Mchael Keaton, Kelly Preston. Dir Toy Miller
Eyes Wide Shut. 1 2/1 . DTS Hat. Tom Cnjise, Nicole Kdman. Dir Stanley Kubrick.
You've Got Mall. 12/18, Rom/Com. Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan. Dir Nora Ephron.
The Wizard ol Oz (reissue), 1 2^5, Message In a Bottle Kevin Costner
Warner Bros.
(818)954-6000
(212)484-8000

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BOXOFFICE Independent Feature Chart JULY 1998
JUNE
Artisan
818-778-3174
I Went Down. Brendan Gleeson.
6/19
Cowboy
212-989-8179
The Beyond (Italy; 1981 reissue),
Hor, 90 min. Dir: Lucio Fulci. 6/12
Dear Jesse, Doc, 82 min. Tim
Kirkman, Jesse Helms. Dir: Tim
Kirkman. 6/1
Fine Line
212-649-4800
Passion in the Desert, Dra, PG,
91 min. Ben Daniels, Michel Piccoli.
Dir: Lavinia Currier. 6/12
NY/LA/Denver
When I Close My Eyes Oapan;
formerly Love Letter, Letters of
Love), Rom/Com, PG, 117 min.
Miho Nakayama. Dir: Shunji
lwai.6/12 NY, 7/1 OLA
Pecker. Edward Furiong, Lili Taylor,
Christina Ricci, Martha
Plimpton. Dir: John Waters.
Fox Searchliglit
310-369-4402
Cousin Bette, Dra, R, 108 min.
Jessica Lange, Elisabeth Shue, Bob
Hoskins. Dir: Des McAnuff. 6/5 ltd
Gramercy
310-385-4400
Land Girls, Dra, R, 115 min.
Gwyneth Paltrow, Rachel Weisz,
Catherine McCormack, Anna
Friel. Dir: David Leiand.
What Rats Won't Do (U.K.),
Rom/Com. Natascha McElhone,
James Frain, Charles Dance. Dir:
Alaistair Reid.
Kit Parker
800-538-5838
Picnic at Hanging Rock
(director's cut; reissue), Dra, 102
min. Dir: Peter Weir. 6/26
Leisure Time/Cinema Village
212-431-5119
Un Air de Famille (aka Family
Resemblances), 107 min. Agnes
Jaoul, Jean-Pierre Bacri. Dir: Cedric
Klapisch. 6/12
Lions Gate
. 212-995-9662
Mr. lealouty. Com, R. Eric Stoltz,
Annabella Sciorra. Dir: Noah
Baumbach. 6/5 NYAA, 6/19 exp
Dream for an Insomniac, R, 87
min. lone Skye, Jennifer Aniston.
Dir: Tiffanie DeBartole. 6/19
Buffalo 66, Dra, 110 min. Vincent
Gallo, Angelica Huston,
Christina Ricci, Ben Cazzara, Dir:
Vincent Gallo. 6/26 NY, 7/10 LA
Northern Arts
413-268-9301
Talk to Me, 6/5
Charlie Hoboken.
October
212-539-4000
High Art, Dra, 101 min. Ally
Sheedy, Radha Mitchell. Dir: Lisa
Cholodenko. 6/1 2 ltd
Phaedra
213-938-9610
Beyond the Realm of the Senses
(Japan), Dra, 85 min. Junko
Miyashita. Dir: Noboru Tanaka.
Wife to be Sacrificed Oapan),
Dra, 80 min. Naomi Tami, Terumi
Azuma. Dir: Masaru Onuma.
Yellow, Com/Dra, 100 min, Soon-
Tek Oh. Dir: Chris Chan Lee.
Shadow
207-872-51 1
Carla's Song (U.K.), RonVDra.
Robert Carlyle, Scott Glenn, Oyanka
Cabezas. Dir: Ken Loach. 6/1 9 NY
Sony Classics
212-833-8851
Henry Fool, Dra, R, 137 min.
Thomas jay Ryan, Parker Posey.
Dir: Hal Hartley. 6/19
Strand
310-395-5002
Voyage to the Beginning of the
World, Dra, 91 min. Marcello
Mastroianni, Jean Yves Gautier.
Dir: Manoel DeOliveira. 6/26 NY
JULY
Artisan
Pi. Sean Gulette. 7/1
NY, 7/1 7 LA
Banner
213-848-7500
Under Heaven, 112 min. Aden
Young, Molly Parker, Joely Richardson.
Dir: Meg Richman. 7/1 7
Fine Line
Theory of Flight. Kenneth
Branagn, Helena Bonham Carter.
Dir: Paul Greengrass,
First Looi(
310-855-1199
Keep the Aspidistra Flying (aka A
Merry War). Richard E. Grant,
Helena Bonham Carter.
Fox Searchlight
Polish Wedding, Ura, iti-l 3. Claire
Danes, GabrielByrne, Lena Olin.
Dir: Theresa Connelly. 7/17 ltd
Kino
212-629-6880
Brother (aka Brat), Dra, 96 min.
Dir: Alexei Balabanov. 7/8
Lions Gate
Gadjo Dilo, Dra, 97 min. Dir:
TonyGatlif. 7/10 NY/LA 7/24 exp
New Yortcer
212-247-6110
Western (France), Com, 1 36 min.
Sergi Lopez. Dir: Manuel Poirier.
7/24 NYAA
Northern Arts
Continuing Adventures of Reptile
Man.
Levitation.
Phaedra
One-Armed Boxer Versus the
Flying Guillotine (Hong Kong; restored
version). Act, 90 min.
Dir/Star: Jimmy Wang Yu.
Roja (India), Rom/Mus, 137 min.
Arvind Swamy, Madhoo. Dir:
Mani Rathnam.
Planet
212-691-0770
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender,
Doc, 1 00 min. Dan Butler.
Dir: Mark Rappaport.
Riaito
213-933-2733
Nights of Cabiria (reissue), Dra,
119 min. Giulietta Masina. Dir:
Federico Fellini. 7/1
Sony Classics
Marie Bale des Anges, Dra, R, 90
min. Frederic Malgras, Vahina
Giocante. Dir: Manuel Pradal. 7/10
Whatever, Dra, 112 min. Liza
Weil, Chad Morgan, Frederic Forrest.
Dir: Susan Skoog. 7/10
Governess, Dra, R, 1 14 min. Minnie
Driver, Tom Wilkinson. Dir:
Sandra Goldbacher. 7/31
Strand
East Palace, West Palace, Dra, 90
min. Si Han. Dir: Zhang Yuan.
Stratosphere
212-605-1010
The Thief, Dra. Vladimir
Mashkov, Ekmaterina Rednikova.
Dir: Pavel Chukhrai. 7/17
Trimaric
310-314-3040
Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss.
Sean P. Hayes, Brad Rowe, Meredith
Scott Lynn. Dir: Tommy O'Haver.
Zeitgeist
212-274-1989
The Saltmen of Tibet fSwteerland).
Doc, 110 min. Dir: Lllrike
Koch. 7/22 NY
Seventh Heaven (France), Dra, 91
min. Sandrine Kiberlain, Vincent
Lindon. Dir: Benoit Jacquot. 7/31 NY
AUGUST
Artisan
Permanent Midnight. Ben Stiller,
Elizabeth Hurley. 8/7 NY
Frogs for Snakes. Barbara
Hersney. Dir: Amos Roe.
Fine Line
Esmeralda Comes by Night (Mexico),
Com. Maria Rojo, Dir: Jamie
HumbertoHcTmosilk). H/21 NY/LA
First Look
Marcello Mastroianni—I Remember.
Dir: Anna Maria Tato.
First Run
212-243-0600
Like It Is, Dra.
Fox Searchlight
slums of Beverly Hills, R.AlanArkin,
Marisa Tomei, Dir: Tamara Jenkins.
Gramercy
Clay Pigeons. Vince Vaughn, Joaquin
Phoenix, Janeane Garofalo.
Dir: David Dobkin. 8/14
Your Friends and Neighbors.
Jason Patric, Aaron Eckhart, Ben
Stiller, Nastassja Kinski, Catherine
Keener. Dir: Neil Labute. 8/28
213-467-3700
Hands on a Hardbody, Doc.
Lions Gate
I Married a Strange Person, Ani,
72 min. Dir: Bill Plympton.
October
The Best Man, Dra, 1 00 min. Diego
Abantanuono. Dir: Pupi Avati.
Orgazmo, Com, 95 min. Dir/Star:
Trey Parker.
Palm
312-751-0020
Art Gallery Animation, Ani/Anth.
Phaedra
La Separation (France), Dra, 82
min. Isabelle Huppert, Daniel Auteuil.
Dir: Christian Vincent.
Metal Skin (Australia), Dra/Thr,
100 min. Tara Morice, Aden
Young. Dir: Geoffrey Wright.
Strand
Modulations, Doc. Dir: lara Lee.
Trimark
Cube, 90 min. Nicole de Boer,
Nicky Guadagni, David Hewlett.
Dir: Vincenzo Natali.
Zeitgeist
See the Sea (France; with short A
Summer Dress), Dra, 67 min. See
the Sea : Sasha Hails, Mari na de Von;
A Summer Dress: Frederic Mangenot.
Dir: Francois Ozon. a^S NY
SEPTEMBER
Artisan
Open Your Eyes. 9/1 8 NY
Strangeland. ElizaL>eth Pena, Dee
Snider. Dir: John Pipelow.
Castle Hill
212-888-0080
Chicago Cab, Dra, 96 min. Gillian
Anderson, John Cusack, Paul
Dillon, Laurie Metcalf, Julianne
Moore. Dir: Mary Cybulski &
John Tintori. Sept; regional rollout
continues into October
Fox Searchlight
20 Dates. Mylc. licrkowitz, Tia
Carrera, Richard Arlook. Dir:
Myles Berkowitz. 9/25 ltd

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Gramercy
I Want You, Rom/Dra. Rachel
Weisz, Alessandro Nivola. Dir:
Michael Winterbottom.
October
Touch of Evil (40th anni. re-release).
Dir/Star: Orson Welles.
Palm
Six-String Samurai, SF/Act, 90
min. Jeffrey Falcon, Justin Mc-
Guire. Dir: Lance Mungia. 9/25
Phaedra
A Little Bit of Soul (Australia),
Com, 90 min. Geoffrey Rush, Frances
O'Connor. Dir: Peter Duncan.
Strand
Dry Cleaning (France), Dra.
Miou-Miou. Dir: Anne Fontaine.
Jeanne and the Perfect Guy
(France), Mus, 95 min. Virgine
Lectayen, Mathieu Demy. Dire: Olivier
DuCastel, Jacques Martineau.
Stratosphere
The Last Big Thing. Dan Zukovic.
NY/LA
Six Ways to Sunday. NY/LA
OCTOBER
Artisan
24 Hour Woman. Rosie Perez,
Marianne Jean-Baptiste.
Bumblebee Flies. Elijah Wood.
Dir: Martin Duffy.
Fox Searchlight
The Impostors iformerly Ship of
Fools), Dra/Com. Tony Shalhoub,
Stanley Tucci, Campbell Scott,
Isabella Rossellini, Steve
Buscemi, Oliver Piatt, Lili Taylor.
Dir: Stanley Tucci. 10/9
Gramercy
Plunkett & Macleane, Act/Adv.
Robert Cariyle, Liv Tyler, Jonny
Lee Miller. Dir: Jake Scott.
Legacy
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,
Ani. Voices: John Goodman,
Debbie Reynolds, Whoopi
Goldberg. 1 0/1 6 ltd
Leisure Time/Cinema Village
Cartoon Noir, Ani, 85 min.
Lions Gate
Blood, Guts, Bullets & Octane.
Dir/Star: Joe Carnahan.
Palm
Razor Blade Smile, Hor. Dir: Jake
West.
Polygram
310-385-4000
What Dreams May Come. Robin
Williams, Annabella Sciorra,
Cuba Gooding Jr,, Max Von
Sydow. Dir: Vincent Ward.
Shadow
Port Djema (France), Adv/Dra, 97
min. Dir: Eric Heumann.
Sony Classics
Central Station, Dra, R, 1 1 5 min.
Fernanda Montenegro, Marilia
Pera. Dir: Walter Salles. 10/9
Strand
Love Is the Devil, Dra, 90 min.
Derek Jacobi, Tilda Swinton. Dir:
John Maybury.
Stratosphere
One Tough Cop, Dra. Stephen
Baldwin, Mike McGlone, Chris
Penn. Dir: Bruno Barreto. 10/2
Hideous Kinky (tentative title),
Dra. Kate Winslet. Dir: Gillies
Mackinnon. 10/23
Trlmark
Michael Almereyda's The Mummy,
Hor, R. Alison Elliot, Jared
Harris, Christopher Walken. Dir:
Michael Almereyda. 10/30
NOVEMBER
Fox Searchlight
Among Giants. Rachel Griffiths,
Pete Postlethwaite. Dir: Sam
Miller. n/20ltd
Gramercy
The Hi-Lo Country. Woody
Harrelson, Billy Crudup. Dir: Stephen
Frears.
Sony Classics
Dancing at Lughnasa, Dra, 94
min. Meryl Streep, Brid Brennan,
Catherine McCormack, Michael
Gambon. Dir: Pat O'Connor. 11/13
Stratosphere
The One-Seventh Farmers (tentative
title). NY/LA
DECEMBER
Artisan
Don't Shoot 'Til We Get to Flagstaff.
Rosanna Arquette. Dir: Carrie
Blank.
Time on Fire. Dir; Rob Morrow.
Gramercy
Elizabeth I, Dra. Geoffrey Rush,
Gate Blanchett. Dir: Shekhar Kapur.
Polygram
Notting Hill. Juha Roberts, Hugh
Grant. Dir: Roger Michell.
FORTHCOMING
Artificial Eye
212-255-1922
A Summer's Tale (France; 1 996),
Rom/Com, 113 min. Melvil Poupaud,
Amanda Langlet, Aurelia
Nolin. Dir: Eric Rohmer. Summer
Happiness. Michel Serrault. Fall
The Mother and the Whore
(France; 1973 reissue), Dra, 215
min. Jean-Pierre Leaud, Francoise
Lebrun. Dir: Jean Eustache.
Beyond the Clouds (France/
Italy/Germany; 1995), Dra, 113
min. John Malkovich, Sophie
Marceau, Peter Weller, Fanny
Ardant, Jean Reno, Irene Jacob,
Vincent Perez. Dir: Michelangelo
Antonioni.
Artisan
The Second Arrival, SF, R. Patrick
Muldoon. Dir: Kevin Tenny.
The Substitute 2: School's Out, R.
Treat Williams. Dir: Steven Pearl.
Cowboy
The Mirror (Iran), 95 min. Dir:
Jafar Panahi. Fall
Discovery
301-986-1999
Africa's Elephant Kingdom, Doc.
Fine Line
Girl Talk, Dra/Com, R. Dir/Star:
Troy Beyer.
The Legend of the Pianist on the
Ocean, Dra. Tim Roth, Pruitt Taylor
Vince, Clarence Williams III.
Dir: Giuseppe Tornatore.
First Look
Alegria, Dra. Frank Langella, Julie
Cox, Rene Bazinet, Heathcote
Williams. Dir: Franco Dragone.
Illuminata, Rom/Com. John
Turturro, Susan Sarandon, Christopher
Walken, Rufus Sewell,
Ben Gazzara. Dir: John Turturro.
The Other Side of Sunday (Norway),
Dra, 104 min. Maria Theisen.
Dir: Berit Nesheim.
Waking Ned, Com.
Fox Searchlight
Hard Men (U.K.), Dra. Vincent
Regan. Dir: J.K. Amalou.
Gramercy
Dad Savage. Patrick Stewart. Dir:
Betsan Morris-Evans.
Resurrection Man. Stuart
Townsend, James Nesbitt, Brenda
Fricker. Dir: Marc Evans. Fall
Thursday. Thomas Jane, Aaron
Eckhart, Mickey Rourke, Glenn
Plummer. Dir: Skip Woods.
IMAX
905-403-6500
Mission to Mir, Doc.
Kit Parker
Kristin Lavrandsdatter (Norway),
Dra, 144 min. Linus Aaberg,
Gisken Armand. Dir: Liv Ullmann.
Single Action (Spanish-language),
Act, 82 min. Dir/Star: Carlos
Gallardo.
Lions Gate
Empty Mirror, Dra. Norman
Rodway, Joel Grey. Dir: Barry
Hershey. Summer
Killing Time, R. Craig Fairbrass,
Kendra Torgan. Dir: Bharat Nalluri.
Metroland, Dra, 99 min. Christian
Bale, Emily Watson, Lee
Ross, Elsa Zylberstein. Dir: Philip
Saville. Fall/Winter
October
Condo Painting, Doc. George Condo.
Dir: John McNaughton. Fall
Happiness, Dra. Ben Gazzara,
Jane Adams, Lara Flynn Boyle.
Dir: Todd Solondz. Fall
The Naked Man, Com. Michael
Rapaport, Rachael Leigh Cook.
Dir: J. Todd Anderson. Fall
A Soldier's Daughter Never
Cries. Nick Nolte, Barbara
Hershey, Kris Kristofferson. Dir:
James F. Ivory. Fall
Three Seasons, Dra. Harvey Keitel,
Kathleen Luong. Dir: Tony
Bui. Fall
Palm
The Bible and Gun Club, 87 min.
Dir: Daniel J. Harris.
Polygram
All for One (formerly Force Majeure).
Vince Vaughn, Anne
Heche, Joaquin Phoenix, Jada
Pinkett. Dir: Joseph Ruben. Fall
Arlington Road. Jeff Bridges, Tim
Robbins, Joan Cusack, Hope
Davis, Mason Gamble. Fall
Where the Money Is. Dir: Marek
Kaniesvska. Fall
Seventh Art
213-845-1455
Honey and Ashes, Dra, 85 min.
Nozha Khovadra, Amel Samia,
Ledhili Mzali. Dir: Nadia Fares.
Late spring
Things I Never Told You. Andrew
McCarthy, Lili Taylor, Seymour
Cassel, Alexis Arquette. Dir: Isabel
Coixet.
Sony Classics
Assassin, Dra. Gong Li, Li Xuejian,
Zhang Fengyi, Sun Zhou. Dir:
Chen Kaige. Christmas
Strand
First Love, Last Rites, Dra, 92 min.
Giovanni Ribisi, Natasha Gregson.
Dir: Jesse Peretz. Early August
La Sentinelle (France), Thr, 144
min. Emmanuel Salinger. Dir:
Arnaud Desplechin. Fall
Stratosphere
Bandits. Katja Riemann, Jasmin
Tabatabi. Dir: Katja Von Gamier.
Divine Trash, Doc. John Waters.
Dir: Steve Yeager.
Trimark
The Man With Rain in His Shoes.
Lena Headey, Douglas Henshall,
Penelope Cruz. Dir: Maria Ripoli.
Slam, Dra. Saul Williams, Sonja
Sohn. Dir: Marc Levin. Fall
Perdita Durango. Rosie Perez,
Javier Bardem. Dir: Alex de la
Iglesia. 1st-qtr'99
Frida. Salma Hayek. Dir: Roberto
Sneider. Fall '99
Carnival of Souls. Bobbie Phillips,
Larry Miller, Shawnee Smith.
Dir: Adam Grossman. 1999
TSG/Shootlng Gallery
212-243-3042
illtown, Dra, R, 97 min. Michael
Rapaport, Lili Taylor, Adam
Trese, Tony Danza, Isaac Hayes.
Dir: Nick Gomez.

MovieFtone's Moviegoer
Activity Report
for the month of April 1998
brought to you by BOXOFFICE Magazine
MovieFone^ (777-FILM®) and its sister service, MovieLink^ Online, are the single largest source ofmovie showtime information in the country,
providing information to over 12 million moviegoers each month. Tlic following information represents the most requested theatres and exhibitors on MovieFone.
Top 10 Exhibitors & Theatres
Rank
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Most Reauested Exhibitors
Exhibitor
AMC
United Artists
Cineplex Odeon
Sony
General Cinemas
Regal
Century
Harkins
Cinemark
National Amusements
TQtaj_Reguuts
766,897
759,767
725,273
609,398
377.096
270,423
221,690
205,935
171,206
154,733
Last Montli's
Raalt
2
3
1
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
Most Requested Theatres
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Last Montli's
Rank Market Theatre Total Requests Rank
1
2
NY
LA
Sony Lincoln Square
AMC Century 14
73,795
38,432
1
8
3 BO SonyCtieri 30,550 12
4 PH UA Ctieltentiam 28,367 26
5 NY CO Worldwide 27,597 7
6 PX Hark Arizona Mills 24 27,453 18
7 NY CityCin Village East 26,948 15
8 NY Sony Village 7 26,805 2
9 NY CO Ctielsea Cinemas 26,673 3
10 Ml Regal Palace 18 25.865 19
IMal
Requests
New York
1,296,065
Los Angeles
715,527
Dallas
502,065
San Francisco
357,575
Miami
355,194
Phoenix
353,621
Philadelphia
317,530
Chicago
291,341
Boston
272^78
Toronto
222,500
Houston
173,175
San Olego
129,694
Rank
Theatre (# saeens)
Sony Astor Plaza (1)
Sony Tower East (1)
CO Park & 86th (2)
Most Requested Theatres Per Screen
Total
Requests
8,457
6,834
12,101
Pacific Cinerama Dome (1) 5,844
Mann Village, Bruin, & Reg. (3) 14,446
Five Star Los Feliz(l) 4,319
AMC Forum (6) 13,884
UA Town East (6) 8,164
AMC Sundance (11) 1 7,382
UA Coronet (1) 7,668
BIm Regency (1) 4,785
UA Stonetown Twin (2) 8,611
Regal California Club (6) 12,238
AMC Kendall T&C (10) 18,264
Regal Kendall (9) 15,612
Hark Bell Tower (8) 16,150
Hark Bell Towne Centre (8) 14,048
Hark Paradise Valley Mall (7) 12,134
UASameric(4) 21,223
UA Cheltenham (8) 28,367
Cinemagic 3 at Penn (3) 10,119
CO Broadway (1) 3,309
Village North (1) 3,105
Sony Webster Place (8) 1 5,235
BMofSOmni(l) 20,792
Sony Cheri (4) 30,550
Sony Nickelodeon (5) 14.742
Famous Eglinton (1) 3,228
CO Erin Mills Twn Ctr (5) 1 1 ,993
Famous Yorkdale (6) 12,392
Sony Southpoint Fiveplex (5) 5,240
GOG Point Nasa (6) 6,073
GOG Meyerland (8) 6,517
Pacific Sweetwater (6) 5,297
Mann Grove (9) 6,655
Pacific Grossmont Trolley (8)5,418
Top 3 Acthrely* Requested Theatres:
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ADVERTISER INDEX
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
AM/COMM Systems Inc 128
American Licorice Co 35
Australian Movie Convention 87
Automaticket/Hurtey Screen Corp 88
Birtcher Construction Services 97
CFS/Rentec 45
CPI (Cinema Products Intl.) 107
Caddy Products 102
Ctiristie Inc C-2
Cinema Cleaning Systems 63
Cinema Consultants & Services 92
Cinema Equipment Inc 99
Cinema Equipment Sales of CA 103
Cinema Services 98
Cinema Supply Co. Inc 88
Cinevision Corp 79
Cline Enterprise Inc 110
Colgate-Palmolive Company 21
Component Engineering 91
Cy Young Industries Inc 1 09
DTS (Digital Theater Systems) 13
Daily Variety 27
DeClercq's Theatrical Specialties, Inc. . . . 119
Deep Vision 3-D 131
Dolby Laboratories Inc 3
EAW Audio 47
EIMS Inc 65
Eastman Kodak Co 93
Edifice Inc 56
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Entertainment Equipment 96
Equipment, Etc 131
FlavorWear 98
Glassform 23
Gold Medal Products Co 19
Hadden Theatre Supply Co
Ill
Haven Technologies 121
International Cinema Equipment Co 81
JBL Professional 7
Jani-Source 133
Jarco Industries Inc 59
Kinetics Noise Control 11
Kneisley Electric Corp 109
Largo Construction 108
Lavi Industries 73
Lawrence Metal Products 63
MEGAsystems/Hi-Tech Motion Picture . . 69
Machine O'Matic 37
Mag North 108
Manutech 94
Marble Co 128
Maroevich, O'Shea & Coghlan 119
Mars Theatre Management Systems ... 89
McRae Theatre Equipment 130
Mission Crane Service Inc 71
NCS Corp 85
National Cinema Service Corp 106
National Ticket Co
Ill
Nick Mulone & Son Inc 88
ORC Lighting Products 49
Odell's 117
PANASTEREO Inc C-3
Pacer/Cats 86
Peavey Electronics Corp 43
Permlight Inc 83
Pike Productions 95
Pot O'Gold Productions, Inc 119
Potts, Robert L. Enterprises 121
Proctor Companies 16
Promotion in Motion Companies 33
RDS Data Group Inc 105
Ready Theatre Systems 88
Reel Automation 51
Reynolds & Reynolds Inc 77
Rioos Manufacturing Co 53
Robinson/Kirshbaum Industries Inc 113
SMART Theatre Systems 61
SPECO (Sys. & Prod. Eng. Co.) 55
Schneider Optics 17
Sega GameWorks L.L.C 39
Sensible Cinema Software 133
Server Products Inc 75
ShowSouth/NATO of Georgia 104
Smart Products Inc 41
Stein Industries Inc C-4
Strong International 15
System Operating Solutions 133
TVP Theatre & Video Products 96
Technikote Corp 121
Texas Theatre Supply 110
Theatre Service Network Inc 23
Ticketpro Ticketing Systems 26
Tootsie Roll Industries Inc 9
USL Inc 67
Unique Screen Ad Productions 57
Wolk, Edw. H. Inc 86
XtraCash ATM Inc 29
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HELP WANTED
DIRECTOR CONCESSION OPERATIONS. Successful concessionaire
based near San Francisco seeks an experienced
Director of Concessions. Oversee 90 theatres with 450
screens, seven direct reports and six indirect reports. Experience
must include management and purchasing. Send resume
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MANAGEMENT OPPORTUNITIES—General Cinema Theatres,
a nationally recognized theatre circuit, is seeking customer
service oriented management personnel for all regions
of the country. If you have current theatre or retail experience
and would like a career opportunity, send your resume to:
Operations Director. General Cinema Theatres. 21650 Oxnard
Street, Suite 1 950, Woodland Hills, CA 91 367 or lax (81 8)
598-4778.
MANAGER AND MANAGEMENT TRAINEE positions are
available. We are people-oriented and believe that excellent
customer service and state-of-the-art technology are the keys
to success in the movie theatre/swap meet industry. We offer
a wide variety of benefits, competitive salaries and opportunities
for professional growth. Join our team as we expand in
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and beyond. If you are looking for growth and opportunity
and have the enthusiasm and the ability to manage/motivate
people, now is the time to let us hear from you! Theatre/Swap
or other management experience required and some college
helpful. Send your cover letter, salary history and resume to:
Century Theatres, Inc., Attn; HR Dept.^ob Code I^GR0398,
150 Pelican Way, San Rafael, CA 94901
MANAGERS. San Jose, Los Gatos. Monterey. California.
Independent cinemas. Growth potential. Salary/benefits. Experience
required. Send resume and salary requirements:
James Zuur, Camera Cinemas, P.O. Box 720728, San Jose,
CA 95172-0728.
MIDWEST BASED company seeks experienced managers,
assistants and sound and projection service person. We are
growing throughout the Midwest and are seeking individuals
who are able to rise to the challenges and are leaders. Relocation
may be necessary. Send resume and salary requirements
to: ShoPro Inc.. Attn: Director of Operations, P.O. Box
1 90, Yorkville.lL 60560.
ABOUT OUR COVER ARTIST...
Pamela Easter was bom in Portland, Maine, but she has spent most of her life residing in Southern
California, the past five years in Santa Monica. Easter has wortted for nearty 20 years as a designer and
art director on film and TV properties for Disney, Fox and Marvel.
Sfie now enjoys spending her time exploring her own work and Is a "diehard supporter" of the local art
scene. "Nothing frees my spirit more than the process of painting," Easter says. "I find a real tieauty In the
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SALES REPRESENTATIVE. Seeking an experienced salesperson
with strong leadership and marketing skills to join our
fast-growing company. Work with existing clients to oversee
new construction and remodel concession casework and
equipment projects. Requires demonstrated communication,
sales and project management skills. A minimum of five years'
experience is required within the theatre Industry, preferably
with construction-specific experience. Excellent company
benefits. Relocation to the Denver area is required. Respond
with resume, salary requirements and letter to: Proctor Companies
c/o Human Resources, 1 0497 Centennial Rd., Littleton,
CO 801 27 or via lax (303) 973-8989.
SEEKING DEVELOPER for Fox Theatre in historic downtown
Fullerton, CA. 1 925 Meyer & Holler, architects of Egyptian and
Grauman's Chinese. Hollywood. Great location—4 miles from
Disneyland. 20,000+ sf; 950 seats. Original vaudeville stage,
movie house, retail space. Redevelopment monies available.
Call Katie (714) 525-6668 or Dave (714) 447-8568
THEATRE MANAGEMENT OPPORTUNITY: Wallace Theatres,
a nationally recognized regional theatre circuit, is seeking
outstanding theatre management professionals to join our
rapidly-growing organization as General Managers. If you are
a team player, enjoy working with the public and are seeking
a career and a future in the motion picture exhibition industry,
send your resume to: Personnel Director. Wallace Theatre
Corp.. 3375 Koapaka St.. Suite 345, Honolulu, HI 96819.
EQUIPMENT FOR SALE
ACOUSTIC SOUND PANELS & CUSTOM WALL DRAPER-
IES available in tiameproofed colors and (abncs. artistk; or
CINEMA CONSULTANTS & SERVICES INTERNA-
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TIONAL INC.. P.O Box 9672, Pittsburgh, PA 15226. Phono
(412) 343-3900: Fax (412) 343-2992.

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ANTIQUE PROJECTOR FOR SALE. 35mm Holmes movie
projector (portable type). No sound. 1 incti reels. 1 ,000 watts.
For use with slow burning film. Fair condition. $650. Please
call (818) 788-7563.
BURLAP WALL COVERING DRAPES: $2 05 per yard, flame
retardant. Quantity discounts. Nurse & Co.. Old Millbury Rd.,
Oxford. MA 01 540 (508) 832-4295.
COMPLETE THEATRE EQUIPMENT: (New. Used or Rebuilt)
Century SA. R#. RCA 9030. 1 040. 1 050 Platters: 2 and 5 Tier.
Xenon Systems 1000-4000 Watt. Sound Systems mono and
stereo, automations, ticket machines, curtain motors, electric
rewinds, lenses, large screen video projectors. Plenty of used
chairs. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND INSTALLATION
AVAILABLE DOLBY CERTIFIED. Call Bill Younger. Cinema
Equipment. Inc.. 1375 N.W. 97th Ave.. Suite 14. Miami. FL
33172. Phone (305) 594-0570. Fax (305) 592-6970. 1-800-
848-8886.
CRETORS POPCORN MACHINES: 6 Diplomats $2,500
each. 5' Stadium popper $3,500. All clean, tested, and in good
working order. Ready for installation. Call or fax (770) 997-
3005.
CUPHOLDER ARMREST. "State of the an." Call Cy Young
Industries Inc. (800) 729-2610.
MICRO-FM'" STEREO RADIO Sound Systems for Drive-ln
Theatres. Meets FCC part 1 5. Static free. Available soon: low
cost Micro-FM-jr. For the hearing impaired. Call or write:
AUDIO VISUAL SYSTEMS & ENG.. 320 St. Louis Ave.,
Woonsocket, Rl 02895. Phone (401) 767-2080; Fax (401)
767-2081.
PATRON TRAY. Fits into cupholder amirest. Call Cy Young
Industries Inc. at 800-729-2610.
PROJECTION LENSES. Super Sankor. 3.5 inch. F=1.9 pair
$300.00. Great condition. (805) 966-0707.
REBUILT CENTURY SA & R3 projector/soundhead $4250.
Simplex XL $4450. Xenon lamps, platters, many lenses, excellent
line of other used projection and sound equipment.
TANKERSLEY ENTERPRISES, P.O. Box 36009. Denver. CO
80227. Phone (303) 716-0884; fax (303) 716-0889.
TABLET TRAYS. Fits into all cupholder armrests. Used in
multi-purpose theatres, bingo, etc. Call Cy Young Industries
Inc. 31800-729-2610.
TELEPHONE ANSWERING EQUIPMENT. All major brands
of reliable, heavy-duty tape announcers and digital announcers
are available at discounted prices. Please call Jim at
Answering Machine Specialty. (800) 222-7773.
USED EQUIPMENT FOR SALE: Projectors, prewired stereo
racks, platters, lamps, etc. Ask about our financing program.
Premier Seating Co. Inc.. (888) 456-SEAT, fax (410) 686-
6060. e-mail: pseating@aol.com.
USED PROJECTION EQUIPMENT: Replacement equipment.
single or multi booths available. Please call if you are
purchasing or selling. CINEMA CONSULTANTS & SER-
VICES INTERNATIONAL INC.. P.O. Box 9672. Pittsburgh. PA
15226. Phone (412) 343-3900, Fax (412) 343-2992.
WILL TRADE: YOUR THEATRE SEATS FOR OUR USED
THEATRE EQUIPMENT. Great condition at great prices. Platters,
projectors, lamphouses, complete prewired stereo racks
and much, much more. Premier Seating Co. Inc., (888) 456-
SEAT, fax (410) 686-6060, e-mail; pseatingeaol.com.
EQUIPMENT WANTED
EQUIPMENT/SEATING—Looking for all types of used projection
equipment/theatre seating. Best prices paid. Call (802)
775-4915 or fax (802) 775-6943.
PURCHASE OR TRADE: For your used theatre equipment,
concession equipment, theatre seats. Ask about our storage
facilities and ourfinancing program. Premier Seating Co. Inc..
(888) 456-SEAT. fax (410) 686-6060, e-mail; pseating@aol.com.
VINTAGE TUBE TYPE AMPS, woofers, drivers, horns, parts,
from Western Electric, Westrex, Altec. Jensen, JBL. EV. Tannoy.
Mcintosh. Marantz. Phone David at (626) 441 -3942. P.O.
Box 80371 . MaririO. CA 91 1 1 8-8371
WANTED: Cinemeccanica tower film delivery system. Please
contact Brent Coleman. (801)621-6166.
WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE: We will purchase Century projectors
or soundheads, new or old, complete or incomplete, for
cash. Also interested in XL and SH-1 000. Call (502) 499-0050.
Fax (502) 499-0052. Madden Theatre Supply Co.. attn. Louis.
WE WILL BUY OR TRADE for used/new equipment on any
projector/soundhead/platter/lamphouse/console/speakers/
lens and concession equipment. We can remove or pick up
anywhere in the U.S. or overseas. TANKERSLEY ENTER-
PRISES. P.O. Box 36009. Denver. CO 80227. Phone (303)
716-0884; fax (303) 716-0889.
WE WILL PURCHASE your used theatre equipment. Consignments,
outright purchases, trades, what have you? There
is only one INTERNATIONAL CINEMA EQUIPMENT COM-
PANY at one location in the USA. (305) 573-7339. Fax (305)
573-8101
. Website; httpV/www.iceco.com.
SOFTWARE
TICKETING SOFTWARE for IBM-PC. Complete software
package designed for independents and small circuits. Point-
Of-Sale ticketing for 1 -1 2 movies with daily and weekly reporting
system. Now in use at over 60 theatre locations in the U.S.
Use your own IBM compatible. We have inexpensive thermal
pririters. automated cash drawers arid pole displays. Software
from $399. Printers from $499. Call (61 5) 790-7797 for free
demo or download now on our website at sensiblednemacom.
THEATRES FOR SALE/LEASE
LIVE IN GOD'S COUNTRY. Established movie theatre in Ely.
MN—heart of canoe country. Area benefitting from expanding
tourism. Reduced to $95k for quick sale. Kangas Realty, (21 8)
365-3236.
OPERATING GULF COAST twin cinemas. 450 seats—also
extra equipment—projectors/seats/etc. Call (228) 762-8773.
THEATRES WANTED
WANTED TO LEASE OR PURCHASE: Open or closed Driveln
theatres. Eastem half of U.S.. Canada considered. Please
respond to Boxoffice Response Number 4739.
DRIVE-IN CONSTRUCTION
DRIVE-IN SCREEN TOWERS Since 1945 Selby Products.
Inc.. P.O. Box 267. Richfield. Ohio 44286 (330) 659-6631.
800-647-6224.
THEATRE SEATING
"ALL AMERICAN SEATING" by the EXPERTS. Used seats
of quality. Various makes. American Stellars from $12.50 to
$32.50. Inwins from $20.00 to $40.00. Heywood & Massey
rockers from $40.00. Full rebuilding available. New American
Desk chairs from $85.00. All types of theatre projection and
sound equipment. New and used. We ship and install all
makes. Try us! We sell no junk! TANKERSLEY ENTER-
PRISES, P.O. Box 36009, Denver, CO 80236. Phone (303)
716-0884; fax (303) 716-0889.
ALLSTATE SEATING is a company that is specializing in
refurbishing, complete painting, molded foam, tailor-made
seat covers, installations, removals. Please call for pricing and
spare parts for all types of theatre seating. Boston. MA. Phone
(617) 268-2221 . (617) 268-701 1
AUOrrORIUM SEATING SPECIALIST. New installations, rebuilds,
repairs and reasonable rates. Bob. (970) 224-1147.
Perfection Seating Inc.. 295 Lone Pine Creek Drive, Red
Feather Lakes, CO 80545.
"BOOSTER B. SAURUS" 170 Child booster seats. Call Cy
Young Industries Inc. at 800-729-2610.
CHILD BOOSTER SEATS: Molded plastic, large quantity in
stock, multiple colors available, will not deteriorate like booster
bags. Premier Seating Co. Inc., (888) 456-SEAT, fax (410)
686-6060, e-mail; pseating@aol.com.
FINALLY, AN ALTERNATIVE TO ON-SITE UPHOLSTERY:
Call us about our new upholstered backs and cushions by mail
program. More cost-efficient than on-site upholsterers, fast
tum-around, quality controlled in our 40,000 sq. ft. state-of-theart
factory. Premier Seating Co. Inc.. (888) 456-SEAT. fax
(410) 686-6060, e-mail; pseating@aol.com.
ON-SITE UPHOLSTERY and replacement covers. Parts
available for many chairs. Our "Bakers Dozen" gives you 1
covers for the cost of 1 2. Nationwide service. Free samples
made up. Call Complete Industries for pricing. (800) 252-6837.
SEAT AND BACK COVERS; Most fabrics in
cushions. Cy Young Industries Inc.. 800-729-2610.
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stock. Molded
SEAT FOAMS: All makes/all models, fast tum-around. Premier
Seating Co. Inc., (888) 456-SEAT, fax (410) 686-6060,
e-mail; pseating@aol.com.
SEATS CLEANED on site, $1 .56-$2.36 per seat (coast to
coast). Call (800) 879-231 1 , 24 hours, for brochure and information.
The Carpet Cleaner. P.O. Box 154. Osceola, MO
64776.
THEATRE SEAT AND BACK COVERS: Large in-stock fabric
inventory, fast turn-around, competitive pricing at any quantity.
Premier Seating Co. Inc.. (888) 456-SEAT, fax (410) 686-
6060, e-mail: pseating@aol.com.
THEATRE CHAIRS—new & used, $7.50 up, 10,000 used
chairs in stock. Seat covers, all colors. $3.50 and up. Hayes
Equipment (407) 857-6810.
THEATRE SEAT RECONDPTIONING: Total or partial theatre
seat restoration in our 40.000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art factory,
featuring sandblasting, powder-coating, and in-house upholstering.
Restore your seats or purchase from our inventory.
Ask about our in-house financing program. Premier Seating
Co. Inc., (888) 456-SEAT, fax (410) 686-6060, e-mail: pseating@aol.com.
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< Has immediate positions available
for experienced theatre managers.
< We need self-starters with excellent
leadership skills who are willing to
relocate. Regal offers an excellent
benefit and performance bonus
package. Salary commensurate with
experience. Please send cover letter,
resume &. references to;
H 7 132Commercial Park Drive
KnoxvillcTN 37918
c/o Management Opportunity
THEATRE SEATS WANTED: Will buyArade for surplus and
unwanted theatre seats, all makes and models. Premier Seating
Co. Inc., (888) 456-SEAT, fax (410) 686-6060, e-mail:
pseating@aol.com.
USED AUDfTORIUM CHAIRS: Choose from a large selection
of different makes and models and colors. American Stellars
Irwin Citations competitively priced, shipped and installed.
Acoustic sound panels and custom wall draperies available in
flameproofed colors and fabrics, artistk: or plain . Qnema Consul-
& Services Intemattonal Inc. P.O. Box 9672, Pittsburgh, PA.
Phone (412) 343-3900. Fax (412) 343-2992.
"WHILE THE THEATRE SLEEPS zzzzz" On-site reupholstery.
20 years' experience in the field. Top fabrics, molded seat
cushions and "State of the ArT Cy Young cupholders. Call Cy
Young Industries Inc.. (800) 729-2610.
MISCELLANEOUS
16AND35MMFILMCOLLECT10NS:XXXadult.exploitation,
educational, TV shows, etc. Any size collection. Alpha Blue
Archives. P.O. Box 16072, Oakland, CA 94610. Phone/fax
(510)268-0811.
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traffic & sales INSTANTLY! Grand openings, anniversaries.
Try one of our four SCRATCH OFFPROMOSfor
than a nickel each ticket. Free catalog, (800) 633-3556.
MOVIE POSTERS WANTED: Highest prices paid for lobby
cards, 1-, 3- and 6-sheets. window cards, banners, glass
slides. Dwight Cleveland. P.O. Box 1 0922. Chicago. IL 6061 0-
0922. Phone (516) 877-2914. fax (516) 877-0283.
MOVIE POSTERS WANTEDI I top dollar for vintage
material. John Hazetton. 235 Horton Highway, Mineola, MN
1 1501 . (51 6) 877-2914, fax; (517) 877-0283.
SERVICES
ALTEC, JBL, E.V. SPEAKER RECONING: Factory authorized
service, fast turnaround. We stock diaphragms for popular
theatre drivers. Cardinal Sound & Motion Picture Systems Inc.
Dealer inquiries welcome. (301) 595-881 1
FILM BOOKING SERVICE now accepting new clients. Currently
serving clients from coast to coast. We have great
repoire and we care about your business. Address; M&N
Booking Sen/ice. P.O. Box 20221 . WY 82003.
Phone; (307) 634-3980. email; MandN book@aol.com
INDEPENDENT THEATRE BOOKING. Over 30 years' experierice,
L.A.-based, now accepting a few new accounts. Personal
service, reasonable rates, well-connected. Write:
Charies Boeckman. 22030A Ventura Blvd., Suite 140, Woodland
Hills, CA 91364. Phone (818) 347-0963.
IN-THEATRE DESIGN. Hand-pleated drapes installed.
Speakers and wire mounting. Movie screens installed. Painting
and potymix. Coast-to-coast sen/ice. Call (508) 285-7593.
Haffer Co., Norton, MA.
CALL ME atx>ut rebuilding your intermittents, projectors and
soundheads. Century or Simplex. "Pinky" Pinkston at (903)
523-4912. Pinkston Sales & Service, Rt. 1, Box 72-H.
Sadler. TX 76264.
SOUND/DRAPING FABRICS IN STOCK. All new selection of
fabrics. Installation on brackets available, or sewn in pleated
drapes. Call Cy Young Industries Inc., 800-729-2610.
SOUNDFOLDS & CURTAINS cleaned and fireproofed on site
$.20-$.40 per hung sq. ft. (coast to coast). Call (800) 879-231 1
24 hours, for brochure and information. The Carpet Cleaner.
P.O. Box 154. Osceola, MO 64776.
ULTRAFLAT. REFLECTORS: Why buy new when you can
have it restored? "Hopeless" cases restored to brightness. Call
your dealer or ULTRAFLAT. 20306 Sherman Way. Winnetka,
CA 91306. (818) 884-0184. http://www.ultranat.com
"WHILE THE THEATRE SLEEPS zzzzz" On-site reupholstery.
20 years' experience in the field. Top fabrics, molded seat
cushions and "State of the Arf Cy Young cupholders. Call Cy
Young Industries Inc., (800) 729-2610.

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pit, pleasure palace and escape hatch for baby
boomers hopped up on James Dean movies and the first
mass-produced twitches, stammers and sneers from
Elvis Presley's ever-lovin', ever-snarlin' lips, the American
drive-in theatre began a tradition in offbeat, countercultural
moviegoing that morphed and changed and took over the
world—and that remains too proud to die. Fueled in the '50s
by the birth of the U.S. highway infrastructure and by a
po.stwar economic boom that gave the average teen more
disposable income than a family of four had during the
Depression, the drive-in was the place where America's two
great leisure-time preoccupations—the open road and the
movie screen— joined forces to create a new kind of dreaming
space, one that called forth its own brand of dreams.
They were nightmares, mostly—bug-eyed aliens, radioactive
monsters, the Freudian underpinnings of a post-
Hiroshima, post-Auschwitz. post-McCarthyist period that
seemed to transfix America and the rest of the world in a
self-perpetuating state of psychic anxiety even as a roaring
domestic economy appeared poised to fulfill every material
need. Dollar-wise, the pickings were plentiful in the '50s
even for kids, but teens were dissatisfied anyway by living
in a world that looked to have a lit fuse attached to it. The
low-budget fantasies that scurried up out of nooks and
crannies on the independent fringes of Hollywood like so
many cockroaches spoke to that fact: when they weren't
speaking to it dira;tly via the animation of atomic monstrosities
like 'Them" and 'The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms."
they were giving it a different kind of voice, as a million
cut-price Deans, Brandos and Presleys struck anti-social
poses and mumblingly denounced as a dying generation the
parents who'd brought them into the worid, moved them to
the suburbs and paid for the cars whose rubber they peeled
on "the strip" each desperate and melodramatic night.
The ancient Greeks called it "catharsis"—the
need of an audience to see its
deepest fears made manifest and then vanquished
as an empowering form of release.
Tte drive-in classics of the boom
years, which spanned the period from
around 1 954 to the end of the seething
'60s, have been said to have served that
purpose for millions of mixed-up kids by
venting the uncertainties they felt in what
was surely this century's most unsettled
and uncertain time of passage. On ihc
other hand, the secret of success for the
beat-crazy, thiill-drunk and scarifying
drive-in cinema of three and four decades
ago could be a lot simpler and more mundane:
As science ticlion aficionado and historian Forrest J
Ackerman has noted, a large part of the appeal of a teenage
horror flick in that more decorous lime was that the shcK'king
moments gave a "gCHKl giri" of ihe era a socially acceptiibic
excu.se for Jumping into her boyfriend's wailing arms.
They say the drive-in is dead. They've said it for
years, and still, at least in the warmer regions, more than
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argument and speculate for a moment: What could have
killed such a beloved institution?
There are a lot mOTe people in today's America, for one
thing, and therefore real estate, which is basically what a
drive-in amounts to if you tear down the screen, has become
more and more dear. There are also a lot more guns in the
worid, and so sitting in a ear for hours on end in an open and
public space seems more and more foolhardy, particularly
in urban places where teenage gangs flourish and thrive.
those points could be dodging the main one, which is
Butthat the generational warfare that played itself out in the
low-budget features that filled those drive-in screens two
generations back ended a long time ago. The teenagers won,
but they couldn't stay young forever, and part of the legacy of
their sometimes naive and sometimes heroic struggles against
everything from curfews to dress codes to the Nixon White
House and the war in Vietnam is that, as boomers move
through middle age, the teenagers that call them "Mom" and
"Dad" and less kind things behind their backs inhabit a world
where no cinematic excuse for far more intense forms of
youthful sexual dalliance seems to be required.
Creatively, the great drive-in victory is still playing itself
out on virtually every movie screen in America. The driveins
were the first to realize that teenagers weren'tjust a minor
adjunct to the exhibition market, but its life's blood—
perception that tcxlay informs nearly every decision made by
the modem studio production boss, particularly decisions
involving movies with Inidgets of $ lOOmillion or more. The
genres the B-movie buccaneers created in those anxious
times have outlived their historic moment, taking over a
mainstream maiket tliey were devised as a reaction against:
"Godzilla" the epitome of the ti-ashy '50s radiation epic in its
original incaniiition, becomes an "event''
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film comparable to the resurrection of
Jesus in our less atomiciilly fixated worid.
If you go searching in your city or town
for the geographical source of that seachange
in audience tastes, it might be
useful to follow the rules of archaeology
by doing a bit of reseairh and Icgwork.
Tlic site you're searching for could be
moldering in
cruel sunlight on the outskirts
of town, its rusted iron speiiking
posts still standing at attention in cracked
asphalt: it could be covered over by a
two-decades-old shopping mall. But find
someone who is ncaring or just past or
even well past 50. and who has lived in
lite place you live in all his or her life, and then ask him or
her where kids went for a gtnxl t i mc and a bit of freedom on
a hot summer Friday four decades back, and you will find
what you're looking foi", coupled wilii a prose poem of the
"you should have been tlicre" variety. The drive-in served
its piiqiose. and then for llic most part went away. But its
legacy goes on and on and on. Ray Greene
Photo under: AOrive-in vthose owner went off to fight in World War II
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