Boxoffice-September.04.1978

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Qoing along with past Bucna Vista practice.
"Hot Lead and Cold Feet" opened
across the state with drive-in theatres (traditionally
not charging for youngsters under
age 12) advertising, in the main. 50 cents
charge for viewers aged five to 11. The
Windham Drive-In charged S6-per-car. or
S2.50 per person. Most of the und;rskyers
slotting this newest BV release booked a
BV rerun. "Freaky Friday." as companion
feature. Another opening—MGM-UA's
"Corvette Summer"—found a Bangor tire
dealer distributing passes for area showings.
Continuing promotion emphasized.
"The Vette's tires are available at Bangor
Tire Company now!" For the same attraction,
the Lincoln in Lincoln continued its
policy of "Sunday family night." For S5.
"Mom and/ or dad and kids" were admitted
that evening only.
Showing United Artists' Ihc End"
(double-billed with same distributor's "White
Buffalo"), the Bangor Twin Drivj-In advertised;
".Sound available thru your AM radio
Playmates."
E.M. Locw's Fine Arts Twin, in-town
Portland, playing "The Buddy Holly Story,"
ran "thrift matinees"—charging $1.50 ad-
mission, with regular prices in effect at
Showing "Star Wars." the Paris
night . .
Cinema, Portland, is advertising, "Enjoy
your new spectra sound" Fields.
Laurel and Hardy. Charlie Chaplin and
Three Stooges footage was shown in the
Town Hall at Old Orchard Beach.
The Neighborhood House in Northeast
Harbor completed its summer season with
showing> of "My Little Chickadee" (Universal
1940 release with Mae West and
W.C. Fields) and MGM's "The Blackboard
Jungle" (1955 release with Sidney Poitier
and Glenn Ford). The Community Theatre
in Southwest Harbor also wrapped it up
for the summer, concluding attractions including
Warner Bros.' current release "The
Goodbye Girl" with Marsha Mason and
Richard Dreyfuss; Charlie Chaplin's early
1920s silent. United Artists release. "A
Woman in Paris": Paramount's current release,
"The Duellists" with Keith Carradinc
and Harvey Kjilel, and 20th-Fox's "Star
Wars."
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worth, hosted a showing of "To Have
and Have Not," Warner Bros. 1944 release
toplining Humphrey Bogari and Lauren Ba-
Columbia's "Five Easy Pieces,"
1970 release with Jack Nicholson and Karen
Black, was shown at the Performing Arts
Center in Bath.
NEW BRITAIN
Qentral Connecticut businesses—including
the E.M. Loew's Farmington Drive-In
Theatre—are participating in a new promotion
sponsored by the Bristol Jaycees.
A "Family Shopper Gift Book." entitling
bearer to some S200 worth of merchandise
and services, is being sold by the Jaycees.
The Junior Chamber of Commerce got
some 30 firms to participate. Each book
sells for S24.95.
Ncwington polite reported that a youth
took some $50 from the concession stand
at the Tolls Theatres' Newington on a recent
Thursday night. The youth reached
over the counter, police said, and took the
money at about 9 p.m. The lobby was
practically deserted at the time, though
only."
there were several hundred persons inside
Cross-state openings: Univcrsals "National
the auditorium. The concession attendant
told police that she caught only a glimpse
Lampoon's Animal House." Paramount's
"Foul Play." Columbia's "The Buddy Holly
Story" and Cannon Group's "The Young
of Ihe bov as he fled.
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jyTost of the major product opening in recent
weeks across the Green Mountain
State continued in a holding pattern of sorts,
with markedly few new attractions succeeding
still-very-strong playdatcs, among them
Paramount's "Grease," United Artists' "Revenge
of the Pink Panther," Warner Bros.'
"Hooper" and a half dozen other titles.
Also opening across the state were Universal's
"National Lampoon's Animal
House" and MGM-UA's "Corvette Summer,"
among others, with the holdover bloc
encompassing Paramount's '"Grease" plus
"Heaven Can Wait" plus "Saturday Night
Fever," Columbia's "Eyes of Laura Mars."
Universal's "Sgl. Pepper's Lonely Hearts
Club Band." United Artists' "Revenge of
the Pink Panther," Warner Bros.' "Hooper"
and the reprise of 20th-Fo.\"s "Star Wars "
The Merrill Jarvis Mt. View Drive-ln
and the SBC Management Corp. Burlington
Plaza 2 shared the northern Vermont premiere
of Buena Vista's "Hot Lead and Cold
Feet." BV's "The Madcap Adventures of
Mr. Toad" was the four-waller's supporting
fare, while "Freaky Friday" completed the
nmgram at the underskyer.
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I inn Pictures' "A Little Romance."
Double Debut to Benefit
Kidney Foundation of Mass.
BOSTON—A double tilm premiere is set
for General Cinema's Chestnut Hill Cinemas
I and II for benefit of the Kidney
Foundation of Massachusetts, with a posh
Pernod punch reception followed by a
choice of either "Death on the Nile." or
"Who is Killing the Great Chefs of
Europe?" A dance, dessert and champagne
party at Bloomingdales new fashion store at
the Chestnut Hill Mall follows.
Tickets, available through the Kidney
Foundation, are S25 top for the Thursday
(28) gala which includes the reception and
allows screening of a film of choice plus
admission to the post-screening party featuring
desserts whipped up by great dessert
chefs of New England. A SIO ticket gets
the Pernod punch reception and the film
of choice.
"Death on the Nile" stars Peter Ustinov
as Hercule Poirot. and Betlc Davis. Mia
Farrow. Olivia Husey, Angela Lansbury,
David Niven, Maggie Smith, Jack Warden
and Lois Chiles.
•Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of
Europe?" teams Jacqueline Bissct with
George Segal.
'Outrageous!' Celebrates
1st Birthday in Cambridge
BOS I ON—
Ihe C)r^on Weiles Ihcilu
complex in Cambridge, comprising three
screens, held a gala to celebrate the birthday
of ""Outrageousl" as the picture completed
a 52-week run. and still is playing
to good houses. Craig Russell, who plays
in Ihe lead the film, and Paul and Brenda
Hoffert, who composed and performed the
music, answered questions from the audience
before each screening.
Russell, who appeared in front of a full
house and a huge chocolate birthday cake.
said; "People in Boston are very hip." His
co-star. Hollis McLaren, and directorscreenwriter
Richard Benner, all attended
the birthday party for the $167,000 film,
made in only eight weeks, "'^'ou can't even
make a commercial for that amount of
money in that amount of lime." he said.
Russell said he was going to Berlin to
.iccept the Silver Bear award for best actor
of 1978, then he plays London for a week.
and in October will do his female impression
act at Carnegie Hall. After that he goes to
Los Angeles to do a TV pilot.
'Birth of a Nation' Is Free
CAMBRIDGE. MASS.— Da\id Wark
Ciriffiih's 1915 classic. "Birth of a Nation."
was shown as a five attraction on a recent
Ihursday night by the North Cambridge
Hi.inch Library.
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