MikeK
Gold Member
I don't blame you, Gracie.I would like to see it, but I gotta wait til it comes out on DVD. I dont do the movie thing.
The reason being my recollection of "the movies" back in the '50s and '60s in New York includes such virtual palaces as the fabulous Fabian's Fox theater in Brooklyn. Fox Theatre in Brooklyn NY - Cinema Treasures
The ambience of this magnificent place was alone well worth the price of admission, which was sixty-five cents before 6PM, ninety-five cents after 6 and on weekends. The typical program was two full length current feature films, two "short subjects (documentaries, etc.), a newsreel, and a comedy or two. And entire afternoon or evening of entertainment for sixty-five cents.
The decor within this vastly spacious theater consisted of thick red velvet carpeting with polished brass trim, thick red velvet drapes hanging from ceiling height, broad red velvet carpeted marble staircases, and huge, magnificent hanging chandeliers.
There were three balcony levels with rest-room lounges on each level. In the basement lounge there were comfortable sofas, rest-rooms, and a bank of telephone booths with folding doors, lights, sound-treated walls, a seat -- for a nickel a call.
Compare this experience with that of today's average shoe-box movie "multi-plex" with hollow-sounding, uncarpeted wood floors, cramped seating, and noise from movies in the adjoining shoe-box "theaters." And one movie is what you get for a typical ten-dollar admission.
This is why I haven't been to a movie in almost fifty years and wouldn't go to one if it was free, which is a simple truth. .
the Fox was just one of many magnificent theaters in what I now regard as the old world of the movies." There were the New York (City) and the Brooklyn Paramount theaters. The Brooklyn RKO Albee and the Loew's [/i]Metropolitan," In New York City there was the fabulous Palace, and the biggest and most amazing of them all, the Radio City Music Hall, which has survived the ravages of time and continues to present a magnificent Christmas stage show with the Rockettes.