MOVIES

Mark Lipsky has a great editorial on the demise of the movie theater, partly because of the hideous, atrocious, boxy dumps they call movie theaters these days.

Lipsky talks about the grand movie palaces of the old days, which I've raved about many times.  He agrees with me that the theater, itself, was a big part of the reason people went to the movies in the first place.

But a line he uses in the column made me grin.  Mark said, "I'm guessing none of us were going to the movies in the days of the movie palaces."  Believe it or not, Mark, there are still a lot of us ancient relics tottering around that fondly remember going to movies at the great old movie palaces and we miss them a lot.

Young people just don't realize how great movies used to really be and how, truly glamorous the REAL STARS were in the days when there WAS such a thing as glamour.

  Read the Column here.