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Arkansas Picture Palaces
Arkansas Picture Palaces Read Jetsetters Magazine at www.jetsettersmagazine.com To read this entire feature FREE with photos cut and paste this link: http://jetsettersmagazine.com/archive/jetezine/globe02/usa02/AR/theaters/theaters.html Within a...
Consumer Electronic Information: The Basics of the DLP Projector
Projectors have come a long way in the past few decades. The desktop fossils that were once used to show home movies or classroom filmstrips are a thing of the past. With today’s technology, you can now experience a projected movie that emulates...
Film Financing - Can Film Graduates Take The Challenge?
Graduates from a Film Studies program have a new opportunity in film & video production. Of course, with every opportunity comes a challenge - and in this case, the challenge is to find financing for your, or your employer's, projects.
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Gift Ideas For Your Wife Or Girlfriend
When buying gifts for a woman you want to treat her, to buy things she normally wouldn’t treat herself to or that she really wants but can’t justify spending the money on.
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How to Choose a Satellite Provider - Part I
Choosing a Satellite TV Provider By Gary Davis Dish-Network-Satellite-TV.ws Webmasters: You may reprint this article in its entirety, providing you leave the Byline and About the Author sections intact, including the links...
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Schreiber, Johansson Build A 'Bridge' To A Classic
Liev Schreiber and Scarlett Johansson are starring in a widely praised revival of Arthur Miller's <em>A View From The Bridge</em>. They tell reporter Jeff Lunden that as in all great tragedies, this one's clashes and catastrophes have something of the inevitable about them.
Stargazing At The Opera
The Hayden Planetarium in New York takes opera to the moon with a new production of <em>Il Mondo Della Luna.</em> Diane Paulus and Philip Bussmann talk about merging cosmos footage with music, how science can enhance the arts and the future of technology and theater.
Obama 'The Musical' Opens In Germany
A new theater production <em>Hope: The Obama Musical Story</em> opened this week in Frankfurt, Germany. It tells the story, in song and dance, of America's first black president. It is likely to be a big success in a country where President Obama is still immensely popular.
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Harry Pothead And The Goblet Of Weed
Just recently, I went to my high school reunion and met up with a few of my old friends to find out that they are all very much in the same groups as they were back then. I had not seen any of them since high school because I had to move back east to go to NYU but they had all stayed in Los Angeles and kept in touch.
While they all had different jobs - pharmacist, radiologist, three pre-school teachers and a web hosting technician - they all met at least once a week, generally on Mondays to watch films.
So they invited me to one of these gatherings and thinking of it as an extension of the high school reunion, I went. As expected, I walked in to find the familiar faces sitting around a nice table with appetizers and drinks aplenty.
After settling down and saying the usual "hi's and how are you's" they asked me to choose which film we would watch that night, by directing me toward the movie library in the corner.
I snapped my fingers to show off my expert taste in cinema, ranging from Gone with the Wind to Machiavelli Hangman (http://www.hangmanmovie.com), and I approached the collection that looked so impressive and promising from a distance. As I stood a foot away, glaring over the different titles, I noticed an interesting and strange taste. There were films like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the whole Harry Potter movies, Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings and the Star Wars movies including a copy of the latest - Revenge of the
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Alameda Writers Group, Cannes Film Festival, Academy of Country Music Awards, Headline May Show Business and Media Events
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Sith.
The crowd didn't strike me as a dorky crowd even though all these films were definitely in the dorky category. I was just surprised not to find the complete 100 seasons of Star Trek. Right when I simply closed my eyes and just picked a film, I noticed that they had all pulled out their pipes and had started smoking marijuana.
It was all starting to make sense. I threw another glance at the movie collection and realized that this was not a dork collection but a pothead collection.
We sat there and smoked out and I watched Lord of the Rings as if it was a completely different movie. It wasn't about the plot or the dialogue anymore but entering a zone that was out of the world.
The next day, I had such a big headache that I couldn't go back to work. I called my friend and asked him about it and he told me how there was a whole sub-world of these pothead-film collectors and these gatherings happened more often than I knew.
I was completely stunned by this revelation. I didn't go back to those gatherings again, but ever since, I look at every movie and wonder if it would belong on that pot-head movie shelf.
About the author:
Coco M. Johnson is a movie reviewer. Coco likes
intelligent films like the upcoming movie release
called, Machiavelli Hangman.
http://www.hangmanmovie.com
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