Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site grkermit.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!grkermit!chris From: chris@grkermit.UUCP (Chris Hibbert) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: End of commercials Message-ID: <469@grkermit.UUCP> Date: Thu, 30-Jun-83 17:19:02 EDT Article-I.D.: grkermit.469 Posted: Thu Jun 30 17:19:02 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 1-Jul-83 00:21:06 EDT References: <474@tekcad.UUCP> Organization: GenRad Inc., Concord, MA Lines: 15 A week ago I saw a movie at a local non-affiliated theater (the Brookline cinema) for those of you local to Boston). Their prices are normally about $1.75. They had raised the prices to $2.25 for Flashdance, but I didn't object to that. Until, that is ... The lights dimmed, and the movie started, ... wait this isn't the movie, it must be a commercial. But what's it for? (It isn't 'till the end of the commercial that you find out that it's for cigarettes.) There was some hissing (which I admit to starting) and booing. After the movie I went to complain to the Manager. He said that lots of other people had already complained, and that the next day would be the end of the experiment and thanked me for my comments. Apparently they do listen.