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From: chris@grkermit.UUCP (Chris Hibbert)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: End of commercials
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Date: Thu, 30-Jun-83 17:19:02 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 30 17:19:02 1983
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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.