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From: zeke@dartvax.UUCP (Edward M. Zebrowski)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Strange Preview Practices
Message-ID: <3495@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 18-Aug-85 15:11:12 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 18 15:11:12 1985
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Reply-To: zeke@dartvax.UUCP (Edward M. Zebrowski)
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Summary: 

In article <847@voder.UUCP> kev@voder.UUCP (Kevin Hoskins) writes:
>> >.....  One other thing of note is that in the theatres,
>> >they also show a lot of minute-long+ previews.  Is this true elsewhere too?
>> 
>> One thing that's started around here is the practice of running COMMERCIALS
>> with the previews!  I mean commercials just like on the small screen!
>> 
>> Has this obnoxious practice appeared elsewhere?
>> 
>> C Wingate  umcp-cs!mangoe  (here is C.P., Md.)
>> 
>
>      Yes Charley, this practice (and it is obnoxious) has spread; to the San 
>Francisco bay area. Some dumb jean company (rhymes with Lardash) was the
>featurette.
>
>      (But wait a minute, who was the dumb one here; the jean company 
>that made the commercial or the theaters that showed it?)

The practice of running commercials in theaters is also running rampant in my
home state of Connecticut.....it seems to be the trend these days....
Obnoxious?  Definitely!

zeke@dartvax.UUCP