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From: kev@voder.UUCP (Kevin Hoskins)
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Subject: Re: Strange Preview Practices
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Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 11:40:01 EDT
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> >.....  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?)