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From: swatt@ittvax.UUCP (Alan S. Watt)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: ROTJ Gougers in Portland OR
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Date: Thu, 26-May-83 10:55:38 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 26 10:55:38 1983
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Portland is something of a special case: all the large, 1st-run movie
theater chains are owned by one of two brothers Tom, and ??? Moyers.
They hate each other and do everything they can short of murder to run
each other out of business.  I forget who runs the Luxury chain.  The
effect of this is they each try to out-bid each other for the cash
offering to get an "exclusive" on a new release.

Of course, that may not account for it.  I paid $4.50 to see ROTJ
yesterday afternoon in Connecticut, mistakenly believing the matinee
price would be $2.50.  I suppose there is also a fair amount of "what
the traffic will bear" approach.  I don't go to movies all that often,
but matinee prices are usually $2.00 - $2.50, and evening prices are
$3.00 - $4.00.

	- Alan S. Watt