From Today's New York Times:
On the front page, we learn that for the 18th weekend in a row box office receipts are down year-over-year.
Over in the business pages, there's a piece about how commercials shown before feature films in theaters are here to stay.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist tosee the connection. Why do theater-owners expect that they can charge us $10.25 to have us sit through ads we can see for free at home? Or miss entirely by watching pay-per-view?
June 27, 2005
June 07, 2005
Requiem in Pace
The news of Anne Bancroft's death leaves me sad for her suffering (she died of uterine cancer) and for her family's loss, but most of all at the thought that we'll never see a her in a new role on any screen large or small. Most people remembering her will talk about Mrs. Robinson and The Graduate in the coming hours, but my two favorite roles of hers were Gilbert's mother in Garbo Talks and Mrs. Cage, a one-act that appeared on PBS and isn't yet out on video (and may never be). I hope TCM will soon schedule a tribute to her; that'd be a marathon worth watching.
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