Topic: THE KOOKY DAY IS DONE (Read 7597 times)

bk · « **Reply #90 on:** March 15, 2019, 11:31:59 AM »

In its fourth week, Psycho is playing third-run houses like my nabe the Picfair, although it's still at the Iris in Hollywood.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #91 on:** March 15, 2019, 11:32:39 AM »

BK is going to have us on page fifty-three in no time at all.

bk · « **Reply #92 on:** March 15, 2019, 11:36:48 AM »

And here's the thing about Psycho - five weeks in a wide run was unheard of back then. No exclusive first run - just five great weeks in smaller theaters.

bk · « **Reply #93 on:** March 15, 2019, 11:44:17 AM »

September 28, 1960 news item: fourteen-year-old Sue Lyon has been cast in Lolita.

bk · « **Reply #94 on:** March 15, 2019, 11:50:00 AM »

October 12, 1960 - reissue of The Ten Commandments - I've seen it before, but this time it's at the Stadium and it's one of the only times I've sat in the upper section of the theater, with my friend, and we are howling uncontrollably at the movie. I believe that story is in Kritzerland.

bk · « **Reply #95 on:** March 15, 2019, 11:54:06 AM »

That week I go with my mother to a sneak preview at the Wilshire. Feature is Let's Make Love. The preview is Brigitte Bardot in Come Dance With Me - in one scene the leading man undoes Miss Bardot's nightie top and puts his hand on her boob. My other drags me out of the theater. Also written about in Kritzerland. Come Dance With Me opens there the following week.

bk · « **Reply #96 on:** March 15, 2019, 11:54:46 AM »

October 19, Spartacus opens at the newly remodeled Pantages.

bk · « **Reply #97 on:** March 15, 2019, 11:55:22 AM »

But that weekend I'm at the Stadium seeing Bells Are Ringing twice.

bk · « **Reply #98 on:** March 15, 2019, 12:03:49 PM »

November 16, Midnight Lace opens and although it plays the Wiltern, I see it in Westwood at the Picwood. I love it.

bk · « **Reply #99 on:** March 15, 2019, 12:04:27 PM »

And that same week, Gigi at the Stadium, and I am cramming for my upcoming Bar Mitzvah.

bk · « **Reply #100 on:** March 15, 2019, 12:06:51 PM »

November 23 - strange double bill at the Lido - Fernandel in The Big Chief and Peter Sellers in Man With a Cocked Hat - funny stuff. I'm about to enter my foreign film phase.

bk · « **Reply #101 on:** March 15, 2019, 12:14:44 PM »

I turn thirteen on December 8 and on the tenth I am a man - Bar Mitzvah. The following week it's The Magnificent Seven at the Stadium. Love it.

bk · « **Reply #102 on:** March 15, 2019, 12:16:17 PM »

Exodus opens on December 21 at the Wilshire - I'll see it right after the first of the year.

bk · « **Reply #103 on:** March 15, 2019, 12:19:01 PM »

For some reason, Where the Boys Are opens on the 22nd, a Thursday, at the Four Star. I'm there with Betty Breemer, making out in the last row. I was a precocious new thirteen year old - and maybe one kiss isn't really making out.

bk · « **Reply #104 on:** March 15, 2019, 12:25:55 PM »

Beginning of January brings Inherit the Wind at the Stadium - I see it twice. Love it. There are some weird gaps however - I know I saw The Time Machine and Village of the Damned at the Stadium, but I haven't seen them playing there unless somehow they switched movies on Saturday - I'll go back and check that at some point, just to see if it was possible.

bk · « **Reply #105 on:** March 15, 2019, 12:29:52 PM »

Ah, Village of the Damned solved - played January 18 bottom of the bill, but I loved it and saw it twice.

bk · « **Reply #106 on:** March 15, 2019, 12:40:45 PM »

Feb 15, I fall in love with the movie Hand in Hand at the Four Star - I see it many times.

bk · « **Reply #107 on:** March 15, 2019, 12:43:26 PM »

March 1 - Psycho is back because it's nominated for four Academy Awards - on a double bill with Vertigo. Not playing at any theaters I can get to, although I was probably too scared to go and see it again.

bk · « **Reply #108 on:** March 15, 2019, 12:44:49 PM »

Also, The Great Imposter opens that day at the Wiltern - I'm there on that Saturday. See it three times.

bk · « **Reply #109 on:** March 15, 2019, 12:47:25 PM »

March 8 - the Psycho/Vertigo double bill comes to the Stadium - unless I'm simply too frightened to see Psycho again, I cannot imagine why I didn't at least go and see Vertigo.

Jane · « **Reply #110 on:** March 15, 2019, 01:00:01 PM »

Quote from: Druxy on March 15, 2019, 07:38:23 AM

Today, I'm taking a box of old home movies (on 16mm) to a place where they will transfer them to DVD.

Nobody has watched these films for 60+ years, so it should be interesting.

We should do that.

bk · « **Reply #111 on:** March 15, 2019, 01:00:15 PM »

Where the Boys Are is at the Stadium with Carry on Nurse - naturally I was there.

Jane · « **Reply #112 on:** March 15, 2019, 01:01:11 PM »

Quote from: bk on March 15, 2019, 10:56:05 AM

New helper has come and gone - this is going to be sooooo much better.

Excellent.

bk · « **Reply #113 on:** March 15, 2019, 01:03:11 PM »

April 28, Pepe, after seven weeks at the Stanley Warner, moves over to the Four Star - which is where I see it and love it.

Jane · « **Reply #114 on:** March 15, 2019, 01:04:11 PM »

We rented GREEN BOOK from Redbox today.

bk · « **Reply #115 on:** March 15, 2019, 01:05:52 PM »

Sunday May 7 one night only - Shelly Berman at the Santa Monica Civic - I'm there!

bk · « **Reply #116 on:** March 15, 2019, 01:13:48 PM »

End of May brings another major movie event in my life - the Cinerama reissue of Seven Wonders of the World. My father surprises me and takes me.

bk · « **Reply #117 on:** March 15, 2019, 01:17:07 PM »

See Days of Thrills and Laughter at the Vogue, a silent film compilation - I enjoy it, but not as much as what I'm about to enjoy at the Vogue. Stay tuned.

bk · « **Reply #118 on:** March 15, 2019, 01:27:28 PM »

June 23, 1961, another life-changing motion picture opens at the Vogue, a very rare Friday opening of a "happy summer hit." I'm there that day for The Parent Trap and I'm head over heels in love with the twins. I go back every day for the next four or five days.

bk · « **Reply #119 on:** March 15, 2019, 02:04:43 PM »

And so now I know definitively - The last few days of August, the double bill at my beloved Stadium was Pepe and Hand in Hand - I'd probably seen both too many times, or I just didn't pay attention, but I know I did not go see this double bill. On September 6th there should have been a new double bill - there wasn't, because on September 5th the Stadium played its last show. I'm sure I looked at the paper on the 6th in shock, and I know I immediately walked there, just as I describe in the Kritzer book, to find it closed up.

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