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Dan Cope, manager of the new Dickinson Plaza Cinema Six, 239 enjoy the added selection of movies offered by the new theaters. Iowa St., is confident that KU students and Lawrence residents will
Screen Wars
Six new theaters in town pose threat to existing houses
Bv Terry Bauroth
Kansan staff write
Competition between the Dickinson theaters and the Commonwealth theaters could provide a tree for movie tours with both theaters can survive in Lawrence.
"I'm sure someone will have to give," said Dan Capo, manager of the Dickinson theaters, which opened in May.
Dickinson's six screens combined with Commonwealth's nine is about three screens too many for a town the size of Lawrence, Cape Cope.
Dickinson's sippie is at 1239 Iowa St. Commonwealth operates Hill-crested Theaters at Ninth and Iowa streets, Cinnamto at 31st and Iowa streets, the Varsity at 1434 and the Grand at 1029 Massachusetts St.
Rance Blanch, manager of the Varsity and Granada剧院, said the effects of Dickinson theaters in Lawrence were obvious.
It is like any other business, the peats he铺 a little bit thinner for the camera, and then metately, move attendance has been up so that we are ahead from a year ago.
Almond said that if Lawrence hadn't been a good movie town, Dickinson wouldn't have built a skiffle here, where he would move to movie companies, he said.
"It's a matter of the film companies releasing enough good film for both Commonwealth and Dickinson." Blann said.
Cope agreed that the survival of the two theater companies was dependent upon the films that were being made, he said, and things might work out," he said.
Both companies deal with each film company directly, and it is the film company's discretion as to who receives which movie.
"This summer has been a hit and miss situation," Cape said. "There have been times when we've had the pictures, and there have been times when Commonwealth had the pictures."
Blann said that since Dickinson had opened, movies had been split evenly.
Dickinson's showing of "Big" combined with Commonwealth's showing of "Roger Rabbit" kept everybody happy this summer, Cope said.
competition is good for everybody, especially patrons because they can see all the movies coming in," he said.
Cope, a former Commonwealth employee, said, "Commonwealth has gone through a tremendous change. Just recently they were bought by United Artists and there is uncertainty as to whether they are going to be sold or not. They are be assigned. Dickinson is family owned and has been since 1925."
Blaam said, "It is the final stages of being closed as for us as Artificial purchases of Commonwealth. It should make us more stable in the world's largest theatre chain and they're a good company.
"The biggest people will notice is that films may have to stay in town a week or two longer because you will get 15 screens to supply film to and a lot of times there aren't many movies available." Blam said.
The pick of the litter: From Pee-wee to Roger
No less than 50 motion pictures have been released in theaters across the country since Memorial Day, and several more will hit the screens this summer. The films are known to Hollywood as the summer movie season is notorious for making or breaking muggs, setting trends for the next two years' worth of films and cramping the companies' budgets. This summer has been no different.
Thanks to a summer married by a writers' strike, those hungry for fresh entertainment have herded to movie theaters in record numbers. And they have gone away full Film. They've done it so unversely as a talking rabbit, a taking horse and a talking pig. They have seen baseballsailing through the air to strike a wooden boll in the rump and silver spheres equipped with sharpened forks speeding down mortuary hallways to drill victims in the same way that shareshare of slinky bombhells, exploding buildings and just plain dads.
The following is my list, in order of preference, of the pick of the litter. These were the films not to be missed during the summer. If you let one or two go, they will be hard to disappoint; most of them are still taking it in at the box office.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
What can be said about this dazzling and hilarious homage to animation that has 'been' said everywhere else? "Roger Rabbit" succeeds on so many levels. First, the film depends on suspension of the belief that cartoon characters are not the film befuddles all the 'how-did they-do'* viewers. It warms the hearts of cartoon fans of all ages, and gives us a glimpse of their favorite characters. And for those looking beyond the technical glitz for a plotline (yes, there is one), it even addresses a few social issues. "Wrapped Framed Roger Rabbit" is as classic. No other film made in the 1980s was as much fun to watch.
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
Director Francis Ford Coppola has taken a neglected entrepreneur from the 1940s and made him larger than life — more so than any animated rabbit. This film with its aerodynamic imagery by cinematographer Robert Reid has been performed by Jeff Bridges as automobile manufacturer Preston Tucker, accelerates faster than its subject, the Tucker Torpedo.
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"Tucker" makes free enterprise look so good, it could be banned in the Soviet Union.
Big
When I left "Tucker," I wished it could drive a Tucker Torpedo. When I left "Big," I wished it could drive to a city, where the "Zoltar Speaks" machine and be 13 years old again Second-time director Penny Marshall should make a movie that will "Shirley" after seeing the light, Capra touches she uses in the film. And Tom Hanks as a charming, naive and completely convincing 13-year-old with an eye for everyone want to act like a junior high student and be able to get away with it "BIG" is not Hanks funnel film, but it features its finer-perceived
Where the 1984 film "The Natural" elevated baseball into a game of the gods, *Bull Durham*, knocks the sport back in the dirt by dropping it lazily and very real look at our national pastime, and it also wins the Kansan award for the best date film of 1988 with his *Kansas City* hero out of minor league catcher Crash Davis, who, as opposed to Robert Redford's Roy Hobbs wielding a bat as if he held Excalibur, holding a wooden phallus. But Tim Robbins steals the film as Eby Calvin "Vale" LaLoch, a cocky but strong man about life "Bull Durham" is by far the best sports comedy since
Bull Durham
Please see MOVIES, p. 2, col. 1
By jay A. Conen
Sales prove 'junk' is in eye of beholder
Kansan staff writer
The bronzeed skull of a large, extinct, aquatic fish living eizards held little interest for Ed Manes. Tanganocie resident, who was looking for jelly glasses. He buys them for a nickel and his wife, Jelle, tells them with homemade jellies, and sells them with her church bazaar.
Early Saturday morning at 1711 W. 19th St. Bob Patterson took two unopened soup cans, marked them "$1 each, no food stamps please." and put them out on one of the tables.
There were some strange looks, but no sales. On not soup anyway. Patterson's daughter, Hyacinth a green blowglass reindeer
"The epitome of ugliness," she said. "It was the first thing to go."
said. "It was the first thing to go."
The sun was shining, the studio looked bright and modern, the town last weekend, garage sales bloomed in all their colors and variety. Most actually are yard landscapes, you can down the stem into the driveway.
People were remodeling, moving, or just cleaning, ignoring, glazing and painting the room. Another man's treasure. Or perhaps just another man's $1.50.
"Sometimes I just give things away," said John Fitzland, standing between the cluttered tables that lined his walk at 913 Illinois St. I "don't want to pack this stuff again, so if they have a use for something, I just give it to them. I like to have the expressions on their faces."
Carpets, couches, clothing; tools, towels, toasters; books, bikes, boxes of miscellaneous The list could go on forever. Shoot the shells, signs, paintings. Chars A wool, but the wolf went nuckly.
The stuffed head of an African gazelle, slightly worse for the wear was still available late in summer. They were picked up into a bright Kansas sky.
are as varied as the merchandise. Pat Leipard, manager at Cedarwoods Apartments, 2411 Cedarwood Ave., busted around the tables, carrying a plastic yellow balloon that appeared to be dollar bills "BIG SIG" it said, and it lit up when Leipard plugged it in.
The people having these sales are as varied as the merchandise.
Please see SALE, p. 2, col. 5
The stuffed head of an African gazelle was among the many objects that could be purchased last Saturday at a yard sale at 1312 Massachusetts St.
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