From the opening attaction directed by Vittorio De Sica and Federico Fellini to yet another comic book movie, The Joker, how the culture has descended…
In NYC there are two traditional movie theaters showing porn, the Cinema Kings Highway in Brooklyn and the Fair in East Elmhurst, Queens. Of course there are dozens of adult video stores that present movies in various formats and seating plans…
Joe, tell you what: there is a TCM screening of Hello, Dolly! this Sunday. I will check it out with fresh eyes and report back here. Maybe others can do the same…
I see the editor has been in here sweeping away some of the cruddier comments…
Too bad those basement theaters were damp little hellholes…
Joe, why don’t you photograph and post excerpts from some of your roadshow programs…
I just looked in the photo section and see that adult admission is $25.
Unbelievable! Who in the world would pay such a steep admission price when there are so many other options…?
The Life magazine article about the cuts is also included in the Photos section
Those Variety scribes sure knew how to write a socko review…
I just happen to have that issue lying around… wait, it was here a minute ago, let me check…
Hey Bloop, welcome back. Where the hell you been…?
Since this page and introduction are about the original Lyric Theatre, then Joe’s comments are perfectly apt.
Perhaps the introduction should stop at the end of the second paragraph, and omit the new Lyric’s information and history as a legitimate play house.
Photo from March 2019 added to photos
I have to wonder how many of 42nd Street’s denizens were interested in a musical about Gertrude Lawrence…! (And I wonder what the second feature was.)
I think he also operates the Grand Avenue Cinemas in Baldwin, (Long Island) NY but I couldn’t swear to it…
The Harris and the Selwyn were my two favorite houses on the block, although I did have a soft spot for the faded opulence of the New Amsterdam.
I’m grateful that two out of the three are up and running and in magnificent shape.
It was the sweetest sh!thouse in town…
I only attended the theater after it was a triplex, and that balcony had the steepest rake of any theater I have been in either before or since…
I’m still in shock that it’s gone
From the opening attaction directed by Vittorio De Sica and Federico Fellini to yet another comic book movie, The Joker, how the culture has descended…
Rob, I think you mean unlike Wikipedia, where anyone can edit an entry…
Here, only the webmaster or the originator of the post can remove it.
Peter Fonda, RIP
Bette’s last movie on her long-running Warner brothers contract…
another coincidence, the picture on the bill was the man who talked too much and 16 years later Day would star in the man who knew too much…
I think Wally meant we should be discussing Hello, Dolly on the Rivoli page…
In NYC there are two traditional movie theaters showing porn, the Cinema Kings Highway in Brooklyn and the Fair in East Elmhurst, Queens. Of course there are dozens of adult video stores that present movies in various formats and seating plans…
Joe, tell you what: there is a TCM screening of Hello, Dolly! this Sunday. I will check it out with fresh eyes and report back here. Maybe others can do the same…
But she wasn’t quite done with Tinseltown, since that no-good husband of hers had committed her to a multi-season run of a television series.
But when that commitment was fulfilled, THEN she was done with Tinseltown…
From the sublime to the ridiculous…