He played Horatio Prim and was marvelous. I was always fascinated by the part near the end when Horatio is trying to open the clock to get Washington’s letter and the secret drawer opens and closes very quickly and Horatio says “in and out, in and out, in and out!” Perhaps it is only my jaded sence of humor that sees it as a sex joke but even when I was a kid I thought it was a sex joke.
And who could forget Marjorie Reynolds and Binnie Barnes? They stole the show along with Abbott and Costello and Gale Sondergaard.
One of my favorite movies is “The Time of their Lives” starring Abbott and Costello. They were a great team. Why does liking them need redeeming? They are better than most of the junk that is produced nowadays.
In the space above Key Food in Astoria, on 31st Street, there is now a gym called The Rock. I used to be a member there and one day an elderly woman climbed the stairs to the gym and said she wanted to see the space that used to be the movie theater she remembered from her youth. She also said the area now occupied by the gym was also formerly a bowling alley and a roller rink. I don’t know if this was true, but the building sure does seem to be built for something much grander than a gym and a supermarket. The gym has 40-foot ceilings and the steel beams that support the roof are clearly visible and have been incorporated into the design of the space. On the wall of the gym there used to be a large photo of the same space before its renovation into the current gym, and it showed a vast deserted and ruined room. The photo may still be there.
This was a nice little theater and back in the late 1970s I attended showings of older movies here. My mom and I saw “Scrooge” and “Come To The Stable” at the Regency as a double feature one Christmas back then. We also saw “A Night To Remember” paired with “Waterloo Bridge,” a double feature during a film festival called “England at Home and Abroad.” Of course every few years “Gone With The Wind” would be rerun at the Regency and we wouold always go back for it.
For many years I did not return to the Regency, and then I went one last time for a first-run which I think was “The Good Son.” Long afterward I was sadly roaming the streets like a zombie for some reason when I came to West 68th and beheld an empty lot strewn with bricks where the Regency once stood. The memories flooded back, I remembered seeing “Scrooge” (Albert Finney) one Christmas past on that very same empty and deserted lot, and I actually went right up to the edge of the lot and traced out in my mind’s eye where the lobby and the steps up to the balcony used to be. There was always the same general area where I would sit in the orchestra and I could look over and see the same spot, now open with no sign there had ever been a theater there. Oof I am getting misty-eyed just typing this! Oh well, all things must come to an end…perhaps in fifty or sixty years, or even longer, someone will sadly note the demolition of all these modern megaplexes that have sprung up everywhere, and which may eventually become classic spots in their own right.
I remember the theater on 72nd and First. It played movies that were through their runs and were about to disappear from the big screen…if you missed something when it was first released, you could wait and catch it at 72nd St., nearly a year later. I saw “Jeremiah Johnson” and “Nickelodeon” here among others. Great small theater, I remember it well and it is so hard to believe it has been gone for so long.
Great theater. Plays porn, mainly in booths that are kept clean and are private. Admission to the theater is standard price, no tokens have to purchased for viewing as in regular porn peephole-style venues. Of course the religious cretins want to close it down and impose their religious theocracy on those of us who like porn and don’t give a damn about their silly fairy tale bible. THESE are the people who must be defeated, not the porn business.
He played Horatio Prim and was marvelous. I was always fascinated by the part near the end when Horatio is trying to open the clock to get Washington’s letter and the secret drawer opens and closes very quickly and Horatio says “in and out, in and out, in and out!” Perhaps it is only my jaded sence of humor that sees it as a sex joke but even when I was a kid I thought it was a sex joke.
And who could forget Marjorie Reynolds and Binnie Barnes? They stole the show along with Abbott and Costello and Gale Sondergaard.
One of my favorite movies is “The Time of their Lives” starring Abbott and Costello. They were a great team. Why does liking them need redeeming? They are better than most of the junk that is produced nowadays.
In the space above Key Food in Astoria, on 31st Street, there is now a gym called The Rock. I used to be a member there and one day an elderly woman climbed the stairs to the gym and said she wanted to see the space that used to be the movie theater she remembered from her youth. She also said the area now occupied by the gym was also formerly a bowling alley and a roller rink. I don’t know if this was true, but the building sure does seem to be built for something much grander than a gym and a supermarket. The gym has 40-foot ceilings and the steel beams that support the roof are clearly visible and have been incorporated into the design of the space. On the wall of the gym there used to be a large photo of the same space before its renovation into the current gym, and it showed a vast deserted and ruined room. The photo may still be there.
This was a nice little theater and back in the late 1970s I attended showings of older movies here. My mom and I saw “Scrooge” and “Come To The Stable” at the Regency as a double feature one Christmas back then. We also saw “A Night To Remember” paired with “Waterloo Bridge,” a double feature during a film festival called “England at Home and Abroad.” Of course every few years “Gone With The Wind” would be rerun at the Regency and we wouold always go back for it.
For many years I did not return to the Regency, and then I went one last time for a first-run which I think was “The Good Son.” Long afterward I was sadly roaming the streets like a zombie for some reason when I came to West 68th and beheld an empty lot strewn with bricks where the Regency once stood. The memories flooded back, I remembered seeing “Scrooge” (Albert Finney) one Christmas past on that very same empty and deserted lot, and I actually went right up to the edge of the lot and traced out in my mind’s eye where the lobby and the steps up to the balcony used to be. There was always the same general area where I would sit in the orchestra and I could look over and see the same spot, now open with no sign there had ever been a theater there. Oof I am getting misty-eyed just typing this! Oh well, all things must come to an end…perhaps in fifty or sixty years, or even longer, someone will sadly note the demolition of all these modern megaplexes that have sprung up everywhere, and which may eventually become classic spots in their own right.
I remember the theater on 72nd and First. It played movies that were through their runs and were about to disappear from the big screen…if you missed something when it was first released, you could wait and catch it at 72nd St., nearly a year later. I saw “Jeremiah Johnson” and “Nickelodeon” here among others. Great small theater, I remember it well and it is so hard to believe it has been gone for so long.
Great theater. Plays porn, mainly in booths that are kept clean and are private. Admission to the theater is standard price, no tokens have to purchased for viewing as in regular porn peephole-style venues. Of course the religious cretins want to close it down and impose their religious theocracy on those of us who like porn and don’t give a damn about their silly fairy tale bible. THESE are the people who must be defeated, not the porn business.