My original comment on THE LAST PICTURE SHOW was prompted by a film experience a couple of years ago. My home town is in the mountains of North Carolina. There was a one-screen theatre there that I grew up with; one of my fondest memories was watching COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER to a packed house and seeing many "mountain folk" who had never been to the theater before deeply moved by seeing a portrayl of people like themselves on the screen. CMD played for a month in that theatre. When I went home over Christmas, I (and six other people) attended the last screening at the theatre: BEVERLY HILLBILLIES. I sat in the theatre when the film ended and cried, feeling like I had lost a part of myself. Randy On Wed, 28 Feb 1996, Murray Pomerance wrote: > Randy Riddle's letter about waiting for a dilapidated theatre in a small > town for seeing THE LAST PICTURE SHOW touches me deeply, and is > saddening, because the deep point of the film is that Randy and the rest ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]