This year also provided audiences with the opportunity to enter another time zone with American films from the early 1970s.
The splashy Technicolor musicals in which Grable starred were immensely popular and provided audiences with escapist entertainment during World War II.
Mr. Dahl said the site was a modern twist on vaudeville, in which thousands of theaters provided audiences with the chance to see new talent.
Hunt's biggest task is dealing with the absence of Big Brother, which even in its decline provided audiences of about three million every night for 17 weeks.
It doesn't take away from Kaufman's genius for success or from the pleasure he provided audiences for so long that today his work reads like a footnote to literature, rather than the thing itself.
But in Off Off Broadway theaters all over New York, artists have provided audiences with dozens of provocative plays that explore the implications and challenges of the terrorist attacks and their aftermath.
As Karnick sees it, "these films spoke directly to fears of increasing crime and social dislocation [and] provided audiences with ways to detach from these worries and conquer their fears of violence by laughing at it".
