He even coached them on how to screen patrons for weapons without appearing too heavy-handed.
Up on the screen, patrons at opera houses, theaters and concert halls were settling into their seats, their upturned faces a mirror of our own.
Most of the urban crime fighters of the 1970's were maverick loners, like Kojak and Baretta, whose big-screen patron saint was the incorrigibly solitary Dirty Harry Callahan.
The passageway to the restroom was flanked by two darkened dining rooms, unkempt and littered; they should have been screened from patrons' view.
The theater will have a standing policy of allowing nondisruptive cell use during performances, he said, and will perhaps distribute small screens to patrons to place on their phones and dim the light.
One Screen Bean, the patron saint of PowerPoint — a figure that stands beneath a question mark, scratching its head in puzzlement — is so popular that a lawyer at a New York firm who has seen many PowerPoint presentations claims never to have seen one without the head-scratcher.
The drive-in movies are enjoying their 50th year, and still screen the warning: "Patrons: explosives are not to be brought into this theatre".
The cast of "Cassandra's Dream" burns through so many cigarettes on screen that some patrons have exited theaters feeling like they just paid $12 to sit in the ashtray of an 18-wheeler.
When Gary Matlock, Hastert's first state wrestling champ, flashed across the screen, Mahaney and other patrons instantly recognized him.
For many years now, they have tried to foster a "second screen" model, in which patrons (aka "sheep") become more and more entwined with their media via portable screens.
The packed patrons' screening they attended at the 500-seat Chuck Jones' Cinema in the Mountain Village on Sept. 2 also attracted stars Tom Hanks and Jennifer Garner.
