It's the opening scene in a documentary called The Hand That Feeds, released this month in theaters in New York and Los Angeles, where it is playing until Thursday.
As evidence: the number of "Broadway theaters" that call themselves theatres.
The film, written and directed by Pascal Vuong, was scheduled to screen at dozens of Imax theaters across the country on the anniversary.
But the financial crisis has hit hard, and the government faces the fact that there are too many operas and theaters here.
There's a swathe of the city ranging from his apartment on East 79th Street down to the Village where we used to live and where his office is, and that includes the theaters and Madison Square Garden in between.
On Friday night (actually, 12 05 a.m. on Saturday) "Sharknado," a made-for-TV movie, is receiving a one-night-only screening in more than 200 theaters.
Normally, a film is released in theaters and turns up later on TV.
He usually watched movies in Indonesia, preferably in one of his own theaters, where tickets cost 50,000 rupiahs around £3.50, or $5.50, compared with Kensington's £11.25 (160,000 rupiahs).
A few years ago Edgar Bronfman Jr, during the time his family briefly owned the Universal film studio, suggested that theaters actually charge different admission prices for different pictures so those films that cost less to make had correspondingly lower ticket prices than the mega-budget studio pictures.
His practice did not flourish, and at the end of his life, the builder of skyscrapers, department stores, and theaters was designing banks for small towns in Iowa.
Even though it didn't do well in theaters, is renowned by film buffs for its bantering dialogue full of pop-culture references, chiefly those to sci-fi/fantasy and comic books, and for its shedding a light on a subculture that the Hollywood mainstream would have arguably continued to ignore.
