So there we were… Friday night after Thanksgiving. Who knew that so many would turn out? Of course it was a great movie. I hope that wasn’t surprising. Another point added to Andy’s score. Sorry Bob, you’ll just have to turn up the pressure a notch.

But… or should I say “butt”? Some of you were chaining the cigs, like we’ve never seen here before. It took days for the smell to go away. We were thinking that maybe MovieNight might have to give up smoking as a New Years resolution, but we’re hoping that it was just the combination of Friday night excitement in NYC and a plethora of more youthful attendees, who perhaps haven’t yet given much thought to the [perceived] value of remaining alive into their forties.  What a night for the future in-laws to attend their first MovieNight! Yikes.

It would be good to hear from you about the smoking thing. Smoking is allowed at MovieNight because we believe in democracy. I know that I used to enjoy sitting at a bar, smoking, and sipping a martini… there’s a romantic caché (or is it cliché?) in that. I still enjoy sitting at a bar and sipping a martini… and hoping that somehow I got away with all the smoking I used to enjoy, unscathed.

Whaddaya think?

This is quite sad. Bear Stearns was one thing. Russell Simmons is another [that was supposed to be funny, but perhaps only to me?]. Kim’s Video (AKA Mondo Kim) is quite another thing. Where else in the world would you be able to go when you’re feeling like watching some obscure movie from anywhere in the world (or any mainstream movie from Hollywood), rent it, watch it, and return it the same day for a mere $1.50? As far as I know, NOWHERE. I know that there are those who feel it’s just part of the grand scheme of technological evolution, in which movies just get downloaded, implanted at birth, perhaps just there in the air to be viewed with special glasses (woah!), but…

Please read the NY Post article for the full scoop, and while you’re doing that, can you imagine that we got a bunch of people together to form a co-op and take this collection over? OMG! Let’s talk.