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Topic: pairin R and G movies in the same theater
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Randy Stankey
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From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 07-21-2002 10:50 PM
When I first started in the booth we doubled up "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (Disney Animated Ver.) with "Striptease".
Both of these starred Demi Moore but one of them kept her clothes on and the other one she took them off!  Our G.M. at the time gathered all us guys around and told us on no uncertain terms that if one of us showed the wrong movie he would make the person who did it go down and personally apologize to a theatre full of Moms and little kids. We NEVER had a problem with those films. A few years later we doubled-up "Hercules" with "American Pie". By this time we had a new G.M. who just didn't seem to give a shit. All of us guys in the booth and reiterated the old policy amongst ourselves but there was no official word on the subject. It was the G.M. who thought it would be a good idea to save payroll and not have the U.B.'s come in till later on during the slower weekday shifts. They had one of the assistant managers do the opening shift. Needless to say, on the FIRST day of his shift, the A.M. threaded up "American Pie" when he should have played "Hercules". Of course, we all know what this genius of a manger did... He started the movie and went downstairs. The mistake wasn't caught until well into the first scene where the kid, Kevin, is seen in his bedroom spankin' the monkey into an old sweat sock while watching scrambled cable porno movies on TV. That was the first and LAST day of the new "money saving" policy! 
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Randy Stankey
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From: Erie, Pennsylvania
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posted 07-22-2002 11:13 PM
Oh, there are grid schedules for every show in every house posted on every projector. The line for each movie is highlighted for each house they are in. Further, there are chronological schedules that each person carries around, folded newspaper style, in his back pocket.All the prints are labeled with tape on the tails with lettering that can be seen six feet away, in the dark. Our incident can only be describes as a total F**** up... And it was a manager who did it.
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. I always found having a cue sheet next to the projector , labelling the film on the tail and then checking the label/cue sheet before you start the best way to go!. Yes, i have once threaded the wrong film (my old four screen cinema), but i caught it on the first advert, dowsed/stopped and rethreaded 
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