![]() Happy hour drinks at Lazy Dog, there was an advert for $7.50 movie tickets. $4.50 for any candy or even for a small snack-sized bag of potato chips! $4.50 for the smallest drink! $9.00 for a hotdog! Yes, we made the choice not to buy anything, but its too bad - this really takes away from the movie-going experience. Their snackbar prices are completely outrageous, even for a movie theater snackbar. We would have had much better seats had we not made any reservations nor paid the premium to do so! It turned out that the two rows in front of us (the first two rows of the back section) were completely and totally empty. I didnt want to be stuck in the front section in case it was too close, so I took the back corner. When I reserved my seats (three hours in advance), it showed everything in the front section as available, or else there were three seats in the very back corner. We were in a theater last night that had a front section of three rows and a back section of three rows. They apparently hold back availability of seats that are reservable in advance. ![]() I WILL NOT BE GOING BACK THERE AGAIN VERY SOON. ![]() I guess if I want a comfortable easy experience in that theater I better pay $3.50 cents for an extra empty cup and another several dollars for a super high prices supposedly comfortable seat in the VIP section. They dont move or recline and feel very odd. I asked the manager and was told I would have to pay for a small empty cup (pay the price of another soda) are they kidding me! I then made my way to my seat (not the super high priced extra expensive seats.just the normal expensive high priced regular seats and they are very uncomfortable. I asked the clerk if I could have another empty small cup to share the very large soda with my son and the clerk at the concession stand was also rude and said he couldnt give me an extra small empty cup. I then got my ticket and went to get some popcorn and a soda. (I was just wondering) she very rudely said no we have nothing to do with Regal and we cant take your card. I asked if they were at all connected with Regal theaters and if I could use my regal gift card. Two young actors, who turned out to be Al Pacino and Diane Keaton, were doing their Christmas shopping in that scene.Ī few days later, I watched the pair film a nighttime scene outside Radio City Music Hall where Kay and Michael spotted the headlines that Don Vito had been gunned down and he called Sonny at the mall on Long Island.Īll this activity in midtown and Little Italy in lower Manhattan produced a groundswell of interest for “The Godfather.” Puzo’s book sold copies numbering in the stratosphere.įinally, in the late spring of ‘72, it opened at the State.I went to the newer Movico recently in Thousands Oaks, Ca and when I went up to the clerk to purchase my ticket she was rude and not very friendly. Best & Co., a store that had been closed for a year, had its 5th Ave. ![]() There was a snow blowing machine hard at work and a bunch of colorful 1940s-style taxicabs. During lunch hour, I headed over to 5th Avenue between 51st and 52nd St. His offices were high up in Rockefeller’s International Building, and from there I could see a movie crew at work. In the spring of ‘71, I was working for a former ambassador, a relic of the Eisenhower administration. ![]() A decade later, the same actor had morphed explosively into a cunning Mafia don. Who could ever forget that crystal chandelier? I remember attending the opening of Brando’s “Mutiny on the Bounty” in ‘62. Loew’s State had a great rep for their NYC premieres and for showing top first-run movies. ![]()
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