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To: BlueCrab who wrote (7628)	2/18/1998 1:54:00 PM
From: username	Respond to of 71178

yup. Here's another good one: These "skin flicks" were really, really bad. But they were no different than any other bad movie in one respect; they had a lot of "filler". If you've ever seen a movie like "The Lost Continent" you know what I mean, the story involved a group of dudes led by Caesar Romero who were searching for a lost rocket ship. They had to climb up a mountain on an obscure tropical island/back lot at Paramount. They climbed. Then they climbed some more. Then more, and finally they climbed more. (I'm not mentioning the climb back down at the end). If it was a slow night, (10 or 15 buff buffs), the owner of the theater would close the concession stand and take off before the last feature; at around 10:00 p.m., leaving me alone. Since I had to watch these films over and over and over, it was pretty easy to know what was coming next. I'd thread up reel #3 (knowing where it started) and then shift over to it WAY early, showing only 5 minutes of reel #2. I could easily turn a 95 minute feature into a 35 minute short, and be out and home an hour early... and here's the good part... nobody ever knew! The closest anyone ever got was one guy one night who mentioned to me on the way out that it was "a short movie", to which I deftly replied, "Yes, but all the good stuff was there." He nodded in agreeement and shuffled on out the door. BTW, did you know that if you are loaded and forget to rewind the reel of film after it is shown and then thread it up the next night, it goes backwards? It's true. I also have an amusing story about a theater I worked at in Boston that was owned by Vito Corleone. And then there's the time the cop came in looking for some free popcorn. And the drunk guy that walked into the projection booth instead of the john and pissed in my sink. But I can't throw all these out at once.