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Author Topic: The Last Picture Show FOR REAL! Dave Bird Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 777 From: Perth, Ontario, Canada Registered: Jun 2000 posted 03-09-2003 12:07 PM                        Archer City theater finally shows "The Last Picture Show" FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) After more than 30 years, ``The Last Picture Show'' is finally coming to the screen it made famous. The Royal Theater burned down a few years before filmmakers came to Archer City, so they used a temporary facade. The building wasn't restored until 2000, when some locals raised money and turned it into an amphitheater and community arts center. The 1971 movie, based on the novel by Archer City native Larry McMurtry, is to be shown in its original 35 mm format Thursday and Friday nights at the Royal. The event was scheduled for last fall, 30 years after the film's release, but was postponed after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. ``We do one major fund-raiser a year, and we thought this was timely,'' said John Muzyka, who is producing the event. He said he expects the 235-seat theater to sell out both nights. Tickets are $5 and go on sale two hours before the 8 p.m. shows. McMurtry, who won a Pulitzer Prize for ``Lonesome Dove,'' is to host the Thursday screening. Actors Jeff Bridges and Loyd Catlett, who portrayed high school students in the film, are to host the Friday screening. As part of the festivities, the Larry McMurtry Center for the Arts and Humanities is to present Cloris Leachman with a lifetime achievement award during a dinner Saturday. Leachman, who has won seven Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe, won an Academy Award for best supporting actress in ``The Last Picture Show.'' Ben Johnson won for best supporting actor. The black-and-white film nabbed six other Oscar nominations, including for best film. Director Peter Bogdanovich is scheduled to attend the sold-out gala Saturday at the Royal Theater. Proceeds from the movie and $100-per-person dinner will go to the theater's fund. The film was set in a fictitious town called Anarene that bears striking resemblance to Archer City, a town of about 1,800 people some 30 miles south of Wichita Falls and 100 miles northwest of Fort Worth. Many residents frowned on the movie, which shows Cybill Shepherd in a skinny-dipping scene and depicts the love affair between the coach's wife, played by Leachman, and one of her husband's teen-age students, played by Timothy Bottoms. But as society's definition of taboo has changed through the decades, most people in the community now happily embrace the film as their claim to fame, Muzyka said. Among those planning to stand in line for a ticket is Marilyn Church, who works at Booked Up, a store specializing in rare and used books, first editions and out-of-print publications. McMurtry opened the store in his hometown in the late 1980s. ``We're beginning to get excited about it,'' Church said. ``I'm really more interested in meeting Jeff (Bridges) and Cloris (Leachman).''  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 03-09-2003 12:25 PM                     Hmmm. Seeing as how I live only about an hour's drive north of Archer City, I may have to go check out the event.  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 03-09-2003 09:09 PM                     The article doesn't state the dates of the shows! I'll be in Texas later this month. If you go, Bobby, take pictures for us!  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 03-10-2003 02:10 AM                        Dave, would you have a link to that article?  |  IP: Logged Dave Bird Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 777 From: Perth, Ontario, Canada Registered: Jun 2000 posted 03-11-2003 03:29 PM                        Sorry, I'm not sure how I got there. I had sent the text via e-mail and thought y'all might want to know, so I patched the text over. It was one of those things I followed 27 links to, can't remember where it came from.....  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 03-11-2003 04:07 PM                     Bah! Admit it, Dave, you got it from a porn site!  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 03-11-2003 04:36 PM                        No Adam, that's where YOU get all your info for Cinemawhore.com.  |  IP: Logged Dave Bird Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 777 From: Perth, Ontario, Canada Registered: Jun 2000 posted 03-12-2003 09:09 AM                        Porn? Wassat? That was easy, typed the title of article into google and...... still don't see a date on it though... http://www.savvycenter.com/explorer/news/lastpicshow.htm  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 03-12-2003 11:14 AM                     Well, that's one way to increase pageviews on the CT forums. There's no mention at all of the Last Picture Show event on the theater's website.  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 03-12-2003 11:42 AM                        Judging by the timeline given in the article I'd guess that the event was held in early-mid 2002, since it was originally supposed to occur during the fall of 2001 - the 30th anniversary. quote: Well, that's one way to increase pageviews on the CT forums. Every penny I pick up is going towards registering that domain for ya!  |  IP: Logged

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