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Why I love C-Span...
Because last night during somebody's speech -- Barack Obama's sister's, Jesse Jackson Jr'.s , maybe -- the folks in the control room had a good-ol' time looking for something, anything. interesting to show. My favorite random shot was of some delegates mobbing Spike Lee on the convention floor. He stopped, posed for pictures, looked happy. It was a rare moment of spontaneous entertainment in an oddly packaged evening. One wonders whether Lee considered shooting the convention film of Obama before Thursday night's speech. The job actually went to Davis "An Inconvenient Truth" Guggenheim.
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People at the Cinema Treasures Website say that when the Circle opened, halls 1&2 were actually one big theater. It probably wasn't a bad place to see a movie back then. I remember that the small back theaters were not too bad before they were twinned into shoeboxes some time in the 1980s.
But this is the theater that wouldn't die. Because of its proximity to BC, and a short trolley ride for BU students, the people kept coming until the Fenway opened up. I remember right up into the 1990s shows would frequently sell out and lines were long with an insane lack of parking. It really showed that location and convenience could trump quality of presentation.
But the cinderblock bunkers of the 1960s and 1970s that National Amusements built are finally being taken down. Dedham was torn down earlier this year, and now the Circle, one of the last. But while Dedham is being replaced with a sparkly new movie palace, the Circle, alas, will not be, leaving a void in the neighborhood.