M: What’s Showing? (Reader Comments and Addenda)
Ranjit writes that a road rally he was once in included the clue "Turn right at Sleeping Crimson." He explains: "Turned out to be a movie theater showing While You Were Sleeping and Crimson Tide. I never saw those movies, but the mysteriously evocative phrase 'sleeping crimson' has stuck with me ever since. I considered using it for my web site name, but moonmilk is so much shorter..."
Jeff Hildebrand mentions seeing "After Dark My Sweet Presumed Innocent" on a marquee. And Melissa Shaner found "Flubber Apostle."
Stewart Evan provides a couple of marquee juxtapositions from Santa Cruz. Some years back, at the Riverfront Twin, he saw
Accidental Tourist |
Farewell to the King |
Ah, yes, "Accidental Farewell to the Tourist King," that classic of American cinema. This year, Stewart saw a "juxtaposition that suggested that the guy putting up letters had forgotten titles and was putting up plot summaries":
Something
About Mary
Saving Private
Ryan
(Last updated: 10 January 1999)