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<DIV><FONT face=Impact size=6><U>AVON THEATRE NEWS & VIEWS</U></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Georgia><STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff><EM><FONT
face=Papyrus>Showtimes, Programs, Erudition and Miscellaneous
Folderol</FONT></EM> </FONT></STRONG><FONT face=Papyrus><BR><FONT face=Impact
size=5>WEEK OF FRIDAY, <FONT color=#ff0000>MARCH 23rd</FONT> thru
THURSDAY, <FONT color=#ff0000>MARCH 30th</FONT> ONLY!!</FONT>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#ff0000 size=4><STRONG>OPENING FRIDAY:
<BR><FONT color=#000000><U>SHOOTER</U> (R) <FONT size=2>Starring Mark Walhberg
and Danny Glover</FONT></FONT><BR><BR></STRONG></FONT><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"
color=#ff0000 size=4><STRONG>CONTINUING:</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#ff0000 size=4><STRONG><FONT
color=#000000><U>PREMONITION</U> (PG13) <FONT size=2>Starring Sandra
Bullock<BR></FONT><FONT size=4><U>300</U> (R)</FONT></FONT></STRONG><FONT
face="Rockwell Extra Bold"><STRONG><FONT color=#000000> <FONT
face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Starring Gerard Butler and a Cast of
Gazillions
</FONT></FONT></STRONG><BR><BR></FONT><STRONG>SPECIAL EVENT:<BR><FONT
color=#000000><FONT size=2>Saturday, 10:30 PM ONLY<BR></FONT><U>ALBERT FISH</U>
(NR)</FONT> <FONT color=#000000 size=2>One-Show-Only with the film's director
John Borowski and Troy Taylor
hosting</FONT> </STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#ff0000 size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#ff0000 size=4><STRONG>COMING NEXT
WEEK:<BR><FONT color=#000000>???? </FONT></STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff size=4>+++++HELP WANTED+++++HELP
WANTED++++++</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff size=4>We have openings for Summer
staff!!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff size=4>If you have a student who
would just be lazing around</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff size=4>this Summer, send them to
us!!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff size=4>Many of our regular staff
will be leaving for the</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff size=4>Summer, <U>and we need
people</U>!!!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff size=4>APPLY IN PERSON--NO PHONE
CALLS!!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff size=4>We would prefer 18 years
old at least, but will</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff size=4>consider 16 or 17 year-olds
on a case-by-case basis.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff size=4><STRONG>MUST WORK NIGHTS
AND WEEKENDS!!!<BR>NO EXCEPTIONS!!</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff
size=4>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Georgia size=4><STRONG><U>SHOOTER</U> (R) </STRONG><FONT
size=3><STRONG><FONT size=2>I really like government conspiracy films. From as
far back as I can remember, they have been among my favorite type of movies.
This one, starring Mark Walhberg and Danny Glover, looks like a real doozy!
Let's let one of my favorite film critics, Chuck Koplinski from Champaign-Urbana
tell you about it in his review today in the Illinois Times:</FONT></STRONG>
<DIV class=para70><SPAN class=text287><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>Shooter
</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=para70><SPAN class=text288><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>Running time 2:05
</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=para70><SPAN class=text288><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>Rated R
</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=para70><FONT size=2><FONT face=Tahoma><SPAN
class=text289>Shooter</SPAN><SPAN class=text288> finds Marine sharpshooter
Bob Lee Swagger (Mark Wahlberg) in Africa, covering the retreat of an elite
American unit that’s returning from a classified mission. Though he’s able
to hit his targets from as far as a mile away, his location is compromised, his
partner is killed, and he’s left behind enemy lines to fend for himself.
Fast-forward three years, and we find Swagger living in the Rocky
Mountains, bitter over the way his comrades left him to die and cynical about
the American government in general. Col. Isaac Johnson (Danny Glover) knows
Swagger’s mindset, yet tracks him down to ask whether he’ll do a service for his
country: foil a plot to assassinate the president. Reluctantly Swagger agrees,
only to be framed for the crime. </SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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All of this occurs during the film’s tautly constructed first half-hour,
and what follows is Swagger’s desperate attempt to clear his name with the help
of some unlikely allies. His slain partner’s fiancée, Sarah (Kate Mara), proves
tough and smart — a welcome respite from the usual portrayal of women in films
of this sort. Equally inventive is the addition of FBI agent Nick Memphis
(Michael Peña), who tries to salvage his reputation at the agency after letting
Swagger slip through his fingers on the day of the assassination. In trying to
crack the case, he concocts his own conspiracy theory, realizes that Swagger is
innocent, and actually tries to help him clear his name. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=para70><FONT size=2><FONT face=Tahoma><SPAN class=text288>
Although all of this is highly entertaining, it’s the political ax that
the film grinds throughout that makes it intriguing. There’s no question
about where director Antoine Fuqua; Wahlberg; Stephen Hunter, writer of the
novel on which </SPAN><SPAN class=text289>Shooter</SPAN><SPAN class=text288> is
based; and screenwriter Jonathan Lemkin stand with regard to their view of the
current government. When Swagger is asked to help protect the president,
he replies, “I don’t really like the president that much.” It’s a sentiment most
of us, in the real world, can understand. </SPAN><SPAN
class=text289>Shooter</SPAN><SPAN class=text288> is not only a superbly made
actioner but also a mirror of our fractured, bitter societal mindset. Now that’s
what I call exciting filmmaking. Chuck Koplinski for the Illinois
Times</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=para70><FONT size=2><SPAN class=text288><STRONG>Sounds good, huh?
Check out the trailer click-on link right here (broadband connection
suggested): <A
href="http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809733437/trailer">http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809733437/trailer</A></STRONG></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic" size=2><STRONG><FONT
size=4><U>SHOOTER</U></FONT> (R)<BR><FONT size=4>FRI: (4:00) -
7:00</FONT></STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic" size=4><STRONG>SAT & SUN: (1:00) - (4:00) -
7:00</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic" size=4><STRONG>MON,TUES, WED & THURS:
6:45</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face="Century Gothic"
size=4>_________________________________________________________</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4><U>PREMONITION</U> (PG13) </FONT>Sandra Bullock in an
eerie tale that will have you guessing until the end! Can you change fate? Is it
wise to even try? What if you knew that something terrible was going to happen
in the future to a loved one??</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG>Would you do anything and everything you could to alter that
course?? Come see for yourself.</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic" size=2><STRONG><FONT
size=4><U>PREMONITION</U></FONT> (PG13)</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic" size=4><STRONG>FRI: (5:00) -
8:00</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic" size=4><STRONG>SAT & SUN: (2:00) - (5:00) -
8:00</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic" size=4><STRONG>MON, TUES, WED & THURS:
7:20</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic"
size=4><STRONG>_________________________________________________________</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Georgia size=4><STRONG><U>300</U> (R) <FONT size=2>You better
climb into your chariot and get down to see this one, because it leaves THIS
WEEK!! This stunning chronicle of the 300 Spartans back in 480 B.C., and their
brave stand against a whole lot more of Persians, is everything you have heard
it is, and more!</FONT></STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Georgia><STRONG>(and, by the way, we see more and more women
coming to see it too---for reasons you will have find out for
yourself).</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic" size=4><STRONG><U>300</U> (R)<BR>FRI: (5:15) -
8:15</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic" size=4><STRONG>SAT & SUN: (2:15) - (5:15) -
8:15</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic" size=4><STRONG>MON, TUES & WED:
7:15<BR></DIV></STRONG>
<DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic"
size=4><STRONG>_________________________________________________________<BR><FONT
face=Georgia>SATURDAY, March 24th @ 10:30 PM</FONT></STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Georgia><STRONG><U>ALBERT FISH</U> (NR)</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Georgia size=3><STRONG>The bone-chilling documentary on
America's first serial killer!</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Georgia size=3><STRONG>Meet the director, John Borowski
in-person!!</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Georgia size=3><STRONG>Hosted by author Troy
Taylor!!<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Hot Dogs are
selling like...well, hot-cakes!!</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Georgia size=3><STRONG>That's right, THE AVON now has
HOT-DOGS!!</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Georgia size=3><STRONG>They are really good ones
too!</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Georgia size=3><STRONG><EM>All-Beef BallPark
Franks!!</EM></STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Georgia size=3><STRONG>So, now you can finally have some real
food at The Avon!</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Georgia size=2><EM>(and since <U>none</U> of our downtown
restaurants have chosen to be open</EM></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Georgia size=2><EM>on Sundays, that means there now IS someplace
to get more than just </EM></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Georgia size=2><EM>popcorn and candy in downtown on that
day!)</EM></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Georgia size=3><STRONG>NACHOS ARE COMING SOON
TOO!!</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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size=2><EM>_________________________________________________________________<BR><BR><FONT
face=Papyrus><FONT size=4><FONT color=#0000ff><STRONG>Come See Me This
Weekend!!<BR>I'll be Looking for You and You and
YOU!!!!</STRONG></FONT></FONT></FONT></EM></FONT></DIV><FONT face=Georgia
size=2><EM><FONT face=Papyrus><FONT size=4><FONT
color=#0000ff><STRONG></STRONG></FONT></FONT></FONT></EM></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic" size=4><FONT face=Georgia size=2><EM><FONT
face=Papyrus><FONT size=4><FONT color=#0000ff><STRONG>-Skip</STRONG>
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