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<DIV><FONT color=#ff0000 size=6 face=Impact><U>AVON THEATER EXTRA!
EXTRA!</U></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=5 face=Impact>The Avon's parking garage is OPEN starting today
at 5PM!!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>Yes, that's right. According to honchos at City
Hall, the refurb gremlins have just about completed their work, and the parking
garage across from the Avon will be open today for its regular
hours!!!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>(Those "regular hours" being Mon thru Fri AFTER 5
PM, and all day Saturday and Sunday---ADM has dibs on it the rest of the
time).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>So, this is a happy time!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>Remember, the work on the garage is not 100%
completed yet, so excuse any dust or slight inconvenience, but...IT IS OPEN!!
YAAAAAY!!<BR>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080 size=4 face=Arial>On a different subject, one of our
new movies, ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER (R) got the predictably smarmy
review this morning from the Decatur Herald & Review (and remember the chaps
at the H&R don't even SEE these movies to review, they merely pick a
review from a wire service---and, more often than not, the most negative
they can dig up)...</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080 size=4 face=Arial>Well, don't be swayed by the
perennial naysayers there, because the most respected film critic in
America, none other than ROGER EBERT, gave ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER a
whopping THREE STARS! </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080 size=4 face=Arial>What he said, to paraphrase, is to
"sneer all you want, but this was a lot of fun!".<BR>So, go ahead and sneer,
<U>but come and have fun</U> with ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER
(R).<BR>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>And that is ALL for my "Extra! Extra!" except as I
was driving home late last night, I noticed how nicely all the downtown work is
shaping up.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>This was a huge task, and there is more to come,
but it will make our downtown the envy of our neighbors!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>If you don't believe that statement, think about
this:<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>>Springfield has a wonderful downtown, but NO
theaters! They crazily tore all theirs down years ago! (And they are SOOO
SORRY!)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>>Champaign has a nice downtown, but their only
theaters are the constantly-struggling Art Theater, which by virtue of its
programming alone has a very narrow appeal, and the marvelous Virginia Theater,
which is a non-profit organization, thus limiting them greatly in how they can
operate.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>>Bloomington-Normal has the city-subsidized
Normal Theater, whose programming has even more narrow appeal than The Art's (if
that is possible).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>BUT...DECATUR??</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>Decatur has its TWO greatest theaters still
standing and operational!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>THE AVON is a for-profit, first-run
movie theater, and considered by many to be the best independently-owed
first-run theater in all of downstate Illinois!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>-and-</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>Decatur has the grand old Lincoln Theater, that has
been going through some tough times lately, but I feel confident will very soon
get another breath of life.<BR>Like the Virginia, the Lincoln is a non-profit
organization and wisely sticks to performing arts programming.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>SO, let the others sneer at Decatur, folks, but we
have many fabulous things going for us they can only <EM>wish
</EM>for!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>Come See Me This Weekend!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>I'm looking for you and you,
and...YOU!</FONT></DIV>
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