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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:red'>ONE OF THE YEAR’S BEST!! AN AWESOME WWII EPIC!!<br>NOW IN ITS 3rd BIG WEEK!!<br></span></b><img width=452 height=132 id="_x0000_i1033" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D30BD1.1E42EFD0" alt=DUNKIRKbanner.bmp><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Impact","sans-serif"'><img width=447 height=89 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D30BD1.1E42EFD0" alt="cid:image001.jpg@01D1C668.61DC48E0"></span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Impact","sans-serif"'>WEEK OF FRIDAY, <span style='color:red'>AUGUST 4th </span><span style='color:black'>thru</span> THURSDAY, <span style='color:red'>AUGUST 10th </span><span style='color:black'>ONLY!!</span></span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Papyrus'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:teal'><br>Check out our website at: </span><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'><a href="http://www.TheAvon.com">www.TheAvon.com</a></span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br></span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:red'>NOTE: PLEASE PAY CAREFUL ATTENTION TO THE <br>ABOVE EFFECTIVE DATES FOR THIS NEWSLETTER!!</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:#002060;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'>Trouble Seeing the Pictures in the Newsletter??<br>Make sure your email browser is set to “html”, not “text only”.</span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:maroon'><br> </span></b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheAvonTheatre"><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=149 height=45 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D30BD1.1E42EFD0" alt="cid:image002.jpg@01D1C668.61DC48E0"></span></b></a><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>CLICK ABOVE TO GO TO OUR VITAL FACEBOOK PAGE!!<br>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br></span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>OUR “QUICK LOOK” SHOWTIMES<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><h1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:60.0pt;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";font-weight:normal'><img border=0 width=322 height=255 id="_x0000_i1030" src="cid:image006.jpg@01D30BD4.356B8ED0" alt=CELEBRATION2017.bmp></span><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";font-weight:normal'><br>++++++++++++++++++++++</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#C0504D'><br>THE INCREDIBLE TRUE WWII STORY!!<br></span><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>THE BIGGEST MOVIE EVENT OF THE SUMMER!!!<br></span></i><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><img border=0 width=268 height=427 id="Picture_x0020_5" src="cid:image004.jpg@01D30BD1.1E42EFD0" alt=DUNKIRKmain.JPG></span></i><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><br></span></i><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>DUNKIRK</span></u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> (PG13)<br></span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:white'>Acclaimed auteur Christopher Nolan directs this World War II thriller about the evacuation of Allied troops from the French city of Dunkirk before Nazi forces can take hold. Tom Hardy, Kenneth Branagh and Mark Rylance co-star, with longtime Nolan collaborator Hans Zimmer providing the score.<br></span><span class=subtle><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#787878;background:#FEF7CD'>Critics Consensus:</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#333333;background:#FEF7CD'> </span></span><em><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:#FEF7CD'>Dunkirk </span></em><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:#FEF7CD'>serves up emotionally satisfying spectacle, delivered by a writer-director in full command of his craft and brought to life by a gifted ensemble cast that honors the fact-based story.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:white'><br></span><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>DUNKIRK</span></u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> (PG13)<br></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:red'>FRI, SAT, SUN CLOSED FOR DECATUR CELEBRATION</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><br>MON thru THURS: 6:30<i><br></i>++++++++++++++++++++++++<br>HELD OVER!!!<br>HIGHLY ACCLAIMED TRUE STORY OF CANADIAN FOLK ARTIST MAUD LEWIS<br></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:white'><img border=0 width=301 height=436 id="Picture_x0020_10" src="cid:image005.jpg@01D30BD1.1E42EFD0" alt=MAUDIE.JPG></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class=MsoNormal><b><u><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>MAUDIE</span></u></b> <b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:white'>(PG13)<br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#073763'>MAUDIE, based on a true story, is an unlikely romance in which the reclusive Everett Lewis (Ethan Hawke) hires a fragile yet determined woman named Maudie (Sally Hawkins) to be his housekeeper. Maudie, bright-eyed but hunched with crippled hands, yearns to be independent, to live away from her protective family and she also yearns, passionately, to create art. Unexpectedly, Everett finds himself falling in love. MAUDIE charts Everett's efforts to protect himself from being hurt, Maudie's deep and abiding love for this difficult man and her surprising rise to fame as a folk painter.</span></b><span style='color:#073763'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=m5852235675306097005gmail-subtle><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#073763'>Critics Consensus:</span></i></span><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#073763'> </span></i><em><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#073763;font-style:normal'>Maudie</span></em><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#073763'>'s talented cast -- particularly Sally Hawkins in the title role – breathe... depth into a story of a fascinating life and talent.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>MAUDIE</span></u></b><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> (PG13)<br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:red'>FRI, SAT, SUN CLOSED FOR DECATUR CELEBRATION</span></b><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><br>MON thru THURS: 7:15</span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><br>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br></span></b><em><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black;font-style:normal'>STARTS MONDAY!!</span></b></em><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><br><em><u><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";font-style:normal'>DETROIT</span></u></em><em><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";font-style:normal'> (R)</span></em><br></span></b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><img border=0 width=271 height=402 id="Picture_x0020_12" src="cid:image009.jpg@01D30BD1.1E42EFD0" alt=DETROIT.JPG></span><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><u><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>DETROIT</span></u></b><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> (R)<br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#073763'>From the Academy Award winning director of THE HURT LOCKER and ZERO DARK THIRTY, DETROIT tells the gripping story of one of the darkest moments during the civil unrest that rocked Detroit in the summer of '67</span></b><span style='color:#073763'>.<br></span><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:red'>FRI, SAT, SUN CLOSED FOR DECATUR CELEBRATION</span></b><span style='color:#073763'><br></span><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>MON thru THURS: 7:15</span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><img border=0 width=60 height=67 id="Picture_x0020_18" src="cid:image007.jpg@01D30BD1.1E42EFD0" alt=SKIPPY2016.JPG></span></b><b><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br>RANTS, RAVES & RAMBLINGS FROM THE HEAD HONCHO<br></span></u></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>I guess you can surmise the decision has been made to CLOSE on this FRI, SAT, SUN for Decatur Celebration.<br>With all the hoo-hah about the <b><i><u>entire downtown being fenced off</u></i></b>, and admission being charged <i>(in the form of a wristband, that is actually very reasonably priced)</i>, Susan and I just thought we’d be better off sitting this one out…<br>We’ll take a rare weekend off together, and get out of town for some good ole R & R.<br>We will miss all of you, but we’ll be back open on Monday when the “occupying forces” have been cleared out of downtown for another year.<br><b>If you come down to Celebration, please have a good time!!</b><br>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'>T<em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-style:normal'>he Avon Theater has been YOUR locally owned, family-operated 'hometown theater' for OVER 100 Years!!</span></em><br></span></b><em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;font-style:normal'>NOW IN OUR 19<sup>th</sup> YEAR!! 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