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- From: annie@garnet.berkeley.edu (Anne Jessop)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
- Subject: Re: TOP TEN MOVIES, as of 23 December 1993
- Date: 3 Jan 1993 01:32:50 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- In article <1993Jan2.170246.16610@cbnewse.cb.att.com> gmark@cbnewse.cb.att.com (gilbert.m.stewart) writes:
- >
- >Lastly, I expect Spike Lee will be claiming racism as the reason
- >for poor box-office showing as part of his usual antics, but frankly,
- >I don't think he's got nearly as much to worry about as he would have
- >in those pre-video years.
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- Actually, he already has made some insinuations, if not outright
- accusations, along these lines. I'm not dure of the exact date, but in
- the _SF Chronicle_ I think the week or so before Christmas, there was a
- story about X's declining ticket sales, which said that what was actually
- happening was that the ticket computers were screwing up, so you could go
- plonk down your $7 (or $3.50) for X and get a ticket stub for some other
- flick. Since the ticket computers are used to compile the lists of who's
- seeing what (and therefore top ten lists, gross sales, etc), X's place was
- supposedly far lower than it should have been (and probably HA2 and Aladdin
- and the Amazing Ducks were way higher than _they_ should have been.)
- This happened in I think only the Northeast but maybe elsewhere. And
- Spike remarked in this article that he thought there were racial/racist
- reasons for this, so that it would _look_ like X was doing poorly and
- would thus get yanked off screens sooner.
- Sorry for the fuzziness of details, but that's an accurate gist of the
- article.
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- annie
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