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New York
\nApril 8, 2011<\/h2>\n

Friday!<\/p>\n

Tonight I\u2019m going out with Gail Dennison, one of my oldest friends and one of the first friends I made when I moved to New York in 1979.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"That<\/a>
That Gail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Gail is a riotously funny actress and comic performer.\u00a0 She also teaches at the American Musical and Drama Academy here in New York.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re trying to figure out a movie to go see.\u00a0 I\u2019m not having much luck selling her on Hanna<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Evidently Your Highness<\/em><\/strong> and the remake of Arthur<\/em><\/strong> are both awful, so I\u2019ve just sent her a raft of suggestions.\u00a0 The problem with being my movie buddy is that I go to the movies four times more often than most people.\u00a0 This causes a real problem when you want to go to a movie with me.<\/p>\n

The problem?\u00a0 It\u2019s this: Normal movie lovers — I\u2019m talking about those increasingly rare weirdos who, like me, like to see films in the traditional way, that is, in a public movie theater —\u00a0 have a short list of movies in their heads that they\u2019d\u00a0 really like to see.\u00a0 As time passes, and their chance to see these films pass by when the titles leave the first-run theaters, newer titles take their place.\u00a0 It\u2019s a constantly readjusting short list that they almost unconsciously maintain.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m the same way, except I\u2019m the on-steroids version.\u00a0 I have twenty titles in my list, and \u2013 here\u2019s the kicker \u2013 I actually go see the movies on my list<\/em>.\u00a0 I know, crazy, right?\u00a0 Most of the time, movies leave my list not because it\u2019s too late to see them in a theater, but because I\u2019ve seen them and crosses them off the list.<\/p>\n

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Central Park West rises behind the lake.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So say you\u2019re my friend, and you like movies and you want to make a movie playdate with me.\u00a0 It\u2019s a drag, because you\u2019re almost guaranteed to have this problem:\u00a0 Any possible title on your list is a movie I\u2019ve crossed off mine weeks ago.\u00a0 I\u2019ve already worked my way down to that hilarious Pakistani soccer comedy and the documentary on the bed bug plague.\u00a0 And you still want to see Inception<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 It\u2019s a problem.\u00a0 Unless you want to go to a specialty screening, the only way our movie lists can intersect and find a happy match is if we go see a movie that just opened this week.\u00a0 Or, preferably, just opened today.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Oh, dear. Since, let's face it, it's an enema they're talking about, am I justfied in being concerned about what specific "loose weight" they are talking about? Ew?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sorry about that, everyone.\u00a0 It\u2019s just part of the price you pay for being my friend.<\/p>\n

Now:\u00a0 What time shall we meet to see the six-hour director\u2019s cut of Heaven\u2019s Gate<\/em><\/strong>?<\/p>\n

Great Places in Los Angeles and New York to See A Cool Movie That\u2019s Not Brand-New or Utterly Mainstream<\/h4>\n
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  • The NuArt<\/li>\n
  • The New Beverly<\/li>\n
  • Film Forum<\/li>\n
  • Cinema Village<\/li>\n
  • The American Cinemateque at the Egyptian and the Aero<\/li>\n
  • The Museum of Modern Art<\/li>\n
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art<\/li>\n
  • Silent Movie<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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