From: mshaw@panix.com   
      
   J.D. Baldwin  wrote:   
   > In the previous article, Mark Shaw   wrote:   
      
   > >     In "Harold and Maude," which became a beloved and enduring cult   
   > >     classic despite a rocky start at the box office, Cort played a   
   > >     20-year old man obsessed by thoughts of suicide whose life   
   > >     changes when he meets Maude, a 79-year-old Holocaust survivor   
   > >     played by Ruth Gordon.   
      
   > That picture ran for, like, two years at one Minneapolis theater   
   > (where I first saw it). I vaguely remember Ruth Gordon showing up   
   > there for the one-year anniversary. And this wasn't a multiplex:  it   
   > was a theater with one screen, and that is what they showed, twice   
   > every evening and a few more showings on weekends.   
      
   My first stateside girlfriend (and later short-term fiance) dragged   
   me to a showing of that. I thought it was quirky as all hell and   
   enjoyed it quite a bit. She also dragged me to a midnight showing   
   of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, which (along with the antics of   
   the audience) puzzled me no end. But she liked it, so so did I.   
      
   I could never get anyone else interested in watching H&M, though -   
   to a person, the'd heard that it was a "cult film" and dismissed it.   
      
   Oh well. De gustibus non est disputandum.   
      
   --   
   Mark Shaw                                        moc TOD liamg TA wahsnm   
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                        "Anyway, we delivered the bomb."   
      
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