My acquaintance with film goes back along way. When I was very small, my grandmother got a job at the Century Theater at Sixth and Erie. She used to take me with her. Mr. Hirsch, the owner, was very kind to me, andi I believe he let my family in for free. Then we moved away in 1949. But in college one of my friends was Dick Corliss. He was the film of the college newspaper that I was the editor of. We went to lots of movies. Those were the days of the French Nouvelle Vague. So we saw alot of Truffaut, Godard, Varda, Rohmer. Dick went onto to become the movie for Time. I once introduced introduce Umberto Eco auther of The Name of the Rose, which was made into a major film at the Philadelphia Library. We had a wonderful time taling afterwards at the bar across the street in the hotel he was staying at. Ah, those were the days.
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