Lights, Camera, Action: Tinseltown comes to Erie by Jen MacKinnon staff writer Tinseltown, the movie theater located on Peach Street which opened approximately a year and a half ago provides entertainment to those in the Erie community. According to Julie Davis, 05, Accounting, "Tinseltown is a nice place to go and relax and take a break from studying. The employees are very friendly and helpful." Tinseltown has seventeen theaters. This enables you to choose from a wide range of movies. Davis comments, "I prefer a larger theater because it provides a greater movie selection." Tinseltown is also air conditioned. So be prepared to be cold in the theater. Salvador Geraci, concession manager stated,"A lot of people think that the theater is cheap compared to other areas. In New York City, it costs $9.00 to go to a movie whereas here it is $3.75 for a matinee or $5.75 in The Gathering Field: Da've Brown, Bill Deasy, Eric Riebling, Ray DeFade ACROSS 1 Boisterous play 5 Used the pool 9 Swiftly 14 Opera highlight 15 Musical group 16 Kind of eclipse 17 Lots and lots 18 Peel 19 Inclines 20 Wallet items 21 Intact 23 Kind of blanket 24 Container for feed 26 Disapproving cry 27 de guerre 28 Musical work 33 Falls behind 35 A pronoun 36 Toward the sheltered side 37 Secretes 38 Be victorious 39 Go slowly 40 General Bradley 41 Ice mass, for short 42 Love god 43 Something precious 45 Composer Delibes 46 Prov. in Can. 47 Champs' flag 51 Meas. of heat 54 They foot the bills 56 Brainstorm 57 Usher's beat 59 Go quickly - 60 Reputation 61 Furtive one 62 Claret, e.g. 63 Skeletal part 64 Ibsen's Gabler 65 Wonderful thing 66 Meeting: abbr. DOWN 1 Boca -2 City in Maine 3 Excavations 4 Ticketholders 5 Flow of water 6 Twist 7 " Misbehavir the evening. We also have special discounts for children and senior citizens." Tinseltown provides a large city atmosphere. It does this by the neon lighting that is used on the inside and outside of the building. Not only can you go to Tinseltown to see a movie, but you can also have a meal there or play video games in the arcade. Many children have their birthday parties at Tinseltown. Since, it has a variety of things to do, it attracts people of all ages. Tinseltown provides a family atmosphere. When Tinseltown first opened it planned to show art films. Tinseltown shows these films once or twice a month for about a week. According to Brianne Hackenberg, box office employee, "the movies are not played that often because they do not get enough business." Then she added, "As a whole it is good to only play them for a short period of time because Tinseltown does not make 0 1997 Tribune Media Services, Inc All rights reserved. Making changes in Resting American writer "There ought to be —I" Woody stem Formerly, once Edges Office VIP County in England • Concordant Spread for toast -do-well Slangy affirmative A fruit 29 30 31 32 34 " Bede" 35 Gun of a certain caliber 37 Swine 39 City in Normandy 41 fide 44 A state capital ANSWERS NEXT PAGE 45 Maddox 47 Inclined 48 Make confused 49 Bright signs 50 " Bulba" enough money. I feel bad for the people that do want to watch them because they get upset." Dr. Juan Fernandez, Spanish professor, stated, "I wish that American movie houses would be opened to see more art and foreign films. We are deprived of the art of film making in foreign countries/ cultures." Mrs. Eve Sawatsky, History instructor, commented, "I would like to see more art films because I have a degree in Art History. Everywhere I go that is my major interest." Tinseltown is permitted to show whatever movies they want except for pornography films. Tinseltown is also popular with its employees. There are approximately one hundred people employed there. "I like all of the people here. It is an interesting job because you have the opportunity to meet different kinds of people," said employee Brianne 51 Strike 52 Fork part 53 Secondhand 55 Ireland 58 Youngster Features photo by Mike Nies With the wide selection of films in comfortable and setting, the Tinseltown parking lot is rarely this empty. Hackenberg. She also stated that she feels, "the management is extremely nice, and [all are] able to see movies for free." For students wanting to reach Tinseltown, the blue bus is available Gathering Field plays at Homecoming "You wanted 'em, you got 'ern." With that, Behrend Director of Stu dent Activities Chris Rizzo intro duced Atlantic Recording artists The Gathering Field to kick off Homecoming '97. The packed Reed Commons roared in anticipa tion for the latest in an ever grow ing list of Pittsburgh based bands receiving national exposure. Fol lowing in the footsteps of groups like The Clarks and Brownie Mary, The Gathering Field expresses the "Steel-City" version of good old fashioned guitar rock; a sound that has been noticeably lacking in mu sic over the last couple of years. The show opened with a series of unreleased songs, the first of which was written by front man Bill Deasy and lead guitarist Dave Brown before The Gathering Field Bonfire and literature reading an extreme success On Thursday, October 16, fellow lovers of literature gathered in the Wilson Picnic Grove for the first an nual Fall Bonfire and Literature Read ing. Sponsored by Roundtable Soci ety, this event invited students and faculty to read and listen to works of literature that are particularly special or of personal importance to them. Poems, fiction, children's stories, per sonal essays, and quotes were shared, as students and faculty read or recited aloud writing of their own or of a fa vorite writer. Roundtable Society Treasurer Robin Clarke, 05, English/Creative by John Amorose staff writer eels photogra i - \ - 7 - H . II ,■ Kristi McKim features editor Thursday, October 23, 1997 The Behrend College Collegian - Page 9 if they do not have their own transportation. Tinseltown is owned by the Cinemark theaters. "Cinemark is based in Dallas; therefore, [we have) a lot of theaters in Texas. The theaters was formed. The band followed up with several soon to be recorded songs such as "My Serenity" and "Famous Last Words", neither of which have been been performed live until Friday night. This was a gutsy move by the band, and im pressed me a great deal. If the songs would have bombed, the en tire show could have been tainted and soon ignored by the often fickle Behrend audience. But all of the new pieces were recieved with loud ovations. The band then moved on to vari ous crowd favorites from their 1996 album Lost in America . Included in this mix was the soulful, yet ex tremely sappy Win You Back Suzanne ; a seven minute plea to his darling Suzanne which to me was more like a musical root canal than an effective love song. It was at this point, roughly a half hour into the show, that I lost interest in The Coll Writing, was extremely pleased with the turnout of nearly forty people to this event: "there were more people than I have ever seen for a Roundtable Society event and a more diverse mix of people, in terms of majors, ethnic backgrounds, and genders." Students gathered around the fire to hear better the spoken words, as well as catch a bit of warmth from the fire. As Roundtable Society Secre tary Kerry Hinkson, 04, English/Cre ative Writing., gushed, "the atmo sphere was extremely friendly and open. Some students who had origi nally felt too shy to read soon felt comfortable enough to share their are primarily in the south and the northeast. The closest theater besides the Erie location is in Rochester or Youngsville. The theaters are always expanding," said Geraci Roilrbach, usher manager. the performance. Although the band is quite talented in the music they perform, the songs became mundane and a little bit repetitive. Bill Deasy's sometimes whiny lyr ics, especially in the slower songs, lulled me into a boredom-induced coma. The saving point for the show was the electrifying guitar solos of Dave Brown which were gratuitously inserted into every song. The show, though, was a re sounding success for Chris Rizzo and all who were involved with its planning. The partially inebriated Homecoming crowd hung on ev ery repining word that Bill Deasy spewed at them until the band left the stage. On my classes-I'd-skip to-go-see-them scale, The Gather ing Field recieved a disappointing 1 out of a possible 5 (and it wouldn't be an important class!). 898 work with the crowd." Clarke also recognized this, as she was "most pleased with the fact that people were talking to each other that normally would never have an opportunity to speak; they were sharing their own writings and writing that was impor tant to them in a forum that normally doesn't get to happen here. I hope that this will continue in the future." With the level of interest generated from this well-attended and appreci ated event, Roundtable Society is in the process of organizing further such opportunities for students and faculty to share their writing.
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