My friend Will W and I have a history of bad experiences in movie theaters with regard to patrons nearby.  I recently mailed him the neatly folded sister popcorn bag of the one used relentlessly by the person seated behind Stephen and me throughout ‘Asteroid City’ the other week.  I’d printed on the bag:

‘The Will & Dave Theatre Experience – Home Edition’.

Below is a text exchange this morning.

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“Stephen found Bruce LaBruce on Instagram this morning and passed him along to me.  A never-ending rabbit hole of film odds and ends, and what do I highlight here?  For all the well-deserved slings and arrows, ’The Greatest Story Ever Told’ had wonderful production/set design.  I saw it in Cinerama in 1965 with my friend Tony, who wanted to leave at intermission.  It has one of my favorite pans of all time, suggesting that the thuds of hardbound souvenir programs slipping off nodding audience members’ laps and hitting the floor, were all that enlivened the premiere.  If I’ve spoken the Shelley Winters line in the comments once, then it’s a thousand times.  I feel so validated!  Do you think seeing ‘TGSET’ in Cinerama rates with seeing ‘Oppenheimer’ on 70mm film;-)  Also on my resume: seeing ‘Reflections in a Golden Eye’ with Greek subtitles.  I think I may start an Instagram of my own and call it Dave’s Soiled Retina.”