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Into the
nineteen eighties and a new threat to the old picture palace rears its head.
Read about the change of management as the ageing Highland hands over the reins
to the marvellously feisty Irene Mackenzie. Discover the effect of DVD, the
Internet, Sky television and the eccentric new owner John Angel - a Rocky Horror
devotee from way back!
Dream Race 2000, Or The
Order Of The Phoenix?
The Port
Street picture palace limps into the new millennium, the unsympathetic owner
under growing pressure from the citizens of Evesham to restore the Regal to its
glorious best.
Instead,
with a fluctuating heating system, a leaky roof and shabby décor the Regal
becomes the epitome of the cinema in the 1957 British comedy 'The Smallest
Picture Show' - as clichéd and romantic as that!
Finally,
'SHAZAM!' brings the saga bang up to date with the Theatre of Dreams teetering
on the brink, as the latest owners lock horns with the local authority over
re-development. No matinee hero ever experienced a cliff-hanger ending like
this...
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