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Where Would We Be Without the Cedar-Lee?
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I miss the Cedar-Lee so much!!! Moved to Alabama from Cl. Hts. 5 years ago - our closest art house is in Montgomery and they only show half art stuff, mostly mainstream, and 50 minutes away anyway... alas. Thanks for the good memories!
i was in bed with my wife reading so i missed these cutting edge must see movies. These sound like some love you lots movies. I hope these movies make it the local Loews and may be i will catch a Saturday matinee and buy a big box of DOTS. mfh
Thanks for visiting all the way from Alabama, Susan. Always nice to hear from expat Clevelanders. Lord knows, there are so many of them.
Great movies, awful theatres (result of chopping place into smaller rooms years back). i'll wait for the dvds...
(are there any decent theatres around anymore?)
I quite agree that it's depressing to have these wonderful old movie houses chopped into smaller units. Worst of all is what was done to the grandest of the local movie palaces, at Shaker Square (which is under the same ownership as the Cedar-Lee). But the reality is that the economics of movies have changed, and so to survive, they had to do it. I'd rather have them in their current altered state than not at all.
I adore the Cedar Lee, even though I also hate those tiny rooms. But your post also reminded me of my often thought, "Where would we be without NPR?" I can remember when we didn't have it in Cleveland. How did I know ANYTHING?
Kris,
You're of course right about NPR. It's a natural intellectual bookend to the Cedar-Lee. Interestingly, Cleveland was probably the last major market to get an NPR affiliate. While WKSU is about a half-century old, WCPN began only in 1984, well past the time when most major markets had a station. The thing also could have been housed at John Carroll, if the university hadn't blown it with extreme short-sightedness, but that's a story for another day.
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