Social

I wanted to catch the final 45 minutes of The Apartment last night, but it seemed exorbitant to pay $12 bucks (or whatever the Aero charges) for that small pleasure. (That’s me standing near the main door.) I’ve never seen Billy Wilder‘s 1960 dramedy on a big screen. By the time we (two friends and myself) got there today’s Wilder films — Double Indemnity, Ace in the Hole — were up on the marquee. Of all the things I miss about Los Angeles, the Aero may be on the top of the list.


Saturday, 7.24, 8:55 pm

You have to wonder about the fairly well-off people who live in the vicinity of Santa Monica’s Montana Ave. I was standing at the corner of Montana and 13th last night around 9:05 pm, and looking south, west, north and east. The bar across the street from the Aero was lively, but otherwise the neighborhood was like a scene from Stanley Kramer ‘s On The Beach with everyone dead in their beds from radiation. Or “Where Is Everybody?”, that Twilight Zone episode with Earl Holliman. I saw exactly one guy walking his dog. Everyone’s sitting at home with their plasma screens and glasses of white wine, I suppose. Rome’s Trastevere district beats this all to hell.

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  3. “..fairly well-off..” is putting it mildly for that neighborhood, the priciest in Santa Monica.

    The Aero suffers from having one of the least steep slopes of any movie theater in L.A. outside of the Bruin in Westwood. Great if you are in a wheelchair, but horrible if you get stuck behind a really tall person because the screen isn’t high enough from the floor.

    That said, considering the American Cinematheque is doing more than any other outlet in town to keep films available on an actual big screen, you should have gladly paid the money as a tithe to the “movie godz” in appreciation.

    After all, you had that extra dough from screwing the waiter out of his tip the other night…

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  5. The Aero suffers from having one of the least steep slopes of any movie theater in L.A. outside of the Bruin in Westwood. Great if you are in a wheelchair, but horrible if you get stuck behind a really tall person because the screen isn’t high enough from the floor.

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  6. You would think that being the epicenter of the movie making business, Hollywood would be awash in revival houses and film museums funded by the studios and assorted high rollers.

    Sadly, that’s not the case.

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  8. The term Social refers to a characteristic of living organisms (humans in particular, though biologists also apply the term to populations of other animals)

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