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So there we were… Friday night after Thanksgiving. Who knew that so many would turn out? Of course it was a great movie. I hope that wasn’t surprising. Another point added to Andy’s score<\/a>. Sorry Bob, you’ll just have to turn up the pressure a notch.<\/p>\n But… or should I say “butt”? Some of you were chaining the cigs, like we’ve never seen here before. It took days for the smell to go away. We were thinking that maybe MovieNight might have to give up smoking as a New Years resolution, but we’re hoping that it was just the combination of Friday night excitement in NYC and a plethora of more youthful attendees, who perhaps haven’t yet given much thought to the [perceived] value of remaining alive into their forties.\u00c2\u00a0 What a night for the future in-laws to attend their first MovieNight! Yikes.<\/p>\n It would be good to hear from you about the smoking thing. Smoking is allowed at MovieNight because we believe in democracy. I know that I used to enjoy sitting at a bar, smoking, and sipping a martini… there’s a romantic cach\u00c3\u00a9 (or is it clich\u00c3\u00a9?) in that. I still enjoy sitting at a bar and sipping a martini… and hoping that somehow I got away with all the smoking I used to enjoy, unscathed.<\/p>\n Whaddaya think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So there we were… Friday night after Thanksgiving. Who knew that so many would turn out? Of course it was a great movie. I hope that wasn’t surprising. Another point added to Andy’s score. Sorry Bob, you’ll just have to turn up the pressure a notch. But… or should I say “butt”? Some of you … Continue reading Ordinary People, and an extraordinary amount of smoking!<\/span>