Old fans who've always been at the movies

[Joseph Tracy]

Have we? Care to elaborate a bit?  
On May 29, 2013, at 8:58 AM, Monte Davis wrote:

> (Haven’t we?)
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> Antwerp, 1944:
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> “Nearly twelve hundred seats were filled in the Rex Cinema on bustling Avenue De Keyser for the Friday afternoon matinee on December 15… [for] a classic Western: The Plainsman, a Cecil B. De Mille melodrama starring Gary Cooper as Wild Bill Hickok and Jean Arthur as Calamity Jane…
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> “At 3:20 p.m., just after Gary Cooper learned of Custer’s death at the Little Bighorn, a searing white light flashed across the auditorium as a V-2 – unheard and unseen, launched from a new site in Holland – blew through the roof… Recovery teams ultimately retrieved 567 bodies, more than half of them Allied soldiers, Navy gun crews,  and merchant mariners...”
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> Rick Atkinson, The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe,  1944-1945