Judy Howard Ellis is a freelance journalist. She has worked at several newspapers and is a poet and an aspiring screenwriter. She blogs regularly on www.finaldaysforum.typepad.com.
Classic films and 'Indiana Jones' (Part 1)
If the box office trends continues, and movie houses are filled to the brim in the summer of 2008, here's my suggestion: Show classic movies! Some far-sighted theaters show classic films as a special offering, but I say incorporate these films as a part of the summer line-up, right along with expected blockbusters like "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" and "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian." If people are escaping to theaters because of lean financial times - as moviegoers did in the Great Depression - offer classic fi...
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