The Toronto I returned to after my year in England is an interesting one indeed. Gay marriage recently became legal, as many of you probably heard. Furthermore, the marijuana laws have become extremely relaxed.
Last night I went to see Wizard Of Oz/Dark Side Of The Moon at the Bloor Cinema (one of our indie downtown theatres), and people were actually smoking marijuana IN THE THEATRE. I was surprised, and very amused.
What's next? Free love?
Toronto's become this weird bohemian place
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Are you going to Toronto town?
Shades of '60's San Francisco?
Ah, a place for me!
Ah, a place for me!
While there was once a time when it was common to smell marijuana smoke at L.A. concerts and nightclubs, NEVER was there a time (presumably including during the actual Summer of Love) when it was common to smell it in a movie theater. Not even at a midnight showing of "Fantasia" (though I can't vouch for "The Song Remains the Same" or "2000 Motels").
There was once a hilarious no-smoking trailer featuring a smoking John Waters that used to run at the Nuart in West L.A., and probably the UC Theater in Berkeley.
When I saw M. Scorsese's (lousy) remake of "Cape Fear" and De Niro smoked a cigar in a movie theater, a real shudder ran through the crowd in wine-and-cheesey Santa Monica.
Where am I going with this? In L.A., if people smoked pot in a movie theater, the scandal wouldn't be about the pot, but about the fact they were smoking in a movie theater! Angelenos fear second hand smoke the way vampires fear garlic. (And, it's a fire hazard, too! I just hope that wasn't a rare, super-flamable nitrate print of "Wizard" they were showing!)
Still, I'll be calling my travel agent shortly....
There was once a hilarious no-smoking trailer featuring a smoking John Waters that used to run at the Nuart in West L.A., and probably the UC Theater in Berkeley.
When I saw M. Scorsese's (lousy) remake of "Cape Fear" and De Niro smoked a cigar in a movie theater, a real shudder ran through the crowd in wine-and-cheesey Santa Monica.
Where am I going with this? In L.A., if people smoked pot in a movie theater, the scandal wouldn't be about the pot, but about the fact they were smoking in a movie theater! Angelenos fear second hand smoke the way vampires fear garlic. (And, it's a fire hazard, too! I just hope that wasn't a rare, super-flamable nitrate print of "Wizard" they were showing!)
Still, I'll be calling my travel agent shortly....
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Of course, it makes sense that it would a Baltimore theater.
Of course, it makes sense that it would a Baltimore theater.
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