I’m pretty sure this was taken in the late summer of ’99. Outside the Bruin theatre before a screening. Myself, David Poland, the late Marvin Antonowksy. I was at Reel.com and working at the time on a streaming movie-talk discussion show of some kind, which was a ridiculous concept as most of the world was grappling with 56K speeds at that point. And yet one of the greatest ever movie years was unfolding as we spoke…glorious. And we were all 17 years younger.
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