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THIS WEEK'S NEW COLUMNS:

SPECIAL FEATURE  SALUTING MOVIE THEATERS Columnist Jim Bawden, the former TORONTO STAR film and TV writer, whose essays on movies have appeared in such publications as FILMS IN REVIEW and FILMS OF THE GOLDEN AGE, joins with former syndicated columnist RON MILLER to pay their respects to the great movie theaters of the past and those few that survive today.

JIM BAWDEN  MOVIE HOUSE MEMORIES It was once the largest movie theater in the British Empire It used to be The Pantages, then The Imperial and now it's Toronto's CANON THEATRE.

RON MILLER I FOUND IT AT THE MOVIES THE ALMOST FORGOTTEN THRILL OF MOVIE-GOING Shaped like a giant flying saucer, THE COLOSSUS in Langley, British Columbia, near Vancouver, is an 18-theater mega-plex with a two-story IMAX theater screen. It represents state-of-the-art moviegoing today.

DONNA J. PLESH Our TV columnist previews the coming fall TV season programs on cable television--and comes up with some winners...  A CORNUCOPIA FROM CABLE   Former Heavyweight Champ George Foreman hosts a new reality show about his family.

JOYCE KIEFER Joyce looks into family history to trace the life of her Aunt Margaret, who recently passed away, and comes up with the story of an amazing woman... MEMORIES OF A FRONTIER WOMAN That's Aunt Margaret, wrangling a vast herd of turkeys, on her ranch.

GERALD NACHMAN Gerald worries that the once masterful use of satire in American magazines like The New Yorker may be fading away as we grow more politically sensitive...   AMERICAN SATIRE'S LAST GASP   "Now if I can just make both McCain and Obama look like fairies, we'll get even more publicity out of this cover than the last one!"

STAN ISAACS Stan wonders if it isn't time to build a new Mt. Rushmore to honor our women...  WOMEN TO MATCH OUR MOUNTAINS   KATE HEPBURN ...worth a mountainside?

PATRICIA J. GEISTER Patricia tells about the time she composed a personals ad for Bill Gates...   HOW LOVE (MAY) HAVE COME TO BILL GATES   Do Bill and Melinda owe Patricia bigtime for her help?

BUCKY FOX The Buckster lets fly with some boos and cheers for various sports stars...  FROM THE CHEAP SEATS   FRANCISCO RODRIGUEZ ...Big Ingrate or What?

LYNN PERRIER Lynn is back with the sad story of a book that almost happened...  SO NEAR AND YET SO FAR   "Read all about my book. It'll hit you like an overdose of pure catnip!"

RON MILLER'S DARK CORRIDORS WILL RETURN NEXT WEEK

TRY THESE RECENT COLUMNS:

GERALD NACHMAN NOT BEEN THERE, DONE NOTHING	PAUL HERTELENDY CANINE ROCKING CHAIR
CHUCK McFADDEN OUR MYSTERIOUS NEW TV SET	MICHAEL JOHNSON AN ADDICTION THAT'S NOW COOL

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