C-U Blogfidential

Article in Champaign daily The News-Gazette about Mike and Gail Hanafin, owners of the Princess Theatre in LeRoy, IL, taking over management duties after allowing former operator Ben Slotky to back out of his lease agreement. Plus, your editor ruminates about the failure of the Castle Theatre in Bloomington under Slotky’s ownership.

Article in Bloomington (IL) daily The Pantagraph about the reopening of the Majestic Theatre in Streator, IL, on its 100th anniversary. Also, your editor bitches about old business.

Article in Champaign daily The News-Gazette about the “Show Me A Story” program sponsored by WILL-TV Channel 12 and the Don Moyer Boys & Girls Club of Champaign, during which preteens learn how to plan and produce a 10-minute segment for television. Plus, your editor bitches about the station’s lack of creative in-house programming.

Article in Champaign daily The News-Gazette about the hiring of Atlanta, GA, consulting firm McQueen and Associates by the Vermilion Heritage Foundation to assess whether future restoration and operation of the Fischer Theatre in downtown Danville would be a viable investment. Plus, your editor bitches about the increasing propensity for small theaters to rely on big Hollywood movies in order to stay open.

“Scary Monsters” magazine reprints your editor’s very first freelance article in the “Svengoolie” issue currently on newsstands.

Article in Champaign daily The News-Gazette about Greg Boardman’s sale of the Lorraine Theatre in Hoopeston, IL, to entrepreneur Kevin Alvarez of Burlington, WI, and the minor operational changes to be expected in the near future. Plus, your editor bitches about fee-based on-line newspaper archives.

C-U Blogfidential begins Year 2 and is teething like crazy.

Your editor heeds the call of “Sirens of Cinema” for another byline, while RETURN IN RED makes available several MICRO-FILM articles on DVD.

Roger Ebert waxes psychedelic over BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS, new to DVD, while “Sirens of Cinema” magazine runs freelance words by your editor.

Is film truly teetering on the brink of death like everyone says it is?

So, what is “C-U Blogfidential?” Or rather, what will “C-U Blogfidential” become?