{"id":296,"date":"2008-10-15T20:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T02:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=296"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:58:40","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:58:40","slug":"lorraine-theatre-gains-new-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=296","title":{"rendered":"New owner to shore up Lorraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><em>From October 13, 2008:<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a title=\"Joshua Caudle takes over operation of Hoopeston's Lorraine Theater :: SmilePolitely.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smilepolitely.com\/arts\/2008\/10\/hoopeston-ill-gets-new-owner-f.php\" target=\"_blank\">Click to Read<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Interview\u00a0on <strong>Champaign Web site <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">SmilePolitely<\/span>.com<\/strong> with <strong>Joshua Caudle<\/strong>, the new owner of the <strong>Lorraine Theatre<\/strong> in <strong>Hoopeston, IL<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">~~~~~<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>Editor&#8217;s note:<\/em> I&#8217;ll let the inquisitive ones hop on over to <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">SmilePolitely<\/span><\/strong> and decide for themselves what they think about Mr. Caudle who, according to this article,\u00a0comes to central Illinois from San Francisco with a background in\u00a0movie exhibition. While his verbalized intents seem noble, evidence of corporate training drips from every single sentence and makes his liberal use of &#8220;our&#8221; and &#8220;we&#8221; &#8211; meaning, the <strong>Lorraine Theatre<\/strong> and the <strong>Hoopeston<\/strong> citizenship &#8211; sound hollow. At least with a personable entrepreneur like <strong>The<\/strong> <strong>Avon Theater<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>Skip Huston<\/strong>, you <em>know<\/em> he gives a hoot as an individual <em>and<\/em> a businessman. This fellow needs to\u00a0talk more like a human being and less like a press release &#8211; and then back it up by rejuvenating the Lorraine successfully &#8211; before I&#8217;ll relax my wary eye.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Readers should also note how Caudle deflects the author&#8217;s query about booking more independent films at the Lorraine, which I actually <em>would<\/em> expect to be a low priority given her geographic location. I suspect that folks living in blue-collar and farming communities, like Hoopeston and its neighbor towns, are not going to give two shits about the likes of\u00a0<strong>RELIGULOUS<\/strong> or <strong>TROUBLE THE WATER<\/strong>. Even though, in our humble opinion, they should.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I&#8217;d also be curious to find out why the tenure of\u00a0prior owner\u00a0<strong>Kevin Alvarez<\/strong> fizzled out so quickly. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=176\" target=\"_self\">It seems like only yesterday<\/a> that Alvarez announced his modest aims after acquiring the Lorraine\u00a0from <strong>Greg Boardman<\/strong>, who might be credited with first giving her a new lease on life. Let&#8217;s see how well Caudle can further restore her glory.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interview on Champaign Web site SmilePolitely.com with Joshua Caudle, the new owner of the Lorraine Theatre in Hoopeston, IL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,26],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-coverage","category-theatres-venues","tag-lorraine-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}