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Cindy Marabito and the history of film - Christmas edition

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It didn't all just Blow Up like the film for me. My mother Peggy Sue would spend Christmas Eve and day out drinking and use the Gaylynn Theater as a babysitter. My sister Martha and I would be dropped off at the movie house - which was amazingly cata-cornered from my grandparents' house on Harrison in Beaumont, Texas . Martha and I would watch the featured film over and over and over until the Gaylynn closed down and the manager Mr. English would lock the door leaving Martha and me out front on the sparkling pavement to wait for mother.  Here's a list of the shows that helped me close out the years and fuel my lifelong passion as a movie fanatic... 1963 Love With the Proper Stranger     1964 Goldfinger      1965 Dr. Zhivago   1966 The Good, The Bad and the Ugly     1967 The Graduate      1968 The Lion in Winter 1970 Love Story   1969 They Shoot Horses Don't They?   1971 A Clockwork Orange