The Week The Movies Died

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We were singing, bye bye Miss American Pie
Drove my Lexus to the multiplex
But the multiplex was fried.
And good ol' film geeks re-watching
Vanilla Sky
Singing, this'll be the day that I die.
This'll be the day that I die.

If historians someday look back on moviegoing in the same breath as pantomime theater, tableau vivant, radio dramas, bear-baiting, gladiato…