Our 100th Issue
Kathleen Norris on the 100th issue of Soul Telegram
My introduction to movie theaters came in the 1950’s when parents began to include films in birthday parties. I watched Disney’s Pinocchio (above), The Shaggy Dog, and Bambi and Old Yeller (the first two films that made me weep) with a bunch of other kids who were mostly intent on eating popcorn and throwing it at each other. The cherished movie theater in Honolulu where as a teenager I watched Breathless and became absorbed in the Ingmar Bergman trilogy (Through A Glass Darkly, Winter Light, The Silence) is long gone; the Cinerama where my brother and I sat awestruck through 2001 in 1968 is now an auto parts store. The tiny Movie Museum is the only Honolulu theater that shows both recent films and older ones. Its roster of films is dictated by the whims of the Museum’s director. He often celebrates Elvis Presley’s birthday by showing Bubba Ho-Tep, a surpassingly weird and extremely funny comedy about an Elvis impersonator - or is he?
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