Show Business: What's at the Paris Bijou?

France has been hit by an epidemic, movie mania

In most of Europe, moviegoers are almost an endangered species. Theaters are closing, and in the past two decades the number of tickets sold has declined by staggering proportions: 88% in Britain, 82% in West Germany and 70% in Italy! But the French, of course, do things differently, and today Gaul seems to be divided into three groups: those inside a movie theater, those in line outside and those looking at the listings, wondering what they should see. In the past two years alone there...

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