Entertainment: Child Care with a Silver Screen

Child Care with a Silver Screen

When parents want to go shopping and no baby sitter can be found, a happy jaunt to the store can turn into a disaster. The child starts to cry, and Mom and Dad begin to shout. Joseph Adelman believes he has a solution. A former executive with United Artists and Paramount, Adelman recently opened Kidpix Theaters, a cinema that offers continuous 95-minute programs of cartoons and children's films between 11:30 a.m. and 9 p.m. in the Galleria at South Bay in Redondo Beach, Calif. Shopping-center-bound parents drop off their youngsters (ages five to ten) at Adelman's Kidpix flicks. Each child is...

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