NEW YORK - (AP) -- A film industry strike in India is having an effect half a world away. A New York City movie theater has temporarily closed because of the Bollywood crisis.The Eagle Theater in Jackson Heights, Queens, specializes in first-run Bollywood movies.
In Mumbai, a seven-week-old strike by film producers over profits has brought India's film industry to a stop.
The 500-seat Eagle is in an ethnically Indian neighborhood. It is expected to reopen as soon as the strike in India ends.
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6 comments:
I'm sari to hear this.
FYI:
The inventor of the atmospheric style theater (Loew's Valencia & Paradise), John Eberson, designed this local gem in the Art Moderne style.
..and like the rest of that part of Jackson Heights, it was remodeled into Calcutta slum style in the late 80's.
I'm sari to hear that too.
Oh you haven't been to Calcutta ol' buddy!
JH is paradise compared to it!
India...the land of schmutz & scmattas!
bI guees some of you preferred the "Eagle" when it was the "Earle Theater" showing porn films...a fine adjunct to "vaseline alley" where the butt-f-----s plied their trade!
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