Seinfeld At Oscars: What's The Deal With Popcorn? Theater Owner: Here's The Deal, Funny Boy
Jerry Seinfeld, while presenting the Oscar for best documentary feature on Sunday:
In movie theaters now, they’re trying to get you to pick up the garbage around your seat. I’m picking nothing up. I’m the one who threw it down. How many different jobs do I have to do? … You rip us off on overpriced crap.
You didn’t think theater owners would take that lying down, did ya?
Gene Oliver, owner of one RKO Allred5 movie theater in Pryor, Oklahoma, in an e-mail to Deadline Hollywood Daily:
Without popcorn there would be no industry, it is that simple … It would be helpful if ‘stars’ understood that without concessions they would have nowhere to play their films.
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