as long as i’m alive, and as long as i’m rich

from the "more reasons to move to L.A." news desk, comes this little bit of extra cool news:

"'As long as I’m alive, and as long as I’m rich, the New Beverly will be there, showing double features in 35mm,' Quentin Tarantino told the Hollywood Reporter. He’s bought the 200 seat Fairfax District theater that has shown second-run double features since 1978 (Before that it was, appropriately, a grindhouse with live nude dancers, although it was built in 1929 and once showed first-run movies). In the mid aughts, hearing operator Sherman Torgan was having trouble keeping the doors open, Tarantino started paying the monthly expenses. After Torgan’s death in 2007, his son Michael took over operations, but the landlord had a buyer almost immediately. Since the Torgans had the right of first refusal, Tarantino stepped in, and after some extensive haggling made a deal to buy the theater."

this is exactly the sort of stuff that i would be doing if i was making enough money to do it. wouldn't it be awesome if someone did this with the orpheum? i sure think it would.

i heard about this via dangerous minds, and they heard about it, and quoted, via curbed.