My favorite movie, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World will be screened — one show only — at 7:30 PM on Sunday, September 29 in its natural habitat. I'm speaking of course of the Arclight Cinerama Dome Theater in Hollywood, which is where the movie debuted and where I first saw it in 1963. The theater was built to show this movie and the rumor is that they plan to run it every year there. They'll also be running around the same time this year, a lot of great old films best seen on a big screen including How the West Was Won, Grand Prix, 2001, Battle of the Bulge, Lawrence of Arabia, Mad Max, Jaws and Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Tickets for It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World are available at this moment despite the fact that I just bought a bunch of them. Here's the link.
If you've never seen this film before, this is the place to see it. It's so much less on a small screen in your den. Some movies need a big screen and a big audience and I'm sure we'll have one that night at the Dome. In fact, it will almost certainly sell out so if you're thinking of going, don't dawdle.
And no, I don't know if there will be any special guests or speeches or anything. You can count the number of surviving cast members on one hand and still have enough fingers left to make a peace sign. I'm just going to enjoy the film for the I-don't-know-what-the-heck-number time. Won't you join me?