Warner Bros. Plans Re-Release of Kubrick's '2001'

Warner Bros. film studio on Thursday said it will release a digitally enhanced version of director Stanley Kubrick's classic meditation on man and machine, "2001: A Space Odyssey'', in movie theaters this October.
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The re-release premieres Oct. 5 at the Cinerama Theater in Seattle. Subsequent engagements will follow at the Castro Theater in San Francisco, the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood and The Uptown in Washington, D.C.

And why, might you ask, is it premiering in Seattle? When "2001: A Space Odyssey'' was first released, it played at the Cinerama Theater in Seattle. And a geeky teenager saw it and loved it. In recent years the Cinerama Theater had fallen on hard times but that geeky teenager purchased the theater a couple of years ago and restored it to its former gaudy splendor. That geeky teenager is Paul Allen of Microsoft fame.

Rumors first appeared this spring about this release and, although the venue hadn't been announced, the local opinion was that it could only play in one theater - the Cinerama Theater. I guess Paul felt the same way.

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Whales once lived on land

Whales evolved from strange wolf-sized creatures that lived on land in modern-day India and Pakistan more than 50 million years ago, and their closest relatives today are cows, camels and giraffes, experts say.

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