Persistence of Vision

For those of you who've read (or are reading) Wander the Rainbow, you've probably picked up on a motif running throughout the book: my continued fascination with movies, and how they partly inspired my choice of locations worldwide.

I was reminded of this last night when attending a showing of (yes, really) E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, the now-classic Steven Spielberg movie I'm just old enough to remember seeing for the first time in theatres.

But not a theatre like this! Oakland's Paramount...