Jerry very graciously accepted the Ken Mason Award this morning, citing a love for the art form over the technology, citing an appreciation for the technologies ability to give us the equivalent of an answer print 4 weeks into a movies run and citing the pleasure of receiving an award for something that “I love doing”.
If he had thoughts of laying into the audience of exhibitors during this CinemaCon’s opening day breakfast, they may have had the edges taken off by a previous award given by the Variety Children’s Charity. Little Vegas-native Kevin Marinez was placed on a new $4,000 orthopedic “Specialized” Adaptive bicycle which will grow as he does…one result of the exhibitor’s “Gold Heart Campaign”.
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