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Make Me Smile
December 26, 2011 at 4:01 pm by Philip Morris

At the beginning of a showing of “Margin Call” at the GE Theater, I realized I was smiling through the credits.

The sound was spectacular, the enormous image (more than 50 feet wide) was bright and sharp, and, at 5 dollars, the price was right to see this gripping movie a second time.

I was smiling because the next couple of hours promised to be immersive and fun, and they were!

To be honest, almost every time I see a movie at the GE, that promise is made and delivered. It is simply a great place to see a film.

I also smile because we built that huge image and great sound system to accommodate an older, nearly antiquated technology: 70 millimeter film. It was only 5 years ago, and we knew digital technologies were coming, but we had no clue how quickly we would be showing movies distributed on the Internet.

We had to adapt faster than we expected.......................>>>>..................>>>>....................http://blog.timesunion.com/philipmorris/make-me-smile/691/

Now he is even cannibalizing the Bowie Cinema.  PROCTORS - CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE.  

What makes him smile is screwing the County taxpayers. This horrible 1% won't even pay his fair share for the City pool program as both Ellis Hospital and Union College did. Did he pay for his tickets?- lol.

Phillip Morris is smiling because he is leading a NATIONALLY renowned theater arts institution -- one that will continue to have a POSITIVE IMPRINT on the quality of life in our community for many years to come.

Keep up the good work Mr. Morris --- and see about getting  "Moonshadow: The Musical" to Proctor's  sometime in the near future.

Quoted from benny salami

What makes him smile is screwing the County taxpayers. This horrible 1% won't even pay his fair share for the City pool program as both Ellis Hospital and Union College did. Did he pay for his tickets?- lol.

Who needs to compete when the Metroplex hands over millions?

The only competition for Morris is when he Gillen and McCarthy go to the Country Buffet...who's in line first at the meat station.  

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

Phillip Morris is smiling because he is leading a NATIONALLY renowned theater arts institution -- one that will continue to have a POSITIVE IMPRINT on the quality of life in our community for many years to come.

Keep up the good work Mr. Morris --- and see about getting  "Moonshadow: The Musical" to Proctor's  sometime in the near future.

Improved the quality of life????    How so?????    Sure, good shows there, BUT, tell us WHO in the city can afford to take their family there?    Homeonwers are paying throught the nose for their OWN taxes AND they have to pay taxes on this multimillion dollar FOR PROFIT BUSINESS?????


Do you consider stabbings, murders, drive-by's an improvement to the quality of life?    Huh?   You won't answer that, weill you.

Since Morris roared into the city, snow emergecies have stopped---tell us DV, HOW is it an improvement ot the quality of life when streets are poorly plowed?    Huh?   Can't answer that, can you.

How about Morris illegally having two STAR exemptions - making the homeonwers pay evne more in taxes, is that an improvement to the quality of life for homeonwers who mjust go without necessities in order that he has a tax exemption he is not legally entitled to?    

How about the quality of life in the community---those homeowners whose basements get flooded because the city won't pay for repairs because it will cause too high of an increase in taxes, and the city won't make Morris pay his taxes on the FOR PROFIT BUSINESS, so the homeowners have to pay their own tases, pay Morri's taxses, AND pay for the damage to their houses, furnaces, appliances, whatever they have in their basement---tell us DV, how the quality of life is so good when Morris won't pay taxes to the city and the homeonwers have to suffer?

How is the quality of life improved when the property vallues are plummeting in the city????/    Or do you deny that values are going down?

How is the quality of life for the homeonwers who have to go without necessities becuase they are forced to pay for Morris' taxes?   What kind of quality of life when you have to turn your thermostat down real low because you can't afford it because you are paying the proeprty tax bill for Proctors so Morris can live a lavish life, get his taxpyaer funded lavish pay of more than $200,000 a year?

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

.... NATIONALLY renowned theater arts institution --

Please provide a verifiable source to support this statement.  Having nationally renowned performers at this venue DOES NOT make the venue NATIONALLY RENOWNED.  I cannot find published articles that support your statement, so please provide something.

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Who needs to compete when the Metroplex hands over millions?  
The only competition for Morris is when he Gillen and McCarthy go to the Country Buffet...who's in line first at the meat station.  

No wonder Country Buffet went out of business. Imprint? Yes, Morris has made an imprint in every chair he sits in. He never plays for tickets like he never pays for food at Fat Morris' Coffeehouse. Another taxpayer rip off. A private vendor can't make money so screw the County taxpayers again.

Morris is living his dream with taxpayer's money. That would make anyone on the taxpayer's dole smile! He doesn't 'ever' have to turn a profit and the dems don't even expect him to!!!!

'A DOLLAR AND A DREAM' is all the 'select few' need in Schenectady. The taxpayers will pay the rest!!

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'A DOLLAR AND A DREAM' is all the 'select few' need in Schenectady. The taxpayers will pay the rest!!

If it was only a dollar. Dollar and a dream used to read Word Up Magazine? The sad part is before this self important buffoon waddled into town Proctor's was well run and turning a nice profit. Not anymore. Millions in the red, drowning in red ink, refuses to repay anything and gets violent when he tell him to cough it up for poor kids. The court jester of the working together implosion team. Laughing all the way to his mansion.

fatmorrisdemsmoronsdeathray ... the idiot speaks

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fatmorrisdemsmoronsdeathray ... the idiot speaks

Who...Morris? Nah....he's just 'smilin' all the way to the bank with the taxpayer's money!

Wonder why both of Fat Morris' eateries are losing money? lol. Don't worry the overtaxed sheeple can suck it up.

He's smiling because he farted and cleared out the theater......

PROOF #1
Where history lives
Proctors to use national award won Saturday for marketing purposes
by lauren stanforth Staff writer
Published 01:00 a.m., Monday, July 20, 2009
  
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SCHENECTADY — Proctors will use a national award it won Saturday to market itself as one of the top historic theaters in America.

The Outstanding Historic Theatre Award was presented to Proctors CEO Philip Morris at the League of Historic American Theatre's annual conference in Cleveland.

The award was given to Proctors because of the quality of the 83-year-old theater's restoration, its depth of community service and breadth of programming.

Morris said there's no money with the award, but Proctors will be using the designation to promote itself.

"It's pretty prestigious," Morris said Sunday. "We're going to lean on it and say we're the award-winning theatre, I'll tell you that."

Representatives of the Stanley Theatre in Utica nominated Proctors for this year's award; Proctors had letters of support from various people, including U.S. Rep. Paul D. Tonko and Mayor Brian U. Stratton.

The Baltimore-based League of Historic American Theatres is a not-for-profit organization that promotes the rescue, rehabilitation and operation of historic theatres in North America. Past winners include the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor, Mich., the Newberry Opera House in South Carolina and the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts in Burlington, Vt.

Proctors, which hosts touring Broadway productions as well as other comedic and musical acts, began as a vaudeville house in 1926. A group of concerned citizens purchased the theater in 1979 from the city of Schenectady for $1 because the structure faced demolition. In 2007, a $30 million restoration was completed that expanded the main stage and added a second theater, now the GE Theatre, in a former department store next door. Proctors is on the National Register of Historic Places, and has been the linchpin in redevelopment of Schenectady's downtown for the last five years.

Proctors will host the national conference of the League of Historic American Theatres in 2011



Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Where-history-lives-547744.php#ixzz1hsWhel6e

PROOF #2
Proctor's Theatre is a former vaudeville house located in Schenectady, New York, United States. Many famous artists have performed there, notably Mariah Carey (whose 1993 top-rated Thanksgiving special was taped there),  Britney Spears, Hal Holbrook, Ted Wiles, and George Burns, as well as many others. It has one of the largest movie screens in the Northeast.
The theatre was opened on December 27, 1926.  It was designed by architect Thomas Lamb. Four years later it hosted the first public demonstration of television. In 1979 it was added to theNational Registr of Historic Places, shortly before being renovated after a long period of decline and neglect. A more recent renovation has added two other stages.