OPEN FORUM: PROJECT PROJECTIONIST

First there were the families who took their young ones to see the PG-rated sci-fi fantasy The Last Mimzy and, due to an error in the projection booth, were treated to the opening scene of The Hills Have Eyes 2, featuring a woman chained up and screaming for dear life as she gives birth to a mutant baby. Then the release of Grindhouse last week threw even more light onto the dice-and-splice world of projectionists in sleazy grindhouse cinemas, whose battered, badly-maintained equipment routinely shredded the few prints of these films that were available and allowed those projectionists to collect frames featuring topless cheerleaders and nasty night-duty nurses from those prints? and sometimes entire sequences, thus the context for Grindhouse?s hilariously timed ?REEL MISSING? cards