BEZOS reaches for ointment to sooth his irritated, inflamed anus over "Portland Theater Marquee Trolls Melania Movie" [View all]
Whenever I drive through downtown Lake Oswego—a suburb of Portland, Oregon that has more of a Stepford Wives vibe than a Portlandia one—I make a point to read the theater marquee at Lake Theater and Cafe. The sardonic, timely, or punny ways the moviehouse advertises its films first went viral during the COVID shutdown in 2020, even making The New York Times.
*****
The theater first advertised its upcoming showings of the Melania documentary (directed by the Epstein files’ Brett Ratner) by quoting Sun Tzu’s The Art of War: “To defeat your enemy, you must know them. Melania starts Friday.” They followed that up with: “Does Melania wear Prada? Find out Friday.”
Turns out Amazon has eyes everywhere, because now the marquee reads, “Amazon called. Our marquee made them mad. All Melania showings cancelled. Show your support at Whole Foods instead.”
The theater’s Instagram post offered more info about the sudden change. A photo of the marquee from Monday is accompanied by the caption, “Got a call that the higher ups (i.e., at Amazon) were upset with how our marquee marketed their movie (i.e., Melania), that, per them, Sunday would be its last day here.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/amazon-pulls-melania-from-local-theater-over-marquee-jokes/
= new reply since forum marked as read