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'Clerks' Director Buys Jersey Shore Movie Theater: Report
"Clerks" director Kevin Smith grew up cutting class to watch movies at a local cinema, NJ Advance Media reports.
Now, the Red Bank native plans to buy The Atlantic Moviehouse In Atlantic Highlands, the outlet said.
He said the moviehouse, to be renamed SModcastle Cinemas, inspired his love of the big screen.
“This is about owning a little piece of my personal movie history, a building that helped forge the filmmaker that I would become," Smith told NJ Advance Media.
Smith, 52, even plans to stay in an upstairs apartment, calling it a childhood dream.
He reportedly expects to close on the…
Rest In Peace, 2017: We'll Remember Them
Nationally, internationally and more regionally known notables we lost in 2017 included longtime giants in their fields, from Tom Petty, Gregg Allman, Glen Campbell, Chuck Berry and Fats Domino to Mary Tyler Moore, Jerry Lewis and Don Rickles.
There were also those known best in the New York metropolitan area, led by Nat Hentoff and Jimmy Breslin, who died a day before David Rockefeller.
From the music world:
Petty, Campbell, Allman
Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry
Antoine Dominique "Fats" Domino Jr.
Al Jarreau
Larry Coryell
Pat DiNizio of the Smithereens
David Ca…