Downtown's Palace Theater has gone ahead and made the simple tribute to Micheal Jackson that I hoped for here last week. If it was lit, I missed it . Hopefully the marquee's lights will be turned on sometime before it's taken down. Then again, if it stays up for the summer, the annual pilgrimage of tourists will have interesting photos to take back home.
Marquee [Thriller Viral Film Festival]
Kudos to Ed for suggesting it and the Palace management for putting it up, whether on their own or following up on Ed's idea.
Your original post prompted me to go to imdb.com to check out their data and they list the Rialto Theater in South Pasadena as a shooting location but no credit is given to the Palace. I submitted a correction but it has not yet been added to the Thriller listings.
As an indication of how little has changed on Broadway in the last quarter century, the storefront signage that appears just to the right of the Palace marquee is the same as it was in 1983 when Michael and Ola made their exit on to the street of a mostly deserted downtown after dark.
Posted by: Dennis Smith | July 12, 2009 at 08:10 AM
Awesome!
Posted by: Above the City | July 12, 2009 at 11:20 PM