BEZOS reaches for ointment to sooth his irritated, inflamed anus over "Portland Theater Marquee Trolls Melania Movie"

[Miles Archer]

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.

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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/

[Dave Bowman]

1. Cool, good riddance, now they'll be able to watch a good movie instead of that garbage.

[Wednesdays]

2. How much ya wanna bet

...that the Barbra Streisand Effect is in full force for that theater now?

[Bev54]

3. If that is all they have to do, SHOUT IT OUT to all the world so they can get it taken down as well.

[wolfie001]

4. I sure wish the vast majority of business owners took this approach

Fight these fascist plutocrats.

[North Coast Lawyer]

5. Gotta Love Portland

Seems Portland's chill hip resistance movement has infected even its most uptight suburb. Lake Oswego wasn't this cool when I was a grad student at nearby Lewis & Clark College in the 90s.

[love_katz]

6. Thank you, Miles.

I needed a good laugh today.
And thank you to the theater. Bravo!!

[Zambero]

7. Lake Oswego is a comparatively affluent Portland suburb

Given that, just wondering what the going $$$ rate might have been for the "pay to watch" thing? My best guess is that no amount of money would entice anyone into the local theatre. But who knows, perhaps they could be properly bribed into shopping at Whole Foods!

[GoodRaisin]

8. The simple fact is that nobody wants to watch that evil woman.