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(waa) Circle 41 on Reader Service Card.","BY MICHELLE WEST A viewable feast\u2014 15 films in 26 hours \u201cDon\u2019t forget to get Jackson County Jail,\u201d are because we all get to see most of know I can fight my way through. I says Barb. the movies we want to see. We share the costs of renting and of the snacks. know I can handle it. After all, we don\u2019t \u201cI won't.\u201d We try to get together in the days fol- lowing a marathon to talk about the call it a marathon for nothing. I carb \u201clm dying to see what Tommy Lee Jones\u2019 buns looked like when he was movies we rented, most of which most load some spaghetti and guzzle half a younger.\u201d of us saw. It sure beats spending all night in a theater, then trying to find bottle of Gatorade. \u201cIT won't forget,\u201d I promise. \u201cAnything your way home. else? Last chance.\u201d Still later, I ferry a pair of tapes up \u201cThe popcorn and the banana bread the elevator to Paul and Jean. They beg will be ready by the time you get back,\u201d says Paul. for a few more minutes. It seems that one And so six people, two singles and of their films has gotten them hot and two couples, who have just arisen from a long night\u2019s sleep, prepare for a grueling, they\u2019re kinda, well, occupied. (This is 26-hour movie marathon, while I run off to the video store to round up the tapes. another reason we found it better to mi- e When I return and lay my booty on grate to our own apartments during How many nights have you spent in the table, eager hands grab at the videos. marathons.) Hey, which movie was that? a dingy theater, watching movie after movie? The answer is probably lots if \u201cT don\u2019t see Wayne\u2019s World 2,\u201d says John, When Barb brings down Jackson you're a real movie buff. But theater marathons have all kinds of problems: disappointed. County Jail and Malice, both of which Limited snack selection, long lines be- tween flicks, hard seats and a limited se- \u201cThey were out, sorry.\u201d I\u2019ve already screened during this long, lection of movies. After all, you pretty much have to take what the theaters of- \u201cFirst dibs on Carlito\u2019s Way.\u201d long night, I decide to take a nap. Paul fer. Everyone takes two or three cassettes wakes me four hours later with a swap, Enter video. Seven or eight times a year, when most of us can arrange days and half a loaf of banana bread, and bids and I find I\u2019ve gotten my second wind. I off from work at the same time, several adieu. I settle in with My Life. I always try feel restored. I\u2019m ready for the big finish. friends and myself stage our own movie to start with the movies I most want to When it\u2019s over, I\u2019ve seen 9.5 movies, marathons, but with videos. We start around noon and run until early after- see, because sometimes the ones I see to- a personal best. Only John has made it noon the next day, when whoever is still standing takes the movies back. It\u2019s a ter- ward the end are a little...er...fuzzy. through 13, which means no sleep at all. tific way to indulge our passion for great movies and good company. I\u2019m still sobbing over What\u2019s Love But like any true marathoners, our goal At first, we all gathered together in a Got To Do With It? when the first knock is not to win, but to finish. And I have single apartment. But we\u2019ve found our marathons work better if each person or hits my door. It\u2019s Barb, who lives up- survived, and enjoyed, another. 2 couple watches in his, her or their own place. (It helps that we all live in the stairs. We swap, and I get Carlito\u2019s Way same apartment complex.) We start a marathon by collecting lists of desired and The Waterdance. I can\u2019t believe it\u2014 movies. Then we rent \u2019em\u201415 or more Helen Hunt naked? Hours later I fit in in a single shot, and pass them around. A couple of marathoners make fabulous some stretching and breathing exer- Le\/ snacks we all share. Our rules are few cises when | shuttle this dou- and easygoing, but important. If some- one falls asleep by accident, someone else ble feature up the stairs to knocking on the door to trade movies will rouse the groggy cineaste. If someone Len and John, who reward wants to take a snooze, that\u2019s fine. If someone decides to drop out, that\u2019s also me with two new videos fine. He just passes his videos to someone else in the group and tapes a do-not-dis- and a dozen crab puffs turb sign to his door. with asparagus and Our marathons are as good as they fresh basil. 98 VIDEO FEBRUARY 1995 Before too long, a disaster hits\u2014I doze off during Hero, even though I adore An- dy Garcia. The rest of the night is go- ing to be tough. | can tell. 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