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   Monday, December 08, 2003

NOT GOING DOWN WITHOUT A FIGHT

I'm still a bit rattled from the horrifying collapse of the Uptown theatre this morning. Famous Players' decision to shut down the 83-year-old theatre earlier this year had been sad enough but now, because of Priestly's sloppy demolition practices, one person has died and almost twenty have been hospitalized after the building caved in on itself.

I realize that, in this age of Silver City megaplexes and DVD home theatre, a giant old theatre is a money pit for a company like FP but I was still disappointed -- especially when the company tried to blame the closure on the need to install wheelchair-accessible ramps and elevators. Making their cost-cutting moves seem like the fault of the disabled was grotesque and now, someone is dead because the powers-that-be felt Toronto needed yet another condo.

Environmentalists always warn that, when you mess with nature, it has a way of coming back to bite you on the ass. For Famous Players, perhaps that maxim applies to historical buildings as well.

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