Ritz Cinemas
West Valley City, Utah
Carmike Cinemas opened the Ritz Cinemas and Hollywood Connection Family Entertainment Center on 20 November 1998. The 165,000-square-foot complex was part of an “entertainment mecca” which included the Hale Centre Theatre and the West Valley City E Center (now the Maverick Center.) In addition to 15 movie screens, the Hollywood Connection included a carousel, roller coaster, bumper cars, miniature golf, skating, arcade, restaurant, ice cream parlor, and laser tag. Carmike's goal was to have enough entertainment under one roof so families wouldn't have to go around town.
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Provo act is hypnotic
But LDS Church doesn't want members there
Deseret News, 16 June 2004
Article Summary:
- weekly hypnosis shows at the Avalon Theatre draw an audience of a few hundred
- the manager said the theater would go out of business without the shows
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has an official policy against hypnosis for "purposes of demonstration or entertainment," a policy that had been largely forgotten in Utah.
- Hypnotist Rod Maxwell, who performed at Johnny B's in Provo, says he can get people to do pretty much anything under hypnosis.
