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	The Moviegoer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Moviegoer is a 1961 novel by Walker Percy.
		The Moviegoer recounts the story of Binx Bolling, an alienated, anxious young stockbroker, who seeks meaning for his existence by embarking upon a "quest." During a firefight in the Korean War, Binx was wounded.
		He said that, as he lay upon the battlefield, he saw, as if for the first time, a dung beetle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Moviegoer (187 words)

	Floridian: No moviegoer left behind
		Moviegoers already inclined to do what they want wouldn't allow authoritative voices to interfere.
		(Although moviegoers can be older, more set in their ways and therefore tougher to influence.) Movies aren't as important as life, but the same goal of enhancing it applies.
		Something similar happens when moviegoers say they should have stayed away from what knew to be a waste of time and money.
	www.sptimes.com /2004/08/27/Floridian/No_moviegoer_left_beh.shtml (833 words)

	The Moviegoer (Walker Percy)
		Percy got a degree in medicine, but because of ill health (he contracted tuberculosis during WW2, which was treated more-or-less successfully), he gave up his career as a physician for that of a writer.
		The Moviegoer, published in 1961, introduces Percy's concept of the 'malaise', the angst of the lucid man in a world without gods.
		It is as though Binx the moviegoer anchors his reality by appreciating all the details of the cinematography and set design, wanting to know all the construction rationales, the production design, the props.
	www.grandpoohbah.net /Grandpoohbah/BookReviews/moviegoer.htm (516 words)

	amBiguous CITY! Records \| Moviegoer
		Moviegoer is 5-piece alternative indie rock band form Baltimore, MD. Heavy, melodic, and at times unique rythms and time signatures.
		THEY'RE Moviegoer's debut full length, "64 FPS", is like the gift to the devil's eye in charge of all storms and unnatural acts of which the men hurdle without even breaking a sweat.
		What really separates Moviegoer from other bands is the way it incorporates rythm into its pieces.
	www.ambiguouscity.com /moviegoer.html (354 words)

	Boston.com / News / Nation / Man convicted of attacking moviegoer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A man accused of puncturing a lung and breaking the ribs of another moviegoer who had shushed him was convicted of felony assault.
		ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- A man accused of puncturing a lung and breaking the ribs of another moviegoer who had shushed him was convicted of felony assault.
		Paul Elrod, who was convicted Wednesday, faces up to 10 years in prison on a count of assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2004/10/29/man_convicted_of_attacking_moviegoer (266 words)

	Section One (the predicament) – Outline
		Percy’s primary aim in The Moviegoer is to make his readers aware of this devaluation, expose their methods of dodging their predicament, and provide the possibility of reversal.
		The Moviegoer, where I remember, I think, the epigraph talks about one of Kierkegaard’s definitions of despair, the worst kind of despair being that kind of despair which is not aware of the stuff of despair.
		The Moviegoer is a novel of alienation and despair, specifically as these states appear in the occurrence of everydayness and the malaise.
	www.eastern.edu:93 /academic/trad_undg/sas/depts/english/thowell.html (8757 words)

	The New Yorker: The Critics: A Critic At Large
		Young people no longer arranged their emotional and intellectual lives around an art that was “poetic and mysterious and erotic and moral—all at the same time.” They no longer fed their passions in blissfully uncomfortable revival houses with ill-sprung seats and dank odors.
		Moviegoers may regret that she didn’t make a documentary of the besieged city that she came to love.
		Sontag liked to describe herself, paradoxically, as “a besotted aesthete” and an “obsessive moralist,” and if the two selves were constantly at play, and sometimes at war, the moralist, though never quite effacing the aesthete, came to the fore in her later years.
	www.newyorker.com /critics/atlarge/articles/050912crat_atlarge (4102 words)

	Moviegoer - s/t (Noisebox) - Drawer B Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		No, Moviegoer doesn't share any members with Jawbox, but it shares enough similarities musically (and geographically) to be subjected to the comparison.
		Moviegoer sounds angrier than it really is. Don't be fooled by all the guitar chugging and noisy interludes because the vocals can't help harmonizing and fishing out melodies wherever possible much like, ahem, Jawbox.
		Moviegoer is not really my cup of tea, but it's not clear to me why exactly.
	www.drawerb.com /features/943286529.htm (361 words)

	New Statesman: On Walker Percy's The Moviegoer. . - Bookmarks - book review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Moviegoer has proved to be just such a book for me, as it has for countless others.
		Despite this near plotlessness and the novel's beautifully effortless style, The Moviegoer is in fact one of the most profound novels ever written.
		Although the novel, written in 1961, is very much of its time in the way Percy tackles the questions raised by postwar existentialism, the tone of his writing in no way echoes the gloomy fiction which that movement engendered.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_4566_130/ai_80898565 (1079 words)

	Amazon.com: Moviegoer: Books: Walker Percy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		But it is a desperation that arises not from the ordinariness of everyday lives, but, rather, from the failure to transform that ordinariness through contemplation and self-reflection, through an appreciation for the mundane.
		"The Moviegoer" is a thoughtful and a thought-provoking book that should be read and then re-read, slowly and carefully, for every paragraph is laden with insight into the character of its narrator, the character of its author and, ultimately, the character of ourselves.
		The Moviegoer's essential argument is that human beings must be aware of all their actions, because aware or not, one's actions affect both himself and others.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0394437039?v=glance (2481 words)

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		It stuck a moviegoer in the leg as she sat down.
		As for the woman stuck, she was sent to the hospital for her own blood tests.
		Word of a syringe inside the theater was enough to scare moviegoers like Derek Capo who said he had second thoughts about the theater after hearing of the incident.
	www.11alive.com /news/news_article.aspx?storyid=70160 (229 words)

	Rotten Tomatoes Forums - The Moviegoer
		The Moviegoer, if you don't already know, is a novel by Walker Percy, set in in New Orleans.
		The reason it's called the Moviegoer is that Binx's only salvation is going to the movies and he relates most of life to film.
		As an aside, as an established writer, Percy was given a book by the mother of a writer who couldn't get it published and killed himself.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /vine/showthread.php?t=7227 (790 words)

	Vindigo: download Moviegoer for easyedge phones
		MovieGoer is FREE for the first 1 day, then $2.99 per month thereafter for unlimited use.
		MovieGoer for easyedge phones can only be purchased using your phone.
		Please note, once MovieGoer has been removed, you cannot use it unless you purchase it again.
	www.vindigo.com /learnmore/usc_dl_moviegoer.html (226 words)

	The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
		Percy, who grew up in Alabama and Mississippi, said his favorite theme was ''the dislocation of man in the modern age.'' His six novels are set in the modern South, and all offer alienated upper-middle-class men as protagonists.
		'' 'The Moviegoer,' an intimation rather than a statement of mortality and the inevitability of that condition, is a truthful novel with shocks of recognition and spasms of nostalgia for every - or nearly every - American.
		And so the narrator of ''The Moviegoer,'' the film fan Binx Bolling, says: ''The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/97/06/08/reviews/percy-obit.html (1323 words)

	Powell's Books - The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
		When The Moviegoer was first published in 1961, it won the National Book Award and established Walker Percy as one of the supplest and most deftly modulated new voices in Southern literature.
		In his portrait of a boyish New Orleans stockbroker wavering between ennui and the longing for redemption, Percy managed to combine Bourbon Street elegance with the spiritual urgency of a Russian novel.
		Walker Percy was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1916, graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1937, and became a Doctor of Medicine at Columbia University in 1941.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0375701966-13 (414 words)

	Report sees German moviegoer jump (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		MUNICH -- The German moviegoing public may experience a sea change as the population ages, according to a study of 20,000 Germans released late Tuesday by the German Federal Film Board.
		The 50-plus population remains a small but steady slice of the pie, accounting for less than 20 million tickets out of a total of 149 million sold in 2003, according to the study.
		But additional evidence for an overall trend toward the graying of the German moviegoer is that more people in their 30s went to the movies in 2003 than those in their late 20s.
	www.showeast.com /filmgroup/thr_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000670859 (191 words)

	Walker Percy, Mississippi writer
		The Moviegoer, Walker Percy's first novel, is the story of a confused bond salesman and his chaotic life.
		John "Binx" Bolling, the protagonist of the novel, is a man of thirty that strives to please his family and do right by his name.
		A summary of The Moviegoer by Walker Percy.
	www.shs.starkville.k12.ms.us /mswm/MSWritersAndMusicians/writers/Percy.html (1077 words)

	Walker Percy Hypermail Archives: By Date
		Re: Moviegoer and despair Ted B Atkinson (Mon Nov 15 1999 - 11:37:17 EST)
		Re: Moviegoer and despair Ted B Atkinson (Thu Nov 11 1999 - 15:47:37 EST)
		Re: Moviegoer and despair James L Piat (Thu Nov 11 1999 - 10:28:06 EST)
	www.ibiblio.org /wpercy/hypermail8/date.html (4275 words)

	The Moviegoer -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Moviegoer is a 1961 novel by (United States writer whose novels explored human alienation (1916-1990)) Walker Percy.
		It won a (Click link for more info and facts about National Book Award) National Book Award in 1962.
		Percy refers explicitly to the philosopher (Danish philosopher who was the founder of existentialism (1813-1855)) Kierkegaard during the book, and the book's themes show the strong influence of Kierkegaard's writings, particularly with regards to the theme of "repetition."
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/T/Th/The_Moviegoer.htm (172 words)

	Vindigo Studios (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		MovieGoer by Vindigo turns your phone into a convenient film search engine.
		Tell MovieGoer where you are and instantly locate up-to-date theater and movie listings for contiguous U.S. and Hawaii.
		MovieGoer will even get you to the cinema with door-to-door driving directions and rich, detailed maps.
	www.vindigostudios.com /products/moviegoer (95 words)

	Maud Newton: Blog
		The French see nothing wrong with writing novels that address what they consider the deepest philosophical issues." The Moviegoer was published in 1961 when Percy was forty-five, and although the publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, did little to promote the book, it was discovered and accorded the National Book Award.
		Most critics feel that The Moviegoer presents most of the themes with which Percy concerned himself in subsequent fiction and nonfiction.
		In The Moviegoer and subsequent novels, Percy introduces the concept of Malaise, a disease of "depression and despair, intensified by the awareness of a moral and metaphysical wasteland in which intellectuals claim to have outgrown the rituals and beliefs of organized religion," according to Tharpe.
	maudnewton.com /blog/index.php?p=2484 (388 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Metro -- Moviegoer shushes others, is beaten
		Friday, he was jumped by two men who beat him in the parking lot with a 3-foot piece of wood, San Diego police Sgt. Richard Nemetz said.
		MIRA MESA – A moviegoer was beaten unconscious after he asked others inside a Mira Mesa Boulevard theater to be quiet, police said yesterday.
		The driver of the Escort, a Carlsbad woman, 35, and three passengers, ages 6 to 11, were hospitalized with minor injuries.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/metro/20041226-9999-1m26crime.html (407 words)

	The Moviegoer's Bill of Rights Petition
		We, the undersigned moviegoing public, hold these truths to be self-evident, that all paying moviegoers are endowed by their ticket stubs with certain unalienable rights.
		The moviegoer has the right to enjoy the moments before the movie begins free of commercial and advertisement slide shows accompanied by music packaged specifically for the captive audience awaiting for a movie to begin.
		It is our belief that when the moviegoer purchases admission to the film, they are purchasing the experience of the film and the film only, and we affirm that commercials and advertisements are not part of the purchased entertainment.
	www.petitiononline.com /a101/petition.html (596 words)

	Walker Percy: Exhibition Checklist
		Typescript draft of a short story titled "Confessions of a Moviegoer (From the Diary of the Last Romantic)," identified by Percy as a "short early version" of his subsequent novel.
		Typescript draft of the novel, titled "Confessions of a Moviegoer," dating from the late 1950s.
		The first letter reveals some of the difficulties Percy encountered in getting The Moviegoer published; the second details Kaufmann's pleasure in the final acceptance of the novel by the publisher.
	www.lib.unc.edu /rbc/percy/checklist.html (1162 words)

	Debra Messing and Dermot Mulroney Today Announced The Tenth Annual Moviefone Moviegoer Award Nominees
		Beginning tomorrow, moviegoers across the country can visit the Moviefone.com® web site or AOL® Keyword: Moviegoer Awards to view video footage of the nominee announcement with Debra Messing and Dermot Mulroney and cast their votes.
		Last year, moviegoers cast nearly twenty million votes and selected The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King as the Best Picture of the year.
		The year’s sexiest kiss according to moviegoers was the passionate smooch between Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley in Pirates of the Caribbean.
	www.timewarner.com /corp/newsroom/pr/0,20812,1020359,00.html (623 words)

	Business Wire: Vindigo Brings Verizon Wireless Customers to the Movies; MovieGoer on Get It Now Lets Customers Access ...
		From the 2003 BREW Developers Conference, Verizon Wireless, the nation's largest wireless provider and a leader in mobile data, and Vindigo, one of the best-known developers and publishers of consumer information and entertainment applications for wireless devices, today unveiled MovieGoer, a convenient and comprehensive movie guide for wireless phones.
		The first Get It Now application of its kind, MovieGoer is a comprehensive source for movie enthusiasts, including a search function that lets customers search for movies by name, genre, or nearest theater throughout the United States.
		MovieGoer offers reviews and ratings from top critics, movie synopses, show times, and theater information, complete with full-color maps.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2003_April_28/ai_100738553 (646 words)

	Jedi Council Forums - Are you an avid moviegoer?
		I would be an avid moviegoer, but I never get to the movies I want to see.
		I saw 8 films in theaters this year, which is much better than usual, but still not as big a moviegoing year as 1997 was for me.
		It's a combination of the fact that I never seem to like theaters (too loud and too dark) and that people don't seem to be making movies that I'd be interested in, at least on the surface.
	boards.theforce.net /Your_Jedi_Council_Community/b10008/929356/p3 (721 words)

	Fantastic 4 review Jessica Alba perky breasts, gigantic boobs, hot, sexy
		Casual moviegoer me was hopping up and down like a bunny on crack saying, "this is the most fun I've had at the movies since Revenge of the Sith!" I was split into three, and I didn't know which version of me to trust.
		In a summer of somber releases reminding moviegoers of 9/11 and the evils that Republicans do, Fantastic Four (or 4) is all about having a good time.
		When Johnny pops a package of Jiffy-Pop through the heat of his own hand, the moviegoer me spit soda out of my nostrils (critic me was not impressed, and claimed that his nostrils don't "spit").
	www.juicycerebellum.com /200524.htm (1150 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Moviegoer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Walker Percy wrote the Moviegoer, a Southern novel with William Faulkner and Truman Capote in mind.
		The Moviegoer strikes the perfect balance between ideas and people.
		He succeeds in writing a book about loneliness and isolation without ever seeming sappy or sentimental; he creates a whole cast of fully developed characters who are deeply flawed but always sympathetic.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0375701966 (983 words)

	Amazon.com: Sharp DV-L70U 7" Portable DVD Player: Electronics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		About the size of two DVD cases stacked on top of one another, the DV-L70U Moviegoer weighs just over two pounds with the supplied lithium battery pack, making it lighter than competing models.
		In fact, the Moviegoer's vivid images seem to expand the 7-inch diagonal screen size instead of diminishing it.
		Although the faux brushed-aluminum design is very appealing, it reflects light back onto the LCD screen, particularly in the dark, which diminishes picture quality.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00003GPVB?v=glance (2019 words)

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