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Article: Justin Freed's passion for film played a lead role in local screen history, particularly at the Coolidge
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 23, 2009
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B ROOKLINE - "Everyone's a programmer," Justin Freed says with a
laugh, describing what it's like to own a revival house. "When I was
running that theater it was like being Theo Epstein [running the Red
Sox]. Everyone has an opinion on what you should be doing - believe
me! And I'm not sure I was doing it any better than the people who
were giving me the suggestions."
Freed, 73, is sitting in Hunneman Hall, of the Brookline Public
Library, the site of an exhibition of 42 of his photographs, "I
Found It at the Coolidge." The show runs through Sept. 28.
The "Coolidge" in question is, of course, the Coolidge Corner
Theatre, in Brookline, which Freed owned from 1977 to 1989. Those
were halcyon ...