From Yard's own Helms Bakery, guests can expect treats such as Chocolate Chip Toffee Coffee Cookies, Triple Gingerbread Cookies, Apple Caramel Ice Cream Cups with Almond Streusel, and Creme Fraiche Rhubarb Pops.Ī full-service bar will offer an exclusive selection of hand-crafted cocktails presented by award-winning mixologist and master sommelier Adam Seger, featuring a locally-driven fresh produce and herbs-centric menu focusing on house made syrups, bitters, and infusions. On the sweeter side, iPic Westwood will feature curated concessions offerings showcasing Yard's take on classic favorites along with selections from local artisans, such as locally made caramels and toffee. Under Yard's direction, guests will enjoy a gourmet menu featuring items that are conducive to in-cinema dining with a high level of culinary craft, such as Salmon Tartar Cones, and Lobster Roll. Guests will have the choice between Premium and Premium Plus seating and a diverse, locally-sourced gourmet menu designed by the renowned chef Sherry Yard, who serves as Corporate Vice President of Culinary Direction. IPic Theaters in Westwood will enable guests to enjoy a movie in ultimate comfort and style while offering many options to select from to tailor their experience. " Los Angeles is the movie capital of the world, and we are thrilled to bring the iPic Experience to the home of the film industry." "From the moment of arrival, guests will be transported by iPic's iconic design, which gives the feeling of stepping into a stylish hotel or lounge," says President and CEO of iPic Entertainment Hamid Hashemi. (PRNewsFoto/iPic Entertainment) (PRNewsFoto/IPIC ENTERTAINMENT) Urban legend has it that while they were essentially a hands-off corporate parent, Avco may have had a hand in the initial failure of the controversial political satire WINTER KILLS, since its plot involved the ever-popular “military-industrial complex” and Avco would have had fat government contracts for jet technology.IPic Westwood, CA Rendering. The radio stations were spun off into a local company called Jacor, which of course now has become the ginormous Clear Channel company. The TV stations were sold to Multimedia, who also took over production of then-locally produced syndicated shows like PHIL DONAHUE, SALLY JESSY RAPHAEL and JERRY SPRINGER. Some fleeting research says that Avco was initially some sort of aviation science/manufacturing concern (AV – aviation, CO – company, something like that) that broadened their reach into financial interests like insurance and credit, and then of course the decade or so they operated Avco Embassy Pictures and the radio/TV production bloc that included the mighty WLW in Cincinnati. I’ll always remember it as the one large downstairs theater (and how long it took to clean it!) Strange, that it has been 20 years since I started there. It was some kind of experience, working there. Rourke from Fantasy Island (I am black, and I don’t like the term “African Americanâ€â€¦but I digress). They had some jerk manager there that fancied himself as the black equivalent of Mr. The last time I was there to see a movie was in 1988, when Sigourney Weaver’s “Gorrillas in the Mist†was there. I was there for three years, before I decided that it was time to make some real money. It was hard not to be wild-eyed, as a teenager. Christopher Reeve stopped by, Sonny Landham (“Predatorâ€, “48 Hrsâ€, “Action Jacksonâ€), many of the Lakers (Riley, Magic, Byron Scott), Angela Lansbury, Gene Wilder and wife Gilda Radner (not long before she died). Glenn Close was pregnant when I saw her there. I remember Penny Marshall at the “Big” premiere, Susanna Hoffs (when the Bangles were popular) for her stupid movie, “The Allnighterâ€. Talk about a star magnet – the AVCO was certainly that. Other blockbusters I experienced there include “"Die Hard”, “Stakeout”, “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”, “Dirty Dancing”, “Big”, “Ruthless People”, and others. I remember getting out of there at 4am after the Fri/Sat late shows, then riding my bicycle up the hill to the dorm. Talk about a cash cow! That show did business for weeks. I felt like I was in the Ewok garden.Īnyway, the first blockbuster that I worked was “Aliens”. I had attended the third day (first weekend) of “Return of the Jedi” and was amazed at the THX sound. Peter Bobela was my first manager, always reminded me of Bill Daniels from “Knight Rider” and “St Elsewhere”. I was attending the freshman orientation at UCLA at the time, staying on campus. I atarted working at General Cinema’s AVCO Center in the summer of 1986.
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