January 25, 2002

Keeper of the Last Picture Show

By LAWRENCE BIEMILLER

In the evenings, Eric Faden's living-room windows glow green at the edges from the neon lights of the marquee outside. From almost any seat in the room you can see the tops of giant, polished-aluminum letters -- an S, a U, a stylish, Art Deco P. Together, the letters spell out -- backwards, of course -- CAMPUS, which is the name of the 1941 movie theater that Mr. Faden bought last summer. Indeed, they spell it twice as they sweep above the sidewalk in a broad semicircle: once

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