Meaning of cinemaddict | Babel Free

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A film enthusiast; movieholic.

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“Even a cinemaphobe operaphile ought to score twenty or more. A true cinemaddict can extend his/her score to a possible one hundred points by naming in addition the fifty actors who played the characters capitalized in the scene descriptions.”

“These works have their roots in Lowry's vast, lifelong experience as "cinemaddict," roots that were set when as a child he saw the early epics of D.W. Griffith, roots that were nourished in the 1920s by the important contemporary films of European and Russian directors and, later, by films such as Orson Welles' Citizen Kane.”

“By the time she left Iowa, she was a movie fan—or as Harper's magazine described it in 1907, a “cinemaddict."”

“"While 11,500,000 cinemaddicts sit in their favorite cinemansions of an average Sunday, 34,000,000 radio fans listen to Jack Benny on the air. On an average Monday 5,428,000 go to the movies; 26,000,000 stay at home to hear the Lux Radio Teatre program," Gallup noted.”

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