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R*W»*'«ttnock Newi Contributing Writer
The screen at Washington’s Gay Street Theater will never be splashed with the blood and gore of “Friday, The 13th," Part II, III, IV, V, or XXV. Sleazy smashes and tacky titillators don’t play at the old movie house in the historical town surveyed by young George Washington. Neither do the box office bonanzas of Sylvester Stallone, Chuck Norris, Charles Bronson and a host of Rung Fu imitators.
“There are plenty of places for those movies — first-run commerical theaters,” said Frank Reynolds, president of the Rappahannock Association for the Arts and the Community, the non-profit group that operates the Gay Street Theater. “We show the critical successes. Sometimes, those same films are financial successes; sometimes they’ll play at the neighborhood theaters and in the malls. But often, the only place you can see them is in the big city — or here.”
Understandably, RAAC membership is heavy with movie goers and movie lovers. The Association grew out of efforts spearheaded by Mr. Reynolds and 4 Washington 1
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