I guess it is unrealistic to think that Mann would change just the color of the curtains, but not their fabric or anything else . . . Changing the seats (to add more padding and head support) would probably change the acoustic, too. -p
Carlo:
I was/am sad to see the Loews Cineplex Century Plaza go. My best memories of Cinema 1 were 10 pm-ish shows of movies where silence was important, deep in the pic's run with maybe 5 other people in the 1,100-seat theater: Cube (scary!) and The Ghost In the Darkness. IMO, Cinema 1 rivaled...