BEHIND THE SCENES.(LIFE)

From: The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC) | Date: May 17, 1998| Author: Johnson, Maria C. | Copyright information

Byline: MARIA C. JOHNSON Staff Writer

Hammond Bennett, the man behind many of the area's movie theaters, gambles on a huge new multiplex for Greensboro.

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A movie about Hammond Bennett would begin at a construction site with a tight shot of a blueprint unfurling over the hood of Bennett's Cadillac.

Over the blueprint stands Bennett, the grand old man of Greensboro movie houses. Under a cap of white hair, he locks h...

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