Here’s a new chapter in audience participation: the 92YTribeca is screening the swampy 1988 Garry Marshall melodrama Beaches on January 28, and they would like to emphasize that “shameless weeping is encouraged”. Tissues will be plentiful. Well, what the hey, it’s a sad day anyway, right? Sad movie, sad day, sad people all around you, it’s the end of January – which portends the coming of February, which is the saddest month – and your $13 ticket includes a free beer, which is the opposite of sad, at least until it’s gone. Then: sad. (FULL ARTICLE: Erik Piepenburg, Arts Beat, The New York Times)