MOVIES - May 19, 1987
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A Milpitas, Calif., movie theater pulled “River’s Edge”--loosely based on a 14-year-old local girl’s rape and murder--after the town mayor said no one wanted to be reminded of the crime. “We don’t want to be hit over the head with it,” said Mayor Bob Livengood, who said American MultiCinema agreed to pull the film after he discussed the matter with the theater manager. The movie is based on the 1981 murder of Marcy Conrad by her 16-year-old friend, Anthony Broussard, a Milpitas high school student.
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