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== 1976 - 1994 ==
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Heine Bill Heine] acquired the cinema, and changed its name to the Penultimate Picture Palace(PPP). He The name came about because his bank manager described the scheme as "not quite the ultimate in bad ideas, but the penultimate" <ref>https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/nov/15/cine-files-ultimate-picture-house-oxford</ref>. Heine invited his friend sculptor John Buckley to design its fixtures. For the facade he chose a figure reminiscent of Al Jolson with outstretched hands. The door handles were like Mae West's lips, and there was a female and a male figure above the toilet entrances, named Pearl and Dean. In 1986 Buckley made the famous [http://headington.org.uk/shark/ shark] at Heine's Headington house. The cinema closed on 16 March 1994, the last movie shown was, perhaps ironically, [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095765/ Cinema Paradiso].
== ? - 1976 ==