BETSY & VICTORIAFormer film theorists/members of academia, Betsy and Victoria were co-professors at a major university who simultaneously became disenchanted with studying, writing, and teaching about what were in the final analysis simply products of industry. Both felt that they had arrived at the end of the yellow brick road and seen the man behind the curtain, and while neither had any desire to go back home, both were ready for a new challenge. They came to the mutual decision that a major change was necessary and that they would make it together.
Immediately following the making of this decision the pair were beset by the anxious fear that the fact of their having spent the entirety of their adult lives ensconced in academia had rendered them unfit for life outside its protective confines. The precipitant anxiety was such that they were forced to conclude that they would be unable to move successfully towards the future until they had left their present in the past. And so they tendered their resignations, liquidated and pooled their assets, and hit the highway, where, after more than a year on the road, they made a random highway stop in Fairvale.
It was there that the hand of fate descended in the form of Daisy, Mazie and Krazy-- initiating a chain of events the end result of which was Betsy and Victoria finding themselves co-proprietors of Fairvale's lone movie house-- The World Cinema-- which they had converted into a repertory house: bringing their global knowledge of movies to bear on the focal point of Fairvale.
The Fairvale community was wary at first of what these newcomers were doing, but after a while it seems that the tide has turned and that gradual, grudging acceptance has begun. As one might expect, acceptance has been most keen among the younger generation, and no one embodies this trend more so than the unlikely pair of Kathie and Beatrice, who, although coming from wildly different backgrounds, have both found themselves gravitating towards the offerings of the World.