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He didn’t collect an assist, but was screening Philadelphia goaltender Carter Hart.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 18, 2023

“They’re uneven,” he told the Times in 2008, when Anthology was screening some of his films.

From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2021

DeVito: I was screening “The War of the Roses” with Tom Sherak, the head of marketing at Fox.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2019

The film was screening as part of NewFest, New York’s L.G.B.T. film festival, and is currently travelling the late-season circuit, looking to be picked up for distribution.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 26, 2018

The door was ajar and the night air blowing the flame, which he was screening with his hand.

From Dwellers in the Hills by Post, Melville Davisson