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REEL LIFE / FILM & VIDEO FILE : TV Producer Launches Cable Magazine Show : Oxnard’s Robert Guzman calls the biweekly ‘E Ticket’ a program that ‘dares to do anything.’ It premiered on Jones Intercable but the producer seeks broader distribution.

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Television producer Robert Guzman of Oxnard has launched a half-hour cable TV magazine called “E Ticket,” which premiered Sunday on Jones Intercable.

The biweekly show “dares to do anything,” Guzman declared. That helps explain the eclectic pieces on in-line skating, diving in Channel Islands National Park and the staging of the musical “Evita” in Santa Barbara.

“If it happens in the 805 area code, we’ll do it,” Guzman said.

He’s positioning the show for broadcast on Cox Cable in Santa Barbara, Ventura County Cablevision, Comcast in Simi Valley and Falcon Cable in Malibu. And the 24-year-old Oxnard native is looking for much broader distribution.

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“I’ve been hustling it over the Internet,” Guzman said.

Internet is often called the prototype for the information superhighway. Guzman contacts cable operators on Internet, sending them notes about the show. He’s gotten interest from as far away as Maine.

He said he’s aiming for the time when information technology like Internet merges with entertainment programming on the information superhighway. Guzman said that when dial-up cable service is available, viewers anywhere in the country would be able to chose “E Ticket” from a menu of shows about Southern California.

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Wallace Theaters breaks ground today on a seven-screen movie house in Santa Paula. The Hawaiian theater chain will open “Movies 7” in late 1994 on West Main Street in the Santa Paula Shopping Center.

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The theater is boasting lots of “state of the art” doodads and one traditional touch--the seats will be built on rocker springs.

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Another theater, this one in Simi Valley, opened last week.

Edwards opened its second just down the road from the Edwards Mountain Gate theater. The new building at Simi Valley Plaza gives Edwards 2,200 seats in Simi, said Michael Tiemeyer, director of operations for the Newport Beach theater chain.

Edwards will continue to gobble up market share in Ventura County by building a 3,000-seat, 12-screen complex in Camarillo. That location should open by Thanksgiving.

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