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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR>Sep 2, 2008
</TR><!-- headline one : start --><TR>Now in cinemas: The slobs <!--10 min-->
</TR><!-- headline one : end --><!-- Author --><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Kimberly Spykerman
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"-->TEN minutes. That's all the cleaning brigade has as cinemagoers walk out.
In that time, before the next screening, scattered popcorn kernels and paper cups - and even spilt drinks - have to be cleaned up.
Even condoms have been left behind.
The Straits Times staked out a popular cinema chain's complexes in Orchard Road and Bugis one Saturday night, and saw the spills amid the thrills.
Engineer Foo Mee Lin had just caught the film Mad About English and wasn't too crazy about the idea of taking her trash out with her. The 34-year-old said there were cinema cleaners who swooped in once the lights came up.
'It's their job and they're expected to do it,' she said.
The cleaners did move in - fast.
Mr James Tan, 54, a cleaning supervisor at the cinema for the past four months, explained the need for a speedy mop-up: The cleaners have only 10 minutes before the commercials kick in for the next show.
It is especially tough for them on Saturday nights, when it is full-house for most screenings. Resources are strained.
Small cinema halls get two cleaners, and the bigger ones have four.
Mr Tan drew a link between the kind of movies and the mess left behind. He said: 'The arthouse film crowd don't really make a mess.'
Read the full story in Wednesday's edition of The Straits Times Read The anti-popcorn squadron for Alphonsus Chern's take on the men who clear your movie trash.
</TR><!-- headline one : start --><TR>Now in cinemas: The slobs <!--10 min-->
</TR><!-- headline one : end --><!-- Author --><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Kimberly Spykerman
</TD></TR><!-- show image if available --></TBODY></TABLE>
<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"-->TEN minutes. That's all the cleaning brigade has as cinemagoers walk out.
In that time, before the next screening, scattered popcorn kernels and paper cups - and even spilt drinks - have to be cleaned up.
Even condoms have been left behind.
The Straits Times staked out a popular cinema chain's complexes in Orchard Road and Bugis one Saturday night, and saw the spills amid the thrills.
Engineer Foo Mee Lin had just caught the film Mad About English and wasn't too crazy about the idea of taking her trash out with her. The 34-year-old said there were cinema cleaners who swooped in once the lights came up.
'It's their job and they're expected to do it,' she said.
The cleaners did move in - fast.
Mr James Tan, 54, a cleaning supervisor at the cinema for the past four months, explained the need for a speedy mop-up: The cleaners have only 10 minutes before the commercials kick in for the next show.
It is especially tough for them on Saturday nights, when it is full-house for most screenings. Resources are strained.
Small cinema halls get two cleaners, and the bigger ones have four.
Mr Tan drew a link between the kind of movies and the mess left behind. He said: 'The arthouse film crowd don't really make a mess.'
Read the full story in Wednesday's edition of The Straits Times Read The anti-popcorn squadron for Alphonsus Chern's take on the men who clear your movie trash.