CLEARVIEW CINEMA GROUP INC
10QSB, 1997-09-26
MOTION PICTURE THEATERS
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                                  UNITED STATES
                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

                                   FORM 10-QSB


        / X /     QUARTERLY REPORT UNDER SECTION 13 or 15(d) OF THE   SECURITIES
EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 FOR THE QUARTERLY PERIOD ENDED JUNE 30, 1997

                  TRANSITION REPORT UNDER SECTION 13 or 15 (d) OF THE SECURITIES
EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 FOR THE TRANSITION PERIOD FROM       TO 
                                                    -----    -----

Commission file number  001-13187

                          CLEARVIEW CINEMA GROUP, INC.
        (EXACT NAME OF SMALL BUSINESS ISSUER AS SPECIFIED IN ITS CHARTER)


                Delaware                               22-3338356
    (STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION OF                 (I.R.S. EMPLOYER
     INCORPORATION OR ORGANIZATION)                IDENTIFICATION NO.)

                                 7 Waverly Place
                            Madison, New Jersey 07940
                    (ADDRESS OF PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICES)

                                      (201) 377-4646
                (ISSUER'S TELEPHONE NUMBER, INCLUDING AREA CODE)

      Check  whether the issuer:  (1) filed all reports  required to be filed by
Section 13 or 15(d) of the  Exchange  Act during the past 12 months (or for such
shorter period that the  registrant was required to file such reports),  and (2)
has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.
 Yes /  /   No / X /

<PAGE>


APPLICABLE ONLY TO CORPORATE ISSUERS:

      State the number of shares  outstanding of each of the issuer's classes of
common equity,  as of the latest  practicable  date:  2,108,800 shares of common
stock were outstanding as of September 15, 1997

Transitional Small Business Disclosure Format (check one): Yes /   /   No  / X /


                         PART I - FINANCIAL INFORMATION

ITEM 1.     FINANCIAL STATEMENTS


                  CLEARVIEW CINEMA GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
                           CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                    DECEMBER 31,        JUNE 30,
                                                        1996               1997
                                                    --------------  ------------
                                                                     (UNAUDITED)
<S>                                                  <C>              <C>    
ASSETS
CURRENT ASSETS:
     Cash                                            $   751,345     $   758,237
     Inventories                                          45,102          49,010
     Other current assets                                 34,866         159,871
                                                     -----------     -----------
        Total current assets                             831,313         967,118
                                                     -----------     -----------

PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT, LESS ACCUMULATED
DEPRECIATION                                          11,412,217      12,217,716
                                                     -----------     -----------

OTHER ASSETS:
    Intangible assets, less accumulated
       amortization                                    2,711,518       2,581,536
     Project acquisition costs                           434,326         415,495
     Escrow deposits                                     294,529         294,529
     Deferred offering costs                                --           163,285
     Security deposits and other assets                   76,641          94,703
                                                     -----------     -----------
                                                       3,517,014       3,549,548
                                                     -----------     -----------

                                                     $15,760,544     $16,734,382
                                                     ===========     ===========
</TABLE>


See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.


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<PAGE>

                  CLEARVIEW CINEMA GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

                           CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS (CONT'D)
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>

                                                    DECEMBER 31,       JUNE 30,
                                                       1996              1997
                                                     -----------     -----------
                                                                     (UNAUDITED)

<S>                                                    <C>            <C>    

LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS'
 EQUITY (DEFICIENCY)

CURRENT LIABILITIES:
     Current maturities of long-term debt          $    835,650    $    661,382

     Current maturities of subordinated notes
       payable:
        Related parties                                 479,986         487,947
     Accounts payable and accrued expenses            1,226,502       1,584,011
                                                   ------------    ------------
         Total current liabilities                    2,542,138       2,733,340
                                                   ------------    ------------

LONG-TERM LIABILITIES:
     Long-term debt, less current maturities          7,742,611      10,118,474
     Subordinated notes payable, less current
        maturities:
        Related parties                                 593,882         598,354

        Other                                           600,000         600,000
                                                   ------------    ------------
                                                      8,936,493      11,316,828
                                                   ------------    ------------
COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

REDEEMABLE PREFERRED STOCK AT
   REDEMPTION PRICE                                   2,132,294       2,875,608
                                                   ------------    ------------
REDEEMABLE COMMON STOCK AT
   REDEMPTION PRICE                                     357,305         357,305
                                                   ------------    ------------
STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY (DEFCIENCY):
     Undesignated Preferred Stock:
        Authorized 2,498,697 shares, issued and
         outstanding - none                                --              --
                                                   ------------    ------------
      Class A Preferred Stock, par value $.01,
        authorized  1,303 shares; outstanding
        779 shares                                            8               8
     Common Stock, par value $.01, authorized
       10,000,000 shares; outstanding 832,800
       shares                                             8,328           8,328
     Additional paid-in capital                       4,827,096       3,827,096
     Accumulated deficit                               (553,519)     (1,151,218)
     Less: Redemption price of redeemable stock      (2,489,599)     (3,232,913)
                                                   ------------    ------------
         Total stockholders' equity (deficiency)      1,792,314        (548,699)
                                                   ------------    ------------
                                                   $ 15,760,544    $ 16,734,382
                                                   ============    ============
</TABLE>

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.



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<PAGE>



                      CLEARVIEW CINEMA GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

                      CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
                                   (UNAUDITED)
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>


                                                 THREE MONTHS ENDED
                                   ---------------------------------------------
                                              JUNE 30,             JUNE 30, 1997
                                         1996            1997         PRO FORMA
                                     ----------       ----------     (NOTE 3) 
 <S>                                  <C>             <C>            <C>  
                                                                         
THEATER REVENUES:
  Box office                          $ 1,069,990    $ 1,996,644    $ 2,756,685
  Concession                              324,531        593,835        825,273
  Other                                    13,820         91,396        150,004
                                      -----------    -----------    -----------
                                        1,408,341      2,681,875      3,731,962
                                      -----------    -----------    -----------

OPERATING EXPENSES:
   Film rental and booking fees           506,948        992,574      1,287,080
   Cost of concession sales                54,122        106,029        152,936
   Theater operating expenses             560,213      1,228,805      1,655,759
   General and administrative          
    expenses                              132,075        212,912        230,227
   Depreciation and amortization          106,032        384,696        482,723
                                      -----------    -----------    -----------
                                        1,359,390      2,925,016      3,808,725
                                      -----------    -----------    -----------

OPERATING INCOME (LOSS)                    48,951       (243,141)       (76,763)

INTEREST EXPENSE                          115,598        365,180        426,297
                                      -----------    -----------    -----------
NET LOSS                              $   (66,647)   $  (608,321)   $  (503,060)
                                      ===========    ===========    ===========

WEIGHTED AVERAGE COMMON SHARES
   SHARES AND EQUIVALENTS
   OUTSTANDING                          1,797,000      1,797,000      2,731,300
                                      ===========    ===========    ===========

 NET LOSS PER COMMON SHARE           $       (.04)       $ (.34)        $ (.18)
                                      ============        ======         ====== 
                                   
                                                                     
</TABLE>
                                    


See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.


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<PAGE>


                  CLEARVIEW CINEMA GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

                      CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
                                   (UNAUDITED)
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>

                                                SIX MONTHS ENDED
                                   ---------------------------------------------
                                             JUNE 30,              JUNE 30, 1997
                                      1996           1997           PRO FORMA
                                  ----------       ----------        (NOTE 3) 
 <S>                                  <C>             <C>            <C>  

THEATER REVENUES:
  Box office                          $ 1,851,063    $ 4,708,854    $ 6,430,082
  Concession                              550,956      1,337,821      1,848,082
  Other                                    19,325        141,135        238,981
                                      -----------    -----------    -----------
                                        2,421,344      6,187,810      8,517,145
                                      -----------    -----------    -----------

OPERATING EXPENSES:
   Film rental and booking fees           852,359      2,188,700      2,965,784
   Cost of concession sales                87,219        221,278        304,835
   Theater operating expenses           1,023,237      2,448,960      3,353,262
   General and administrative
     expenses                             227,600        404,718        441,923
   Depreciation and amortization          141,906        797,707        990,876
                                      -----------    -----------    -----------
                                        2,332,321      6,061,363      8,056,680
                                      -----------    -----------    -----------

OPERATING INCOME                           89,023        126,477        460,465

INTEREST EXPENSE                          170,064        724,146        864,263
                                      -----------    -----------    -----------

NET LOSS                              $   (81,041)   $  (597,699)   $  (403,798)
                                      ===========    ===========    ===========

WEIGHTED AVERAGE COMMON SHARES
   SHARES AND EQUIVALENTS
   OUTSTANDING                          1,797,000      1,797,000      2,731,300
                                      ===========    ===========    ===========


 NET LOSS PER COMMON SHARE            $      (.05)   $      (.33)   $      (.15)
                                      ===========    ===========    ===========


</TABLE>


See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.


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<PAGE>


                  CLEARVIEW CINEMA GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

           CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY

                         SIX MONTHS ENDED JUNE 30, 1997
                                   (UNAUDITED)
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>

                                                                      ADDITIONAL
                             PREFERRED STOCK          COMMON STOCK     PAID-IN     ACCUMULATED
                            SHARES     AMOUNT      SHARES     AMOUNT   CAPITAL       DEFICIT
                           --------   ---------   ---------  -------- ----------- --------------
<S>                           <C>     <C>       <C>          <C>        <C>           <C>

BALANCES,
JANUARY 1, 1997                779     $8       832,800       $8,328     $4,827,096    $(553,519)
                                                                 

SIX MONTHS ENDED
  JUNE 30, 1997:
   Repurchase of warrants 
   held by lender                                                       (1,000,000)
   Net loss                    --        --          --          --            --        (597,699)
                            -----     ------   --------      ------      ---------     -----------
 BALANCES, JUNE 30, 1997     779       $8       832,800      $8,328    $ 3,827,096    $(1,151,218)
                            ====      =======   ========      ======     =========     ========== 
                                                      
                                                 
</TABLE>


See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.


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<PAGE>


                      CLEARVIEW CINEMA GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

                      CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS


<TABLE>
<CAPTION>

                                                SIX MONTHS ENDED JUNE 30,
                                           ------------------------------------
                                                     1996               1997
                                                  -----------        ---------
                                                         (UNAUDITED)
<S>                                                  <C>              <C>  

 CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES:
    Net loss                                         $   (81,041)   $  (597,699)

    Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net
      cash flows from operating activities:
       Depreciation and amortization                     141,906        797,707
       Amortization of debt discount                       7,022         87,649
       Changes in operating assets and
          liabilities:
        Inventories                                      (17,537)        (3,908)
        Other current assets                               1,759       (125,005)
        Security deposits and other assets               (19,433)           769
        Accounts payable and accrued
          liabilities                                    417,487        378,013
                                                     -----------    -----------
            Net cash flows from operating
              activities                                 450,163        537,526
                                                     -----------    -----------

CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES:
    Purchase of property and equipment                  (370,763)    (1,392,692)

    Purchase of property and equipment upon
       acquisition of theaters
                                                      (4,800,000)          --
    Purchase of intangible assets                       (200,000)      (101,036)
                                                     -----------    -----------

            Net cash flows from investing
              activities                              (5,370,763)    (1,493,728)
                                                     -----------    -----------

CASH FLOW FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES:
    Proceeds from long term debt                       3,553,104      1,550,000
    Payments on long term debt                           (10,000)      (423,621)
    Proceeds from issuance of preferred stock          1,750,000           --
    Payments on option                                   (80,000)          --
    Costs related to issuance of preferred
      stock                                             (154,911)          --   
    Deferred offering costs                                 --         (163,285)
    Dividends paid                                       (10,000)          --
                                                     -----------    -----------
           Net cash flows from financing
             activities                                5,048,193        963,094
                                                     -----------    -----------

NET CHANGE IN CASH                                       127,593          6,892

CASH, BEGINNING OF PERIOD                                176,203        751,345
                                                     -----------    -----------

CASH, END OF PERIOD                                  $   303,796    $   758,237
                                                     ===========    ===========

</TABLE>

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.



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<PAGE>


                  CLEARVIEW CINEMA GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

                      CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>

                                                     SIX MONTHS ENDED JUNE 30,

                                                        1996            1997
                                                     -----------    ------------
                                                             (UNAUDITED)
<S>                                                   <C>             <C> 

SUPPLEMENTAL CASH FLOW INFORMATION:

   Interest paid                                     $      170,064   $  577,080
                                                     ==============   ==========
   Income taxes paid                                 $        2,814   $    1,871
                                                     ==============   ==========

Non-cash investing and financing activities:

   Conversion of subordinated note
    payable - related party into common stock        $       80,000   $     --
                                                     ==============   ==========

   Common stock issued for purchase of assets        $     1,110,00   $     --
                                                     ==============   ==========
   Warrants repurchased through issuance
     of debt                                         $         --     $1,000,000
                                                     ==============   ==========

</TABLE>


See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.




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<PAGE>


                      CLEARVIEW CINEMA GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

                   NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS


NOTE 1--BASIS OF PRESENTATION:

      The balance  sheet at December  31, 1996 has been derived from the audited
balance  sheet  contained in the  Registration  Statement on Form SB-2 (File No.
333-27819) (as amended,  the " Form SB-2") of Clearview Cinema Group,  Inc. (the
"Company")  which  became  effective  on August 12,  1997 and is  presented  for
comparative  purposes.  All other  financial  statements are  unaudited.  In the
opinion of  management,  all  adjustments,  which include only normal  recurring
adjustments  necessary  to present  fairly the  financial  position,  results of
operations and cash flows for all periods presented,  have been made. Results of
operations for interim periods are not  necessarily  indicative of the operating
results for a full year.
   

      Footnote disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in
accordance with generally  accepted  accounting  principles have been omitted in
accordance  with the  published  rules and  regulations  of the  Securities  and
Exchange  Commission.  The financial statements in this report should be read in
conjunction with the financial statements and notes thereto included in the Form
SB-2.

NOTE 2--STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY:

      STOCK SPLIT - In May 1997, the Company's Board of Directors approved a 600
to 1 stock split which was  subsequently  effected  in August  1997.  Such stock
split  has  been  retroactively  reflected  in  the  accompanying   consolidated
financial statements.

      REDEMPTION RIGHTS - A certain common stockholder had the right to sell its
shares of the Company's Common Stock,  $.01 par value (the "Common  Stock"),  to
the Company for a 30-day period  commencing in 2002 at a redemption  price based
upon a formula. If such stockholder did not exercise that right, the Company had
the right to purchase those shares of Common Stock from such stockholder for the
90-day period  commencing  after the expiration of that 30-day period at a price
based  upon the  same  formula.  Such  stockholder  and the  Company  agreed  to
terminate  those  rights  upon  consummation  of the  Company's  initial  public
offering (the "Offering"), which occurred in August 1997.

      The holder of the outstanding  shares of the Company's Class A Convertible
Preferred Stock, $.01 par value (the "Class A Preferred Stock"),  had the right,
exercisable on or after June 1, 2001, to sell to the Company all of those shares
or the shares of Common Stock into which they had been converted at a redemption
price determined in accordance with a specified  formula.  Such holder agreed to
terminate this right upon consummation of the Offering.

      The Company reports this redeemable stock at the current  redemption value
separately  between


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liabilities  and  stockholders'  equity,  since  redemption  is  outside  of the
Company's control. A corresponding reduction is made to stockholders' equity, as
the equivalent of treasury stock.  The per share redemption value of the Class A
Preferred  Stock is based on the greater of gross  revenues  (as defined) or six
times theater  operating  income  before  general and  administrative  expenses,
interest  and taxes for the  preceding  twelve  months  divided by the number of
shares of Common Stock issued and, as if converted or exercised, all convertible
securities,  options, warrants and similar instruments.  The redemption value of
the Common  Stock is based on book value per share  computed on a fully  diluted
basis.

      The  termination of these two redemption  rights upon  consummation of the
Offering will result in a reclassification  of the respective  redemption values
to  stockholders'  equity.  On a pro-forma basis at June 30, 1997, the effect of
such  terminations  would  have  been an  increase  in  stockholders'  equity of
$3,232,913 to $2,684,214.

NOTE 3--SUBSEQUENT EVENTS:

      INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING - On August 22, 1997, the Offering was consummated
and the Company sold 1,000,000  shares of Common Stock.  Gross proceeds  totaled
$8,000,000  and net proceeds to the  Company,  after  expenses of the  Offering,
totaled  approximately  $6,300,000.  Subsequently,  the  Company's  underwriters
exercised their  over-allotment  option to purchase 150,000 additional shares of
Common Stock,  resulting in additional  gross and net proceeds to the Company of
$1,200,000 and $1,074,000, respectively.

      CREDIT AGREEMENT - The Company entered into an amended and restated credit
agreement (the "Credit Facility") with The Provident Bank on September 12, 1997.
The Credit Facility consists of a $1.0 million revolving credit facility, a term
loan  facility of $14.0  million used to refinance  existing term loans of $10.4
million and for $3.6  million of new term loans of which $1.95  million was used
to finance part of the purchase  price for five  theaters  acquired  from United
Artists Theatre Circuit, Inc. ("United Artists"), and a term loan facility of up
to $15.0 million to finance future capital  expenditures and  acquisitions.  The
interest  rate on all loans  under the Credit  Facility  is 1/2% to 1% over that
lender's  prime rate  depending  upon certain  financial  ratios of the Company.
Principal is to be paid  quarterly  and interest is payable  monthly in arrears.
The final  maturity  of all term loans will be on the fifth  anniversary  of the
Credit  Facility.  The loans under the Credit  Facility  are  collateralized  by
substantially all of the assets of the Company and its subsidiaries.

      ACQUIRED  THEATERS - On September  12,  1997,  the Company  completed  the
acquisition  of five theaters from United Artists (the "UA  Acquisition")  for a
purchase  price of $8.65 million in cash,  which was provided by the proceeds of
the Offering and under the Credit  Facility.  The completion of this transaction
raises the Company's total number of theaters to 22 and its screen count to 83.

      The  Company   believes  that  its  capital  needs  for  the  acquisition,
renovation and  development of additional  theaters for the next 12 to 18 months
will be met by means of the Credit  Facility,  from  internally-  generated cash
flow and from the net proceeds from possible future debt or equity offerings.


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<PAGE>

      The unaudited pro forma results of operations included in this report have
been prepared as if the Company's 1996 and 1997 acquisitions  occurred as of the
beginning of the respective periods after giving effect to certain  adjustments,
including  increased  depreciation  expense and  increased  interest  expense on
acquisition  debt.  The pro forma results have been  prepared for  informational
purposes only and do not purport to indicate the results of operations  (i) that
actually would have occurred had the acquisitions  been consummated on the dates
indicated  or (ii)  that may  occur in the  future.  The pro  forma  results  of
operations  (unaudited)  for the six and three  months  ended June 30,  1997 are
presented  on the  face of the  Statements  of  Operations,  together  with  the
respective historical results of operations.

      Unaudited  condensed pro forma  results of  operations  for the six months
ended June 30, 1996 are summarized below:

                                          JUNE 30, 1996
                                          -------------
                                           (UNAUDITED)

            Revenues                      $ 8,389,864
                                            =========
            Net loss                      $   564,235
                                            =========
            Net loss per share            $      (.21)
                                                 =====


ITEM 2.  MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OR PLAN OF OPERATIONS

      THE  FOLLOWING  DISCUSSION  AND  ANALYSIS  OF  THE  COMPANY'S  RESULTS  OF
OPERATIONS  AND  FINANCIAL  CONDITION  SHOULD  BE READ IN  CONJUNCTION  WITH THE
INFORMATION  SET FORTH IN THE UNAUDITED  FINANCIAL  STATEMENTS AND NOTES THERETO
INCLUDED  ELSEWHERE  HEREIN AND THE AUDITED  FINANCIAL  STATEMENTS AND THE NOTES
THERETO INCLUDED IN THE SB-2, WHICH BECAME EFFECTIVE ON AUGUST 12, 1997.

OVERVIEW

      The Company has achieved  significant growth in theaters and screens since
its formation in December 1994.  From inception,  when the Company  acquired the
right to operate four theaters with eight  screens,  through  September 12, 1997
the Company has  acquired  the right to operate 18 theaters  with 69 screens and
has added six screens to two  existing  theaters.  The Company  expects that its
future revenue growth will be derived primarily from the operation of additional
theaters,  the  development  of new  theaters  and adding  screens  to  existing
theaters. The Company has had no theater closings since inception.

      The  Company's  revenues  are  predominantly  generated  from  box  office
receipts,  concession  sales and  on-screen  advertising.  Direct  theater costs
include film rental and booking fees and the cost of concessions.  Other theater
operating expenses consist primarily of theater labor and related fringe benefit
costs and occupancy costs  (including rent and/or real estate taxes,  utilities,
repairs and  maintenance,  cleaning costs and  supplies).  Film rental costs are
directly  related to the  popularity of a film and the length of time since that
film's  release.  Film rental costs  generally  decline as a  percentage  of box
office receipts the longer a film has been showing. As certain concession items,
such as fountain  drinks and popcorn,  are purchased in bulk and not prepackaged
for individual  servings,  the Company has  significant  gross profit margins on
those items.


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<PAGE>


      The  Company   believes   that  any  future   increases  in  minimum  wage
requirements  or  negotiated  increases  in union  wages will not  significantly
increase its theater operating expenses as a percentage of total revenues.

      General  and  administrative   expenses  consist  primarily  of  corporate
overhead  costs,  such as  management  and office  salaries  and related  fringe
benefits costs,  professional fees, insurance costs and general office expenses.
The  Company  believes  that  its  current  internal   controls  and  management
information  system  will  allow the  Company  to expand  its  number of screens
without  incurring   proportionate   increases  in  general  and  administrative
expenses.

      In  September  1995,  the  Company  acquired  the right to  operate  three
theaters with 11 screens in Nassau County, New York in an all-cash  transaction.
In May 1996,  the Company  purchased  the  leaseholds  of four  theaters with 19
screens in New York and New Jersey for a combination  of stock and cash. In July
1996,  Clearview  purchased the leaseholds of two theaters with seven screens in
Westchester County, New York for cash. In December 1996,  Clearview acquired two
more  theaters  with the  underlying  real estate and the  leasehold  of another
theater  with a total of 13 screens in Bergen  County,  New Jersey for cash.  In
September  1997,  Clearview  acquired three  theaters with the  underlying  real
estate and the leaseholds of two additional theaters. These five theaters have a
total of 14  screens  and are  located  in Wayne,  New  Jersey  and  Bronxville,
Larchmont,  Mamaroneck and New City, New York. The total purchase price of $8.65
million was paid using the proceeds  from the Offering  and  financing  from the
Credit Facility.

COMPARATIVE QUARTERLY RESULTS

      TOTAL REVENUES. Total revenues for the six and three months ended June 30,
1997 were $6,187,810 and $2,681,875, respectively, as compared to $2,421,344 and
$1,408,341 for the six and three months ended June 30, 1996,  respectively.  The
increases  in  revenues  of 155.6%  and  90.4%,  respectively,  are  principally
attributable to an increase in attendance to 891,553 attendees in the six months
ended June 30,  1997 from  347,621  attendees  in the six months  ended June 30,
1996,  and an increase in  attendance  to 351,805  attendees in the three months
ended June 30, 1997 from  197,500  attendees  in the three months ended June 30,
1996. The increase in attendance occurred principally because of the addition of
39 screens during 1996.

      FILM RENTAL AND BOOKING  FEES.  Film rental and booking fees  increased by
156.8% and 95.8% to  $2,188,700  and $992,574 for the six and three months ended
June 30, 1997,  respectively,  from  $852,359 and $506,948 for the six and three
months  ended  June  30,  1996,  respectively.  As a  percentage  of box  office
receipts, film rentals and booking fees were 46.5% for the six months ended June
30, 1997 as compared to 49.7% for the six months ended June 30, 1996. Such costs
were 49.5% of box office  receipts for the three months ended June 30, 1997,  as
compared to 47.4% for the same 1996 period.  See "Operating Income (Loss)" below
for additional information.

      COST OF CONCESSION SALES. Cost of concession sales increased by 153.7% and
95.9% to $221,278 and $106,029 for the six and three months ended June 30, 1997,
respectively,  from  $87,219 and $54,122 for the six and three months ended June
30, 1996,  respectively.  As a percentage  of concession  revenues,  the cost of
concession  sales were 16.5% and 17.9% for the six and three  months  ended June
30, 1997, respectively, compared to 15.8% and 16.7% for the six and three months
ended June 30, 1996, respectively.


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            THEATER OPERATING EXPENSES.  Theater operating expenses increased by
139.3% and 119.3% to  $2,448,960  and  $1,228,805  for the six and three  months
ended June 30, 1997, respectively,  from $1,023,237 and $560,213 for the six and
three months ended June 30, 1996,  respectively.  This increase is  attributable
solely to the nine theaters acquired in 1996, which acquisitions occurred during
the  second,  third  and  fourth  quarters  of 1996.  As a  percentage  of total
revenues,  theater operating  expenses decreased to 39.6% and increased to 45.8%
for the six and three  months  ended June 30,  1997,  respectively,  compared to
42.3% and 39.8% for the six and three months ended June 30, 1996,  respectively.
The decrease for the six-month  period,  as a percentage of total  revenues,  is
primarily due to the Company's  efficient  management of its variable  costs and
the lower average  per-theater fixed costs,  such as occupancy costs,  taxes and
common area maintenance  costs, of the theaters  acquired in 1996 as compared to
the Company's other theaters.

      GENERAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE  EXPENSES.  General and administrative expenses
increased  by 77.8% and 61.2% to  $404,718  and  $212,912  for the six and three
months ended June 30, 1997, respectively, from $227,600 and $132,075 for the six
and  three  months  ended  June 30,  1996,  respectively.  The  increase  is due
principally  to the hiring of  additional  personnel  and  increases in salaries
resulting  from the  transition  from  seven  locations  and 21  screens  at the
beginning of 1996 to 16 locations  and 60 screens at the beginning of 1997. As a
percentage  of total  revenues,  however,  general and  administrative  expenses
decreased  to 6.5% and 7.9% for the six and three  months  ended June 30,  1997,
respectively,  from 9.4% for the six and three months  ended June 30, 1996.  The
decrease,  as a percentage  of total  revenues is due primarily to the Company's
internal controls and management information system which allowed the Company to
expand  its number of  screens  without  incurring  proportionate  increases  in
general and administrative expenses.

      DEPRECIATION  AND  AMORTIZATION.  Depreciation  and  amortization  expense
increased  by 462.1% and 262.8% to $797,707  and  $384,696 for the six and three
months ended June 30, 1997, respectively, from $141,906 and $106,032 for the six
and three months ended June 30, 1996, respectively. The increase was primarily a
result of the acquisition of the nine theaters acquired in the second, third and
fourth quarters of 1996, which significantly increased the Company's depreciable
and amortizable assets.

      OPERATING  INCOME (LOSS) - Operating  income  increased for the six months
ended June 30,  1997 by 42.1% to $126,477  and  decreased  for the three  months
ended June 30, 1997 by 596.7% to an operating loss of $243,141. Operating income
was  $89,023  and  $48,951  for the six and three  months  ended June 30,  1996,
respectively.  As a percentage of total  revenues,  operating  income (loss) was
2.0% and (9.1)% for the six and three  months  ended June 30,  1997 and 3.7% and
3.5% for the six and  three  months  ended  June  30,  1996,  respectively.  The
fluctuations  were  primarily  a result of the films  available  for  exhibition
during the three-month period ended June 30, 1997.

      As discussed  above,  film rental and booking fees (as a percentage of box
office  receipts)  for the three months  ended June 30, 1997  increased to 49.7%
from 47.4% in the  similar  1996  period.  Such  increase  in costs and  related
decrease in operating  income is attributable to the selection of films released
during the second quarter of 1997. A number of films released  during the second
quarter of 1997  experienced  successful  opening  weekends  but were  unable to
sustain the popularity to generate  significant box office receipts  thereafter.
As film exhibitors  incur much greater film rental fees for the opening weeks of
a film's release when compared to the fees incurred for later weeks,  this trend
resulted in the  increase  in film cost for the  Company  and the entire  motion
picture exhibition industry.


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      INTEREST  EXPENSE.  Interest  expense  increased  by 325.8%  and 215.9% to
$724,146  and  $365,180  for the six and  three  months  ended  June  30,  1997,
respectively, from $170,064 and $115,598 for the six and three months ended June
30,  1996,  respectively.  The  increase  was  attributable  to the  significant
increase  in the  Company's  total  debt  during  the  second,  third and fourth
quarters of 1996, which was primarily  incurred in connection with the Company's
acquisitions during that year.

      NET LOSS.  Net loss  increased  to $597,699  and  $608,321 for the six and
three months ended June 30, 1997, respectively, from $81,041 and $66,647 for the
six and three months ended June 30, 1996, respectively.  The increase in the net
loss was primarily a result of the films available for exhibition during the two
periods, as discussed above.

LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES

      The Company  derives  substantially  all of its  revenues  from box office
receipts and  concession  sales and,  therefore,  benefits from the fact that it
has, in effect, no accounts receivable and minimal inventory  requirements.  The
Company's most significant operating expenses, film rental and booking fees, are
not typically paid to distributors  until 30 to 45 days following the receipt of
the  applicable  cash  ticket  payments.  In  addition,  most of the rest of the
Company's  other operating  expenses,  such as theater payroll and theater rent,
are paid bi-weekly or monthly,  respectively. The periods between the receipt of
cash from  operations and use of that cash to pay the related  expenses  provide
certain operating capital to the Company.

      Since  the  Company  is  in  an  industry  which  is  capital   intensive,
substantially  all of its assets are non-current.  The Company's primary current
asset is cash,  while  inventories are relatively  insignificant  throughout the
fiscal year. The Company had negative  working capital of $1,766,222 at June 30,
1997.

      The  Company  has   historically   financed  its   day-to-day   operations
principally from the cash flow generated by its operating activities.  Such cash
flow from operations totaled $537,526 for the six months ended June 30, 1997, as
compared to $450,163  for the similar 1996 period.  The  difference  between the
Company's net loss and its cash flow from  operating  activities is  principally
due to the Company's  depreciation and amortization expenses of $797,707 for the
six months ended June 30, 1997 and  $141,906 for the similar 1996 period,  which
are non-cash expenses,  and an increase in accounts payable.  The Company's cash
flow  generated  by its  operating  activities  was a  negative  $242,929  and a
positive   $527,255  for  the  three  months  ended  June  30,  1997  and  1996,
respectively.  The  difference  between the Company's net income or loss and its
cash flow from operating activities for the three months ended June 30, 1997 and
1996 is principally due to the Company's  depreciation and amortization expenses
of $384,696  and  $106,032  for the three  months  ended June 30, 1997 and 1996,
respectively,  which are non-cash expenses,  and an increase in accounts payable
of $513,143 for the 1996 three-month period.

      The  Company's  capital  requirements  during  1997 arose  principally  in
connection  with the  renovation of existing  theaters,  the  development of new
theaters  and the  addition  of screens to an  existing  theater.  Such  capital
expenditures    were   financed    principally    with   bank   borrowings   and
internally-generated   cash.   Capital   expenditures,   exclusive   of  theater
acquisitions,  totaled  approximately  $1,393,000 during the first six months of
1997.  During  1996,  the  Company  funded its capital  expenditures,  including
theater  acquisitions,  through  approximately  $4.3 million of bank borrowings,
$5.0 million of seller-provided  financing,  $2.5 million 

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of gross  proceeds  from the sale of shares of Class A Preferred  Stock and $1.1
million  from the issuance of shares of Common Stock to the seller of a theater.
In January  1997,  the  Company  retired  $4.4  million of that  seller-provided
financing with additional bank borrowings and $100,000 in cash.

      The Company seeks to lease theaters rather than to purchase  theaters with
their  underlying  real  estate or to purchase  properties  for  development  as
theaters due to the  significantly  lower capital  requirements  for leasing and
because it believes  that its  potential  return on  investment  when  leasing a
theater  is  higher  than its  potential  return on  investment  if it owns that
theater and the underlying real estate.

      The Company anticipates that its capital  expenditures in 1997,  including
acquisitions,  will be approximately $25.0 million. Of this amount, $500,000 was
used to add four  screens to the  Company's  theater  in  Chester,  New  Jersey,
$900,000  used to  convert a part of a building  into a theater  in Summit,  New
Jersey, and $8,650,000 was used to consummate the UA Acquisition.

LIQUIDITY

      INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING - On August 22, 1997, the Offering was consummated
and the Company sold 1,000,000  shares of Common Stock.  Gross proceeds  totaled
$8,000,000  and net proceeds to the  Company,  after  expenses of the  Offering,
totaled  approximately  $6,300,000.  Subsequently,  the  Company's  underwriters
exercised their  over-allotment  option to purchase 150,000 additional shares of
Common Stock,  resulting in additional  gross and net proceeds to the Company of
$1,200,000 and $1,074,000, respectively.

      CREDIT  AGREEMENT  -  The  Credit  Facility  consists  of a  $1.0  million
revolving  credit  facility,  a term  loan  facility  of $14.0  million  used to
refinance  existing term loans of $10.4 million and for $3.6 million of new term
loans of which $1.95 million was used to finance part of the purchase  price for
five theaters  acquired from United  Artists,  and a term loan facility of up to
$15.0 million to finance  future  capital  expenditures  and  acquisitions.  The
interest  rate on all loans  under the Credit  Facility  is 1/2% to 1% over that
lender's  prime rate  depending  upon certain  financial  ratios of the Company.
Principal is to be paid  quarterly  and interest is payable  monthly in arrears.
The final  maturity  of all term loans will be on the fifth  anniversary  of the
Credit  Facility.  The loans under the Credit  Facility  are  collateralized  by
substantially all of the assets of the Company and its subsidiaries.

      ACQUIRED  THEATERS - The purchase price for the UA  Acquisition  was $8.65
million,  which was paid by the  proceeds of the  Offering  and under the Credit
Facility.  The completion of this transaction  raises the Company's total number
of theaters to 22 and its screen count to 83.

QUARTERLY RESULTS AND SEASONALITY

      Historically,  the most  successful  films have been  released  during the
summer  months  (July and  August) and  Thanksgiving  through  year-end  holiday
season.   Consequently,   motion   picture   exhibitors   generally   have   had
proportionately higher revenues during such periods, although the seasonality of
motion picure exhibition  revenues has become less pronounced in recent years as
studios have begun to release major motion  pictures more evenly  throughout the
year.  The  Company  believes  that its  regular  exhibition  of art  films  has
contributed  to a moderation in the  seasonality of its own revenues as compared
to the seasonality of the revenues of some of its competitors. Nevertheless, the
Company's  revenues and income in any particular  quarter will be  substantially
the result of the  commercial  success of the particular  films being  exhibited
during such quarter.

EFFECTS OF INFLATION

      Inflation has not had a significant impact on the Company's  operations to
date.


                           PART II - OTHER INFORMATION



ITEM 2.     CHANGES IN SECURITIES AND USE OF PROCEEDS

      The registration  statement on Form SB-2 (File No. 333-27819)  relating to
the public offering of up to 1,150,000 shares of Common Stock was filed with the
Securities  and Exchange  Commission  pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended,  on May 27, 1997 and amended on July 18, 1997,  August 4, 1997,  August
11, 1997, and August 12, 1997 (the "Registration  Statement").  The Registration
Statement was declared  effective by the Securities  and Exchange  Commission on
August 12, 1997.  The Offering  commenced on August 19, 1997 and  terminated  on
September  15, 1997,  after the sale of all  1,150,000  shares.  One hundred and
fifty thousand shares were purchased from the Company by its  underwriters,  for
whom Prime  Charter Ltd.  ("Prime  Charter")  was acting as the  representative,
solely for the purpose of covering over-allotments.

            The aggregate  offering  price of the shares of Common Stock sold in
the Offering is  $9,200,000.  As of June 30,  1997, the Company paid $100,000 to
Prime Charter for expenses and incurred an estimated $63,285  for other expenses
in connection  with the Offering.  Since June 30, 1997, the Company has incurred
expenses  in  connection  with the  Offering  estimated  at  $1,716,000  through
September  15, 1997. A  description  of those  expenses  will be provided in the
Company's next quarterly report on Form 10-QSB.

      The estimated net proceeds of the Offering,  after  deducting the expenses
paid as of June 30, 1997 and the estimated  expenses incurred in connection with
the Offering from June 30, 1997 through September 15, 1997, are $7,320,715.


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      The  proceeds  of  the  Offering   have  been  used  to  retire  a  Senior
Subordinated  Note (principal  amount  $600,000)  issued by the Company to Magic
Cinemas  LLC on  December  13,  1996  and to pay a  substantial  portion  of the
purchase price for the UA Acquisition  which was  consummated in accordance with
an Agreement of Purchase and Sale by and among United Artists  Theatre  Circuit,
Inc.,  United Artists  Properties I Corp.,  Mamaroneck  Playhouse  Holding Corp.
(collectively,  the "Seller"),  the Company and CCC Bronxville Cinema Corp., CCC
Mamaroneck  Cinema  Corp.,  CCC Wayne Cinema  Corp.,  CCC Cinema 304 Corp.,  CCC
Larchmont   Cinema   Corp.   and   CCC   BC   Realty   Corp.(collectively,   the
"Subsidiaries"),   dated  July  21,  1997  (the   "Purchase   Agreement").   The
Subsidiaries are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Company.

      The use of the  proceeds of the  Offering by the Company is in  accordance
with  the  description  of the  use of  proceeds  appearing  on  page  13 of the
prospectus  included in the  Registration  Statement.  As the Offering  occurred
after  June 30,  1997,  the use of the  proceeds  of the  Offering  will be more
specifically described in the Company's next quarterly report on Form 10-QSB.

ITEM 5.     OTHER INFORMATION

      Pursuant to the Purchase Agreement,  the Subsidiaries  purchased (i) three
parcels of real property,  together with the  improvements  located  thereon and
certain  personal  property used in the operation of or in connection with three
motion picture theaters,  located in New York, and (ii) two leasehold  interests
and  certain  personal  property  used in the  operation  of two motion  picture
theaters, one in New York and one in New Jersey.

      The aggregate purchase price for the UA Acquisition was $8.65 million. The
aggregate  purchase price was determined by arm's-length  negotiations  between
the Seller and the Company.  A portion of the purchase  price ($6.7 million) was
paid from the net proceeds of the  Offering.  The balance of the purchase  price
($1.95 million) was paid with funds borrowed by the Company and its wholly-owned
subsidiaries pursuant to the Credit Facility.

      The  leasehold  interests,  personal  property  and real  property and the
improvements  thereon that were purchased by the  Subsidiaries  were used by the
Seller in the operation of or in connection  with four motion  picture  theaters
located in New York and one motion picture  theater  located in New Jersey.  The
Subsidiaries  intend to continue to use the purchased assets in the operation of
five motion picture theaters. No material relationship exists between the Seller
and the Company or any affiliates of the Company.


ITEM 6.     EXHIBITS AND REPORTS ON FORM 8-K.

      The following exhibits are attached hereto or incorporated by reference as
part of this report.

                                                                    METHOD
EXHIBIT   DESCRIPTION                                              OF FILING

2.01      Agreement  of  Purchase  and  Sale  by  and  among       Incorporated 
          United Artists Theatre Circuit,  Inc., United            by  reference
          Artists  Properties I Corp.,  Mamaroneck  Playhouse      from Exhibit
          Statement Holding Corp.,  Clearview Cinema Group,        2.01 to the 
          CCC Bronxville Cinema Corp., CCC Mamaroneck Cinema       SB-2 Regist-
          Inc.,  thereto on August 4, 1997 Corp., CCC Wayne        ration filed 
          Cinema Corp., CCC Cinema 304 Corp., CCC Larchmont        with Amend-
          Cinema Corp., and  CCC BC Realty Corp., dated            ment No. 2 
          July 21, 1997                                            on August 4, 
                                                                   1997

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3.01      Amended and Restated  Certificate of Incorporation      Filed herewith
          of Clearview Cinema Group, Inc.


3.02      Amended and Restated  By-laws of Clearview  Cinema      Filed herewith


10.01     Amended  and  Restated  Credit  Agreement,  by and      Filed herewith
          among   Clearview   Cinema   Group,    Inc.,   its
          wholly-owned  subsidiaries and The Provident Bank,
          dated September 12, 1997

10.02     Agreement,  dated as of September 1, 1997,  by and      Filed herewith
          among  Clearview  Cinema  Group,  Inc.,  First New
          York Realty Co. Inc. and Brett E. Marks

11.01     Statement re: computation of per share earnings         Filed herewith

27.01     Financial Data Schedule                                 Filed herewith

 
      No reports on Form 8-K were filed by the  Company  during  this  reporting
period.



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                                   SIGNATURES

      In accordance with the  requirements of the Securities and Exchange Act of
1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its
behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.


                                          CLEARVIEW CINEMA GROUP, INC.



      September 26, 1997                  /s/ A. DALE MAYO
                                          ----------------
                                          A. Dale Mayo
                                          Chairman of the Board, President and
                                             Chief Executive Officer



      September 26, 1997                  /s/ JOAN M. ROMINE
                                          ------------------
                                          Joan M. Romine
                                          Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer



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                                  EXHIBIT INDEX


                                                                        METHOD
EXHIBIT                      DESCRIPTION                              OF FILING


2.01      Agreement  of  Purchase  and  Sale  by  and  among       Incorporated
          United Artists Theatre Circuit,  Inc., United            by  reference
          Artists  Properties I Corp.,  Mamaroneck  Playhouse      from Exhibit
          Statement Holding Corp.,  Clearview Cinema Group,        2.01 to the 
          CCC Bronxville Cinema Corp., CCC Mamaroneck Cinema       SB-2 Regist-
          Inc.,  thereto on August 4, 1997 Corp., CCC Wayne        ration filed 
          Cinema Corp., CCC Cinema 304 Corp., CCC Larchmont        with Amend-
          Cinema Corp., and  CCC BC Realty Corp., dated            ment No. 2 
          July 21, 1997                                            on August 4, 
                                                                   1997
     
3.01      Amended and Restated  Certificate of Incorporation      Filed herewith
          of Clearview Cinema Group, Inc.


3.02      Amended and Restated  By-laws of Clearview  Cinema      Filed herewith


10.01     Amended  and  Restated  Credit  Agreement,  by and      Filed herewith
          among   Clearview   Cinema   Group,    Inc.,   its
          wholly-owned  subsidiaries and The Provident Bank,
          dated September 12, 1997

10.02     Agreement,  dated as of September 1, 1997,  by and      Filed herewith
          among  Clearview  Cinema  Group,  Inc.,  First New
          York Realty Co. Inc. and Brett E. Marks

11.01     Statement re: computation of per share earnings         Filed herewith

27.01     Financial Data Schedule                                 Filed herewith




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                                                            EXHIBIT 3.01


                             AMENDED AND RESTATED
                         CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
                                      OF
                         CLEARVIEW CINEMA GROUP, INC.


            FIRST.      The name of the corporation is Clearview Cinema   Group,
Inc. The corporation's  original Certificate of Incorporation was filed with the
Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on November 23, 1994.

            SECOND.     The  certificate of incorporation of the corporation, as
previously  amended and restated,  is hereby amended and restated to read in its
entirety as follows:


                                   ARTICLE I

            The name of the corporation is Clearview Cinema Group, Inc.


                                  ARTICLE II

            The address of the  corporation's  registered office in the State of
Delaware is 1013 Centre Road, in the City of  Wilmington,  County of New Castle.
The name of its registered agent at such address is Corporation Service Company.


                                  ARTICLE III

            The  purpose  of the  corporation  is to engage in any lawful act or
activity for which  corporations may be organized under the General  Corporation
Law of the State of Delaware.


                                  ARTICLE IV

      1. The total number of shares of capital stock that the corporation  shall
have authority to issue is 12,500,000 shares consisting of (a) 10,000,000 shares
of Common  Stock,  with a par value of one cent  ($.01) per share  (the  "Common
Stock");  and (b) 2,500,000 shares of Preferred  Stock,  with a par value of one
cent ($.01) per share (the "Preferred Stock").

      2. Shares of the  capital  stock of the  corporation  may be issued by the
corporation from time to time for such legally  sufficient  consideration as may
be fixed from time to time by the Board of  Directors  of the  corporation  (the
"Board of Directors"). Except for and subject to the rights expressly granted to
the  holders  of shares of  Preferred  Stock (a) in this  Amended  and  Restated
Certificate  of  Incorporation,  (b)  pursuant to the  authority  vested by this
Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation in the Board of Directors,  or
(c) by the laws of the State of Delaware,  the holders of shares of Common Stock
shall have  exclusively  all rights of stockholders.

      3. Subject to the rights, if any, of the holders of shares of any class or
series of Preferred  Stock and to the  requirements  of the laws of the State of
Delaware,  authority is hereby expressly vested in the Board of Directors at any
time and from time to time by resolution to divide 

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the  Preferred  Stock into one or more classes or series,  to determine  for any
such class or series its designation and the number of shares of Preferred Stock
of such class or series and the voting powers,  preferences,  optional and other
special rights, if any, of the shares of Preferred Stock of such class or series
and the  restrictions  or  qualifications  thereof,  and to issue such Preferred
Stock.

      4.  As  of  the  date  of  this  Amended  and  Restated   Certificate   of
Incorporation,  there  is a  class  of  Preferred  Stock  outstanding  with  the
following terms:

      (a)  DESIGNATION.  This class of  Preferred  Stock shall  consist of 1,303
shares and shall be designated as the "Class A Convertible Preferred Stock" (the
"Class A Convertible Preferred Stock").

      (b)  DIVIDENDS. The holder of each share of Class A Convertible  Preferred
Stock shall be entitled to receive out of any funds legally available  therefor,
when and as declared by the Board of Directors,  preferential  dividends thereon
in a per share amount equal to the product of (i) the per share dividend  amount
declared from time to time (and not revoked), in cash or property, on the Common
Stock  multiplied  by (ii) the number of shares of Common  Stock into which each
share of Class A Convertible  Preferred Stock shall be convertible on the record
date for the payment of such Common Stock dividend.  Such preferential  dividend
shall  be  declared  by  the  Board  of  Directors  contemporaneously  with  the
declaration of any dividend on the Common Stock.

            So long as any shares of Class A Convertible  Preferred  Stock shall
remain outstanding,  no dividend or other distribution  (except in capital stock
of the  corporation  of a  class  ranking  junior  to the  Class  A  Convertible
Preferred Stock as to dividends and the distribution of assets upon liquidation)
shall be paid or made on the  Common  Stock or on any other  shares  of  capital
stock of the  corporation  ranking  junior to the Class A Convertible  Preferred
Stock as to dividends or the  distribution of assets upon  liquidation  ("Junior
Stock") and no Common  Stock or Junior  Stock shall be  purchased  or  otherwise
acquired by the  corporation  or any  corporation,  limited  liability  company,
partnership or other entity of which more than fifty percent (50%) of the voting
power  of the  shares  of  capital  stock or other  ownership  interests  having
ordinary  voting power  (including  capital stock or other  ownership  interests
having such voting power only by reason of the  happening of a  contingency)  to
elect  a  majority  of  the  board  of  directors  or  other  managers  of  such
corporation,  limited liability  company,  partnership or other entity is at the
time owned, directly or indirectly,  through one or more intermediaries,  by the
corporation (each, a "Subsidiary" and collectively,  "Subsidiaries"), other than
by exchange  therefor of shares of Common Stock or Junior  Stock,  or out of the
proceeds  of the  substantially  concurrent  sale of shares  of Common  Stock or
Junior Stock,  unless all dividends on the Class A Convertible  Preferred  Stock
shall have been paid.


            Subject  to the  above  limitation  and  any  limitations  contained
elsewhere  herein,  dividends may be paid on the Common Stock or Junior Stock if
such payment is not otherwise restricted or prohibited by law.

      (c) LIQUIDATION  RIGHTS. In the event of any Liquidation Event (as defined
herein),  the holders of shares of Class A Convertible  Preferred Stock shall be
entitled to receive from the assets of the corporation,  whether  represented by
capital  stock,  paid-in  capital or  retained  earnings,  payment in cash of an
amount  equal to the  aggregate  Liquidation  Value (as defined  herein) of such
Class  A  Convertible  Preferred  Stock,  plus a  further  amount  equal  to any
dividends that have been (or,  pursuant to Section (b) hereof,  were required to
have been) declared on the Class A Convertible  Preferred Stock but which remain
unpaid,  before any  distribution  of assets shall be made to the holders of the
Common  Stock or Junior  Stock.  If,  upon such  Liquidation  Event,  the 


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assets  distributable to the holders of shares of Class A Convertible  Preferred
Stock shall be insufficient to permit the payment in full to such holders of the
preferential  amounts  to which they are  entitled,  then such  assets  shall be
distributed ratably among the shares of Class A Convertible Preferred Stock.

            The Liquidation Value of each share of Class A Convertible Preferred
Stock shall initially be equal to $2,558.85.  In case the corporation  shall (i)
pay a dividend on the Class A Convertible  Preferred  Stock in shares of Class A
Convertible  Preferred Stock,  (ii) subdivide the outstanding  shares of Class A
Convertible  Preferred Stock, or (ii) combine the outstanding  shares of Class A
Convertible  Preferred  Stock into a smaller number of shares,  the  Liquidation
Value in effect immediately prior thereto shall be  proportionately  adjusted so
that the aggregate  Liquidation Value of the Class A Convertible Preferred Stock
immediately after such event shall equal the aggregate  Liquidation Value of the
Class A Convertible  Preferred Stock  immediately  prior thereto.  An adjustment
made pursuant to this  paragraph  shall become  effective (x) upon the effective
date in the case of a subdivision  or combination or (y) upon the record date in
the case of a dividend of shares.

            After  payment  in  full  of the  aggregate  Liquidation  Value  and
dividends,  as set forth above,  to the holders of shares of Class A Convertible
Preferred Stock,  the remaining assets of the corporation  available for payment
and  distribution to stockholders  may be paid and distributed to the holders of
the Common Stock and any Junior Stock.

            For the purposes hereof, the term "Liquidation Event" shall mean any
(A)  merger  or  consolidation  other  than a merger or  consolidation  in which
persons  who,  immediately  prior to the closing of such  transaction,  were the
holders of voting  securities of the corporation  having more than fifty percent
(50%)  of  the  voting  power  of  the  outstanding  voting  securities  of  the
corporation  (which  includes  for all  purposes of this  Amended  and  Restated
Certificate of Incorporation,  other than the election of directors, the Class A
Convertible  Preferred Stock) hold,  immediately after such transaction,  voting
securities of the  surviving  entity having more than fifty percent (50%) of the
voting power of the outstanding  voting securities of the surviving entity,  (B)
sale  of all or  substantially  all of the  assets  of the  corporation,  or (C)
liquidation,  dissolution or winding up of the corporation, whether voluntary or
involuntary.


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      (d)  VOTING RIGHTS.

            (i)  GENERAL.  Holders  of shares of Class A  Convertible  Preferred
Stock shall be entitled to that number of votes per share  (including  fractions
thereof)  as shall be equal to the  number of shares of Common  Stock into which
each share of Class A Convertible  Preferred  Stock shall be  convertible on the
relevant record date (calculated to the nearest 1/100th of a share), voting as a
single  class with the  holders  of shares of Common  Stock at all  meetings  of
stockholders,  upon  all  matters  that  are  required  to be  submitted  to the
stockholders of the  corporation,  except upon matters with respect to which the
holders of shares of Class A Convertible  Preferred  Stock and Common Stock have
separate  voting  rights as provided  elsewhere  in this  Amended  and  Restated
Certificate  of  Incorporation  (including  the  election  of  directors)  or as
required by Delaware  law.  Notwithstanding  anything to the  contrary set forth
herein, if the holders of the Class A Convertible  Preferred Stock are no longer
entitled, voting separately as a single class, to elect one or more directors of
the  corporation in accordance with Section  (d)(ii),  then, from and after such
time,  the  holders of shares of Class A  Convertible  Preferred  Stock shall be
entitled  to that  number of votes per share  (including  fractions  thereof) as
shall be equal to the number of shares of Common  Stock into which each share of
Class A Convertible  Preferred Stock shall be convertible on the relevant record
date  (calculated to the nearest  1/100th of a share),  voting as a single class
with the holders of shares of Common Stock at all meetings of stockholders, upon
the election of directors.

            (ii) ELECTION OF  DIRECTORS.  So long as the  outstanding  shares of
Class A  Convertible  Preferred  Stock have in the  aggregate  at least  fifteen
percent (15%) of the voting power of the  outstanding  voting  securities of the
corporation,  the holders of the Class A  Convertible  Preferred  Stock,  voting
separately as a single class,  shall be entitled to elect up to two directors of
the  corporation.  So long as the  outstanding  shares  of  Class A  Convertible
Preferred  Stock have in the  aggregate  less than fifteen  percent (15%) but at
least five percent (5%) of the voting power of the outstanding voting securities
of the  corporation,  the holders of the Class A  Convertible  Preferred  Stock,
voting  separately  as a  single  class,  shall be  entitled  to elect up to one
director of the  corporation.  If the outstanding  shares of Class A Convertible
Preferred  Stock have in the  aggregate  less than fifteen  percent (15%) but at
least five percent (5%) of the voting power of the outstanding voting securities
of  the  corporation  and  as of  said  date  there  are  two  directors  of the
corporation who had been elected by the holders thereof, then such directors may
both  remain in office  only  until the next  meeting  held for the  purpose  of
electing  directors  and shall be treated  as having  resigned  at such  meeting
regardless  of whether the holders of the Class A  Convertible  Preferred  Stock
vote to elect a director at such meeting.  If the outstanding  shares of Class A
Convertible Preferred Stock have in the aggregate less than five percent (5%) of
the voting power of the outstanding  voting  securities of the corporation,  the
holders of the Class A Convertible Preferred Stock shall not be entitled, voting
separately as a single class,  to elect any directors of the corporation and any
director  as of said date who had been so elected by the  holders of the Class A
Convertible  Preferred  Stock  shall be treated as having  immediately  resigned
without the  necessity  of such person  taking any action.  Any  directors to be
elected  by the  holders of the Class A  Convertible  Preferred  Stock  shall be
elected annually. At any meeting held for the purpose of electing directors, the
presence in person or by proxy of the holders of more than fifty  percent  (50%)
of the shares of Class A  Convertible  Preferred  Stock then  outstanding  shall
constitute a quorum of the Class A Convertible  Preferred Stock for the election
of  directors  to be elected  solely by the  holders of the Class A  Convertible
Preferred  Stock.  In lieu of an election at a meeting,  the holders of not less
than the  minimum  number  of  shares  of Class A  Convertible  Preferred  Stock
necessary to take action by written  consent under  applicable law may elect the
directors  or  director  to be  elected  solely  by the  holders  of the Class A
Convertible  Preferred Stock by executing one or more written  consents  setting
forth the action so taken. A vacancy in any  directorship  elected solely by the
holders of the Class A Convertible  Preferred  Stock shall be filled only by the
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written consent of holders of shares of Class A Convertible Preferred Stock.

            (iii) CERTAIN CORPORATE ACTIONS. The affirmative vote of the holders
of  more  than  fifty  percent  (50%)  of the  outstanding  shares  of  Class  A
Convertible  Preferred  Stock,  voting  separately as a single  class,  shall be
required to authorize  any of the following  transactions:  (x) any amendment to
this Amended and Restated  Certificate of  Incorporation if such amendment would
alter the aggregate number of authorized  shares, or the par value, of the Class
A Convertible Preferred Stock or would adversely affect the powers,  preferences
or rights of the Class A Convertible  Preferred  Stock;  (y) any issuance by the
corporation of capital stock having a dividend or liquidation  preference senior
to the  Class  A  Convertible  Preferred  Stock;  or  (z)  any  issuance  by the
corporation  of capital stock having a dividend or  liquidation  preference on a
parity with the Class A Convertible Preferred Stock; provided, however, that the
right  of the  holders  of the  Class  A  Convertible  Preferred  Stock  to vote
separately  as a class with  respect to any event of the type  described in this
clause (z) shall  immediately  terminate when the outstanding  shares of Class A
Convertible Preferred Stock have in the aggregate less than five percent (5%) of
the voting power of the outstanding voting securities of the corporation.

      (e)  CONVERSION RIGHTS.

            (i) (A) OPTIONAL  CONVERSION UPON ELECTION BY HOLDER.  The holder of
any share or shares of Class A Convertible  Preferred Stock shall have the right
to  convert,  at such  holder's  option and  subject to the  provisions  of this
Section (e), any such share, plus all accrued and unpaid dividends thereon, into
such number of fully paid and non-assessable  shares of Common Stock (calculated
as to each  conversion  to the  nearest  1/100th of a share) as is  obtained  by
dividing the Liquidation  Value at the time of conversion,  plus all accrued and
unpaid  dividends  thereon,  by $2,558.85 (the  "Conversion  Price");  provided,
however,  that the  Conversion  Price shall be adjusted  upon the  happening  of
certain contingencies as provided in paragraph (ii) of this Section (e).

            The  transfer  books of the  corporation  shall not be closed at any
time prior to the  termination  of the  conversion  rights of the holders of the
Class A Convertible  Preferred  Stock,  but this provision shall not prevent the
fixing of a record date for the  determination  of  stockholders  for any proper
purpose.

            For purposes of this Section (e), "Common Stock" shall mean only the
Common  Stock  authorized  at the time of the  original  issuance of the Class A
Convertible  Preferred Stock and capital stock of any other class into which the
then authorized  Common Stock may thereafter  have been changed.  In determining
the number of shares of Common Stock  outstanding at any particular time for the
purpose of  computations  pursuant  to the  formulas in  paragraph  (ii) of this
Section  (e),  there shall not be included  Common Stock then owned of record or
beneficially by the corporation or any Subsidiary.

            (B) MANDATORY  CONVERSION UPON CONSUMMATION OF QUALIFYING  LIQUIDITY
EVENT.  (1) Upon the  occurrence  of a  Qualifying  Liquidity  Event (as defined
herein) as to any holder,  each of the outstanding shares of Class A Convertible
Preferred Stock then held by such holder,  plus all accrued and unpaid dividends
thereon,  shall  automatically  convert  into  such  number  of  fully  paid and
non-assessable  shares of Common Stock  (calculated as to each conversion to the
nearest 1/100th of a share) as is obtained by dividing the Liquidation  Value at
the time of conversion,  plus all accrued and unpaid dividends  thereon,  by the
Conversion Price then in effect.

                  (2) As used herein, a "Qualifying  Liquidity Event" shall mean
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occur of any of the following events:

                  (x)  Following  the receipt by all of the holders of shares of
Class A Convertible Preferred Stock of a binding, unconditional written offer to
purchase  all of the shares of Common  Stock  into  which  such  shares are then
convertible  for a cash  purchase  price  equal to or greater  than the  Minimum
Purchase Price (as defined  herein) from the  corporation,  any holder of Common
Stock  and/or  any third  party  (including  in  connection  with any  merger or
consolidation  involving  the  corporation),  the first to occur of (A) the date
upon which a specific,  written rejection notice is delivered to such offeror by
the  holder  declining  such  offer,  or  (B) if no  such  rejection  notice  is
delivered,  the date thirty (30) days after the date of receipt of such  written
offer by such holder.

                  (y)  Following  the receipt by all of the holders of shares of
Class A Convertible  Preferred Stock of a binding,  unconditional  written offer
from an  underwriter  to purchase  all of the shares of Common  Stock into which
such shares are then  convertible  at a purchase  price equal to or greater than
the Minimum  Purchase Price in connection  with a firm  commitment  underwritten
public  offering of Common Stock pursuant to a registration  statement under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended,  the date of the successful  closing of such
underwritten public offering.

                  (z)  Following  the  listing by the  corporation  of shares of
Common Stock on the New York Stock  Exchange or the American  Stock  Exchange or
with the National  Association of Securities Dealers Automated  Quotation System
("NASDAQ"),  and/or the  registration  of the Common  Stock as a class under the
Securities  Exchange  Act of 1934,  as  amended,  the date upon which all of the
shares of Common  Stock into which the shares of Class A  Convertible  Preferred
Stock held by a holder are convertible  become freely  transferable  pursuant to
Securities  and  Exchange   Commission  Rule  144  (or  any  successor  rule  or
regulation)  as then in effect and may be disposed of by such holder in a single
transaction  in  compliance  with  the  volume  limitations  of such  Rule  144;
provided, that the daily Common Stock Market Prices (as defined herein) for each
of the one hundred and twenty (120) consecutive Trading Days (as defined herein)
immediately  preceding  such date shall  have been equal to or greater  than the
Minimum Purchase Price; and provided,  further, that the average weekly reported
volume of trading in the Common Stock during the four calendar  weeks  preceding
such date  shall  have been  equal to or  greater  than the  number of shares of
Common Stock into which such shares are convertible.


                  (3) As used herein,  the term "Minimum  Purchase  Price" shall
mean that price per share of Common Stock which shall equal four hundred percent
(400%) of the then applicable Conversion Price.

                  (4) As used herein,  the term "Common  Stock Market Price" for
any  Trading Day shall mean (x) if the Common  Stock is listed or  admitted  for
trading on the New York Stock  Exchange (or any  successor to such  exchange) or
any other national or regional securities exchange,  the last sale price, or the
closing  bid price if no sale  occurred,  of the Common  Stock on the  principal
securities exchange on which the Common Stock is listed or traded, or (y) if not
listed or traded as  described  in clause (x), the last sale price of the Common
Stock quoted on the National  Market System of NASDAQ,  or any similar system of
automated  dissemination of quotations of securities  prices then in common use,
if so  quoted,  or (z) if not  listed or traded as  described  in clause  (x) or
quoted as  described  in clause (y),  the mean  between the high bid and the low
asked  quotations  for the Common  Stock as reported by the  National  Quotation
Bureau  Incorporated  if at least two securities  dealers have inserted both bid
and asked  quotations for the Common Stock on at least five of the ten preceding
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securities or central  market  system in lieu of any market or quotation  system
described  above,  then the Common Stock Market Price shall be determined in the
manner set forth in clause (x) of the preceding sentence if actual  transactions
are reported and in the manner set forth in clause (z) of the preceding sentence
if bid and asked quotations are reported but actual transactions are not.

                  (5) As used herein,  the term "Trading Day" shall mean (v) any
day on which the New York Stock  Exchange (or any successor to such exchange) is
open for the transaction of business,  or (w) if the Common Stock is not at such
time  listed or  admitted  for  trading on the New York Stock  Exchange  (or any
successor to such exchange), a day upon which the principal national or regional
securities  exchange on which the Common Stock is listed or admitted for trading
is open for the  transaction  of business,  or (x) if not listed or admitted for
trading as described in clause (v) or (w), and if at such time the sale price of
the  Common  Stock is  quoted  on the  National  Market  System of NASDAQ or any
similar  system of automated  dissemination  of quotations of securities  prices
then in common  use,  any day for which such  system  provides  quotations  with
respect to securities upon which it reports, or (y) if not so listed or admitted
for  trading or  quoted,  and if at such time bid and asked  quotations  for the
Common Stock are reported by the National Quotation Bureau Incorporated, any day
for which the  National  Quotation  Bureau  Incorporated  provides bid and asked
quotations  with respect to securities  upon which it reports,  or (z) if not so
listed or admitted for trading or quoted, any business day.

            (ii)  ADJUSTMENT OF CONVERSION PRICE.  The Conversion Price shall be
subject to adjustment as follows:

            (A) In case the  corporation  shall (1) pay a dividend  in shares of
Common Stock, (2) subdivide the outstanding  shares of Common Stock, (3) combine
the outstanding  shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares,  or (4)
issue by reclassification of the shares of Common Stock any capital stock of the
corporation,  the Conversion Price in effect  immediately prior thereto shall be
appropriately  adjusted so that the  aggregate  Conversion  Price of the Class A
Convertible  Preferred  Stock  immediately  after  such  event  shall  equal the
aggregate   Conversion  Price  of  the  Class  A  Convertible   Preferred  Stock
immediately prior thereto.  An adjustment made pursuant to this subparagraph (A)
shall become effective (x) upon the effective date in the case of a subdivision,
combination  or  reclassification  or (y) upon the record  date in the case of a
dividend.

            (B) Subject to  subparagraph  (ii)(E) below, in case the corporation
shall  issue or sell any shares of Common  Stock for a  consideration  per share
less than the Conversion Price in effect  immediately  prior to such issuance or
sale,  then in any such event the  Conversion  Price shall be reduced to a lower
price  (calculated to the nearest full cent)  determined by dividing (1) the sum
of (x) the  number  of  shares  of  Common  Stock  outstanding  or  deemed to be
outstanding  pursuant to subparagraph  (ii)(C) below  immediately  prior to such
issuance or sale, multiplied by the Conversion Price in effect immediately prior
to such  issuance or sale,  and (y) the  aggregate  amount of the  consideration
received by the  corporation  upon such issuance or sale by (2) the total number
of shares of Common Stock  outstanding or deemed to be  outstanding  pursuant to
subparagraph (ii)(C) below immediately after such issuance or sale.

            (C) Subject to  subparagraph  (ii)(E) below, in case the corporation
shall issue or sell options, rights or warrants entitling the holders thereof to
subscribe for or purchase shares of Common Stock,  the Conversion Price shall be
adjusted on the date of such issuance or sale, pursuant to the formula set forth
in subparagraph  (ii)(B) above, based on a price per share of Common Stock equal
to the sum of (1)(x) the price paid for any such  instrument  divided by (y) the
number of shares of Common Stock for which such instrument is  exercisable,  and
(2) the exercise price per share of Common Stock set forth in such instrument if
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Conversion  Price  in  effect  immediately  prior to such  issuance  or sale and
assuming the exercise of all such options, rights or warrants.

            (D) In case the  corporation  shall issue or sell any other security
or instrument directly or indirectly convertible into or exchangeable for shares
of Common Stock (each, a "Convertible Security"),  the Conversion Price shall be
adjusted on the date of such issuance or sale, pursuant to the formula set forth
in subparagraph  (ii)(B) above, based on a price per share of Common Stock equal
to the sum of (1)(x) the price paid for any such Convertible Security divided by
(y) the number of shares of Common Stock into which such Convertible Security is
convertible or for which such  Convertible  Security is exchangeable and (2) the
additional  amount per share of Common Stock, if any, payable in connection with
any such conversion or exchange if such total is less than the Conversion  Price
in effect immediately prior to such issuance or sale and assuming the conversion
or exchange of all such Convertible Securities.

            (E)  Notwithstanding  any of the other provisions  contained in this
Section  (e)(ii),  in no event shall there be an  adjustment  of the  Conversion
Price as a result  of (1) the  exercise  of any  options,  rights,  warrants  or
conversion  privileges  that  were  outstanding  as of the  date of the  initial
issuance of shares of Class A Convertible  Preferred  Stock, or (2) the exercise
of any  options,  rights or  warrants  issued or sold  after such date for which
adjustment has already been made pursuant to subparagraph (ii)(C) above or which
were issued or sold  without  adjustment  in  accordance  with the terms of such
subparagraph (ii)(C).

            (F) If any  options,  rights or warrants or  Convertible  Securities
shall by their terms  provide for an increase or  decrease,  with the passage of
time  or  the  occurrence  or  non-occurrence  of an  event,  in the  amount  of
additional   consideration   payable  to  the  corporation  upon  the  exercise,
conversion or exchange  thereof,  the Conversion  Price then  applicable  shall,
forthwith   upon  any  such  increase  or  decrease   becoming   effective,   be
appropriately readjusted to reflect such increase or decrease in such amount.

            If any  options,  rights or warrants or  Convertible  Securities  on
account of which an adjustment has been previously made pursuant to this Section
(e)(ii)  shall expire or be redeemed,  repurchased  or paid without  having been
exercised,  converted or exchanged, then the Conversion Price shall forthwith be
appropriately  adjusted to the  Conversion  Price that would have been in effect
had no adjustment  been made on account of such  options,  rights or warrants or
Convertible Securities.

            (G) No  adjustment in the  Conversion  Price need be made under this
Section (e)(ii) unless the adjustment would result in an increase or decrease of
at least one  percent  (1%) in the  number of shares of Common  Stock into which
each share of Class A Convertible  Preferred  Stock would have been converted at
the time such adjustment is otherwise  required to be made;  provided,  however,
that  such  adjustment  shall  be  carried  forward  and made at the time of and
together with any subsequent adjustment which, together with such adjustment and
any other  adjustment so carried  forward,  shall aggregate at least one percent
(1%) of the  number of shares of Common  Stock  into which each share of Class A
Convertible Preferred Stock would have otherwise been converted.

            (H) No  adjustment in the  Conversion  Price need be made under this
Section  (e)(ii)  for any  change in the par value of the  Common  Stock.  If an
adjustment  is  made  in  the  Conversion  Price  as  of a  record  date  for  a
distribution in accordance with this Section (e)(ii) and if such distribution is
subsequently  canceled,  then  the  Conversion  Price  then in  effect  shall be
readjusted,  effective as of the date when the Board of Directors  determines to
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Conversion Price that would have been in effect if such record date had not been
fixed.  No adjustment need be made under this Section (e)(ii) if the corporation
issues or distributes to each holder of shares of Class A Convertible  Preferred
Stock the shares of Common Stock, options,  rights or warrants which such holder
would have been  entitled to receive had all the Class A  Convertible  Preferred
Stock been converted into Common Stock  immediately prior to the record date for
such issuance or distribution  or, if there is no such record date,  immediately
prior to such issuance or distribution.

         (iii) Adjustment upon Certain Events. In case of:

            (A)  any capital reorganization of the corporation; or

            (B) the  consolidation  or  merger of the  corporation  with or into
another corporation; or

            (C) a statutory share exchange whereby the Common Stock is converted
into property other than cash; or

            (D) the sale,  transfer or other disposition of all or substantially
all of the property, assets or business of the corporation, as a result of which
sale, transfer or other disposition property other than cash shall be payable or
distributable to the holders of the Common Stock;

which, in each such case, does not constitute a Liquidation Event, each share of
Class A  Convertible  Preferred  Stock  then  outstanding  shall  thereafter  be
convertible  into the number and class of shares or other securities or property
of the corporation or of the entity resulting from such  consolidation or merger
or with which such statutory  share exchange or to which such sale,  transfer or
other  disposition  shall  have been made,  to which the shares of Common  Stock
otherwise  issuable  upon  conversion  of such  share  of  Class  A  Convertible
Preferred   Stock   would   have  been   entitled   upon  such   reorganization,
consolidation,  merger,  statutory  share  exchange,  sale,  transfer  or  other
disposition if outstanding  at the time thereof.  In any such case,  appropriate
adjustments  shall be made in the  application of the provisions in this Section
(e) with respect to the conversion rights thereafter of the holders of the Class
A Convertible  Preferred Stock, to the end that such provisions shall thereafter
be  applicable,  as nearly as  reasonably  may be, in  relation to any shares or
other  securities  or  property  thereafter  issuable  or  deliverable  upon the
conversion of shares of Class A Convertible  Preferred  Stock.  Proper provision
shall be made as a part of the terms of any such reorganization,  consolidation,
merger,  statutory share exchange,  sale,  transfer or other disposition so that
the conversion rights of the holders of the Class A Convertible  Preferred Stock
shall be protected  and  preserved in  accordance  with the  provisions  of this
paragraph (iii). The provisions of this paragraph (iii) shall similarly apply to
successive capital  reorganizations,  consolidations,  mergers,  statutory share
exchanges, sales, transfers or other dispositions of property as aforesaid.

            (iv) NOTICE OF ADJUSTMENTS.  Whenever the Conversion  Price shall be
adjusted as provided in Section (e)(ii), the corporation, as soon as practicable
and in no event later than ten (10) full business days thereafter,  shall mail a
notification  to each holder of shares of Class A  Convertible  Preferred  Stock
and/or  securities  which by their terms are  exercisable  for shares of Class A
Convertible Preferred Stock, stating the adjusted Conversion Price determined as
provided in Section  (e)(ii) and setting  forth in  reasonable  detail the facts
requiring such  adjustment,  at the address of such holder then appearing on the
record books of the  corporation.  If any question  shall at any time arise with
respect to any  adjustment  of the  Conversion  Price,  such  question  shall be
determined  by  a  firm  of  independent  public  accountants  selected  by  the
corporation, who may be the corporation's auditors, and such determination shall
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holders  of the Class A  Convertible  Preferred  Stock.  Any  adjustment  to the
Conversion Price which is required by this Section (e) shall be effective at any
time that there shall be outstanding any shares of Class A Convertible Preferred
Stock and/or securities which by their terms are exercisable for shares of Class
A Convertible Preferred Stock.

            (v)  NOTICE  OF  CORPORATE  ACTION.  In case the  corporation  shall
propose to:

            (A) pay any  dividend  in shares of  capital  stock  upon the Common
Stock or make any other distribution  (other than the payment of cash dividends)
to the holders of the Common Stock; or

            (B) offer to the holders of the Common Stock rights to subscribe for
any shares of any class of capital stock of the  corporation or any other rights
or options; or


            (C) effect any  reclassification  of the Common  Stock (other than a
reclassification   involving  merely  the  subdivision  or  combination  of  the
outstanding shares of Common Stock) or capital reorganization,  consolidate with
or merge  into  another  corporation,  engage in any  statutory  share  exchange
requiring  the  approval of its  stockholders  or sell,  transfer  or  otherwise
dispose of all or substantially all of its property, assets or business; or

            (D) engage in any Liquidation Event;

then,  in each such case,  the  corporation  shall deliver to the holders of the
Class A Convertible Preferred Stock at their respective addresses then appearing
on the record books of the  corporation  notice of such  proposed  action,  such
notice to be delivered at least seven (7) business days prior to the record date
for the purpose of  determining  the holders of the Common Stock entitled to the
benefits of the action  referred to in  subparagraph  (A) or (B) or to vote with
respect to the action  referred to in  subparagraph  (C) or (D) or, if no record
date is taken for any such  purpose,  the date of the  taking  of such  proposed
action. Such notice shall specify the date on which the books of the corporation
shall close or a record be taken for such stock dividend,  distribution or offer
of  such  rights  or  options,  or the  date  on  which  such  reclassification,
reorganization, consolidation, merger, statutory share exchange, sale, transfer,
disposition or Liquidation  Event shall take place,  as the case may be, and the
date of  participation  therein by the  holders of the Common  Stock if any such
date is to be fixed.  If such notice relates to any proposed  action referred to
in  subparagraph  (C) or (D) above,  it shall set forth such facts with  respect
thereto as shall be  reasonably  necessary  to inform the holders of the Class A
Convertible  Preferred  Stock  as to  the  effect  of  such  action  upon  their
conversion rights.

            (vi) Surrender of Certificate Upon  Conversion.  In order to convert
shares of Class A  Convertible  Preferred  Stock into shares of Common  Stock in
accordance  with the provisions of paragraph (i) of this Section (e), the holder
thereof shall  surrender,  at the office in the United States  designated by the
corporation  in writing  from time to time for  registration  of  transfers  and
exchanges,  the  certificate  or  certificates  therefor,  duly  endorsed to the
corporation or in blank,  give written notice to the  corporation at said office
that such holder  elects to convert such shares,  and state  therein the name or
names  (with   addresses)  in  which  such  holder  wishes  the  certificate  or
certificates  for such  shares of Common  Stock to be issued.  Shares of Class A
Convertible  Preferred  Stock shall be deemed to have been  converted  as of the
date of the surrender of the  certificate  or  certificates  for such shares for
conversion as provided above,  and the person or persons entitled to receive the
shares of Common Stock  issuable upon such  conversion  shall be treated for all
purposes as the record  holder or holders of such  shares of Common  Stock as of
such  date.  As soon as  practicable  on or  after  the  date of  conversion  as
aforesaid,  the corporation will 

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issue and deliver a certificate or certificates for the number of full shares of
Common Stock issuable upon such conversion,  together with cash for any fraction
of a share,  as  hereinafter  in  paragraph  (viii)  provided,  to the person or
persons entitled to receive the same.

            (vii)  CANCELLATION.  All  shares of Class A  Convertible  Preferred
Stock  converted into shares of Common Stock shall have the status of authorized
and unissued  shares of Preferred  Stock  undesignated as to class or series and
shall not be reissued as shares of Class A Convertible Preferred Stock.

            (viii)  NO  FRACTIONAL  SHARES.  The  corporation  shall  not  issue
fractional  shares  of Common  Stock  upon any  conversion  of shares of Class A
Convertible  Preferred Stock. As to any final fraction of a share which a holder
of one or more shares of Class A Convertible  Preferred  Stock would be entitled
to receive upon  conversion,  the corporation  shall pay a cash adjustment in an
amount equal to the same fraction of the Conversion Price.

            (ix) RESERVATION OF SHARES.  The corporation shall at all times have
reserved for issuance  that number of authorized  and unissued  shares of Common
Stock  sufficient  for the  conversion  of all  shares  of  Class A  Convertible
Preferred  Stock at the time  outstanding,  as such number may vary from time to
time.

            (x) FULLY PAID AND NONASSESSABLE  SHARES.  The corporation  warrants
that all shares of Common  Stock  issued  upon  conversion  of shares of Class A
Convertible   Preferred   Stock  will,   upon   issuance,   be  fully  paid  and
non-assessable by the corporation and free from original issue taxes.

      5. All actions  that are  required by the General  Corporation  Law of the
State of Delaware to be taken at an annual or special meeting of stockholders or
that may be taken at such a meeting  must be taken at such a meeting and no such
action may be taken by means of signed  consents in accordance  with Section 228
of the  General  Corporation  Law of the  State of  Delaware  other  than by the
holders of the Class A Convertible  Preferred  Stock in accordance with Sections
4(d)(ii)  and  4(d)(iii) of this Article IV or by the holders of any other class
or series of Preferred Stock hereafter  established  with respect to any matters
on which such class or series vote separately as a single class.


                                   ARTICLE V

            The corporation is to have perpetual existence.


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                                  ARTICLE VI

            The directors of the corporation to be elected by the holders of the
outstanding  shares  of  capital  stock  of the  corporation  entitled  to  vote
generally  for the  election of  directors  (the  "Common  Directors")  shall be
divided into three  classes:  Class I, Class II and Class III.  Each class shall
consist,  as nearly as may be  possible,  of  one-third  of the whole  number of
Common  Directors.  The initial  Class I, II and III Common  Directors  shall be
those elected and designated to serve as such pursuant to the written consent of
the  stockholders  of  the  corporation   dated  as  of  August  11,  1997  (the
"Stockholders  Consent").  Such Class I Common Directors shall hold office for a
term to  expire  at the  first  annual  meeting  of the  stockholders  after the
Stockholders  Consent;  such Class II Common  Directors  shall hold office for a
term to  expire at the  second  annual  meeting  of the  stockholders  after the
Stockholders  Consent; and such Class III Common Directors shall hold office for
a term to expire at the  third  annual  meeting  of the  stockholders  after the
Stockholders Consent,  subject, in the case of each such Common Director, to his
or her  earlier  death,  resignation  or  removal.  At each  election  of Common
Directors,  the  Common  Directors  elected to succeed  those  whose  terms have
expired shall be  identified as being of the same class as the Common  Directors
they  succeed  and shall be elected  to hold  office for a term to expire at the
third annual  meeting of the  stockholders  after their  election or until their
respective  successors  are duly elected and  qualified  or until their  earlier
death, resignation or removal. If the number of Common Directors is changed, any
increase or decrease  shall be  apportioned  among the classes so as to maintain
all classes as equal in number as possible,  and any additional  Common Director
elected to any class shall hold office for a term which shall  coincide with the
terms of the other Common  Directors in such class or until his or her successor
is duly elected and qualified or until his or her earlier death,  resignation or
removal. No decrease in the number of directors of the corporation shall shorten
the term of any incumbent Common Director.

            Subject  to the  rights  of the  holders  of  shares of any class or
series of Preferred  Stock then  outstanding,  any director or directors  may be
removed  from office by vote of the  stockholders  entitled to vote thereon only
for cause at a special meeting of the stockholders  called for such purpose.  In
case any one or more  directors are so removed,  new directors may be elected at
the same  meeting.  The  repeal of a  provision  of this  Amended  and  Restated
Certificate of Incorporation or the By-laws of the corporation  prohibiting,  or
the  addition  of a  provision  to this  Amended  and  Restated  Certificate  of
Incorporation or the By-laws of the corporation  permitting,  the removal by the
stockholders  of a director or directors  without  assigning any cause shall not
apply to any incumbent  director  during the balance of the term for which he or
she was elected.


                                  ARTICLE VII

            In  furtherance  and not in  limitation  of the powers  conferred by
statute, the Board of Directors is expressly authorized:

      1. To adopt,  alter or repeal By-laws of the corporation in the manner and
to the extent permitted in those By-laws.

      2. To authorize and cause to be executed mortgages and liens upon the real
and personal property of the corporation.

      3. To set apart out of any of the funds of the  corporation  available for
dividends a reserve or reserves  for any proper  purpose and to abolish any such
reserve in the manner in which it was created.


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      4. By a majority of the  directors  in office,  to  establish  one or more
committees,  each  committee to consist of one or more  directors.  The Board of
Directors  may  appoint  one or  more  directors  as  alternate  members  of any
committee,  who may replace any absent or disqualified  member at any meeting of
such committee.  The By-laws of the corporation may provide that, in the absence
or disqualification of any member of a committee,  the member or members thereof
present at any meeting and not  disqualified  from voting,  whether or not he or
she or they  constitute  a  quorum,  may by  unanimous  action  appoint  another
director to act at such meeting in the place of any such absent or  disqualified
member.  Any committee,  to the extent  provided in a resolution of the Board of
Directors or in the By-laws of the corporation,  shall have and may exercise all
of the powers and  authority of the Board of Directors in the  management of the
business and affairs of the corporation, except to the extent prohibited by law.
To the  extent a  resolution  of the Board of  Directors  or the  By-laws of the
corporation  expressly  so provide,  any such  committee  may have the power and
authority  to declare a  dividend  or to  authorize  the  issuance  of shares of
capital stock of the corporation.


                                 ARTICLE VIII

            Meetings of the stockholders may be held within or without the State
of Delaware,  as the By-laws of the  corporation  may provide.  The books of the
corporation  may be kept  (subject to any  provision  contained in the statutes)
outside the State of Delaware at such place or places as may be designated  from
time to time by the Board of  Directors  or in the  By-laws of the  corporation.
Elections of directors  need not be by written  ballot unless the By-laws of the
corporation shall so provide.


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                                  ARTICLE IX

            The personal liability of the directors of the corporation is hereby
eliminated to the fullest extent  permitted by Section  102(b)(7) of the General
Corporation  Law of the  State  of  Delaware,  as the  same  may be  amended  or
supplemented.  Without  limiting the  generality of the  foregoing,  no director
shall be personally  liable to the  corporation or any of its  stockholders  for
monetary  damages  for  breach  of  fiduciary  duty as a  director,  except  for
liability  (i)  for  any  breach  of  the  director's  duty  of  loyalty  to the
corporation or its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or
which  involve  intentional  misconduct  or a knowing  violation  of law,  (iii)
pursuant to Section 174 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware,
or (iv) for any  transaction  from  which  such  director  derived  an  improper
personal  benefit.  The rights conferred by this Article IX shall be presumed to
have been relied upon by directors of the  corporation  in serving or continuing
to serve the  corporation  and shall be  enforceable  as contract  rights.  Said
rights shall not be exclusive of any other rights to which the  directors of the
corporation may otherwise be entitled.  The corporation may enter into contracts
to provide the directors of the corporation  with rights to  indemnification  to
the maximum  extent  permitted  by the General  Corporation  Law of the State of
Delaware.  The corporation may create trust funds,  grant security  interests in
the assets of the  corporation,  obtain  letters of credit or use other means to
ensure  payment of such amounts as may be  necessary to perform the  obligations
provided  for in this  Article  IX, the By-laws of the  corporation  or any such
contract.  The rights  conferred  by this  Article IX shall  continue  as to any
person who has ceased to be a director of the corporation and shall inure to the
benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such person. Any repeal or
modification of this Article IX by the stockholders of the corporation shall not
adversely  affect  any right or  protection  of a  director  of the  corporation
existing  at the time of such  repeal or  modification  with  respect to acts or
omissions occurring prior to such repeal or modification.


                                   ARTICLE X

            In addition to the  requirements  of law and any other  provision of
this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation,  the affirmative vote of
the holders of at least two-thirds of the voting power of the outstanding voting
securities of the corporation  shall be required to delete,  amend or supplement
any term or provision of this Article X, Article VI or Article IX or paragraph 5
of Article IV.


                                  ARTICLE XI

            The  corporation  reserves the right to amend,  supplement or repeal
any   provision   contained  in  this  Amended  and  Restated   Certificate   of
Incorporation,  in the manner now or hereafter  prescribed  by statute,  and all
rights  conferred  upon   stockholders   herein  are  granted  subject  to  this
reservation.

            THIRD.      The  foregoing  amendment  and   restatement   of    the
Certificate of Incorporation has been approved by the Board of Directors.

            FOURTH.     The  foregoing  amendment  and   restatement   of    the
Certificate  of  Incorporation  has been duly  adopted  in  accordance  with the
provisions  of Sections 228, 242 and 245 of the General  Corporation  Law of the
State of Delaware.

            IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Clearview  Cinema  Group,  Inc.  has caused this


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Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to be signed and attested this
____ day of __________, 1997.




Attest:                             CLEARVIEW CINEMA GROUP, INC.



By: /s/ Sueanne Hall Mayo                    By: /s/ A. Dale Mayo
    ------------------------                     -------------------------------
    Sueanne Hall Mayo                           A. Dale Mayo
    Vice President-Management                   Chairman of the Board, President
    Information Systems and Secretary           and Chief Executive Officer

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                                                                  EXHIBIT 3.02

                              AMENDED AND RESTATED

                                     BY-LAWS

                                       OF

                          CLEARVIEW CINEMA GROUP, INC.



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                                TABLE OF CONTENTS

                                                                            Page

ARTICLE I         MEETINGS OF STOCKHOLDERS

Section 1.1.      Place of Meetings ........................................ 1
Section 1.2.      Annual Meetings .......................................... 1
Section 1.3.      Special Meetings ......................................... 1
Section 1.4.      Notice of Meetings ....................................... 1
Section 1.5.      Quorum; Adjournments ..................................... 1
Section 1.6.      Advance Notice of Stockholder Proposals .................. 2
Section 1.7.      Advance Notice of Stockholder Nominations ................ 3
Section 1.8.      Voting.................................................... 4
Section 1.9.      Presence at Meeting....................................... 5

ARTICLE II        DIRECTORS

Section 2.1.      Powers of Directors ...................................... 5
Section 2.2.      Number, Qualifications, Election and Term of
                  Office ................................................... 5
Section 2.3.      Vacancies ................................................ 6
Section 2.4.      Removal of Directors ..................................... 6
Section 2.5.      Annual Meeting; Other Regular Meetings ................... 6
Section 2.6.      Special Meetings ......................................... 7
Section 2.7.      Quorum ................................................... 7
Section 2.8.      Informal Action........................................... 7
Section 2.9.      Telephone Participation in Meetings....................... 7
Section 2.10.     Compensation of Directors................................. 8

ARTICLE III       COMMITTEES OF DIRECTORS

Section 3.1.      Appointment and Powers.................................... 8
Section 3.2.      Appointment by Committees of Substitute
                  Members................................................... 8
Section 3.3.      Procedure ................................................ 8

ARTICLE IV        OFFICERS

Section 4.1.      Enumeration................................................8
Section 4.2.      Chairman of the Board .....................................9
Section 4.3.      Chief Executive Officer....................................9
Section 4.4.      President..................................................9
Section 4.5.      Vice President.............................................9
Section 4.6.      Secretary..................................................9
Section 4.7.      Treasurer.................................................10
Section 4.8.      Other Officers and Assistant Officers.....................10
Section 4.9.      Compensation..............................................10
Section 4.10.     Additional Duties of Officers.............................10



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ARTICLE V   INDEMNIFICATION

Section 5.1.      Indemnification in Actions, Suits or
                  Proceedings Other Than Those by or in the
                  Right of the Corporation ................................ 11
Section 5.2.      Indemnification in Actions, Suits or
                      Proceedings by or in the Right of the
                  Corporation ............................................  11
Section 5.3.      Authorization of Indemnification ........................ 12
Section 5.4.      Reliance ................................................ 12
Section 5.5.      Indemnification by a Court .............................. 13
Section 5.6.      Expenses Payable in Advance ............................. 13
Section 5.7.      Non-exclusiveness ....................................... 13
Section 5.8.      Effectiveness ........................................... 14
Section 5.9.      Insurance ............................................... 14
Section 5.10.     Indemnification Expenditures ............................ 14
Section 5.11.     Certain Definitions ..................................... 14
Section 5.12.     Survival of Indemnification and
                  Advancement of Expenses.................................. 15
Section 5.13.     Limitation on Indemnification ........................... 15
Section 5.14.     Repeal or Modification .................................. 15
Section 5.15.     Indemnification of Employees and Agents ................. 15

ARTICLE VI        SHARES OF CAPITAL STOCK

Section 6.1.      Issuance of Shares  ..................................... 15
Section 6.2.      Shares Certificates...................................... 15
Section 6.3.      Transfer of Shares ...................................... 16
Section 6.4.      Lost, Stolen, Destroyed or Mutilated
                  Certificates .............................................16
Section 6.5.      Regulations ............................................. 16
Section 6.6.      Holders of Record ........................................16
Section 6.7.      Record Date.............................................. 17
Section 6.8.      Restriction on Transfer ................................. 17

ARTICLE VII       GENERAL PROVISIONS

Section 7.1.      Corporate Seal .......................................... 17
Section 7.2.      Fiscal Year ............................................. 17
Section 7.3.      Authorization ............................................18
Section 7.4.      Financial Reports ........................................18
Section 7.5.      Effect of By-laws ........................................18

ARTICLE VIII      AMENDMENTS

Section 8.1.      General ................................................. 18



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                                    ARTICLE I

                            MEETINGS OF STOCKHOLDERS


            Section 1.1. PLACE OF MEETINGS.  Meetings of the stockholders  shall
be held at such  place  within  or  without  the State of  Delaware  as shall be
designated  by the Board of  Directors  or the  person or  persons  calling  the
meeting.

            Section  1.2.   ANNUAL   MEETINGS.   Each  annual   meeting  of  the
stockholders  for the election of directors  and the  transaction  of such other
business as may  properly  come  before the  meeting  shall be held on the third
Thursday of May of each year, at 10:00 a.m.,  prevailing  time, or on such other
date and at such other time as shall be designated by the Board of Directors. If
the day fixed for an annual  meeting is a legal  holiday,  the meeting  shall be
held at the  same  hour on the  next  succeeding  full  business  day or as soon
thereafter as practicable.

            Section 1.3. SPECIAL MEETINGS. Special meetings may be called at any
time only by the  Chairman  of the  Board,  the  Chief  Executive  Officer,  the
President or a majority of the directors then in office; provided, however, that
the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding  shares of Class
A Convertible  Preferred Stock, $.01 par value (the "Class A Preferred  Stock"),
of the  Corporation may call a special meeting of the holders of the outstanding
shares of Class A Preferred  Stock to vote on any matter upon which such holders
have the right to vote separately as a class. The only business to be transacted
at a special meeting of stockholders  shall be the business stated in the notice
provided pursuant to Section 1.4 of these By-laws.

            Section 1.4. NOTICE OF MEETINGS. A written notice stating the place,
date and hour of each meeting and, in the case of a special meeting, the purpose
or  purposes  for  which  the  meeting  is  called  shall be given by, or at the
direction  of, the  Secretary  or the person or persons  authorized  to call the
meeting to each stockholder of record entitled to vote at such meeting,  at such
address as appears upon the records of the  Corporation,  not less than ten (10)
days nor more than sixty  (60) days  before  the date of the  meeting,  unless a
greater period of time is required by law in a particular case.

            Section 1.5.  QUORUM;  ADJOURNMENTS.  The presence,  in person or by
proxy, of the holders of at least fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding  shares
of capital stock  entitled to vote on any matter shall  constitute a quorum with
respect to such matter unless the  affirmative  vote of the holders of a greater
percentage  of such  outstanding  shares is  required  in order to approve  such
matter,  in which case such percentage shall constitute a quorum with respect to
such matter. The stockholders  present at a duly authorized meeting can continue
to do business until adjournment if a quorum


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was initially present,  notwithstanding the withdrawal of enough stockholders to
leave  less than a quorum;  provided,  however,  that such  ability  to  conduct
business shall not affect the vote required to take any particular  action. If a
meeting cannot be organized or a particular  matter cannot be voted upon because
a quorum is not present, those present may, except as otherwise provided by law,
adjourn the meeting to such date,  time and place as they may determine.  In the
case of any meeting  called for the election of directors,  those who attend the
reconvening of an adjourned meeting,  although they are the holders of less than
fifty  percent  (50%)  of  the  outstanding  shares  of  capital  stock  of  the
Corporation  entitled to vote  generally  for the election of  directors,  shall
nevertheless  constitute a quorum for the purpose of electing  those  directors.
When a meeting is adjourned, it shall not be necessary to give any notice of the
date on and time and place at which such meeting  shall be  reconvened or of the
business to be transacted at a reconvened  meeting other than by announcement at
the meeting at which such adjournment is taken, unless, after the adjournment is
taken, a new record date is fixed for the reconvening of such meeting,  in which
case,  a  notice  of the  reconvening  of such  meeting  shall  be given to each
stockholder of record entitled to vote at the meeting.

            Section 1.6. ADVANCE NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDER PROPOSALS.  At any annual
meeting of the stockholders, only such business shall be conducted as shall have
been  brought  before such  meeting (i) by or at the  direction  of the Board of
Directors or (ii) by any  stockholder of the  Corporation  who complies with the
notice  procedure  set forth in this  Section  1.6.  For business to be properly
brought before any annual  meeting of the  stockholders  by a stockholder,  such
stockholder  must be entitled  under  Delaware law to present such  business and
such  stockholder must give timely notice of such  stockholder's  intent to make
such presentation.  To be timely, a stockholder's notice must be received by the
Secretary  not less  than  sixty  (60) days nor more  than  ninety  (90) days in
advance  of  the  first  anniversary  of the  previous  year's  annual  meeting;
provided,  however,  that in the event  that the date of the  annual  meeting is
changed by more than thirty (30) days from such anniversary  date, notice by the
stockholder to be timely must be received no later than the close of business on
the fifth day following the day on which public announcement of the date of such
meeting is first made. Each such notice shall set forth: (a) a brief description
of each item of  business  desired to be  brought  before  the  meeting  and the
reasons for conducting  such business at the meeting;  (b) the name and address,
as they appear on the  Corporation's  books, of the  stockholder  proposing such
business;  (c) a representation by the stockholder  proposing such business that
such  stockholder  will be a holder of record of shares of capital  stock of the
Corporation  entitled to vote at such meeting and intends to appear in person or
by proxy at such meeting; (d) the class and number of shares of capital stock of
the Corporation that are beneficially owned by such stockholder; and

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(e) as to each item of business  the  stockholder  proposes to bring  before the
meeting, any material interest of the stockholder in such business other than as
a stockholder of the Corporation.  In addition,  the stockholder submitting such
proposal shall promptly provide any other  information  reasonably  requested by
the Corporation.

            Only such  business  shall be  conducted  at any  annual  meeting of
stockholders  as shall have been brought before such meeting in accordance  with
the  requirements  set forth in this Section 1.6. A stockholder must also comply
with all  applicable  requirements  of the  Securities  Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended (the "Exchange  Act"),  and the rules and  regulations  thereunder  with
respect to the matters set forth in this Section 1.6 in order to bring  business
before any annual meeting,  including,  without limitation, Rule 14a-8 under the
Exchange  Act.  Except as otherwise  required by law, the chairman of any annual
meeting of stockholders  shall have the power and duty (x) to determine  whether
any business proposed to be brought before the meeting was brought in accordance
with the  requirements  set forth in this  Section  1.6 and (y) if any  proposed
business  was not brought in  compliance  with this Section 1.6, to declare that
such defective  proposal shall be disregarded.  For purposes of this Section 1.6
and Section 1.7: "public  announcement" shall mean disclosure in a press release
reported by the Dow Jones News Service,  the Associated  Press or any comparable
national news service or in a document  publicly filed by the  Corporation  with
the  Securities and Exchange  Commission  pursuant to Section 13, 14 or 15(d) of
the Exchange Act.

            Section 1.7. ADVANCE NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDER NOMINATIONS.  Nominations
for the election of  directors  to be elected by the holders of the  outstanding
shares of capital stock of the  Corporation  entitled to vote  generally for the
election  of  directors  (the  "Common  Directors")  may be made by the Board of
Directors or by any  stockholder  entitled to vote generally for the election of
directors;  provided,  however,  that a  stockholder  may  nominate a person for
election  as a Common  Director  at a  meeting  only if  timely  notice  of such
stockholder's intent to make such nomination has been given to the Secretary. To
be timely,  a stockholder's  notice must be received by the Secretary (i) in the
case of an annual  meeting,  not less than sixty (60) days nor more than  ninety
(90) days in advance of the first  anniversary  of the  previous  year's  annual
meeting;  provided,  however,  that in the  event  that the  date of the  annual
meeting is changed by more than  thirty  (30) days from such  anniversary  date,
notice by the  stockholder to be timely must be received no later than the close
of business on the fifth day following the day on which public  announcement  of
the date of such  meeting  is  first  made;  and  (ii) in the case of a  special
meeting at which any Common Directors are to be elected, no later than the close
of business on the fifth day following the day on which public  announcement  of
the date of such meeting is first made.  Each such notice  shall set forth:  (a)
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name and address, as they appear on the Corporation's  books, of the stockholder
who  intends  to make  the  nomination  and the  name or names  and  address  or
addresses of the person or persons to be nominated;  (b) a  representation  that
the  stockholder  proposing such nomination will be a holder of record of shares
of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote at such meeting and intends
to appear  in person or by proxy at such  meeting  and  nominate  the  person or
persons specified in such notice;  (c) the class and number of shares of capital
stock of the Corporation that are beneficially owned by such stockholder;  (d) a
description of all arrangements or  understandings  between such stockholder and
each of his, her or its  nominees  and any other person or persons  (naming such
person or persons)  pursuant to which the  nomination or  nominations  are to be
made by such  stockholder;  (e) such other  information  regarding  each nominee
proposed  by such  stockholder  as would be  required  to be included in a proxy
statement  filed  pursuant to the proxy  rules of the  Securities  and  Exchange
Commission had such nominee been nominated,  or intended to be nominated, by the
Board of  Directors;  and (f) the  consent  of each such  nominee  to serve as a
director of the Corporation,  if so elected. In addition, the stockholder making
such  nomination  shall  promptly  provide  any  other  information   reasonably
requested  by the  Corporation.  No person  shall be eligible  for election as a
Common Director unless  nominated in accordance with the procedures set forth in
this  Section  1.7.  A  stockholder   must  also  comply  with  all   applicable
requirements of the Exchange Act and the rules and  regulations  thereunder with
respect to the  matters set forth in this  Section 1.7 in order to nominate  any
person as a Common Director.

            Except as otherwise  required by law, the chairman of any meeting of
stockholders shall have the power and duty (x) to determine whether a nomination
was made in accordance with the  requirements  set forth in this Section 1.7 and
(y) if any proposed nomination was not made in compliance with this Section 1.7,
to declare that such defective nomination shall be disregarded.

            Section 1.8. VOTING. Except to the extent otherwise provided by law,
the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation,  as it
may be  subsequently  amended (the  "Certificate  of  Incorporation"),  or these
By-laws,  every  stockholder  of record shall have the right at every meeting of
stockholders to one (1) vote for every share of capital stock of the Corporation
standing in such stockholder's name on the books of the Corporation.  A majority
of the votes  cast  shall  decide  every  question  or matter  submitted  to the
stockholders, except to the extent otherwise provided by law, the Certificate of
Incorporation  or these  By-laws.  The vote  upon any  matter  submitted  to the
stockholders may be taken viva voce; provided,  however,  that the vote upon any
question shall be by ballot if demand for the same is made by any stockholder or
it is so directed by the chairman of the relevant meeting.

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            Section 1.9. PRESENCE AT MEETING. A stockholder may participate in a
meeting of the stockholders only if such stockholder or such  stockholder's duly
authorized proxy is physically  present in person at the meeting.  A stockholder
or a proxy may not  participate  in a meeting  of the  stockholders  by means of
conference telephone or similar communications equipment.


                                   ARTICLE II

                                    DIRECTORS

            Section 2.1.  POWERS OF  DIRECTORS.  The business and affairs of the
Corporation  shall  be  managed  by or  under  the  direction  of the  Board  of
Directors.  All powers that may be exercised  or  performed  by the  Corporation
shall be  exercised  or  performed  by or under  the  authority  of the Board of
Directors, except as otherwise provided by law, the Certificate of Incorporation
or these By-laws.

            Section 2.2.  NUMBER,  QUALIFICATIONS,  ELECTION AND TERM OF OFFICE.
Subject to the  rights,  if any, of the holders of shares of any class or series
of Preferred Stock, $.01 par value (the "Preferred  Stock"),  of the Corporation
then outstanding,  the number of directors to manage the business and affairs of
the  Corporation  shall be as determined by the Board of Directors  from time to
time, but shall not be less than three (3).  Directors need not be  stockholders
of the Corporation nor residents of the State of Delaware.  Each Common Director
shall be elected by the holders of the  outstanding  shares of capital  stock of
the  Corporation  entitled to vote therefor at the annual meeting or any special
meeting called for such purpose.  Each Common Director shall be elected to serve
until his or her  successor  is duly  elected and  qualified or until his or her
earlier death, resignation or removal.

            The Common  Directors shall be divided into three classes:  Class I,
Class II and Class III. Each class shall consist,  as nearly as may be possible,
of one-third of the whole number of Common  Directors.  The initial  Class I, II
and III Common  Directors shall be those elected and designated to serve as such
pursuant to the written consent of the stockholders of the Corporation  dated as
of May ___, 1997 (the  "Stockholders  Consent").  Such Class I Common  Directors
shall  hold  office  for a term to  expire at the first  annual  meeting  of the
stockholders  after the  Stockholders  Consent;  such Class II Common  Directors
shall  hold  office  for a term to expire at the  second  annual  meeting of the
stockholders after the Stockholders Consent; and such Class III Common Directors
shall  hold  office  for a term to  expire at the third  annual  meeting  of the
stockholders after the Stockholders  Consent,  subject, in the case of each such
Common Director,  to his or her earlier death,  resignation or removal.  At each
election of Common  Directors,  the Common  Directors  elected to succeed  those
whose terms have expired

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shall be  identified  as being of the same  class as the Common  Directors  they
succeed  and shall be elected  to hold  office for a term to expire at the third
annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  after  their  election  or  until  their
respective  successors  are duly elected and  qualified  or until their  earlier
death, resignation or removal. If the number of Common Directors is changed, any
increase or decrease  shall be  apportioned  among the classes so as to maintain
all classes as equal in number as possible,  and any additional  Common Director
elected to any class shall hold office for a term which shall  coincide with the
terms of the other Common  Directors in such class or until his or her successor
is duly elected and qualified or until his or her earlier death,  resignation or
removal. No decrease in the number of directors of the Corporation shall shorten
the term of any incumbent Common Director.

            Section  2.3.  VACANCIES.  Subject to the  rights of the  holders of
shares of any class or series of Preferred Stock then outstanding: Vacancies and
newly created directorships resulting from any increase in the authorized number
of directors  may be filled by a majority vote of the Common  Directors  then in
office, although less than a quorum, or by a sole remaining Common Director. The
occurrence  of a vacancy which is not filled by action of the Board of Directors
within ninety (90) days of the  occurrence  of such vacancy  shall  constitute a
determination  by the Board of Directors that the number of Common  Directors is
to be reduced so as to  eliminate  such  vacancy,  unless the Board of Directors
shall specify otherwise. When one or more Common Directors shall resign from the
Board of  Directors,  effective  at a future  date,  a  majority  of the  Common
Directors then in office,  including those who have so resigned,  shall have the
power to fill such  vacancy or  vacancies,  the vote thereon to take effect when
such resignation or resignations shall become effective.

            Section  2.4.  REMOVAL  OF  DIRECTORS.  Subject to the rights of the
holders of shares of any class or series of  Preferred  Stock then  outstanding,
any director or directors may be removed from office by vote of the stockholders
entitled to vote thereon only for cause at a special meeting of the stockholders
called for such purpose.  In case any one or more directors are so removed,  new
directors may be elected at the same  meeting.  The repeal of a provision of the
Certificate of Incorporation or these By-laws prohibiting,  or the addition of a
provision to the Certificate of Incorporation or these By-laws  permitting,  the
removal by stockholders of a director or directors  without  assigning any cause
shall not apply to any  incumbent  director  during the  balance of the term for
which he or she was then elected.

            Section 2.5.  ANNUAL   MEETING;    OTHER    REGULAR   MEETINGS.   An
annual  meeting  of the  Board of  Directors  shall be held each year as soon as
practicable  after the annual meeting of  stockholders,  at the place where such
meeting of stockholders was held or at such

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other  place as the  Board of  Directors  may  determine,  for the  purposes  of
organization,  election or appointment  of officers and the  transaction of such
other business as shall come before such annual meeting. No notice of the annual
meeting of the Board of Directors need be given.  Other regular  meetings of the
Board of  Directors  shall be held on such dates and at such times and places as
the Board of  Directors  may from  time to time by  resolution  appoint;  and no
notice  shall be required to be given of any such  regular  meeting.  No minimum
number of regular  meetings and no more than one annual  meeting of the Board of
Directors need be called in any year.

            Section  2.6.  SPECIAL  MEETINGS.  Special  meetings of the Board of
Directors  may be called  by the  Chairman  of the  Board,  the Chief  Executive
Officer, the President or a majority of the directors then in office, to be held
on such date and at such time (as will  permit the giving of notice as  provided
in this  Section  2.6) and at such place as may be  designated  by the person or
persons  calling  the  meeting.  Notice of the place,  date and hour of any such
special  meeting shall be given to each director by the Secretary (i) by written
notice  deposited in the United States mail not later than during the third full
business day preceding the date of such  meeting,  or (ii) by telephone,  telex,
facsimile  transmission or other oral,  written or electronic means received not
later than 24 hours before the time set for such  meeting.  Such notice need not
refer to the  business to be  transacted  at such  meeting  except  action under
Article V of these By-laws.  No minimum number of special  meetings of the Board
of Directors need be called in any year.

            Section 2.7. QUORUM.  More than fifty percent (50%) of the directors
then in office  shall  constitute a quorum for the  transaction  of business and
action may be taken by a majority  of the  directors  present at any  meeting at
which a quorum is present;  unless the consent of a different  percentage of the
directors  is  required  with  respect to any  matter as  provided  by law,  the
Certificate  of  Incorporation,  these By-laws or any resolution of the Board of
Directors or the stockholders;  in which case such percentage shall constitute a
quorum and the necessary vote for such matter.

            Section 2.8. INFORMAL ACTION. Any action required or permitted to be
taken at any meeting of the Board of Directors, or of any committee thereof, may
be taken  without a meeting  if all  members of the Board of  Directors  or such
committee,  as the case may be, consent thereto in writing,  and such writing or
writings are filed with the minutes of the proceedings of the Board of Directors
or such committee.

            Section 2.9.  TELEPHONE PARTICIPATION  IN MEETINGS.  Members  of the
Board of Directors or any committee  thereof may participate in a meeting of the
Board of Directors or such

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committee by means of conference telephone or similar  communications  equipment
by means of which all persons  participating in the meeting can hear each other,
and  participation  in a meeting  pursuant to this Section 2.9 shall  constitute
presence in person at such meeting.

            Section  2.10  COMPENSATION  OF  DIRECTORS.  Each  director  of  the
Corporation,  who is not a salaried officer or employee of the Corporation or of
a subsidiary of the  Corporation,  shall receive such  compensation  (whether in
cash or other property) and  reimbursement of expenses for serving as a director
and for  attendance  at  meetings  of the Board of  Directors  or any  committee
thereof as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine.


                                   ARTICLE III

                             COMMITTEES OF DIRECTORS

            Section 3.1.  APPOINTMENT AND POWERS. The Board of Directors may, by
resolution  adopted by a majority of the  directors in office,  establish one or
more committees,  each of which shall consist of one or more of the directors of
the  Corporation.  To the extent  provided in the  resolution  establishing  any
committee,  such  committee  shall have and may  exercise  all of the powers and
authority of the Board of Directors,  except to the extent  prohibited by law or
the Certificate of Incorporation.

            Section 3.2 APPOINTMENT BY COMMITTEES OF SUBSTITUTE  MEMBERS. In the
absence or disqualification  of any member of any such committee,  the member or
members thereof present at any meeting and not disqualified from voting, whether
or not he or she or they  constitute a quorum,  may by unanimous  action appoint
another  director  to act at such  meeting  in the  place of any such  absent or
disqualified member.

            Section  3.3  PROCEDURE.   The  Board  of  Directors  may  establish
reasonable  rules and regulations for the conduct of the proceedings of any such
committee  and may  appoint a chairman of such  committee  who shall be a member
thereof and a secretary of such committee who need not be a member  thereof.  To
the extent that the Board of Directors  does not exercise such powers,  they may
be exercised by such committee.


                                   ARTICLE IV

                                    OFFICERS

            Section 4.1.  ENUMERATION.  The officers of the Corporation shall be
elected by the Board of Directors  and shall consist of a Chairman of the Board,
a Chief Executive Officer, a

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President,  such number of Vice  Presidents  (if any) as the Board of  Directors
shall from time to time elect, a Secretary, a Treasurer, and such other officers
(if any) as the Board of Directors shall from time to time choose and appoint or
elect.

            Section 4.2.  CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD. The Chairman of the Board shall
be a Common  Director and preside at meetings of the Board of  Directors  and of
the  stockholders  and shall have such powers and  perform  such duties as shall
from time to time be prescribed by the Board of Directors.

            Section 4.3. CHIEF EXECUTIVE  OFFICER.  The Chief Executive  Officer
shall have  general  charge and  control  over the  affairs of the  Corporation,
subject  to the Board of  Directors.  The Chief  Executive  Officer  shall  sign
certificates  for shares of capital stock of the  Corporation and may execute on
behalf of the Corporation any contract which has been authorized by the Board of
Directors.  If there shall be no Chairman of the Board, or in his or her absence
or during his or her  incapacitation,  the Chief Executive Officer shall preside
at meetings of the stockholders. In the absence of the President or if the Board
of  Directors  has not elected a person  holding the title of  "President,"  the
Chief  Executive  Officer shall also perform the duties and have the powers that
are incident to the office of the president of a corporation under Delaware law.

            Section 4.4 PRESIDENT. In the absence of the Chief Executive Officer
or if the Board of  Directors  has not  appointed a person  holding the title of
"Chief  Executive  Officer," the President shall perform the duties and exercise
the powers of a chief executive officer of the Corporation,  and shall report to
the Board of Directors.  The President  shall perform such other duties and have
such  other  powers  as  are  incident  to the  office  of  the  president  of a
corporation under Delaware law, except to the extent such duties and powers have
been delegated to the Chief  Executive  Officer,  or as may from time to time be
prescribed by the Board of Directors. If there shall be no Chairman of the Board
or Chief Executive Officer, or in their absence or during their  incapacitation,
the President shall preside at meetings of the stockholders.

            Section 4.5. VICE  PRESIDENT.  The Vice President or, if there shall
be more than one, the Vice  Presidents,  in the order determined by the Board of
Directors,  shall have all of the powers  and  perform  all of the duties of the
President in the absence or during the  incapacitation  of the  President.  Each
Vice President shall perform such other duties and have such other powers as may
from time to time be prescribed  by, or pursuant to authority  delegated by, the
Board of Directors.

            Section 4.6.  SECRETARY.  The  Secretary shall keep a record of  the
proceedings of the meetings of the stockholders and

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directors  and shall give notice as required by law or these By-laws of all such
meetings. The Secretary shall have custody of the seal of the Corporation and of
all books, records and papers of the Corporation, except such as shall be in the
charge of the  Treasurer or of some other person  authorized to have custody and
be in possession thereof by resolution of the Board of Directors.  The Secretary
shall  countersign   certificates  for  shares  of  the  capital  stock  of  the
Corporation.  The Secretary  shall perform such other duties and have such other
powers as are  incident to the office of the  secretary of a  corporation  under
Delaware  law or as may from  time to time be  prescribed  by,  or  pursuant  to
authority delegated by, the Board of Directors.

            Section 4.7.  TREASURER.  The Treasurer shall keep full and accurate
accounts of the receipts and disbursements of the Corporation in books belonging
to the  Corporation,  shall deposit all moneys and other valuable effects of the
Corporation  in the name and to the credit of the  Corporation in such banks and
depositories as the Board of Directors shall  designate,  and shall perform such
other  duties and have such other  powers as are  incident  to the office of the
treasurer  of a  corporation  under  Delaware law or as may from time to time be
prescribed by, or pursuant to authority delegated by, the Board of Directors.

            Section 4.8. OTHER OFFICERS AND ASSISTANT  OFFICERS.  The powers and
duties of each other  officer or assistant  officer who may from time to time be
chosen by the Board of  Directors  shall be as  prescribed  by, or  pursuant  to
authority delegated by, the Board of Directors at the time of the appointment of
such other  officer or  assistant  officer or from time to time  thereafter.  In
addition,  each officer  designated as an assistant  officer shall assist in the
performance of the duties of the officer to whom he or she is an assistant,  and
shall  perform the duties and have the powers of such  officer in the absence or
during the incapacitation of such officer.

            Section 4.9.  COMPENSATION.  The salaries and other compensation  of
all officers shall be fixed by, or pursuant to authority delegated by, the Board
of Directors from time to time.

            Section 4.10. ADDITIONAL DUTIES OF OFFICERS.  The Board of Directors
may from time to time by  resolution  increase or decrease the duties and powers
of the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, one or
more Vice Presidents, the Secretary, the Treasurer or any other officer.



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                                    ARTICLE V

                                 INDEMNIFICATION

            Section 5.1.  INDEMNIFICATION IN ACTIONS, SUITS OR PROCEEDINGS OTHER
THAN THOSE BY OR IN THE RIGHT OF THE  CORPORATION.  Subject to Section  5.3, the
Corporation shall indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to
be  made a  party  to any  threatened,  pending  or  completed  action,  suit or
proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than
an action by or in the right of the Corporation),  by reason of the fact that he
or  she is or was a  director  or  officer  of  the  Corporation  or is or was a
director or officer of the  Corporation  and is or was serving at the request of
the  Corporation  as  a  director,   officer,   employee  or  agent  of  another
corporation,  partnership,  joint venture,  trust or other  enterprise,  against
expenses  (including  attorneys'  fees),  judgments,  fines and amounts  paid in
settlement  actually and  reasonably  incurred by him or her in connection  with
such action, suit or proceeding if he or she acted in good faith and in a manner
he or she  reasonably  believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of
the Corporation,  and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no
reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was unlawful.  The termination of
any action,  suit or proceeding by judgment,  order,  settlement,  conviction or
upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, shall not, of itself, create a
presumption  that a person did not act in good faith and in a manner which he or
she  reasonably  believed to be in or not opposed to the best  interests  of the
Corporation,  and,  with  respect  to any  criminal  action or  proceeding,  had
reasonable cause to believe that his or her conduct was unlawful.

            Section 5.2.  INDEMNIFICATION IN ACTIONS, SUITS OR PROCEEDINGS BY OR
IN THE RIGHT OF THE CORPORATION.  Subject to Section 5.3, the Corporation  shall
indemnify  any person who was or is a party or is  threatened to be made a party
to any threatened, pending or completed action or suit by or in the right of the
Corporation  to procure a judgment in its favor by reason of the fact that he or
she is or was a director or officer of the  Corporation  or is or was a director
or  officer  of the  Corporation  and is or was  serving  at the  request of the
Corporation as a director,  officer,  employee or agent of another  corporation,
partnership,   joint  venture,   trust  or  other  enterprise  against  expenses
(including  attorneys'  fees) actually and reasonably  incurred by him or her in
connection  with the defense or  settlement  of such action or suit if he or she
acted in good faith and in a manner he or she  reasonably  believed  to be in or
not  opposed  to  the  best  interests  of  the  Corporation;   except  that  no
indemnification  under this  Section  5.2 shall be made in respect of any claim,
issue or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable to
the Corporation unless and only to the extent that the

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Court of Chancery  or the court in which such  action or suit was brought  shall
determine upon  application  that,  despite the adjudication of liability but in
view of all the  circumstances of the case, such person is fairly and reasonably
entitled  to  indemnity  for such  expenses  which the Court of Chancery or such
other court shall deem proper.

            Section 5.3.  AUTHORIZATION OF INDEMNIFICATION.  Any indemnification
under  Sections  5.1 and 5.2  (unless  ordered by a court)  shall be made by the
Corporation  only as authorized in the specific case upon a  determination  that
indemnification  of the  director  or  officer  is proper  in the  circumstances
because  he or she has met the  applicable  standard  of  conduct  set  forth in
Section 5.1 or 5.2, as the case may be. Such determination  shall be made (a) by
a majority  vote of the  directors  who are not parties to such action,  suit or
proceeding,  even  though  less  than a  quorum,  or (b) if  there  are no  such
directors,  or if such directors so direct,  by  independent  legal counsel in a
written opinion,  or (c) by the  stockholders.  To the extent,  however,  that a
director  or officer of the  Corporation  has been  successful  on the merits or
otherwise in defense of any action, suit or proceeding  described in Section 5.1
or 5.2, or in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein,  he or she shall be
indemnified against expenses (including attorneys' fees) actually and reasonably
incurred  by him or  her in  connection  therewith,  without  the  necessity  of
authorization in the specific case.

            Section  5.4.  RELIANCE.  For  purpose  of any  determination  under
Section  5.3,  a person  shall be  deemed to have  acted in good  faith and in a
manner  he or she  reasonably  believed  to be in or  not  opposed  to the  best
interests  of the  Corporation,  and,  with  respect to any  criminal  action or
proceeding,  to have had no  reasonable  cause to believe his or her conduct was
unlawful, if his or her actions were based on the records or books of account of
the  Corporation  or Another  Enterprise  (as  defined  below),  on  information
supplied to him or her by the officers of the Corporation or Another  Enterprise
in the  course  of  their  duties,  on the  advice  of  legal  counsel  for  the
Corporation or Another  Enterprise or on information or records given or reports
made to the Corporation or Another Enterprise by an independent certified public
accountant or by an appraiser or other expert  selected with  reasonable care by
the Corporation or Another Enterprise.  Notwithstanding the foregoing,  the fact
that such person's  actions were not so based on any of the foregoing  shall not
result  in it being  deemed  that,  and shall not be  considered  when  making a
determination  whether, he or she did not act in good faith or in a manner he or
she  reasonably  believed to be in or not opposed to the best  interests  of the
Corporation or, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, he or she had
reasonable  cause to believe his or her conduct was unlawful.  The term "Another
Enterprise" as used in this Section 5.4 shall mean any  corporation  (other than
the Corporation), partnership, joint venture, trust or other

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enterprise,  which  such  person  is or  was  serving  at  the  request  of  the
Corporation as a director,  officer,  employee or agent.  The provisions of this
Section 5.4 are not  exclusive and do not limit in any way the manner in which a
person may have met the applicable  standard of conduct set forth in Section 5.1
or 5.2, as the case may be.

            Section  5.5.  INDEMNIFICATION  BY  A  COURT.   Notwithstanding  any
contrary  determination in the specific case under Section 5.3 or the absence of
any determination thereunder,  any director or officer may apply to any court of
competent  jurisdiction  in the State of  Delaware  for  indemnification  to the
extent  otherwise  provided  under  Sections  5.1 and  5.2.  The  basis  of such
indemnification  by a  court  shall  be  a  determination  by  such  court  that
indemnification  of the  director  or  officer  is proper  in the  circumstances
because  he or she has met the  applicable  standard  of  conduct  set  forth in
Section 5.1 or 5.2, as the case may be. Neither a contrary  determination in the
specific case under Section 5.3 nor the absence of any determination  thereunder
shall be a defense to such application or create a presumption that the director
or  officer  seeking  indemnification  has not met any  applicable  standard  of
conduct.  Any application for indemnification made to any court pursuant to this
Section  5.5 shall be made in such  manner  and form as may be  required  by the
applicable rules of such court or, in the absence  thereof,  by direction of the
court  to  which  such  application  is  made.  Notice  of any  application  for
indemnification  pursuant to this Section 5.5 shall be given to the  Corporation
promptly  upon the filing of such  application.  If  successful,  in whole or in
part, the director or officer seeking  indemnification shall also be entitled to
be paid the expense of prosecuting such application.

            Section  5.6.  EXPENSES  PAYABLE  IN  ADVANCE.  Expenses  (including
attorneys' fees) incurred by a director or officer in defending or investigating
any  threatened or pending  civil,  criminal,  administrative  or  investigative
action,  suit or proceeding  shall be paid by the  Corporation in advance of the
final  disposition  of  such  action,  suit or  proceeding  upon  receipt  of an
undertaking  by or on behalf of such director or officer to repay such amount if
it  shall  ultimately  be  determined  that  he or  she is  not  entitled  to be
indemnified  by the  Corporation  as  authorized  in this  Article  V if such an
undertaking is required at the time by the General  Corporation Law of the State
of Delaware.

            Section 5.7. NON-EXCLUSIVENESS.  The indemnification and advancement
of expenses  provided  by, or granted  pursuant  to, this Article V shall not be
exclusive of any other  rights to which any person  seeking  indemnification  or
advancement of expenses may be entitled under any other by-law,  agreement, vote
of stockholders or  disinterested  directors or otherwise,  both as to action in
his or her official  capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding
such office, it being the policy of the Corporation that

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indemnification  of the persons  specified in Sections 5.1 and 5.2 shall be made
to the fullest  extent  permitted by law. The provisions of this Article V shall
not be deemed to preclude the indemnification of any person who is not specified
in Section 5.1 or 5.2 but whom the  Corporation  has the power or  obligation to
indemnify  under the provisions of the General  Corporation  Law of the State of
Delaware,  including,  without  limitation,  the provisions of subsection (h) of
Section 145 thereof, or otherwise.

            Section 5.8.  EFFECTIVENESS.  A finding  that any  provision of this
Article V is  invalid  or of  limited  application  shall not  affect  any other
provision  of this  Article  V nor  shall a  finding  that  any  portion  of any
provision  of this  Article V is invalid or of  limited  application  affect the
balance of such provision.

            Section 5.9.  INSURANCE.  The  Corporation may purchase and maintain
insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or
agent of the Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation
as a director,  officer, employee or agent of another corporation,  partnership,
joint venture,  trust or other enterprise against any liability asserted against
him or her and  incurred by him or her in any such  capacity,  or arising out of
his or her status as such,  whether or not the Corporation  would have the power
or the  obligation  to  indemnify  him or her against such  liability  under the
provisions of this Article V.

            Section 5.10. INDEMNIFICATION EXPENDITURES.  The Board of Directors,
without  approval of the  stockholders,  shall have the power to borrow money on
behalf of the  Corporation,  including  the power to  pledge  the  assets of the
Corporation,  from time to time to discharge the Corporation's  obligations with
respect to indemnification,  the advancement and reimbursement of expenses,  and
the purchase and maintenance of insurance referred to in this Article V.

            Section 5.11. CERTAIN  DEFINITIONS.  For purposes of this Article V,
references  to  "other   enterprises"  shall  include  employee  benefit  plans;
references to "fines"  shall include any excise taxes  assessed on a person with
respect to an employee  benefit plan;  and references to "serving at the request
of the  Corporation"  shall  include any service as a director or officer of the
Corporation  which imposes duties on, or involves  services by, such director or
officer  with  respect  to  an  employee   benefit  plan,  its  participants  or
beneficiaries;  and a person  who acted in good  faith and in a manner he or she
reasonably  believed to be in the interest of the participants and beneficiaries
of an  employee  benefit  plan  shall be deemed to have  acted in a manner  "not
opposed to the best interests of the Corporation" as referred to in this Article
V.


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            Section  5.12.   SURVIVAL  OF  INDEMNIFICATION  AND  ADVANCEMENT  OF
EXPENSES.  The  indemnification  and  advancement  of expenses  provided  by, or
granted  pursuant  to, this  Article V shall,  unless  otherwise  provided  when
authorized or ratified,  continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director
or  officer  and  shall  inure  to the  benefit  of  the  heirs,  executors  and
administrators of such person.

            Section  5.13.   LIMITATION  ON   INDEMNIFICATION.   Notwithstanding
anything contained in this Article IV to the contrary, except for proceedings to
enforce rights to indemnification  (which shall be governed by Section 5.5), the
Corporation  shall not be  obligated  to  indemnify  any  director or officer in
connection  with a proceeding (or part thereof)  initiated by such person unless
such proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized or consented to by the Board of
Directors of the Corporation.

            Section 5.14. REPEAL OR MODIFICATION.  Any repeal or modification of
this  Article V shall not  adversely  affect any rights to  indemnification  and
advancement  of expenses of a director  or officer of the  Corporation  existing
pursuant to this Article V with respect to any acts or omissions occurring prior
to such repeal or modification.

            Section  5.15.   INDEMNIFICATION   OF  EMPLOYEES  AND  AGENTS.   The
Corporation  may,  to the  extent  authorized  from time to time by the Board of
Directors,  provide rights to indemnification and to the advancement of expenses
to employees and agents of the  Corporation  similar to those  conferred in this
Article V on directors and officers of the Corporation.


                                   ARTICLE VI

                             SHARES OF CAPITAL STOCK

            Section  6.1.  ISSUANCE  OF SHARES.  Shares of capital  stock of any
class now or hereafter authorized,  securities  convertible into or exchangeable
for such  shares,  or  options  or other  rights  to  purchase  such  shares  or
securities  may be issued  or  granted  only in  accordance  with the  authority
granted by resolution of the Board of Directors.

            Section  6.2.  SHARE  CERTIFICATES.  Certificates  for shares of the
capital  stock of the  Corporation  shall be in the form adopted by the Board of
Directors,  shall be signed by the Chief Executive  Officer or the President and
by the Secretary or Assistant Secretary,  and may be sealed with the seal of the
Corporation.  Where any such certificate is signed by a registrar other than the
Corporation  or its  employee,  the  signatures  thereon  of any  officer of the
Corporation and, where authorized by the

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Board of Directors, any transfer agent, may be facsimiles. All such certificates
shall be numbered  consecutively;  and the name of the person  owning the shares
represented  thereby,  the number of such  shares and the date of issue shall be
stated on each certificate and entered on the books of the Corporation.  In case
any officer,  transfer  agent or  registrar  who has  executed,  by facsimile or
otherwise, any share certificate shall have ceased to be such officer,  transfer
agent or  registrar  by reason of  death,  resignation  or  removal  before  the
certificate is issued,  it may be issued by the Corporation with the same effect
as if such officer, transfer agent or registrar had not ceased to be such at the
date of its issue.

            Section  6.3.  TRANSFER  OF SHARES.  Shares of capital  stock of the
Corporation  shall be  transferred on the books of the  Corporation  only by the
holder  of  record  thereof  in  person  or by  such  holder's  duly  authorized
representative  upon surrender to the  Corporation of the  certificate  for such
shares, duly endorsed for transfer,  together with such other documents (if any)
as may be required to effect such transfer.

            Section 6.4. LOST, STOLEN, DESTROYED OR MUTILATED CERTIFICATES.  New
share  certificates may be issued to replace  certificates  alleged to have been
lost, stolen, destroyed or mutilated, upon such terms and conditions,  including
proof of loss or destruction,  and, if appropriate, the giving of a satisfactory
bond of  indemnity,  as the Board of Directors or as one or more of the officers
of the Corporation, as delegated to by the Board of Directors, from time to time
may determine.

            Section 6.5.  REGULATIONS.  The Board of Directors  shall have power
and authority to make all such rules and regulations not inconsistent with these
By-laws as it may deem expedient concerning the issue, transfer and registration
of shares of  capital  stock of the  Corporation.  The  Board of  Directors  may
appoint one or more transfer agents or assistant transfer agents and one or more
registrars  of  transfer  and may  require  all share  certificates  to bear the
signature  of a transfer  agent or assistant  transfer  agent and a registrar of
transfer.  The Board of Directors may at any time  terminate the  appointment of
any transfer agent or any assistant transfer agent or any registrar of transfer.

            Section 6.6. HOLDERS OF RECORD. The Corporation shall be entitled to
treat the  holder of  record  of any  share or  shares of  capital  stock of the
Corporation  as the holder and owner in fact  thereof for all purposes and shall
not be bound to recognize any equitable or other claim to, or right,  title,  or
interest  in, such share or shares on the part of any other  person,  whether or
not the  Corporation  shall have  express  or other  notice  thereof,  except as
otherwise provided by Delaware law.


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            Section 6.7.  RECORD DATE.  In order to determine  the  stockholders
entitled  to notice of or to vote at any meeting of  stockholders  or to express
consent to corporate action in writing without a meeting, the Board of Directors
may fix, in advance, a record date, which shall not be more than sixty (60) days
nor less than ten (10) days before the date of such meeting, nor more than sixty
(60) days prior to any other  action.  Only  stockholders  of record on the date
fixed shall be so entitled  notwithstanding  any transfer of shares on the books
of the Corporation after any record date fixed as provided herein.  The Board of
Directors may similarly fix a record date for the  determination of stockholders
of record  for any  other  purpose.  If no record  date is fixed by the Board of
Directors:  (i) the record date for determining  stockholders entitled to notice
of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders  shall be at the close of business on
the day next  preceding  the day on which  notice  is  given,  or,  if notice is
waived,  at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which the
meeting is held; and (ii) the record date for determining  stockholders entitled
to express consent or dissent to corporate  action in writing without a meeting,
when no prior action by the Board of Directors is necessary,  shall be the close
of  business or the day on which the first  written  consent or dissent is filed
with the Secretary. A determination of stockholders of record entitled to notice
of or to vote at a meeting of  stockholders  shall apply to any  reconvening  of
such meeting if it is adjourned;  provided, however, that the Board of Directors
may fix a new record date for the reconvened meeting.

            Section  6.8.   RESTRICTION  ON  TRANSFER.   A  restriction  on  the
hypothecation,  transfer or  registration of transfer of shares of capital stock
of the  Corporation  may be imposed  either by these  By-laws or by an agreement
among  any  number of  stockholders  or such  holders  and the  Corporation.  No
restriction  so imposed shall be binding with respect to shares of capital stock
of the Corporation  issued prior to the adoption of the  restriction  unless the
holders  of such  shares  parties  to such  agreement  or voted in favor of such
restriction.


                                   ARTICLE VII

                               GENERAL PROVISIONS

            Section 7.1.  CORPORATE SEAL.  The Corporation may adopt a corporate
seal in such form as the Board of Directors shall from time to time determine.

            Section 7.2.  FISCAL YEAR.  The fiscal year of the Corporation shall
be as designated by the Board of Directors from time to time.


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            Section 7.3. AUTHORIZATION.  All checks, notes, vouchers,  warrants,
drafts,  acceptances  and  other  orders  for  the  payment  of  moneys  of  the
Corporation  shall be signed by such officer or officers or such other person or
persons as the Board of Directors may from time to time designate.

            Section  7.4.  FINANCIAL  REPORTS.  Subject to the  requirements  of
applicable law, financial statements or reports shall not be required to be sent
to the stockholders of the Corporation,  but may be so sent in the discretion of
the Board of Directors,  in which event the scope of such  statements or reports
shall be within the discretion of the Board of Directors, and such statements or
reports shall not be required to have been examined by or to be  accompanied  by
an opinion of an accountant or firm of accountants.

            Section 7.5.  EFFECT OF BY-LAWS. No provision in these By-laws shall
vest any property right in any stockholder.


                                  ARTICLE VIII

                                   AMENDMENTS

            Section  8.1.  GENERAL.  The  authority  to  adopt,  amend or repeal
By-laws of the  Corporation is expressly  conferred upon the Board of Directors,
which may take such  action by the  affirmative  vote of a majority of the whole
Board of Directors at any regular or special  meeting duly convened after notice
of that purpose, subject always to the power of the stockholders to adopt, amend
or repeal By-laws by the affirmative  vote of the holders of at least two-thirds
of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Corporation generally entitled
to vote  together  (including  the Class A Preferred  Stock).  Any change in the
By-laws  shall  take  effect  when  adopted  unless  otherwise  provided  in the
resolution effecting the change.


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                                                                 EXHIBIT 10.01

                      AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT

                                  BY AND AMONG

                          CLEARVIEW CINEMA GROUP, INC.,
                         CLEARVIEW THEATRE GROUP, INC.,
                            CCC ALLWOOD CINEMA CORP.,
                             CCC B.C. REALTY CORP.,
                            CCC BAYONNE CINEMA CORP.
                            CCC BEDFORD CINEMA CORP.,
                          CCC BERGENFIELD CINEMA CORP.,
                           CCC BRONXVILLE CINEMA CORP.
                      CCC CHESTER TWIN CINEMA CORPORATION,
                              CCC CINEMA 304 CORP.
                            CCC CLOSTER CINEMA CORP.,
                            CCC EMERSON CINEMA CORP.,
                         CCC GRAND AVENUE CINEMA CORP.,
                           CCC HERRICKS CINEMA CORP.,
                             CCC KISCO CINEMA CORP.,
                           CCC LARCHMONT CINEMA CORP.
                        CCC MADISON TRIPLE CINEMA CORP.,
                           CCC MAMARONECK CINEMA CORP.
                           CCC MANASQUAN CINEMA CORP.,
                            CCC MARBORO CINEMA CORP.
                           CCC NEW CITY CINEMA CORP.,
                        CCC PORT WASHINGTON CINEMA CORP.,
                            CCC SUMMIT CINEMA CORP.,
                            CCC TENAFLY CINEMA CORP.,
                        CCC WASHINGTON CINEMA CORP., and
                             CCC WAYNE CINEMA CORP.

                                   Borrowers,

                               THE PROVIDENT BANK,
                                      Agent

                                       AND

                VARIOUS LENDERS DESCRIBED ON SCHEDULE 1 HERETO

                              September 12, 1997


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                                    SCHEDULES

                                    ANNEX I
 
                                    SCHEDULES


1         Lenders
3.1       Mortgaged Property and Leasehold Interests
4.2(e)    Post-Closing Requirements from Original Credit Agreement
5.1(a)    Jurisdictions where qualified to do business
5.1(b)    Capital Stock
5.1(c)    Subsidiaries
5.2       Authority
8.5       Management Compensation
5.6       Material Adverse Changes
5.7       Material Leases of Property
5.8       Intellectual Property
5.9       Indebtedness for Borrowed Money
5.10      Litigation
5.13(a)   Contracts with Affiliates
5.13(b)   Indebtedness for Borrowed Money Owing to or by Affiliates
5.21UCC   Filing Offices
8.9(h)    Liens

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                                   EXHIBITS


Exhibit B      Form of Assignment of  Option and Operating Agreements
Exhibit C      Form of Assignment of Patents
Exhibit D      Form of Assignment of Trademarks
Exhibit E      Form of Blocked Account Agreement
Exhibit F      Form of Compliance Certificate
Exhibit G      Form of Environmental Indemnity Agreement
Exhibit H      Form of Joinder Agreement
Exhibit I      Form of Leasehold Mortgage
Exhibit J      Form of Mortgage
Exhibit K      Form of Pledge Agreement
Exhibit L-1    Form of Revolving Promissory Note
Exhibit K-2    Form of Term Loan A Promissory Note
Exhibit K-3    Form of Term Loan B Promissory Note
Exhibit K-4    Form of Term B Note Supplement
Exhibit L      Subordination Agreement
Exhibit M      Form of Borrower's Counsel Opinion Letter



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                               TABLE OF CONTENTS

                                                                            PAGE

ARTICLE 1.     INTERPRETATION..................................................2
Section 1.1    Provisions Pertaining to Definitions............................2
Section 1.2    Definitions.....................................................2

ARTICLE 2.     THE LOANS......................................................23
Section 2.1    Commitments....................................................23
Section 2.2    Making the Loans...............................................23
               (a)   Revolving Credit Loan....................................23
               (b)   Term Loan A..............................................23
               (c)   Term Loan B..............................................24
Section 2.3     Draws, Advances and Settlement of Payments and Advances.......24
Section 2.4    The Notes......................................................25
Section 2.5    Interest Payable on the Loans..................................25
               (a)   Determination of Interest Rate...........................25
               (b)   Monthly Installments.....................................25
               (c)   Interest on Overdue Payments; Default Interest Rate......26
Section 2.6    Repayments and Prepayments of Principal........................26
               (a)   Payments on the Term Loan A..............................26
               (b)   Payments on the Term Loan B..............................26
               (c)   Repayments on the Revolving Credit Loan..................26
               (d)   Revolving Credit Loan Overadvance........................27
               (e)   Prepayments from Extraordinary Dispositions..............27
               (f)   Prepayments for Excess Cash Flow.........................27
               (g)   Prepayment from Equity Offerings.........................27
               (h)   Prepayment from Key Man Insurance........................28
               (i)   Payments Relative to Closed Operations...................28
               (j)   Maturity.................................................28
               (k)   Application of Proceeds..................................28
               (l)   Prepayment Fees..........................................28
Section 2.7    Payments and Computations......................................29
Section 2.8    Payments to be Free of Deductions..............................30
Section 2.9    Use of Proceeds................................................31
Section 2.10   Additional Costs, Etc..........................................31
Section 2.11   Agent and Lender Statements....................................31
Section 2.12   Letters of Credit..............................................32
Section 2.13   Allocation of Liability........................................34

ARTICLE 3.     SECURITY AGREEMENT.............................................34
Section 3.1    Security Interest..............................................34
Section 3.2    Mortgages and Liens on Real Property...........................35
Section 3.3    Pledge of Stock................................................35
Section 3.4    Financing Statements; Additional Documents.....................36
Section 3.5    Accounts; Chattel Paper; Lease Agreements......................36
Section 3.6    Release of Collateral..........................................37


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ARTICLE 4.     CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO DISBURSEMENTS..........................37
Section 4.1    Conditions Precedent to Initial Closing........................37
Section 4.2    Conditions Precedent to Subsequent Loans.......................41
Section 4.3    Conditions Precedent to Subsequent Lending under the 
               Term B Loan....................................................41

ARTICLE 5.     GENERAL REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES.........................43
Section 5.1    Existence, Etc.................................................43
Section 5.2    Authority, Etc.................................................44
Section 5.3    Binding Effect of Documents, Etc...............................45
Section 5.4    No Events of Default, Etc......................................45
Section 5.5    Financial Statements...........................................46
Section 5.6    Changes;  None Adverse.........................................46
Section 5.7    Title to Assets; Material Leases...............................46
Section 5.8    Intellectual Property..........................................46
Section 5.9    Subordinated Debt and Indebtedness for Borrowed Money. ........47
Section 5.10   Litigation.....................................................47
Section 5.11   No Materially Adverse Contracts................................47
Section 5.12   Taxes and Tax Returns, Etc.....................................47
Section 5.13   Contracts with Affiliates, Etc.................................48
Section 5.14   Employee Benefit Plans.........................................48
Section 5.15   Governmental Regulation........................................48
Section 5.16   Securities Activities..........................................49
Section 5.17   Disclosure.....................................................49
Section 5.18   No Material Default............................................49
Section 5.19   Environmental Conditions.......................................49
Section 5.20   Licenses and Permits...........................................50
Section 5.21   General Collateral Representation..............................50

ARTICLE 6.     AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS OF BORROWER..............................51
Section 6.1    Reports and Other Information..................................51
Section 6.2    Maintenance of Property; Authorization; Insurance..............56
Section 6.3    Key Man Life Insurance.........................................56
Section 6.4    Corporate Existence............................................57
Section 6.5    Inspection Rights..............................................57
Section 6.6    Payment of Taxes and Claims....................................57
Section 6.7    Compliance with Laws...........................................57
Section 6.8    Notice of Other Events.........................................58
Section 6.9    Communication with Accountants.................................58
Section 6.10   Payment of Indebtedness........................................58
Section 6.11   Performance of Obligations Under Certain Documents.............58
Section 6.12   Governmental Consents and Approvals............................58
Section 6.13   Employee Benefit Plans and Guaranteed Pension Plans............59
Section 6.14   Further Assurances.............................................59
Section 6.15   Interest Rate Risk Management..................................60
Section 6.16   Borrower's Depository Accounts.................................60


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Section 6.17   Use of Proceeds................................................60
Section 6.18   Subsidiaries...................................................60

ARTICLE 7.     FINANCIAL COVENANTS............................................60
Section 7.1    Interest Coverage Ratio........................................60
Section 7.2    Debt Service Coverage..........................................61
Section 7.3    Minimum Net Worth..............................................61
Section 7.4    Debt to EBITDA.................................................61
Section 7.5    Senior Debt to EBITDA..........................................61
Section 7.6    Limitation on Capital Expenditures.............................61

ARTICLE 8.     NEGATIVE COVENANTS OF BORROWER.................................61
Section 8.1    Limitation on Nature of Business...............................61
Section 8.2    Limitation on Fundamental Changes..............................62
Section 8.3    Restricted Payments............................................62
Section 8.4    Lease Obligations..............................................62
Section 8.5    Management Compensation........................................62
Section 8.6    Limitation on Disposition of Assets............................63
Section 8.7    Limitation on Investments......................................64
Section 8.8    Acquisition of Margin Securities...............................64
Section 8.9    Limitation on Mortgages, Liens and Encumbrances................64
Section 8.10   No Additional Negative Pledges.................................65
Section 8.11   No Restrictions on Subsidiary Distributions to Borrowers.......65
Section 8.12   Limitation on Indebtedness.....................................66
Section 8.13   Limitation on Sales and Leasebacks.............................66
Section 8.14   Transactions with Affiliates...................................66
Section 8.15   No Additional Bank Accounts....................................66

ARTICLE 9.     EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES.................................67
Section 9.1    Events of Default..............................................67
               (a)   Principal and Interest...................................67
               (b)   Representation and Warranties............................67
               (c)   Certain Covenants........................................67
               (d)   Other Covenants..........................................67
               (e)   Loan Documents...........................................67
               (f)   Litigation ..............................................67
               (g)   Default by Borrowers under other Agreements..............68
               (h)   Insolvency...............................................68
               (i)   Judgment.................................................68
               (j)   ERISA....................................................68
               (k)   Change of Control........................................69
               (l)   Material Adverse Change..................................69
Section 9.2    Termination of Commitments and Acceleration of Obligations.....69
Section 9.3    Remedies.......................................................69
Section 9.4    No Implied Waiver; Rights Cumulative...........................71
Section 9.5    Set-Off; Pro Rata Sharing......................................72

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ARTICLE 10.    CONCERNING THE AGENT AND THE LENDERS...........................72
Section 10.1   Appointment of the Agent.......................................72
Section 10.2   Authority......................................................72
Section 10.3   Acceptance of Appointment......................................73
Section 10.4   Collateral Matters.............................................73
Section 10.5   Agency for Perfection..........................................74
Section 10.6   Application of Moneys..........................................74
Section 10.7   Reliance by the Agent..........................................74
Section 10.8   Exculpatory Provisions.........................................75
Section 10.9   Action by the Agent............................................75
Section 10.10  Amendments, Waivers and Consents...............................76
Section 10.11  Indemnification................................................76
Section 10.12  Reimbursement of the Agent.....................................77
Section 10.13  Sharing of Funds Received......................................77
Section 10.14  Dealing with Lenders...........................................77
Section 10.15  Agent as Lender................................................77
Section 10.16  Duties Not to be Increased.....................................77
Section 10.17  Lender Credit Decisions........................................78
Section 10.18  Resignation of Agent...........................................78
Section 10.19  Assignment of Notes; Participation.............................78

ARTICLE 11.    PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION..............................79
Section 11.1   Term of Agreement..............................................79
Section 11.2   Notices........................................................79
Section 11.3   Survival of Representations....................................81
Section 11.4   Amendments.....................................................81
Section 11.5   Costs, Expenses, Taxes and Indemnification.....................81
Section 11.6   Language.......................................................82
Section 11.7   Binding Effect; Assignment.....................................82
Section 11.8   Governing Law; Jurisdiction and Venue..........................82
Section 11.9   WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL...........................................83
Section 11.10  Waivers........................................................83
Section 11.11  Interpretation and Proof of Loan Documents.....................83
Section 11.12  Integration of Schedules and Exhibits..........................83
Section 11.13  Headings.......................................................83
Section 11.14  Counterparts...................................................84
Section 11.15  Severability...................................................84
Section 11.16  One General Obligation.........................................84

 
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      THIS AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT  AGREEMENT dated as of September 12, 1997
("Amended  and Restated  Credit  Agreement")  is by and among  CLEARVIEW  CINEMA
GROUP, INC., a Delaware corporation, (Holdings"), CLEARVIEW THEATRE GROUP, INC.,
a New Jersey corporation,  CCC ALLWOOD CINEMA CORP., a Delaware corporation, CCC
B.C. REALTY CORP., a Delaware corporation,  CCC BAYONNE CINEMA CORP., a Delaware
corporation,  CCC BEDFORD CINEMA CORP., a Delaware corporation,  CCC BERGENFIELD
CINEMA CORP., a Delaware  corporation,  CCC BRONXVILLE  CINEMA CORP., a Delaware
corporation,  CCC CHESTER TWIN CINEMA CORPORATION, a New Jersey corporation, CCC
CINEMA 304 CORP., a Delaware  corporation,  CCC CLOSTER CINEMA CORP., a Delaware
corporation,  CCC EMERSON CINEMA CORP., a Delaware corporation, CCC GRAND AVENUE
CINEMA CORP.,  a Delaware  corporation,  CCC HERRICKS  CINEMA CORP.,  a Delaware
corporation,  CCC KISCO CINEMA  CORP.,  a Delaware  corporation,  CCC  LARCHMONT
CINEMA CORP.,  a Delaware  corporation,  CCC MADISON  TRIPLE CINEMA CORP., a New
Jersey  corporation,  CCC MAMARONECK CINEMA CORP., a Delaware  corporation,  CCC
MANASQUAN  CINEMA  CORPORATION,  a New Jersey  corporation,  CCC MARBORO  CINEMA
CORP.,  a  Delaware   corporation,   CCC  NEW  CITY  CINEMA  CORP.,  a  Delaware
corporation,  CCC PORT  WASHINGTON  CINEMA CORP.,  a Delaware  corporation,  CCC
SUMMIT CINEMA CORP.  (formerly known as 343-349 Springfield Avenue Corp.), a New
Jersey  corporation,  CCC TENAFLY  CINEMA  CORP.,  a Delaware  corporation,  CCC
WASHINGTON CINEMA CORP., a Delaware  corporation,  and CCC WAYNE CINEMA CORP., a
Delaware corporation,  (hereinafter, together with their successors in title and
assigns called  "Borrowers"  and each of which is a  "Borrower"),  the banks and
lending  institutions  set forth on  Schedule 1 hereto (the  "Lenders")  and THE
PROVIDENT  BANK,  an Ohio  banking  corporation,  ("Provident")  executing  this
Agreement  in its  capacity  of  Agent  for the  Lenders  under  this  Agreement
(hereinafter called "Provident" or "Agent").

                                   BACKGROUND

      This  Amended  and  Restated  Agreement  amends  and  restates  the Credit
Agreement  dated as of May 29, 1996 (the  "Original  Credit  Agreement")  by and
among  Original  Borrowers,  the banks  and  lending  institutions  set forth on
Schedule 1 thereto  and  Agent,  as  amended  by a First  Amendment  dated as of
December 13, 1996 (the "First Amendment"),  as amended by Second Amendment dated
as of March 27,  1997 (the  "Second  Amendment")  as further  amended by a Third
Amendment dated June 30, 1997 (the "Third Amendment").

      CCC  Bedford  Cinema  Corp and CCC Kisco  Cinema  Corp.  were  joined as
Borrowers to the Credit  Agreement by that certain Joinder  Agreement dated as
of July 19, 1996, and CCC Closter Cinema Corp., CCC Bergenfield  Cinema Corp.,
CCC Tenafly  Cinema Corp. and CCC B.C.  Realty Corp.  were joined as Borrowers
by the First  Amendment.  CCC  Bayonne  Cinema  Corp.  CCC  Bronxville  Cinema
Corp.,  CCC Cinema 304 Corp.,  CCC  Larchmont  Cinema  Corp.,  CCC  Mamaroneck
Cinema Corp.,  CCC Marboro  Cinema Corp. and CCC Wayne Cinema Corp. are joined
under the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement.


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                                   ARTICLE 1.

                                 INTERPRETATION

      Section 1.1 PROVISIONS PERTAINING TO DEFINITIONS. For all purposes of this
Credit Agreement (except where such  interpretations  would be inconsistent with
the context or the subject matter):

            (a) The expression "this Agreement" shall mean this Credit Agreement
(including  all of the  Schedules  and Exhibits  annexed  hereto) as  originally
executed,  or, if  supplemented,  amended or restated  from time to time,  as so
supplemented, amended or restated;

            (b) Where  appropriate,  words  importing  the  singular  only shall
include the plural and vice versa, and all references to dollars shall be United
States Dollars; and

            (c) Accounting  terms not  otherwise  defined  herein shall have the
meanings  customarily  given in accordance  with Generally  Accepted  Accounting
Principles  (as   hereinafter   defined)  and  all  financial   computations  or
determinations  to be  made  under  Credit  Agreement  shall,  unless  otherwise
specifically   provided  herein,  be  made  in  accordance  with  the  financial
statements  delivered  pursuant  to  Section  4.1(v)  and  shall  be  made  on a
Consolidated basis.

      Section 1.2  DEFINITIONS.  In addition to terms defined  elsewhere in this
Agreement,  the  following  terms  shall  have the  following  meanings  in this
Agreement:

      "ACCOUNTANTS" mean Wiss & Company,  LLP, or any nationally recognized firm
of certified public accountants selected by Holdings and acceptable to Agent and
Lenders.

      "ACCOUNT  DEBTOR"  means any  Person  obligated  for the  payment  of an
Account.

      "ACCOUNTS"  mean,  with  respect to any person,  such  Person's  accounts,
rental  agreements and other contract rights,  rights to payment and other forms
of obligation for the payment of money,  whether now existing or existing in the
future, including,  without limitation,  all (i) accounts receivable (whether or
not  specifically  listed on  schedules  furnished  to the Agent),  all accounts
created  by or  arising  from all of such  Person's  sales of  goods,  financial
instruments,  documents,  permits or other  items,  or  rendition  of  services,
including funds transfer  services,  made under any of such Person's trade names
or styles,  or through any of such Person's  Subsidiaries or divisions,  and all
accounts acquired by assignment in the ordinary course of business;  (ii) unpaid
seller's rights  (including  rescission,  replevin,  reclamation and stopping in
transit)  relating to the  foregoing or arising  therefrom;  (iii) rights to any
goods  represented  by any of the foregoing,  including  returned or repossessed
goods; (iv) reserves and credit balances held by such Person with respect to any
such accounts  receivable or account  debtors;  (v) guarantees or collateral for
any of the foregoing;  and (vi) insurance  policies or rights relating to any of
the foregoing.

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      "AFFILIATE"  means, in relation to any Person (in this  definition  called
"Affiliated Person"),  any Person (i) which (directly or indirectly) controls or
is controlled by or is under common control with such Affiliated Person; or (ii)
which  (directly or  indirectly)  owns or holds five percent (5%) or more of any
equity  interest in any  Borrower;  or (iii) five  percent (5%) or more of whose
voting stock or other equity interest is directly or indirectly owned or held by
such  Borrower.  For  the  purposes  of  this  definition,  the  term  "control"
(including,  with  correlative  meanings,  the terms  "controlled by" and "under
common  control  with"),  as used with  respect  to any  Person,  shall mean the
possession  (directly  or  indirectly)  of the  power to  direct or to cause the
direction of the management or the policies of such Person,  whether through the
ownership of shares of any class in the capital or any other  voting  securities
of such Person or by contract or otherwise.

      "AGENT"  means  Provident  acting in the capacity as Agent for the Lenders
under the Loan  Documents  and includes  (where the context so admits) any other
Person or Persons succeeding to the functions of Agent under such documents.

      "AGENT  DEPOSIT  ACCOUNT"  has the meaning  set forth in Section  2.3(e)
hereof.

      "AGENT  DISBURSEMENT  ACCOUNT"  has the  meaning  set  forth in  Section
2.3(b) hereof.

      "AGREEMENT"  or "CREDIT  AGREEMENT"  means this Credit  Agreement  and any
amendments,  extensions, riders, supplements,  schedules, or modifications to or
in connection with this Credit Agreement, including any Joinder Agreements.

      "APPLICABLE  MARGIN" shall initially mean one and one-half percent (1.5%);
PROVIDED,  HOWEVER that after January 15, 1998, the Applicable Margin shall mean
the amount set forth below,  as a percentage,  to be added to the Prime Rate, as
the case may be, and used in calculating the rate of interest for the applicable
Loan at any time:

       ==================================================================
                MARGIN RATIO                    APPLICABLE MARGIN
       ------------------------------------------------------------------
       Greater than or equal to 3.25                 1.50%
       to 1.00

       Greater than or equal to 3.00                 1.25%
       to 1.00
       but less than 3.25 to 1.00

       Greater than or equal to 2.75                 1.00%
       to 1.00
       but less than 3.00 to 1.00

       Greater than or equal to 2.50                 .75%
       to 1.00
       but less than 2.75 to 1.00

       Less than 2.50 to 1.00                        .50%

      ==================================================================        

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The determination of Applicable  Margin hereunder as of any Interest  Adjustment
Date shall be based on unaudited quarterly Compliance  Certificates  required to
be delivered  pursuant to Section 6.1(b)  hereof,  PROVIDED that in the event of
any discrepancy between  computations based upon any compliance  certificate and
the related audited financial  statements  furnished pursuant to Section 6.1(b),
the  computation  based  upon the  audited  financial  statements  shall  govern
(retroactive  to the  Interest  Adjustment  Date  as to  which  such  adjustment
applies). In the event of a retroactive  correction of the determinations of the
Applicable  Margin  in favor of the  Lenders,  the  amount of  interest  thereby
overdue and payable by the  Borrowers  shall be paid to the Lenders  within five
(5)  days  after  the date of such  retroactive  correction.  In the  event of a
retroactive  correction of the  determinations of the Applicable Margin in favor
of the  Borrowers,  the amount of interest  overpaid by the  Borrowers  shall be
applied by the Lender as a credit  against  any fees,  charges  and  interest or
principal payments then due hereunder or to become due hereunder to Lenders.  No
downward  adjustment of the  Applicable  Margin shall occur if, at the time such
downward  adjustment  would otherwise be made,  there shall exist any Default or
Event of Default,  PROVIDED that such downward  adjustment  shall be made on the
first day of the first  month  after the date on which any  Default  or Event of
Default shall have been waived or cease to exist.

      "ASSIGNMENTS  OF  OPTION  AND  OPERATING   AGREEMENTS"   means  the  (i)
Assignment of Option and Operating  Agreement from Holdings,  CCC Grand Avenue
Cinema  Corp.  and CCC Port  Washington  Cinema Corp.  to Agent  relating to a
certain  Agreement among Holdings,  CCC Grand Avenue Cinema Corp. and CCC Port
Washington  Cinema Corp.  and Cinema Grand Avenue,  Inc. and Triplex Movies at
Port  Washington,  Inc.  in  connection  with the  operation  of and option to
purchase certain  theaters  located in Long Island,  New York and known as the
Grand Avenue Theater and the Post Washington  Theater,  (ii) the Assignment of
Option and Operating  Agreement from Holdings and CCC Herricks Cinema Corp. to
Agent relating to a certain  Agreement  among Holdings and CCC Herricks Cinema
Corp.  and Cinema  Herricks,  Inc. in  connection  with the  operation  of and
option to  purchase a certain  theater  located in Long  Island,  New York and
known as the  Herricks  Theater,  each in the form of  Exhibit A  hereto,  and
(iii) any  Assignment  of Option and  Operating  Agreement  required  by Agent
relative to a Permitted Acquisition.

      "ASSIGNMENT OF PATENTS" means the Assignment of Patents from a Borrower to
Agent in the form of Exhibit B hereto.

      "ASSIGNMENT  OF  TRADEMARKS"  means the  Assignment of  Trademarks  from a
Borrower to Agent in the form of Exhibit C hereto.

      "AVERAGE DAILY LOAN BALANCE"  means the sum of the unpaid  balances of the
Revolving  Credit Loan owing by  Borrowers to Lenders at the end of each day for
the  immediately  preceding  four (4)  fiscal  quarters  ending on the  relevant
Computation Date, divided by 365 or 366, as applicable;  PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that
during the first Loan Year,  such amount  shall be  calculated  from the Closing
Date through the date of such  calculation as the sum of the unpaid  balances of
the  Revolving  Credit Loans owing by Borrowers to Lender for each day since the
Closing  Date  divided by the actual  number of days  elapsed  since the Closing
Date.

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      "BERGEN  COUNTY  TRANSACTION"  means the  acquisition  by  Holdings of the
assets of Magic Cinemas L.L.C.

      "BLOCKED  ACCOUNT  AGREEMENT"  shall mean the  Blocked  Account  Agreement
between a  Borrower  and Agent,  acknowledged  by each  depository  institution,
pursuant to which such financial institutions shall agree not to permit funds in
such bank accounts to be disbursed except to the Agent Disbursement  Account, or
any other  account  maintained  at or  controlled  by the Agent,  in the form of
Exhibit D hereto.

      "BUSINESS  DAY"  means any day other  than a  Saturday  or Sunday on which
commercial banking institutions are open for business in Cincinnati, Ohio.

      "CAPITAL EXPENDITURE" means any amount paid or incurred in connection with
the  purchase of real  estate,  plant,  machinery,  equipment  or other  similar
expenditure (including all renewals,  improvements and replacements thereto, and
all obligations under any lease of any of the foregoing) which would be required
to be  capitalized  and shown on the  Consolidated  balance sheet of Holdings in
accordance with GAAP excluding,  however, amounts paid or incurred in connection
with  theater  acquisitions  and  related  costs and the initial  renovation  of
acquired  theaters,  addition of screens to acquired  and  existing  theaters or
greenfield development of theaters.

      "CAPITAL  LEASE" means any lease of Property which has been or is required
to be classified and accounted for as a capital lease obligation on a Borrower's
financial statements in accordance with GAAP.

      "CAPITAL  LEASE  OBLIGATION"  means  any  obligation  to pay rent or other
amounts under a Capital Lease and, for the purpose of this Agreement, the amount
of such obligation at any date shall be the  capitalized  amount thereof at such
date, determined in accordance with GAAP.

      "CAPITAL  STOCK"  means  any and all  shares,  interests,  participations,
rights or other  equivalents  (however  designated) or corporate stock,  whether
common or preferred, including, without limitation, partnership interests.

      "CASH  EQUIVALENTS"  means: (i) marketable  direct  obligations  issued or
unconditionally  guaranteed  by the United  States  Government  or issued by any
agency thereof and backed by the full faith and credit of the United States,  in
each case maturing within three (3) months from the date of acquisition thereof;
(ii)  investments in  certificates of deposit or bankers'  acceptances  maturing
within three (3) months from the date of acquisition issued by any Lender or any
other commercial bank organized under the laws of the United States or any state
thereof having capital  surplus and undivided  profits  aggregating at least Two
Hundred Fifty Million Dollars  ($250,000,000);  (iii)  investments in commercial
paper of any Lender or of any other Person which, at the time of issuance,  have
a rating of at least A-1 from Standard & Poor's Corporation or at least P-1 from
Moody's Investors  Service,  Inc. and maturing not more than six (6) months from
the date of acquisition thereof;  (iv) obligations of the type described in (i),
(ii) or (iii) above purchased pursuant to a repurchase  agreement obligating the
counterparty  to  repurchase  such  obligations  not later than 


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thirty  (30) days  after the  purchase  thereof,  secured  by a fully  perfected
security interest in any such obligation,  and having a market value at the time
such  repurchase  agreement  is  entered  into  of not  less  than  100%  of the
repurchase  obligation of the issuing bank;  and (v) time deposits or Eurodollar
time  deposits  maturing no more than thirty (30) days from the date of creation
with  commercial  banks  having  membership  in the  Federal  Deposit  Insurance
Corporation in amounts not exceeding the lesser of One Hundred  Thousand Dollars
($100,000) or the maximum  insurance  applicable to the aggregate amount of such
Person's deposits in such institution.

      "CASH FLOW" means, for any period, the following, each calculated for such
period,  without  duplication:  (i) EBITDA, LESS (ii) income and franchise taxes
actually paid by a Borrower (net of any refunds received)  (including  decreases
in deferred income taxes resulting from tax payments  actually made), LESS (iii)
Capital  Expenditures  (to the extent  actually  made in cash by a Borrower  and
excluding  the  non-current  portion  of  Capital  Expenditures  which have been
financed)  LESS (iv) the gross amount  capitalized  for long term assets (net of
cash received in respect of long term assets) and paid in cash.

      "CASH INTEREST EXPENSE" means the aggregate amount of all interest expense
of a Borrower on Indebtedness  for Borrowed Money (net of interest  income) paid
but not accrued.

      "CASUALTY  LOSS" means any occurrence or event pursuant to which any asset
or property owned or used by a Borrower is (i) damaged or destroyed,  or suffers
any other loss, or (ii) condemned,  confiscated or otherwise  taken, in whole or
in  part,  or  the  use  thereof  is  otherwise   diminished  so  as  to  render
impracticable or unreasonable the use of such asset or property for the purposes
to  which  such  asset  or  property  were  used   immediately   prior  to  such
condemnation,  confiscation or taking, by exercise of the powers of condemnation
or eminent  domain or  otherwise,  and in either  case the amount of the damage,
destruction,  loss or diminution  in value is in excess of One Hundred  Thousand
Dollars ($100,000).

      "CHANGE  OF  CONTROL"  means the  occurrence  of any one of the  following
events:  (i) any Person or group  entitled to file on Schedule  13G  pursuant to
Rule 13d-1 under the Exchange  Act (other than the Control  Group)  becomes,  or
files a Schedule 13-D or 14D-1 (or any successor schedule,  form or report under
the  Exchange  Act)  disclosing  that  such  Person  or group  has  become,  the
beneficial  owner  (as  defined  under  Rule  13d-3  or any  successor  rule  or
regulation  promulgated under the Exchange Act) of a percentage (based on voting
power,  in the event  different  classes of stock  shall have  different  voting
powers) of the voting  stock of Holdings  equal to at least the lesser of twenty
percent  (20%),  or such lesser  amount if such Person or group has the power to
control the Board of Directors or management of Holdings; or (ii) there shall be
consummated any  consolidation or merger of any Borrower or Holdings pursuant to
which any  Borrower's or Holdings'  capital stock (or other capital stock) would
be converted  into cash,  securities or other  property,  other than a merger or
consolidation  of such Borrower or Holdings in which the holders of such capital
stock (or such other  capital  stock)  immediately  prior to the merger have the
same proportionate  ownership,  directly or indirectly,  of capital stock of the
surviving  corporation  immediately  after  the  merger  as  they  had  of  such
Borrower's or Holdings'  capital stock immediately prior to such merger or other
than a merger of any Borrower,  other than Holdings, into Holdings, or (iii) all
or substantially all 

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of Holdings' or a Borrower's assets shall be sold, leased, conveyed or otherwise
disposed  of as an  entirety  or  substantially  as an  entirety  to any  Person
(including  an Affiliate or associate of such  Borrower or Holdings) in one or a
series of  transactions,  or (iv) A. Dale Mayo shall cease to perform his duties
as a senior  executive  manager of  Holdings  other than as a result of death or
disability.

      "CHATTEL  PAPER"  means any  "chattel  paper" as such term is  defined  in
Section 9-105(1)(b) of the UCC, now owned or hereafter acquired.

      "CHESTER   LEASE"  means  Lease  dated  May  12,  1997,   by  and  between
Ramco-Gershenson  Properties, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership, as landlord,
and CCC Chester Twin Cinema Corporation, a New Jersey corporation, as tenant.

      "CLOSING  DATE" means the date the loans are made  pursuant to the Amended
and Restated Credit Agreement.

      "CMNY" means any or all of CMNY Capital II, L.P.,  CMCO,  Inc. or Robert
G. Davidoff.

      "CODE" means the United States  Internal  Revenue Code of 1986, as amended
from time to time, or any successor  federal tax code,  and any reference to any
statutory provision shall be deemed to be a reference to any successor provision
or provisions.

      "COLLATERAL"   means   all   Accounts,   Inventory,   Equipment,   General
Intangibles, fixtures, goods, motor vehicles, leasehold improvements, Documents,
Instruments,  Chattel Paper, Intellectual Property,  inventory subject to leases
and rights under lease agreements for the leasing of inventory,  money,  deposit
accounts, rights to draw on letters of credit, permits, licenses and the cash or
noncash  Proceeds  (including  insurance or other rights to receive payment with
respect thereto) of any of the foregoing and all accessions and additions to and
replacements  of the foregoing,  and all books and records  (including,  without
limitation, customer lists, credit files, computer programs, printouts and other
computer  materials and records of Borrower)  pertaining to any of the foregoing
or any of the Premises (herein,  together with the real property,  buildings and
fixtures described in the Mortgages,  and all other property and rights assigned
by a  Borrower  to  Agent,  on  behalf  of the  Lenders,  to  secure  Borrowers'
obligations under the Loan Documents).

      "COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE" means a certificate, substantially in the form of
Exhibit E hereto,  pursuant to which  Borrowers  shall certify their  compliance
with the covenants of this Agreement.

      "COMPUTATION  DATE"  means the last day of each March,  June,  September
and December.

      "CONSOLIDATED"  means,  with respect to any  accounting  matter or amount,
such matter or amount  computed on a  consolidated  basis for  Holdings and each
Borrower, as the case may be, and any Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP.

      "CONTINGENT OBLIGATION" means any direct or indirect liability, contingent
or  otherwise,  with respect to any  Indebtedness,  lease,  dividend,  letter of
credit, banker's acceptance or other obligation 

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of another  Person if the primary  purpose or intent  thereof in  incurring  the
Contingent  Obligation is to provide assurance to the obligee of such obligation
of  another  Person  that such  obligation  of  another  Person  will be paid or
discharged,  or that any agreements  relating  thereto will be complied with, or
that the  holders of such  obligation  will be  protected  (in whole or in part)
against loss in respect thereof.  Contingent Obligations shall include,  without
limitation, (i) the direct or indirect guaranty, endorsement (otherwise than for
collection  or  deposit  in  the  ordinary   course  of  business),   co-making,
discounting with recourse or sale with recourse by such Person of the obligation
of another  Person;  (ii) any liability for the  obligations  of another  Person
through any agreement  (contingent or otherwise) (A) to purchase,  repurchase or
otherwise acquire such obligation or any security therefor,  or to provide funds
for the payment or discharge of such  obligation  (whether in the form of loans,
advances, stock purchases,  capital contributions or otherwise), (B) to maintain
the solvency of any balance sheet item,  level of income or financial  condition
of  another,  or (C) to make  take-or-pay,  pay-or-play  or similar  payments if
required  regardless  of  nonperformance  by any other  party or  parties  to an
agreement,  if in the case of any agreement  described under subclauses (A), (B)
or (C) of this sentence the primary purpose or intent thereof is as described in
the preceding sentence.  The dollar amount of any Contingent Obligation shall be
equal to the lesser of the  dollar  amount of the  obligation  or portion of the
obligation so guaranteed or otherwise supported.

      "CONTROL  GROUP"  means  CMNY,  MidMark,  A. Dale Mayo and  members of his
family,  and Management  Shareholders  and Affiliates (or a group  controlled by
such group).

      "CREDIT  COMMITMENT"  means, in relation to any particular Lender, the sum
of (i) the maximum amount with respect to the Revolving Credit Loan to be loaned
by such  Lender to  Borrowers  as set forth on  Schedule  1 hereto  and (ii) the
amount with  respect to the Term Loans to be loaned by such Lender to  Borrowers
as set forth on Schedule 1 hereto.

      "CURRENT ASSETS" and "CURRENT LIABILITIES" mean at any time, all assets or
liabilities, respectively, that, in accordance with GAAP should be classified as
current assets or current  liabilities,  respectively,  on a Borrower's  balance
sheet.

      "DEFAULT" means any event or occurrence  which,  with the giving of notice
or the passage of time, or both, would constitute an Event of Default.

      "DEFAULT  INTEREST  RATE" means an annual rate of interest which shall (to
the extent  permitted  by  applicable  law) at all times be equal to two percent
(2%) above the applicable Interest Rate for a Loan.

      "DOCUMENTS"  mean any  "documents,"  as such term is  defined  in  Section
9-105(1)(f) of the UCC, now owned or existing or hereafter arising or acquired.

      "DRAW DATE" means in relation to any  Revolving  Credit  Loan,  the day on
which such Loan is made or to be made to Borrowers pursuant to this Agreement.

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      "EBITDA" for any period shall mean, without  duplication,  (i) Net Income;
PLUS (ii) for such period any Interest Expense deducted in the  determination of
Net Income;  PLUS (iii) any income and franchise taxes paid in cash and included
in the determination of Net Income;  PLUS (iv) amortization and depreciation and
other non-cash charges deducted in determining Net Income for such period;  PLUS
(v)  extraordinary  losses,  losses  on sales of  assets  (other  than  sales of
inventory in the ordinary course of business) and unrealized  gains from changes
in  currency;   MINUS  (vi)  the  sum  for  such  period  of  interest   income,
extraordinary  gains,  gains from sales of assets (other than sales of inventory
in the  ordinary  course of  business)  and  unrealized  losses from  changes in
currency;  PLUS (vii) premiums on life insurance  purchased  pursuant to Section
6.3 of this Agreement;  PLUS (viii) options payments approved by Agent made with
respect to  acquisitions of theater  locations;  PLUS (ix) advisory fees paid to
MidMark not in violation of this Agreement; provided, that in calculating EBITDA
with  respect  to  newly-acquired  or  developed  theaters,   actual  historical
financial data of newly-acquired theaters prior to their acquisition by Holdings
shall be  included  in the  determination  of  EBITDA  and pro  forma  financial
projections  for developed  theaters,  determined in a manner approved by Agent,
shall  be  included  in  the  determination  of  EBITDA  for  periods  in  which
calculations of actual financial data are not available.

      "EMPLOYEE  BENEFIT  PLAN" means an "employee  benefit  plan" as defined in
Section 3(3) of ERISA.

      "ENVIRONMENTAL  INDEMNITY  AGREEMENT"  means the  Environmental  Indemnity
Agreement among Agent and Borrowers  relating to the Premises,  substantially in
the form of Exhibit F hereto, and any amendments, modifications,  supplements or
restatements thereto.

      "ENVIRONMENTAL  LAWS" means  individually or collectively any local, state
or federal law, statute, rule, regulation,  order, ordinance, common law, permit
or license term or condition,  or state superlien or  environmental  clean-up or
disclosure   statutes   pertaining  to  the  environment  or  to   environmental
contamination,  regulation,  management,  control, treatment, storage, disposal,
containment,  removal,  clean-up,  reporting, or disclosure,  including, but not
limited to, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability
Act of 1980 ("CERCLA"), as now or hereafter amended (including,  but not limited
to, the Superfund  Amendments and  Reauthorization  Act ("SARA"));  the Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act ("RCRA"),  as now or hereafter amended (including,
but not limited to, the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984); the Toxic
Substances Control Act ("TSCA"),  as now or hereafter  amended;  the Clean Water
Act,  as now or  hereafter  amended;  the Safe  Drinking  Water  Act,  as now or
hereafter amended; or the Clean Air Act, as now or hereafter amended.

      "EQUIPMENT"  means any  "equipment,"  as such term is  defined  in Section
9-109(2) of the UCC, now owned or hereafter acquired and shall include,  without
limitation, any and all additions, substitutions, and replacements of any of the
foregoing,  wherever located, together with all attachments,  components,  parts
and accessories installed thereon or affixed thereto.

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      "EQUITY INTERESTS" means Capital Stock and all warrants,  options or other
rights to acquire  Capital  Stock or that are  measured  by the value of Capital
Stock (but excluding any debt security that is convertible into, or exchangeable
for Capital Stock).

      "ERISA"  means the  Employee  Retirement  Income  Security Act of 1974 and
regulations  issued  thereunder,  as amended from time to time and any successor
statute.

      "ERISA AFFILIATE" means, in relation to any Person,  any trade or business
(whether or not incorporated)  which is a member of a group of which that Person
is a member and which is considered  under common  control within the meaning of
the regulations promulgated under Section 414 of the Code.

      "ERISA  LIABILITIES"  means the aggregate of all unfunded  vested benefits
under any employee  pension benefit plan,  within the meaning of Section 3(2) of
ERISA, of a Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate of a Borrower under any Plan covered
by  ERISA  that  is  not a  Multiemployer  Plan  and  all  potential  withdrawal
liabilities of any thereof under all Multiemployer Plans.

      "EVENT OF DEFAULT"  means any event or condition  described in Section 9.1
of this Agreement.

      "EXCESS CASH FLOW" shall mean for any fiscal year of Holdings,  the excess
of (a) EBITDA over (b) the sum, without duplication,  of (i) Fixed Charges, (ii)
the aggregate  amount actually paid by Holdings on a Consolidated  basis in cash
during  such fiscal year on account of Capital  Expenditures,  (iii)  changes in
working  capital  (calculated as Current Assets minus Current  Liabilities as at
the end of such fiscal year),  (iv) the amount of taxes actually paid in cash by
Holdings on a Consolidated basis for such fiscal year during such fiscal year or
within a normal payment period thereof.

      "EXTRAORDINARY  DISPOSITION" means, with respect to a Borrower,  the sale,
lease, transfer or other disposition of assets, other than assets transferred or
disposed  in the  ordinary  course of  business,  whether  by way of the sale of
assets  or the  sale of  stock  or other  rights  in  which a  Borrower  has any
ownership  interest,  and whether in one  transaction  or a series of related or
unrelated transactions.

      "FIXED CHARGES" means, for any period, the following,  each calculated for
such period,  without duplication:  (i) Interest Expense paid or accrued,  MINUS
(ii) interest income earned or accrued by a Borrower as determined in accordance
with GAAP,  PLUS (iii)  scheduled  payments  of  principal  with  respect to all
Indebtedness for Borrowed Money of a Borrower including the principal  component
of any cash payments made with respect to any Capital Lease Obligation.

      "GENERAL  INTANGIBLES"  means any  "general  intangibles"  as such term is
defined in Section 9-106 of the UCC, now owned or hereafter acquired and, in any
event, shall include,  without limitation,  all right, title and interest now in
existence or hereafter arising in or to all customer lists, trademarks, patents,
rights  in  intellectual  property,  trade  names,  copyrights,  trade  secrets,
proprietary or confidential  information,  inventions and technical information,
procedures, designs, knowledge, 

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know-how,  software, data bases, data, processes,  models, drawings,  materials,
and records now owned or hereafter acquired, and any and all goodwill and rights
of indemnification.

      "GENERALLY  ACCEPTED  ACCOUNTING  PRINCIPLES"  or "GAAP"  means  generally
accepted  accounting  principles  in the United States of America in effect from
time to time, consistently applied.

      "GUARANTEED  LEASE" shall initially mean the Chester Lease and the Marboro
Lease and  thereafter  any lease where Holdings is the guarantor of a Borrower's
lease  obligations and such lease has been  designated as a Guaranteed  Lease by
Agent in its sole discretion.

      "GUARANTEED  PENSION PLAN" means any pension plan maintained by a Borrower
or an  ERISA  Affiliate  of a  Borrower,  or to  which a  Borrower  or an  ERISA
Affiliate  contributes,  some or all of the benefits,  under which  benefits are
guaranteed by the United States Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation ("PBGC").

      "HAZARDOUS  SUBSTANCES"  means any and all hazardous and toxic substances,
wastes or  materials,  any  pollutants,  contaminants,  or  dangerous  materials
(including,  but not limited to,  polychlorinated  biphenyls,  friable asbestos,
volatile and  semi-volatile  organic  compounds,  oils,  petroleum  products and
fractions,  and any materials  which include  hazardous  constituents  or become
hazardous,  toxic, or dangerous when their composition or state is changed),  or
any other similar  substances or materials which are included under or regulated
by any Environmental Law.

      "HEAD  OFFICE"  means,  in relation  to the Agent,  the head office of The
Provident Bank located at One East Fourth Street, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 or such
office  designated in writing to Borrowers and Lenders by The Provident  Bank or
any successor Agent.

      "INDEBTEDNESS"  means,  subject to the provisions stated  hereinafter,  in
relation to any Person,  at any particular  time, all of the obligations of such
Person which, in accordance with GAAP, would be classified as indebtedness  upon
a balance sheet  including any footnote  thereto of such Person prepared at such
time,  and  in  any  event  shall  include,  without  limitation,   and  without
duplication:

                  (i) all  indebtedness of such Person arising or incurred under
      or in respect of (A) any guaranties  (whether  direct or indirect) by such
      Person  of the  indebtedness,  obligations  or  liabilities  of any  other
      Person,  or (B) any endorsement by such Person of any of the indebtedness,
      obligations  or  liabilities  of any other  Person  (otherwise  than as an
      endorser of  negotiable  instruments  received in the  ordinary  course of
      business and presented to commercial banks for collection of deposit),  or
      (C) the discount by such Person,  with recourse to such Person,  of any of
      the indebtedness, obligations or liabilities of any other Person;

                  (ii) all indebtedness of such Person arising or incurred under
      or in respect  of any  agreement,  contingent  or  otherwise  made by such
      Person (A) to purchase any  indebtedness of any other Person or to advance
      or supply  funds to the  payment or purchase  

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      of any indebtedness of any other Person, or (B) to purchase, sell or lease
      (as lessee or lessor)  Property,  products,  materials  or  supplies or to
      purchase or sell transportation or services,  primarily for the purpose of
      enabling  any other  Person to make  payment of any  indebtedness  of such
      other  Person or to assure the owner of such other  Person's  indebtedness
      against loss,  regardless of the delivery or non-delivery of the Property,
      products, materials or supplies or the furnishing or non-furnishing of the
      transportation  or  services,  or (C) to make any loan,  advance,  capital
      contribution  or other  investment  in any other Person for the purpose of
      assuring a minimum  equity,  asset base,  working capital or other balance
      sheet condition for or as at any date, or to provide funds for the payment
      of any liability,  dividend or stock liquidation  payment, or otherwise to
      supply funds to or in any manner invest in any other Person;

                  (iii) all indebtedness, obligations and liabilities secured by
      or arising under or in respect of any Lien,  upon or in Property  owned by
      such Person,  even though such Person has not assumed or become liable for
      the payment of such indebtedness, obligations and liabilities;

                  (iv) all indebtedness created or arising under any conditional
      sale or other title retention  agreement with respect to Property acquired
      by such  Person,  even  though the rights  and  remedies  of the seller or
      lender (or  lessor)  under  such  agreement  in the event of  default  are
      limited to repossession or sale of such Property; and

                  (v) all  indebtedness  arising or incurred under or in respect
      of any Contingent Obligation.

                  PROVIDED,   HOWEVER,   that  the   foregoing   definition   of
      Indebtedness  shall not include any guaranties by holdings with respect to
      a Guaranteed Lease.

      "INDEBTEDNESS  FOR  BORROWED  MONEY"  means at any  particular  time,  all
Indebtedness  (i) in respect of any money borrowed;  (ii) under or in respect of
any Contingent  Obligation  (whether  direct or indirect) of any money borrowed;
(iii) evidenced by any loan or credit  agreement,  promissory  note,  debenture,
bond, guaranty or other similar written obligation to pay money; or (iv) Capital
Lease Obligations.

      "INSTRUMENTS"  mean any  "instrument,"  as such term is defined in Section
9-105(1)(i) of the UCC, now owned or hereafter acquired.

      "INTELLECTUAL  PROPERTY"  shall  mean  all  Patents  and  all  Trademarks,
together with (a) all inventions,  processes,  production  methods,  proprietary
information,  know-how  and trade  secrets;  (b) all  licenses  or user or other
agreements granted to any obligor with respect to any of the foregoing,  in each
case whether now or thereafter owned or used including,  without limitation, the
licenses  or other  agreements  with  respect  to the  Trademarks,  set forth on
Schedule 5.8 hereto;  (c) all  information,  customer lists,  identification  of
suppliers, data, plans, blueprints, specifications,  designs, drawings, recorded
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materials standards,  processing  standards,  performance  standards,  catalogs,
computer and automatic  machinery  software and  programs;  (d) all field repair
data, sales data and other information  relating to sales or service of products
now or hereafter  manufactured;  (e) all accounting information and all media on
which or in  which  any  information  or  knowledge  or data or  records  may be
recorded  or  stored  and all  computer  programs  used for the  compilation  or
printout of such  information,  knowledge,  records or data;  (f) all  licenses,
consents,  permits,  variances,  certifications  and  approvals of  governmental
agencies  now or  hereafter  held by a  Borrower;  and (g) all causes of action,
claims and  warranties  now or  hereafter  owned or  acquired  by a Borrower  in
respect of any of the items listed above.

      "INTEREST  ADJUSTMENT  DATE"  means the first day of the first month after
the date on which each of the quarterly Compliance  Certificates  (together with
monthly  unaudited  financial  statements  for each  fiscal  month  during  such
quarter) are required to be delivered  under Section  6.1(b) with respect to the
most recent fiscal month.

      "INTEREST  EXPENSE" means, for any period, the total amount of all charges
for the use of funds (whether  characterized  as interest or otherwise)  payable
during such period with  respect to all  Indebtedness  for  Borrowed  Money of a
Borrower for such period,  including the  amortization of debt discounts and the
amortization  of all fees  payable in  connection  with the  incurrence  of such
Indebtedness.

      "INTEREST  RATE" means the rate of interest  per annum equal to the sum of
the Prime Rate plus the Applicable Margin.

      "INVENTORY"  means, with respect to any Person,  such Person's  inventory,
including without  limitation:  (i) all raw materials,  work in process,  parts,
components, assemblies, supplies and materials used or consumed in such Person's
business,  wherever  located and whether in the possession of such Person or any
other Person;  (ii) all goods,  wares and  merchandise,  finished or unfinished,
held for sale or lease or leased or furnished or to be furnished under contracts
of service, wherever located and whether in the possession of such Person or any
other Person; and (iii) all goods returned to or repossessed by such Person.

      "INVESTMENT"  means all investments in any other Person by stock purchase,
capital contribution, loan, advance, guaranty of any Indebtedness or creation or
assumption of any other  liability in respect of any  Indebtedness of such other
Person (including,  without  limitation,  any liability of any kind described in
clause (i) or (ii) of the  definition  of the term  "Indebtedness"  set forth in
this  Section),  or the  transfer  or sale of  Property  (otherwise  than in the
ordinary  course of the  business)  to any other Person for less than payment in
full in cash of the transfer or sale price or the fair value thereof  (whichever
of such price or value is higher).

      "ISSUING  BANK" means  Provident  or such other  Lender as shall issue any
Letter of Credit hereunder.


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      "JOINDER AGREEMENTS" mean collectively, any agreement executed by a Person
whereby such Person is joined as a Borrower  under the Credit  Agreement and all
Loan Documents which is substantially in the form of Exhibit G hereto.

      "LEASEHOLD MORTGAGES" the Leasehold Mortgages granted from time to time by
a  Borrower  to Agent to secure the Loans in the form of Exhibit H hereto and as
they may be amended or supplemented from time to time.

      "LEGAL  REQUIREMENTS"  means  all  applicable  laws,  rules,  regulations,
ordinances,  judgments, orders, decrees, injunctions,  arbitral awards, permits,
licenses,  authorizations,  directions  and  requirements  of  all  governments,
departments,  commissions, boards, courts, authorities,  agencies, and officials
and officers thereof, that are now or at any time in the future in effect.

      "LENDERS" mean collectively each of the banks or lending  institutions set
forth on Schedule 1 hereto and their  respective  successors  and  assigns;  and
"Lender" means any one of the Lenders.

      "LIABILITIES" means all indebtedness, obligations and other liabilities of
a Borrower whether matured or unmatured,  liquidated or unliquidated,  direct or
indirect, absolute or contingent, joint or several, secured or unsecured arising
by  contract,  operation  of law or  otherwise,  classified  as  liabilities  in
accordance with GAAP on a balance sheet of a Borrower.

      "LICENSES AND PERMITS"  means all  licenses,  permits,  registrations  and
recordings  thereof and all  applications  incorporated  into for such licenses,
permits and  registrations  now owned or  hereafter  acquired by a Borrower  and
required from time to time for the business operations of a Borrower.

      "LIEN" means any lien,  mortgage,  pledge,  security  interest,  charge or
other  encumbrance  of any kind  including any  conditional  sale or other title
retention agreement,  any lease in the nature thereof, and any agreement to give
any security interest.

      "LITIGATION" has the meaning set forth in Section 5.10 hereof.

      "LETTER  OF  CREDIT  FEE"  means the fee  charged  by the  Lender  for the
issuance of a Letter of Credit pursuant to Section 2.12(g) hereof.

      "LETTERS OF CREDIT"  means the  letters of credit  issued by Lender at any
time pursuant to Section 2.4 hereof.

      "LOAN  DOCUMENTS" mean this Agreement,  the Notes,  the Letters of Credit,
the Security Documents, the Subordination Agreements, the Joinder Agreements and
any other agreement, instrument,  certificate or document executed in connection
with or pursuant  to this  Credit  Agreement,  as amended  whether  concurrently
herewith or subsequent  hereto,  and as they may hereafter  from time to time be
amended,  modified,  supplemented,   restated,  and/or  renewed,  including  any
Security  Document,  Joinder  Agreements  and  other  agreements,   instruments,
certificates or documents executed in connection with a Permitted Acquisition.

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      "LOANS" mean, collectively, the Revolving Credit Loan and each of the Term
Loans,  each  singly a "Loan"  made or to be made to  Borrowers  by the  Lenders
pursuant to this Agreement.




      "LOAN  YEAR"  means  each  period  of  twelve  (12)  consecutive   months,
commencing on the Closing Date and on each anniversary thereof.

      "LONG-TERM  LEASE" means any lease of real or personal  property having an
original term,  including any period which the lease may be renewed or extended,
at the option of the lessee, of more than three (3) years.

      "MANAGEMENT  SHAREHOLDERS"  means those  shareholders  of Holdings who are
management employees of Holdings or any other Borrower on the Closing Date.

      "MARBORO  LEASE"  means  lease  dated  February  14,  1997 by and  between
Bradenton  Realty Corp, as landlord,  and CCC Marboro  Cinema Corp.,  a Delaware
corporation, as tenant.

      "MARGIN  RATIO" means,  as of any date, the ratio of (a) the Average Daily
Loan Balance,  PLUS the outstanding  balance under the Term Loans as of the date
of  determination,  PLUS Capital  Leases to (b) EBITDA for the twelve (12) month
period prior to the date for which such calculation is made,  calculated for the
four (4)  fiscal  quarters  ending  on the  Computation  Date on or  immediately
preceding the date for which such ratio is calculated.

      "MATERIAL  ADVERSE  EFFECT"  means any event which will,  or is reasonably
likely to,  have a  material  adverse  effect  upon the  Collateral  or upon the
financial  condition,  operations,  assets or prospects in the  aggregate of the
Borrowers.

      "MATERIAL  LEASE"  means any lease under which a Borrower  shall lease (as
lessee) or  acquire  the right to  possess  and/or use any Real  Estate or other
Property or any other similar  agreement  (whether  written or oral) pursuant to
which a Borrower  pays an annual  lease  payment or rental  payment  equal to or
greater than Twenty Thousand Dollars ($20,000) or which otherwise is material to
the operation of the business of Borrower.

      "MAXIMUM CREDIT  LIABILITY" for any Borrower,  other than Holdings,  shall
mean, as of any date of  determination  thereof,  the sum of (i) with respect to
each  Loan the  proceeds  of which  are  used to make or the  issuance  of which
constitutes a Valuable  Transfer to such Borrower,  the amount of such Loan PLUS
(ii) with respect to each Loan the proceeds of which are not used to make or the
issuance of which does not constitute a Valuable Transfer to such Borrower,  the
lesser  of (A) the  outstanding  amount  of such Loan as of such date or (B) the
greater of (I) ninety-five percent (95%) of the Subsidiary Net Worth at the time
of such Loan or (II)  ninety-five  percent (95%) of the  Subsidiary Net Worth of
such Borrower at the earliest of (x) such date, (y) the date of the commencement
of a case under Title 11 of the United States Code (or any successor  provision)
in which such  Borrower  is a debtor or (z) the date  enforcement  hereunder  is
sought.


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      "MAXIMUM  REVOLVING  COMMITMENT"  means One Million  and 00/100  Dollars
($1,000,000.00).

      "MIDMARK" means MidMark Capital,  L.P. a Delaware  limited  partnership,
whose general partner is MidMark Associates, Inc., a New Jersey corporation.

      "MORTGAGES" means the real estate mortgages or deeds of trust granted from
time to time by a Borrower  to Agent to secure the Loans,  substantially  in the
form of Exhibit I hereto,  and as they may be amended or supplemented  from time
to time.

      "MULTIEMPLOYER  PLAN" means a  "multiemployer  plan" as defined in Section
4001(a)(3)  of ERISA which is  maintained  for  employees of a Borrower,  or any
ERISA Affiliate of a Borrower.

      "NET INCOME"  means,  for any period,  the aggregate of the net income (or
net loss) of a Borrower for such period, determined in accordance with GAAP, but
excluding, without duplication: (i) the income of any Person in which a Borrower
has an ownership interest (other than in another  Borrower),  unless received by
such Borrower in a cash  distribution;  (ii) any net  after-tax  gains or losses
attributable to dispositions of assets;  (iii) the income of any Subsidiary of a
Borrower to the extent that the  declaration  or payment of dividends or similar
distributions by that Subsidiary of that income is not at that time permitted by
operation of the terms of its charter or any  agreement,  instrument,  judgment,
decree,  order,  statute,  rule or  governmental  regulation  applicable to that
Subsidiary; and (iv) any after-tax extraordinary non-cash gains or extraordinary
non-cash losses.

      "NET  PROCEEDS"  means  the  aggregate  proceeds  paid  in  cash  or  Cash
Equivalents  received by a Borrower in excess of One  Hundred  Thousand  Dollars
($100,000)  in respect of any  Extraordinary  Disposition,  net of direct  costs
relating to such Extraordinary Disposition (including without limitation, legal,
accounting  and  investment   banking  fees,  and  sales  commissions)  and  any
relocation  expenses  incurred or existing  as a result  thereof,  taxes paid or
payable as a result thereof (after taking into account any available tax credits
or deductions in any tax sharing  arrangements),  amounts required to be applied
in payment of  Indebtedness  secured by a Lien incurred in accordance  with this
Agreement  on the  assets  or  assets  that are  subject  of such  Extraordinary
Disposition  and which  Indebtedness  is  required  pursuant to the terms of the
instrument  governing  such  Indebtedness  or Lien or in  order  to  obtain  the
necessary   consent  to  such  sale  to  be  repaid  in  connection   with  such
Extraordinary  Disposition and any reserve for adjustment in respect of the sale
price of or other liability in respect of such asset or assets.

      "NET  WORTH"  means,  at  any  date,  Consolidated   stockholders'  equity
(including  the par  value or stated  value of all  outstanding  capital  stock,
additional  paid-in  capital and retained  earnings) of Holdings  determined  in
accordance with GAAP,  except that there shall be deducted  therefrom any amount
of treasury stock reflected as an asset of Holdings or any Subsidiary and except
that any write down in the assets or equity occurring at year-end 1996 shall not
be taken into account.

      "NOTES" mean,  collectively,  the Revolving  Credit Notes, the Term Loan
A Notes and the Term Loan B Notes.  "Note"  shall  mean any one of the  Notes,
unless specifically identified.


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      "OBLIGATIONS" means, collectively,  all of the indebtedness,  obligations,
covenants,  promises, agreements, and liabilities existing on the date hereof or
arising  from  time to  time  hereafter,  whether  direct,  indirect,  absolute,
contingent, joint or several, matured or unmatured,  liquidated or unliquidated,
secured or unsecured,  arising by contract,  operation of law or  otherwise,  of
Borrowers to the Agent or any Lenders (i) in respect of the Loans made  pursuant
to this  Agreement;  or (ii)  under or in respect of any one or more of the Loan
Documents.  Obligations shall also include all interest,  charges and other fees
chargeable  hereunder to Borrowers or due  hereunder  from  Borrowers to Lenders
from time to time and all costs and expenses referred to in Section 11.5 hereof.

      "ORIGINAL  BORROWERS"  mean  Clearview  Cinema  Group,  Inc.,  a  Delaware
corporation,  CCC Madison  Triple Cinema Corp.,  a New Jersey  corporation,  CCC
Chester Twin Cinema Corporation, a New Jersey corporation,  CCC Manasquan Cinema
Corporation,  a New Jersey  corporation,  Clearview  Theatre Group,  Inc., a New
Jersey corporation,  CCC Herricks Cinema Corp., a Delaware corporation, CCC Port
Washington Cinema Corp., a Delaware corporation,  CCC Grand Avenue Cinema Corp.,
a Delaware corporation, CCC Washington Cinema Corp., a Delaware corporation, CCC
Allwood  Cinema Corp.,  a Delaware  corporation,  CCC Emerson  Cinema  Corp.,  a
Delaware corporation, CCC New City Cinema Corp., a Delaware corporation, and CCC
Summit Cinema Corp.  (formerly known as 343-349 Springfield Avenue Corp.), a New
Jersey corporation.

      "ORIGINAL CLOSING DATE" means the day on which the original Loans are made
pursuant to this Agreement.

      "ORIGINAL SELLER GROUP" means the Township of Washington Theater,  Inc.,
Allwood Clifton Cinema,  Inc., New City Cinema,  Inc. and Emerson Cinema, Inc.
and all of the shareholders of the foregoing.

      "PARTICIPATION   PERCENTAGE"  means,  in  relation  to  each  Lender,  the
percentage  set forth with respect to such Lender set forth on Schedule 1 hereto
with respect to each Loan.

      "PATENTS" shall mean all of the following in which a Borrower now holds or
hereafter acquires any interest:  (i) all letters patent of the United States or
any country,  all registrations and recordings thereof, and all applications for
letters   patent  of  the  United  States  or  any  other   country,   including
registrations,  recordings  and  applications  in the United  States  Patent and
Trademark  Office or in any similar office or agency of the United  States,  any
state or  territory  thereof  or any  other  country,  and  (ii)  all  reissues,
continuations, continuations-in-part or extensions thereof.

      "PERMITTED  ACQUISITION"  means an  acquisition  by  Holdings or any other
Borrower of the stock or all or a portion of the assets of a company which meets
the following minimum criteria: (i) such company is engaged in the same business
as Borrowers;  and (ii) Agent and the Lenders shall received and approved of the
purchase  agreement,  all underlying and related  documents with respect to such
acquisition, and the any financial statements of such company as Agent requests;
and (iii)  immediately prior to, and after giving effect to the pro forma effect
of such  acquisition,  no Default or an Event of Default  has  occurred  or will
occur;  and (iv) Agent has  reviewed  the  


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documents  referenced  in  Section  4.3 hereof  and in its sole  discretion  has
approved of such acquisition.

      "PERMITTED  FIRST LIENS" means those Liens  identified in Sections 8.9(a),
8.9(d), and those Liens set forth on Schedule 8.9(g).

      "PERMITTED LIENS" means those Liens and encumbrances  permitted  hereunder
pursuant to Section 8.9.

      "PERSON"  shall  include an  individual,  a  company,  a  corporation,  an
association, a partnership, a joint venture, an unincorporated trade or business
enterprise, a trust, an estate, or other legal entity or a government (national,
regional or local), court, arbitrator or any agency, instrumentality or official
of the foregoing.

      "PLEDGE   AGREEMENT"   means  a  stock  pledge   agreement  or  agreements
substantially in the form of Exhibit J hereto.

      "PLEDGED  STOCK"  means all of the  Capital  Stock of each  Subsidiary  of
Holdings whether now existing or hereafter formed or acquired.

      "PREMISES" means  collectively,  all real property and leasehold interests
now or hereafter acquired by a Borrower,  including, without limitation, all the
Premises as defined in the Mortgages and the Leasehold Mortgages.

      "PRIME  RATE"  means the rate of interest  announced  from time to time by
Agent as its prime rate at its Head Office,  whether or not Agent shall at times
lend to other  borrowers  at lower  rates of  interest,  or, if there is no such
prime rate,  then such other rate as may be  substituted  by Agent for its Prime
Rate.

      "PRINCIPAL PAYMENT DATE" means each January 1, April 1, July 1 and October
1 of each Loan Year until the Termination Date.

      "PROCEEDS"  means  "proceeds," as such term is defined in Section 9-306(1)
of the UCC and, in any event, shall include, without limitation, (i) any and all
proceeds of any insurance, indemnity, warranty, or guaranty payable from time to
time with  respect to any of the  Collateral,  and (ii) any and all payments (in
any form  whatsoever)  made or due and payable  from time to time in  connection
with any requisition, confiscation,  condemnation, seizure, or forfeiture of all
or any part of the Collateral by any governmental  body,  authority,  bureau, or
agency (or any Person acting under color of governmental authority).

      "PROJECTIONS" means Holdings'  forecasted  Consolidated and consolidating:
(a)  balance  sheets,  (b)  profit  and  loss  statements,  and  (c)  cash  flow
statements,  all prepared on a division by division and Subsidiary by Subsidiary
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statements, together with, if requested by Agent, appropriate supporting details
and statements of underlying assumptions.

      "PROPERTY"  means all types of real,  personal,  tangible,  intangible  or
mixed property whether owned or leased by Borrower.

      "PRO RATA SHARE" means,  in relation to any particular  item, the share of
any  Lender  in such  item,  which  shall be in the same  proportion  which  the
aggregate amount of all of the obligations  owing to such Lender with respect to
such  item  at  such  time  shall  bear to the  aggregate  amount  of all of the
obligations  owing to all of the Lenders  with respect to such item at such time
net of any and all  charges  or fees due and  payable  to Agent  under  the Loan
Documents.

      "PROSPECTUS"  means the  Prospectus  dated August 18, 1997 relating to the
offering of One Million  (1,000,000) shares of common stock, $0.01 par value per
share, of Holdings.

      "REAL ESTATE"  means all real  property  owned or leased by a Borrower and
all real property hereafter acquired or leased by a Borrower,  together with all
fixtures, rights of way, privileges,  liberties, tenements,  hereditaments,  and
appurtenances belonging or in any way appertaining thereto, all easements now or
hereafter   benefiting   such  real   property  and  all  royalties  and  rights
appertaining  to the use and enjoyment of such real property,  together with all
of the buildings, structures, and other improvements thereto.

      "REFERENCE  PERIOD" means, with respect to a particular  Computation Date,
the period of twelve (12) calendar months ending on such Computation Date.

      "REIMBURSEMENT  OBLIGATIONS"  means any  amounts  owing by Borrower to the
Lender on account of draws or disbursements under or with respect to the Letters
of Credit.

      "REQUISITE   LENDERS"   means  at  such  times  as  there  are  any  Loans
outstanding,  the Lenders  whose  aggregate  Pro Rata Shares of the  outstanding
Loans are greater than or equal to sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66 2/3%) of
the  aggregate  amount of the  outstanding  Loans,  and at all other times,  the
Lenders  whose  aggregate  Credit  Commitments  are  greater  than or  equal  to
sixty-six and two-thirds  percent (66 2/3%) of the aggregate Credit  Commitments
of all the Lenders.

      "RESTRICTED PAYMENT" means: (a) any dividend or other distribution, direct
or  indirect,  on account of any shares of any class of stock of Holdings or any
of its  Subsidiaries  now or hereafter  outstanding,  except a dividend  payable
solely in shares of that class of stock to the  holders of that  class;  (b) any
redemption,  conversion,  exchange, retirement, sinking fund or similar payment,
purchase or other  acquisition for value,  direct or indirect,  of any shares of
any  class of stock of  Holdings  or any of its  Subsidiaries  now or  hereafter
outstanding;  (c) any payment or prepayment of principal of, premium, if any, or
interest on, redemption, conversion, exchange, purchase, retirement, defeasance,
sinking fund or similar payment with respect to, any subordinated  indebtedness;
and (d)  any  payment  made to  retire,  or to  obtain  the  surrender  of,  any
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warrants,  options or other  rights to  acquire  shares of any class of stock of
Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries now or hereafter outstanding.

      "REVOLVING CREDIT LOAN" means all Loans outstanding from time to time made
pursuant  to  Sections  2.2(a)  and 2.3  hereof  and any  amounts  added  to the
principal balance of the Revolving Credit Loan pursuant to this Agreement.

      "REVOLVING  CREDIT  NOTES"  means,  collectively,  with  respect  to the
Revolving  Credit Loan the promissory  notes of Borrower,  in the face amounts
of  the  Revolving  Credit   Commitment  of  the  respective   Lenders  in  or
substantially  in the form of Exhibit  K-1  hereto.  "REVOLVING  CREDIT  NOTE"
shall mean any one of the Revolving Credit Notes.

      "SEC" means the  Securities  and Exchange  Commission  or any  successor
agency.

      "SECURITIES" means any stock,  shares,  voting trust certificates,  bonds,
debentures,  notes,  or other evidences of  indebtedness,  secured or unsecured,
convertible,  subordinated or otherwise,  or in general any instruments commonly
known as "securities" or any  certificates of interest,  shares or participation
in temporary or interim  certificates for the purchase or acquisition of, or any
right to subscribe to, purchase or acquire, any of the foregoing.

      "SECURITY  DOCUMENTS"  shall  mean,  collectively,   this  Agreement,  the
Leasehold Mortgages,  the Mortgages,  the Environmental Indemnity Agreement, the
Blocked Account Agreements,  the Assignments of Option and Operating Agreements,
the Pledge Agreements, the Assignments of Trademarks, the Assignments of Patents
and each other  agreement,  assignment or  instrument  creating or purporting to
create a lien in favor of Agent for the ratable benefit of the Lenders, and each
individually a "Security Document."

      "SELLER GROUP" with respect to a Permitted Acquisition, means collectively
and  individually  the  seller  of  assets  being  purchased  by a  Borrower  in
connection with such Permitted Acquisition.

      "SENIOR  INDEBTEDNESS  FOR BORROWED  MONEY" means the aggregate  amount of
Indebtedness  outstanding under the Credit Agreement and any other  indebtedness
the payment of which has not been expressly subordinated to the Loans hereunder.

      "SUBORDINATED  CREDITORS"  means  those  Persons  listed on  Schedule  5.9
hereto, and each such Person is individually a "Subordinated Creditor."

      "SUBORDINATED  DEBT"  means  the  Subordinated   Promissory  Notes  (the
"Subordinated  Promissory  Notes")  executed by a Borrower  to a  Subordinated
Creditor.

      "SUBORDINATION  AGREEMENTS" means the Subordination Agreements executed by
the Subordinated Creditors substantially in the form of Exhibit L hereto.

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      "SUBSIDIARY" means, as to any Person, a corporation,  partnership or other
entity of which shares of stock or other  ownership  interests  having  ordinary
voting power  (other than stock or such other  ownership  interests  having such
power only by reason of the happening of a  contingency)  to elect a majority of
the board of directors or other  managers of such  corporation,  partnership  or
other  entity are at the time owned,  or the  management  of which is  otherwise
controlled, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries,  or both,
by such Person. Unless otherwise qualified,  all references to a "Subsidiary" or
to  "Subsidiaries" in this Agreement shall refer to a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries
of any Borrower (including each Borrower).

      "SUBSIDIARY NET WORTH" of any Borrower,  other than Holdings,  shall mean,
as of any date of  determination  thereof,  the  excess of (i) the amount of the
"present fair  saleable  value" of the assets of such Borrower as of the date of
such  determination,  over (ii) the amount of all "liabilities of such Borrower,
contingent or otherwise," as of the date of such  determination,  as such quoted
terms are  determined  in  accordance  with  applicable  federal  and state laws
governing  determinations  of the  insolvency  of debtors.  In  determining  the
Subsidiary  Net Worth of any Borrower for  purposes of  calculating  the Maximum
Credit  Liability,  the  liabilities  of  such  Borrower  to  be  used  in  such
determination  pursuant to clause (ii) of the  preceding  sentence  shall in any
event include the  liabilities  of such  Borrower  hereunder and under the other
Loan  Documents in respect of all Loans other than the Loans in respect of which
such calculation is being made.

      "TERMINATION  DATE" means the earlier of (i) September 12, 2002;  (ii) the
date upon which the entire  principal of all the Notes shall become due pursuant
to the provisions  hereof  (whether as a result of  acceleration by Agent or the
Requisite  Lenders  or  otherwise);  or (iii)  the date upon  which  the  Credit
Commitments terminate pursuant to Section 9.2 hereof.

      "TERMINATION  EVENT" means (i) a "Reportable  Event"  described in Section
4043 of ERISA and the regulations issued thereunder,  but not including any such
event for which the 30 day notice requirement has been waived by applicable PBGC
regulation;  or (ii) the  withdrawal  of a Borrower or an ERISA  Affiliate  of a
Borrower  from a  Guaranteed  Pension  Plan during a plan year in which it was a
"substantial  employer" as defined in Section  4001(a)(2) of ERISA; or (iii) the
filing of a notice  of intent to  terminate  a  Guaranteed  Pension  Plan or the
treatment of a Guaranteed  Pension Plan amendment as a termination under Section
4041 of ERISA;  or (iv) the institution of proceedings to terminate a Guaranteed
Pension Plan by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation;  or (v) the withdrawal
or partial  withdrawal of a Borrower or an ERISA  Affiliate of a Borrower from a
Multiemployer  Plan; or (vi) any other event or condition which might reasonably
be expected to  constitute  grounds under ERISA for the  termination  of, or the
appointment of a trustee to administer, any Guaranteed Pension Plan.

      "TERM B NOTE SUPPLEMENTS" mean, collectively, supplements to the Term Loan
B Notes, in or  substantially in the form of K-4 hereto . Term B Note Supplement
shall mean any one of the Term B Note Supplements.

      "TERM LOAN A" means the loan made pursuant to Section 2.2(b) hereof.

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      "TERM LOAN A NOTES" means, with respect to the Term Loan A, the promissory
notes of Borrowers, in the face amount of each Lender's Participation Percentage
of the Term Loan A in or  substantially  in the form of Exhibit K-2 hereto,  and
each individually a Term Loan A Note.

      "TERM LOAN B" means the loan made pursuant to Section 2.2(c) hereof.

      "TERM LOAN B COMMITMENT" shall initially mean Seventeen Million and 00/100
Dollars  ($17,000,000.00)  plus any amounts available pursuant to Section 2.2(c)
hereof.

      "TERM LOAN B NOTE" shall mean any one of the Term Loan B Notes.

      "TERM LOAN B NOTES" means, collectively,  with respect to the Term Loan B,
(i) the  promissory  notes of  Borrowers,  in the face amounts of each  Lender's
Participation  Percentage of the Term Loan B in or  substantially in the form of
Exhibit K-3 hereto, and (ii) the Term B Note Supplements.

      "TERM LOANS" means the Term Loan A and the Term Loan B.

      "TRADEMARKS" shall mean all of the following in which a Borrower now holds
or hereafter acquires any interest:  (i) all trademarks,  trade names, corporate
names,  business  names,  trade styles,  service marks,  logos,  other source or
business  identifiers,  prints  and  labels on which any of the  foregoing  have
appeared  or  appear,  designs  and  general  intangibles  of like  nature,  all
registrations  and  recordings  thereof,  and  all  applications  in  connection
therewith,  including  registrations,  recordings and applications in the United
States  Patent and  Trademark  Office or in any similar  office or agency of the
United States, any state or territory thereof or any other country, and (ii) all
reissues, extensions or renewals thereof.

      "UA  ACQUISITION"  means  the  transaction  contemplated  by an  agreement
between Holdings and United Artists Theatre Circuit,  Inc., under which Holdings
has the  right,  but not the  obligation,  to  acquire  three  theaters  and the
underlying  real estate and the leaseholds of two  additional  theaters (the "UA
Agreement").

      "UCC"  means the  Uniform  Commercial  Code as the same may,  from time to
time, be in effect in the State of Ohio;  PROVIDED,  HOWEVER,  that in the event
that, by reason of mandatory  provisions  of law, any or all of the  attachment,
perfection,  or priority of Lender's  security interest in any of the Collateral
is governed by the Uniform  Commercial Code as in effect in a jurisdiction other
than the State of Ohio, the term "UCC" shall mean the Uniform Commercial Code as
in effect in such other  jurisdiction  for  purposes  of the  provisions  hereof
relating  to such  attachment,  perfection,  or  priority  and for  purposes  of
definitions related to such provisions.

      "UCC FINANCING  STATEMENTS" mean the UCC financing  statements  naming the
Borrower, as debtor, and Agent, for the ratable benefit of Lenders, as creditor,
which UCC financing  statements  describe all or some portion of the  Collateral
and which together  perfect Agent's security  interest in the Collateral,  which
security interests can be perfected by the filing of such financing statement.

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      "VALUABLE  TRANSFERS"  shall  mean,  in respect of any  Borrower,  (i) all
loans,  advances  or capital  contributions  made to or for the  benefit of such
Borrower with proceeds of Loans,  (ii) all debt securities or other  obligations
of such  Borrower  acquired by such  Borrower or retired by such  Borrower  with
proceeds of Loans,  (iii) the fair market  value of all property  acquired  with
proceeds of Loans,  and transferred,  absolutely and not as collateral,  to such
Borrower,  and (iv) all equity  securities  of such  Borrower  acquired  by such
Borrower with proceeds of Loans.

      "WORKING  CAPITAL"  means  the  difference  between  (i)  Current  Assets,
excluding  cash,  Cash  Equivalents,  prepaid  taxes  and any  amounts  due from
Affiliates,  except for MidMark,  the Original  Seller Group and CMNY,  and (ii)
Current Liabilities, excluding the current portion of any long term Indebtedness
for Borrowed Money, accrued taxes and any amounts due to Affiliates,  except for
MidMark, the Original Seller Group and CMNY.


                                   ARTICLE 2.

                                    THE LOANS

      Section 2.1   COMMITMENTS. Each Lender, Severally and not jointly, agrees,
upon the terms and subject to the  conditions  contained in this  Agreement,  to
make the  Revolving  Credit  Loans to  Borrowers  from time to time prior to the
Termination  Date, in a principal  amount equal to such  Lender's  Participation
Percentage of the aggregate principal amount of such Loan requested by Borrowers
on each occasion and to make the Term Loan B upon satisfaction of the conditions
contained in Section 4.3 of this Agreement.

      Section 2.2   MAKING THE LOANS.

            (a) REVOLVING  CREDIT LOAN. Each Lender will,  subject to all of the
applicable  terms and conditions of this Agreement,  make an amount equal to its
Participation Percentage in each Revolving Credit Loan available to Borrowers at
such times and in such amount as shall be requested  by Borrowers in  compliance
with Section 2.3, and Borrowers may borrow on a revolving  basis from Lenders on
the  Closing  Date and from  time to time  thereafter,  sums not to  exceed  the
Maximum Revolving Commitment. Borrowers may borrow, repay and reborrow hereunder
on and after the date hereof until the Termination  Date,  subject to the terms,
provisions and limitations set forth herein.  Amounts repaid hereunder after the
Termination  Date may not be reborrowed.  The Revolving Credit Loan shall become
immediately  due and  payable  upon  payment or  prepayment  in full of the Term
Notes,  and in the case where payment is made in connection  with the prepayment
of the Term Loans, a Prepayment Fee (as hereinafter defined) shall be payable in
accordance with the terms of Section 2.6(l) hereof.

            (b)  TERM  LOAN A.  Subject  to the  terms  and  conditions  of this
Agreement and in reliance upon the  representations  and warranties of Borrowers
herein  set  forth,  each  Lender  severally  agrees  to lend to  Borrowers  its
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of the Term Loan A shall be Twelve Million and 00/100 Dollars  ($12,000,000.00).
Amounts  borrowed under this subsection  2.2(b) and repaid or prepaid may not be
reborrowed.

            (c)  TERM  LOAN B.  Subject  to the  terms  and  conditions  of this
Agreement  and in  reliance  upon  the  representation  and  warranties  of each
Borrower herein set forth, each Lender severally agrees to lend to Borrowers its
Participation Percentage of the Term Loan B. The aggregate amount of Term Loan B
shall be Seventeen Million and 00/100 Dollars ($17,000,000.00). During the First
Loan Year,  amounts borrowed under this subsection  2.2(c) and repaid or prepaid
may be reborrowed subject to the conditions  precedent set forth in Sections 4.1
and 4.2 hereof.  During the Second Loan Year and  thereafter,  amounts  borrowed
under  this  subsection  2.2(c) and  repaid or  prepaid  may not be  reborrowed;
provided,  however, that if such borrowing is deemed to be made only as a result
of the  issuances  of a Letter of Credit  and no  Reimbursement  Obligation  has
arisen  with  respect  to such  Letter of Credit,  the amount of such  Letter of
Credit may be borrowed upon cancellation or expiration of the Letter of Credit.

      Section 2.3    DRAWS, ADVANCES AND SETTLEMENT OF PAYMENTS AND ADVANCES.

            (a) On the Closing Date, and upon satisfaction of the conditions set
forth in Section 4.1,  Lenders shall make available to Borrowers the Term Loan A
and shall advance the  aggregate  amount of the Term Loan A to Borrowers on such
date through wire transfer.

            (b) All  advances  or  disbursements  of the  Revolving  Credit Loan
proceeds shall be effectuated at Borrowers' request either through wire transfer
or by receipt by Agent of a check drawn on a central  disbursement  account (the
"Agent  Disbursement  Account") of Borrowers  maintained with Agent. Any request
for advance by wire transfer may be  transmitted to Agent at its Head Office via
facsimile  provided  Borrowers  immediately  notify  Agent by  telephone of such
transmission.  All such requests for wire transfer advances shall be made to and
received  by Agent not later than 10:00 a.m.  Cincinnati,  Ohio time on the Draw
Date  specified  on such  request and each such check or wire  transfer  request
shall be deemed to be a request for an advance on the  Revolving  Credit Loan on
the date when received and processed by Agent.  Borrowers  hereby  designate the
President,  Treasurer  or Chief  Financial  Officer  of  Holdings  (or any other
officer  authorized  by  Borrowers  and  designated  as  such to  Agent)  acting
individually or jointly to make all requests for draws and advances.

            (c) All advances or  disbursements of the Term Loan B proceeds shall
be  effectuated  at Borrowers'  request,  shall be subject to the conditions set
forth in Section 4.3 hereof.

            (d) The Agent shall promptly notify each Lender of its Participation
Percentage of each requested  Revolving Credit Loan and Term Loan B and the date
of such borrowing.  On the borrowing date specified in such notice,  each Lender
shall make its share of the borrowing  available at the Head Office of the Agent
for  deposit to such  account as the Agent shall  designate,  no later than 1:00
p.m.  Cincinnati  time in Federal or other  immediately  available  funds.  Upon
receipt  of the funds to be made  available  by  Lenders  to fund any  Revolving
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hereunder, the Agent shall disburse such funds by depositing them into the Agent
Disbursement Account.

            (e) Each bank or other financial institution,  other than Provident,
with  which a  Borrower  maintains  an account  for the  deposit of funds  shall
execute  a  Blocked  Account  Agreement  pursuant  to which  such  bank or other
financial  institution  shall agree to direct all funds to an account at Agent's
Head Office (the "Agent  Deposit  Account").  All deposits to the Agent  Deposit
Account  shall be the property of Agent for the benefit of Lenders and shall not
be commingled with Borrower's other funds or be deposited in any bank account of
Borrower,  or used in any manner except to pay the Obligations.  Agent shall, at
the  close of  business  on each  Business  Day,  automatically  debit the Agent
Deposit Account and apply the proceeds  against the Loans and other  Obligations
pursuant to the  provisions  of Section  2.7(b).  So long as no Event of Default
shall have  occurred and be  continuing,  if funds  remain in the Agent  Deposit
Account following the application  provided for in the preceding  sentence,  the
balance will be promptly  transferred  to the Agent  Disbursement  Account.  The
crediting of items  deposited in the Agent  Deposit  Account to the reduction of
the Loans shall be conditioned upon final payment of the item and if any item is
not so paid,  the amount of any credit  given for it may be charged to the Loans
or to any  other  deposit  account  of  Borrower,  whether  or not  the  item is
returned.

      Section  2.4 THE NOTES.  The  absolute  and  unconditional  obligation  of
Borrowers to repay to each Lender its respective Pro Rata Share of the principal
of each Loan and the interest thereon shall be evidenced by a separate Revolving
Credit  Note,  Term  Loan A Note  and  Term  Loan B Note,  as and to the  extent
supplemented  by each Term B Note  Supplement,  for each Lender in the amount of
its respective Credit Commitment for each Loan.

                  All  payments  under the  Notes  shall be made to Agent at its
Head Office,  for the account of Lenders,  and Agent shall allocate all payments
on each Loan received from Borrowers  among all Lenders in accordance  with each
Lender's Pro Rata Share of such Loan in accordance with Section 2.7(b).

      Section 2.5   INTEREST PAYABLE ON THE LOANS.

            (a) DETERMINATION  OF  INTEREST  RATE.   Agent shall  determine  the
Interest Rate in effect from time to time in  accordance  with the terms of this
Agreement.  Any change in the  Interest  Rate  shall,  for all  purposes of this
Agreement and any of the other Loan Documents, become effective on the effective
date of such change as announced by Agent in accordance  with Agent's  customary
practices.

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            (b) MONTHLY  INSTALLMENTS.   Except as  provided  in Section  2.6(b)
hereof,  Borrowers shall pay to Agent,  for the account of Lenders in accordance
with their  respective  Pro Rata  Share of such Loan,  monthly in arrears on the
first Business Day of each month  commencing  with the month following the month
in which the Closing Date falls, interest on the outstanding principal amount of
the Loans at the annual rate equal to the Interest Rate  applicable to each such
Loan.

            (c) INTEREST ON OVERDUE  PAYMENTS;  DEFAULT  INTEREST RATE. Upon the
occurrence and during the  continuance of any Event of Default,  or if the Agent
exercises  its rights  hereunder  to  accelerate  any of the Notes  pursuant  to
Section 9.2(b),  the outstanding  principal and all accrued and unpaid interest,
as well as any other  Obligations  due Lenders or Agent  hereunder  or under any
Loan Document,  shall bear interest at the Default  Interest Rate, from the date
on which such amount shall have first become due and payable to Lenders or Agent
or the date on which such Event of Default shall have  occurred,  to the date on
which such  amount  shall be paid to Lenders or Agent  (whether  before or after
judgment) or such Event of Default  shall have been  otherwise  waived or cured.
Interest will continue to accrue until the Obligations in respect of the payment
are discharged (whether before or after judgment).

      Section 2.6 REPAYMENTS AND PREPAYMENTS OF PRINCIPAL.

            (a) PAYMENTS ON THE TERM LOAN A. Borrowers  shall pay to Agent,  and
Borrowers hereby authorize Agent to charge the respective  accounts of Borrowers
maintained with Agent, commencing on April 1, 1998 and on each Principal Payment
Date  thereafter,  quarterly  installments  of  principal  in the  amount of Six
Hundred  Thousand and 00/100  Dollars  ($600,000.00)  (or such lesser  principal
amount of the Term Loan A as shall then be  outstanding),  plus accrued interest
thereon at the Interest Rate applicable to the Term Loan A; provided that in any
event  the last  installment  of  principal  on the Term Loan A shall be due and
payable on the  Termination  Date (if not  earlier  prepaid)  and shall be in an
amount  sufficient  to pay in full the  entire  unpaid  principal  amount,  plus
accrued interest thereon, of the Term Loan A.

            (b) PAYMENTS ON THE TERM LOAN B. Borrowers  shall pay to Agent,  for
the account of Lenders in accordance  with their  respective Pro Rata Share,  on
the Term Loan B,  monthly  in arrears  on the first  Business  Day of each month
commencing with the month  following the month of the Closing Date,  interest on
the outstanding  principal amount of the Term Loan B at the annual rate equal to
the Interest  Rate  applicable  thereto.  Principal  payments on the Term Loan B
shall be the  aggregate  amount  of  principal  payments  under  all Term B Note
Supplements;  PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that no principal payment under any Term B Note
Supplement  shall be required prior to October 1, 1998.  Borrowers  shall pay to
Agent, and Borrowers hereby authorize Agent to charge the respective accounts of
Borrowers  maintained  with  Agent,   quarterly  installments  of  principal  in
accordance with the aggregate  payments  required  pursuant to the terms of each
Term B Note  Supplement;  PROVIDED  that in any  event the last  installment  of
principal  on the Term Loan B shall be due and payable on the  Termination  Date
(if not earlier prepaid) and shall be in an amount sufficient to pay in full the
entire unpaid principal amount,  plus accrued interest thereon, of the Term Loan
B.

            (c) REPAYMENTS ON THE REVOLVING  CREDIT LOAN.  Borrowers  shall have
the right to repay the principal of the Revolving Credit Loan in full or in part
at any time and from time to time  without any  penalty or premium,  unless such
payment  is made in  connection  with the  prepayment  of the Term  Loans  under
conditions  described in Sections  2.2(a) and 2.6(l) and the  termination of the
Lenders' Commitments hereunder.

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            (d) REVOLVING CREDIT LOAN OVERADVANCE.  If at any time the aggregate
amount of the Revolving Credit Loan outstanding to Borrowers exceeds the Maximum
Revolving  Commitment,  Borrowers  shall be obligated to immediately  prepay the
amount that exceeds the Maximum Revolving Commitment.

            (e) PREPAYMENTS FROM  EXTRAORDINARY  DISPOSITIONS.  Immediately upon
receipt  by  a  Borrower  of  Net  Proceeds,  resulting  from  an  Extraordinary
Disposition other than the issuance of Equity Interests,  Borrowers shall prepay
the Loans in an amount  equal to the total Net  Proceeds  then  subject  to this
subsection in accordance with subsection 2.6(k).  Notwithstanding the foregoing,
in the event that a Borrower  (1) has an accrued tax  liability  with respect to
such an Extraordinary Disposition or (2) reasonably expects the proceeds of such
Extraordinary  Disposition  to be (i)  reinvested  within  six (6) months of the
receipt  thereof  in  productive  assets of a kind then used or  useable  in the
business of Holdings and its Subsidiaries,  or (ii) in the case of insurance and
condemnation proceeds, utilized within six (6) months of the receipt thereof (or
such  longer  period  as the  Agent  may  agree  to,  such  agreement  not to be
unreasonably  withheld  if the  Borrower  has  timely  begun  and is  diligently
pursuing the rebuilding or repair in question but  reasonably  expects that such
rebuilding or repair will not be completed  within such six (6) month period) to
repair the loss or damage to or otherwise rebuild the assets in respect of which
the proceeds were paid,  then  Borrowers  shall deliver such proceeds or portion
thereof  to  Agent  to be held  by  Agent  in a cash  collateral  account.  Upon
Borrowers'  request,  Agent and Lenders shall release such proceeds to Borrowers
for  payment  of the  accrued  tax  liability  or for  reinvestment,  repair  or
rebuilding.  In the event such  Borrower  (1) is not  required to pay all or any
portion of the accrued tax  liability or (2) fails to reinvest  such proceeds or
utilize  them for repair or  rebuilding  within  six (6)  months of the  receipt
thereof (or such longer period that may be agreed to pursuant to this subsection
2.6(e)),  Borrowers  authorize and direct Agent and Lenders to apply such amount
as a prepayment of the Loans to be applied in accordance with subsection 2.6(k).

            (f) PREPAYMENTS FOR EXCESS CASH FLOW.  Within ninety (90) days after
the end of each Fiscal Year of  Holdings  beginning  with the Fiscal Year ending
December  31,  1998,  Borrowers  shall  prepay  the Loans in an amount  equal to
twenty-five  percent  (25%) of  Excess  Cash  Flow for such  prior  Fiscal  Year
calculated on the basis of the audited financial statements for such Fiscal Year
delivered to Lender pursuant to subsection  6.1(c).  All such prepayments of the
Term Loans from Excess Cash Flow shall be applied in accordance  with subsection
2.6(k).  Concurrently  with the  making  of any such  payment,  Borrowers  shall
deliver to Agent a certificate  of Holdings'  chief  executive  officer or chief
financial  officer  demonstrating  its  calculation of the amount required to be
paid.

            (g) PREPAYMENT FROM EQUITY OFFERINGS. In the event that any Borrower
issues Equity Interests or debt securities, no later than the third Business Day
following  the date of  receipt  of the  proceeds  from any sale of such  Equity
Interests  (other than: (i) proceeds,  if any, from the issuance of a Borrower's
Capital Stock to members of the management of a Borrower or its  Subsidiaries or
officers, directors or employees of any of them; (ii) proceeds from the issuance
of Equity  Interests to a Borrower or any Subsidiary of a Borrower by any Person
that was a Subsidiary of a Borrower  immediately  prior to such issuance;  (iii)
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to any  Subsidiary of a Borrower by a Borrower or any of its  Subsidiaries;  (v)
proceeds from the issuance of Equity  Interests  pursuant to options,  rights or
warrants  issued  by a  Borrower  that  are  outstanding  as of the date of this
Agreement or that are or may be obligated to be issued under agreements that are
outstanding as of the date of this  Agreement;  and (vi) the Loans  contemplated
hereby),  Borrowers  shall  prepay the Loans in an amount equal to the lesser of
(1) the amount of such proceeds,  net of underwriting  discounts and commissions
and  other  reasonable  costs  associated  therewith  or (2) the  amount  of the
Obligations  then  outstanding.  Prepayments  made under this subsection  2.6(g)
shall be applied to the Loans in accordance with subsection 2.6(k).

            (h) PREPAYMENT FROM KEY MAN INSURANCE. In the event that Holdings or
any other Borrower  receives proceeds from payment of the key man life insurance
maintained  pursuant  to Section  6.3,  Borrowers  shall  prepay the Loans in an
amount  equal to the  lesser of such  insurance  proceeds  or the  amount of the
Obligations  then  outstanding.  Prepayments  made under this subsection  2.6(h)
shall be applied to the Loans in accordance with subsection 2.6(k).

            (i) PAYMENTS  RELATIVE  TO CLOSED  OPERATIONS.   In the  event  that
operations are terminated in a theater  operating under a Guaranteed  Lease, (i)
if Term Loan B has been fully drawn,  the Agent shall have the option to require
a  prepayment  of Term Loan B in an amount  equal to the  maximum  liability  of
Borrowers with respect to such Guaranteed Lease, and (ii) if Term Loan B has not
been  fully  drawn,  the Agent  shall  have the  option to  reduce  the  undrawn
availability  on Term  Loan B in an amount  equal to the  maximum  liability  of
Borrowers  with  respect  to such  Guaranteed  Lease;  however,  if the  maximum
liability  exceeds  the  undrawn  availability,  Agent  shall have the option to
reduce the undrawn availability and require a prepayment of Term Loan B.

            (j) MATURITY. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement,
Borrowers  will be entitled to reborrow all or any part of the  principal of the
Revolving  Credit Notes repaid or prepaid  prior to the  Termination  Date.  The
Credit Commitments shall terminate and all of the indebtedness  evidenced by the
Revolving  Credit Notes,  the Term Loan A Notes and the Term Loan B Notes shall,
if not sooner  paid,  be in any event  absolutely  and  unconditionally  due and
payable  in full by  Borrower  on  September  12,  2002,  the date of the  final
maturity of such Notes.

            (k) APPLICATION OF PROCEEDS.  With respect to mandatory  prepayments
described in paragraphs  2.6(f) through  2.6(h) above,  such  prepayments  shall
first  be  applied  in the  inverse  order of  maturity  to the  payment  of the
remaining installments on the Term Loan B, and at any time after the Term Loan B
shall have been repaid in full, such prepayments shall be applied to the payment
of the remaining  installments  on the Term Loan A, and thereafter such payments
shall be applied in repayment of the Revolving Credit Loan.

            (l) PREPAYMENT FEES. If Borrowers  voluntarily prepay the Term Loans
in full prior to the second  anniversary  of the  Closing  Date,  the  Revolving
Credit Loan shall,  in accordance  with Section 2.2(a) become due and payable in
full, and Borrowers shall pay to Agent,  for the ratable benefit of Lenders,  as
liquidated  damages  and  compensation  for the costs of being  prepared to make
funds  available to Borrowers  under this  Agreement,  and not as a penalty,  an
amount determined by multiplying (x) the sum of the Maximum Revolving Commitment
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balances  of the Term Loans TIMES (y) one percent  (1%) upon  prepayment  during
either  the first  Loan Year or the  second  Loan Year (the  "Prepayment  Fee").
Borrowers  shall  also pay a  Prepayment  Fee in  connection  with  any  partial
prepayment of any Term Loan; provided, however, that if such prepayment,  either
in full or in part,  occurs  as a result of any event  described  in  paragraphs
2.6(d),  2.6(e), 2.6(f), 2.6(g) or 2.6(h) above, no such Prepayment Fee shall be
required.

      Section 2.7   PAYMENTS AND COMPUTATIONS.

            (a) TIME AND PLACE OF  PAYMENTS.  Notwithstanding  anything  in this
Agreement  or any of the other Loan  Documents  to the  contrary,  each  payment
payable by Borrowers  to the Agent or any Lender under this  Agreement or any of
the other Loan Documents other than payments  pursuant to Section 2.3(e) made as
a result of the application of funds in the Agent Deposit Account, shall be made
directly to the Agent, at Agent's Head Office, not later than 12:00 noon Eastern
Standard or Eastern Daylight Time, as applicable in Cincinnati, Ohio, on the due
date of each such  payment in  immediately  available  and freely  transferrable
funds.  The  Agent  will  promptly  cause to be  distributed  to each  Lender in
immediately  available  and freely  transferrable  funds such  Lender's Pro Rata
Share of each such  payment  received  by the  Agent.  In order to cause  timely
payment to be made to Agent of all Obligations as and when due, Borrowers hereby
authorize and direct Agent, at Agent's option to debit the Agent's  Disbursement
Account (by increasing the principal  balance of the Revolving Credit Loan) when
such Obligations become due.

            (b) APPLICATION OF FUNDS.   Notwithstanding  anything  herein to the
contrary,  the funds received by Agent with respect to the Obligations  shall be
applied as follows:

                  (i) NO  DEFAULT.  If  the  Notes  have  not  been  accelerated
      pursuant to Section 9.2(b) and if no Default or Event of Default hereunder
      or under the Notes or any of the other Loan Documents  shall have occurred
      and be continuing at the time Agent receives such funds,  in the following
      manner:  (a) first,  to the payment of all fees,  charges,  and other sums
      (with  exception of principal  and  interest)  due and payable to Agent or
      Lenders  under the Notes,  this  Agreement or the other Loan  Documents at
      such time;  (b) second,  to the payment of all of the interest which shall
      be due and  payable  on the  principal  of the  Notes  at the time of such
      payment in accordance with each Lender's Pro Rata Share; (c) third, to the
      payment of such amount of  principal of the Term Loan B Notes that is then
      due in accordance  with each Lender's Pro Rata Share;  (d) fourth,  to the
      payment of such amount of  principal of the Term Loan A Notes that is then
      due in  accordance  with each Lender's Pro Rata Share;  (e) fifth,  to the
      payment of principal of the Revolving Credit Loan Notes in accordance with
      each Lender's Pro Rata Share; and (f) sixth, to Borrowers.

                  (ii) DEFAULT.  If the Notes have been accelerated  pursuant to
      Section 9.2(b),  or if a Default or Event of Default  hereunder shall have
      occurred  and be  continuing  hereunder  or under  the Notes or any of the
      other  Loan  Documents  at the time  Agent  receives  such  funds,  in the
      following  manner:  (a) first, to the payment or  reimbursement of Lenders
      and Agent for all costs,  expenses,  disbursements  and losses which shall
      have been  incurred or sustained by Lenders or Agent in or  incidental  to
      the  collection

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      of  the  Obligations   owed  by  Borrowers   hereunder  or  the  exercise,
      protection,  or  enforcement  by  Lenders  and  Agent of all or any of the
      rights,  remedies,  powers and  privileges of Lenders and Agent under this
      Agreement,  the  Notes,  or any of the  other  Loan  Documents  and in and
      towards the  provision  of adequate  indemnity to the Agent and any of the
      Lenders  against all taxes or Liens  which by law shall have,  or may have
      priority  over the rights of the Agent or Lenders in and to such funds and
      (b) second,  to the payment of all of the  Obligations in accordance  with
      Section 2.7(b)(i) above.

            (c) PAYMENTS  ON  BUSINESS  DAYS.   If any sum  would  (but  for the
provisions of this  paragraph (c)) become due and payable to Agent or any Lender
by Borrowers  under any of the Loan Documents on any day which is not a Business
Day,  then  such sum shall  become  due and  payable  on the  Business  Day next
succeeding the day on which such sum would otherwise have become due and payable
hereunder or thereunder,  and interest payable to Agent or any Lender under this
Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents  shall continue to accrue and shall
be adjusted by the Agent accordingly.

            (d) COMPUTATION OF INTEREST.  All  computations of interest  payable
under this  Agreement,  the Notes,  or any of the other Loan Documents  shall be
computed by Agent on the basis of the actual  principal  amount  outstanding  on
each day during the payment  period and shall be  calculated on the basis of the
actual  number of days  elapsed  during such period for which  interest is being
charged,  predicated on a year consisting of three hundred and sixty (360) days.
The daily interest charge shall be one  three-hundred-sixtieth  (1/360th) of the
annual  interest  amount.  Each  determination  of any  interest  rate by  Agent
pursuant to this  Agreement,  any Note, or any of the other Loan Documents shall
be conclusive and binding on Borrowers in the absence of manifest error.  Absent
manifest  error, a certificate or statement  signed by an authorized  officer of
Agent  shall be  conclusive  evidence of the amount of the  Obligations  due and
unpaid as of the date of such certificate or statement.

      Section 2.8   PAYMENTS TO BE FREE OF DEDUCTIONS. Each  payment  payable by
Borrowers to Agent or any Lender under this  Agreement,  any Note, or any of the
other Loan  Documents  shall be made in  accordance  with  Section  2.7  hereof,
without set-off or counterclaim  and free and clear of and without any deduction
of any kind for any taxes, levies,  imposts,  duties, charges, fees, deductions,
withholdings,  compulsory loans, restrictions or conditions of any nature now or
hereafter imposed or levied by any political  subdivision or any taxing or other
authority  therein,  unless  Borrowers  are  compelled  by law to make  any such
deduction or  withholding.  In the event that any such  obligation  to deduct or
withhold is imposed upon Borrowers  with respect to any such payment  payable by
Borrowers to Agent or any Lender,  (a) Borrowers  shall be permitted to make the
deduction or withholding required by law in respect of the said payment, and (b)
there shall  become and be  absolutely  due and payable by Borrowers to Agent or
such Lender on the date on which the said  payment  shall become due and payable
and Borrowers  hereby promise to pay to Agent or such Lender on such date,  such
additional  amount  as shall be  necessary  to  enable  Agent or such  Lender to
receive the same net amount  which Agent or such Lender  would have  received on
such due date had no such  obligation  been  imposed  by law.  Anything  in this
Section 2.8 to the contrary  notwithstanding,  the foregoing  provisions of this
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deductions or withholdings made in respect of taxes charged upon or by reference
to the overall net  income,  profits or gains of Agent or any Lender.  Borrowers
shall have no obligation  to make any payment  pursuant to this Section 2.8 with
respect to any Lender who is not a party  hereto on the Closing  Date unless (i)
no such  payments  would be payable to any such  Lender on the date it becomes a
party hereto and no such payments could be reasonably  expected to be payable to
such  Lender and (ii) if such  Lender is  organized  under the laws of a foreign
jurisdiction, such jurisdiction is exempt from United States withholding tax and
such Lender has provided  Borrowers  with an Internal  Revenue Form 4224 or Form
1001 or other  certificate  of  document  required  under  United  States law to
establish entitlement to such exemption.

      Section 2.9   USE OF PROCEEDS.

            (a) PERMITTED  USES OF LOAN  PROCEEDS.  Each   Borrower  represents,
warrants  and  covenants to Agent and each Lender that all proceeds of the Loans
shall be used by Borrowers solely for the purpose of refinancing  existing debt,
financing  working  capital,  providing  acquisition  financing  and for general
corporate purposes.

            (b) PROHIBITED  USES.  Each   Borrower   represents,   warrants  and
covenants  to Agent and each  Lender  that no part of the  proceeds of the Loans
will be used  (directly  or  indirectly)  so as to result in a  violation  under
Regulations G, T, U or X of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
or for any other purpose violative of any rule or regulation of such Board.

      Section  2.10   ADDITIONAL COSTS,  ETC.  If any  Lender  shall  reasonably
determine that any future  applicable law, rule or regulation,  or any change in
any  present  law or in the  interpretation  or  administration  thereof  by any
governmental  authority,  central  bank or  comparable  agency  charged with the
interpretation or administration  thereof,  or compliance by any Lender with any
request or directive regarding capital adequacy (whether or not having the force
of law) from any such authority, central bank or comparable agency, has or would
have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such  Lender's  capital,  as a
consequence  of its  obligations  hereunder,  to a level  below  that which such
Lender could have  achieved but for such  adoption,  change or compliance by any
amount  deemed by such Lender to be material and is not  otherwise  reflected in
the interest and other charges  payable by Borrowers  hereunder,  then Borrowers
shall pay to such Lender upon demand such amount or amounts,  in addition to the
amounts payable under the other  provisions of this Agreement,  or the Notes, as
will compensate such Lender for such reduction.  Determinations by any Lender of
the additional  amount or amounts  required to compensate such Lender in respect
of the  foregoing  shall be  conclusive  in the  absence of manifest  error.  In
determining such amount or amounts,  Lender may use any reasonable averaging and
attribution methods.

      Section 2.11  AGENT  AND  LENDER  STATEMENTS.  A  statement  signed  by an
officer of any Lender (as the case may be) setting forth any  additional  amount
required to be paid by Borrowers to Agent or such Lender under  Sections 2.8 and
2.10 hereof, and the computations made by Agent or such Lender to determine such
additional  amount or  amounts,  shall be  submitted  by Agent or such Lender to
Borrowers in  connection  with each demand made at any time by Agent (and copies
thereof  delivered  to each other  Lender) or such Lender  under  either of such
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any Lender for all or any part of any additional  amounts required to be paid by
Borrowers  under  Sections  2.8 and 2.10  hereof may be made before or after any
payment to which such claim relates.  Each such statement  shall, in the absence
of manifest  error,  constitute  conclusive  evidence of the  additional  amount
required to be paid to Agent or such Lender,  provided it sets out in reasonable
detail the reasons for such notice and the  averaging  and  attribution  methods
used by Agent or such Lender to determine the amounts set forth in such notice.

      Section 2.12  LETTERS OF CREDIT.

            (a) OBLIGATION TO ISSUE LETTERS OF CREDIT.  Subject to the terms and
conditions  of this  Agreement,  prior to the maturity of the Loans  (whether by
acceleration  or  otherwise)  and so  long as no  Default  has  occurred  and is
continuing,  Issuing Bank agrees to issue,  in  accordance  with Issuing  Bank's
usual and  customary  business  practices,  one or more Letters of Credit at the
request of  Borrower,  provided  that Issuing Bank shall not issue any Letter of
Credit if: (i) any order,  judgment or decree of any  governmental  authority or
arbitrator  shall  purport by its terms to enjoin or restrain  Issuing Bank from
issuing  such  Letter of Credit or any rule,  regulation  or law  applicable  to
Issuing Bank or any request or directive  from any  governmental  authority with
jurisdiction  over  Issuing  Bank shall  prohibit or request  that  Issuing Bank
refrain  from the  issuance of letters of credit  generally  or such  Letters of
Credit in  particular  or shall  impose upon  Issuing  Bank with respect to such
Letters of Credit any restriction or reserve or capital  requirement  (for which
Issuing Bank is not otherwise  compensated) not in effect on the date hereof, or
any  unreimbursed  loss, cost or expense which was not applicable,  in effect or
known to Issuing Bank as of the date hereof in which  Issuing Bank in good faith
deems material to it; or (ii) any of the  conditions  precedent for the issuance
of such  Letter  of Credit or other  terms  and  provisions  of this Loan or any
subsequent loans hereof are not satisfied.

            (b) EXPIRATION DATE OF LETTERS OF CREDIT. The expiration date of any
Letter of Credit  shall not be later than the  earlier of thirty (30) days after
the date of the issuance thereof or the Termination Date.

            (c) LETTERS  OF CREDIT  DEEMED TO BE LOANS.  All   Letters of Credit
issued by Issuing Bank shall be issued in  connection  with this  Agreement  and
Borrower's  obligation  to pay any amount drawn under any Letter of Credit shall
constitute an Obligation  hereunder and shall be bound by and shall benefit from
all  the  terms,   provisions  and  conditions   hereunder,   including  without
limitation, Issuing Bank's rights to recover costs and expenses relating thereto
as provided in this Agreement and Issuing Bank's remedies upon the occurrence of
an Event of Default.  Each Letter of Credit  issued  hereunder  shall reduce the
amount of Loan proceeds  available for disbursement  under the Term Loan B in an
amount equal to the face amount of each such Letter of Credit. No interest shall
accrue on the amount of  undisbursed  Loan proceeds  representing  the aggregate
amount of the  Letters of Credit  until such time as such  Letters of Credit are
drawn upon.

            (d) PROCEDURE FOR ISSUANCE OF LETTERS OF CREDIT. Borrower shall give
Issuing Bank two (2) business  days' prior  written  notice,  or  telephonic  or
electronically  transmitted notice confirmed promptly  thereafter in writing, of
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Agreement.  Such notice shall  specify the stated amount of the Letter of Credit
requested, the effective date (which day shall be a business day) of issuance of
such  requested  Letter of Credit,  the date on which such  requested  Letter of
Credit is to expire (which date shall be a business day and shall in no event be
later  than  the  third   anniversary  of  the  Closing   Date),   the  proposed
beneficiaries  of such  Letter of Credit,  the  conditions  for draws under such
Letter of Credit, and any other information relevant thereto as Issuing Bank may
request.  Unless there is a Default or Event of Default hereunder, or unless the
amount of the  Letter of Credit  exceeds  the  limitations  set forth by Section
2.12(f)  hereof,  then,  subject to the terms and conditions of this  Agreement,
Issuing  Bank shall  issue,  on the  requested  date, a Letter of Credit for the
account of  Borrower in  accordance  with  Issuing  Bank's  usual and  customary
business practices.

            (e) REIMBURSEMENT   OBLIGATIONS.    Borrower   agrees     that   all
Reimbursement  Obligations  owing to Issuing  Bank under or with respect to each
such Letter of Credit issued by Issuing Bank shall be deemed to be a request for
a draw or  advance  hereunder  and shall be deemed  to have  been  disbursed  to
Borrower as a Loan under Term Loan B. Borrower  hereby  promises to pay to Agent
any and all Reimbursement Obligations hereunder.  Interest shall begin to accrue
on the Reimbursement  Obligations on the day such Reimbursement  Obligations are
incurred by Borrower as a result of disbursement under the Letter of Credit.

            (f) AMOUNT OF LETTERS  OF  CREDIT.  At  no time shall the  aggregate
amount of all of the issued and outstanding  Letters of Credit exceed the amount
of Term Loan B.

            (g) FEES.  A  fee in the  amount  of Four  and  One-Quarter  Percent
(4.25%) per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-day year for the days elapsed)
of the daily average  undrawn face amount of each of the Letters of Credit shall
be payable by Borrower  ("Letter of Credit Fee") together with a fronting fee in
an amount equal to One-Quarter  Percent (1/4%) of the face amount of each of the
Letters of Credit. The Letter of Credit fee shall be paid in arrears on the last
day of each month and on the  Termination  Date or if such day is not a Business
Day on the next  succeeding  Business  Day  commencing  on the  first  such date
following the issuance of any Letter of Credit.

            (h) LETTER OF CREDIT  PARTICIPATIONS.  By  issuance  of a Letter  of
Credit and without any further  action on the part of Issuing Bank or Lenders in
respect  thereof,  Issuing Bank hereby  grants to each  Lender,  and each Lender
hereby  agrees to acquire from Issuing Bank, a  participation  in such Letter of
Credit  equal to such  Lender's Pro Rata Share of the face amount of such Letter
of  Credit,   effective  upon  the  issuance  of  such  Letter  of  Credit.   In
consideration and in furtherance of the foregoing, each Lender hereby absolutely
and  unconditionally  agrees  to pay to Agent on behalf of  Issuing  Bank,  such
Lender's  Pro  Rata  Share  of  any   Reimbursement   Obligation.   Each  Lender
acknowledges and agrees that its obligation to acquire  participations  pursuant
to this  Section  2.12(h)  in  respect  of  Letters  of Credit is  absolute  and
unconditional  and  shall  not  be  affected  by  any  circumstance  whatsoever,
including  without  limitation the occurrence and continuance of a default or an
event of default hereunder, and that each such payment shall be made without any
offset, abatement, withholding or reduction whatsoever.

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      Section 2.13  ALLOCATION OF LIABILITY.

            (a) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, each Borrower's
liability (other than Holdings') under the Notes shall be limited to the Maximum
Credit  Liability  for each Borrower as determined at the earlier of the date of
commencement  of a case  under  Title  11 of the  United  States  Code  (or  any
successor  provision) in which such Borrower is a debtor or the date enforcement
is sought hereunder or under the Notes;  PROVIDED,  HOWEVER,  that each Borrower
shall be jointly  and  severally  liable for all  advances,  charges,  costs and
expenses,  including reasonable attorneys' fees incurred or paid by Agent or any
Bank in exercising any right, power or remedy conferred by this Agreement or any
enforcement thereof, including without limitation those additional costs, claims
and damages set forth in Section 11.5.

            (b) Each Borrower agrees that in the event of (i) the dissolution or
insolvency of any Borrower,  (ii) the inability of any Borrower to pay its debts
as they become due,  (iii) an  assignment by any Borrower for the benefit of its
creditors,  or (iv) the institution of any bankruptcy or other  proceeding by or
against any Borrower  alleging  that such Borrower is insolvent or unable to pay
its debts as they  become  due,  and  whether or not such event shall occur at a
time when the  Obligations  are not then due and  payable,  the other  Borrowers
shall pay the Obligations  promptly upon demand as if the Obligations  were then
due and  payable.  Each  Borrower  agrees that upon the filing by or against any
other  Borrower of any proceeding  under any present or future  provision of the
United States  Bankruptcy  Code, or any other similar  federal or state statute,
other Borrowers  shall have no right to  contribution,  indemnification,  or any
recourse  whatsoever against the bankrupt Borrower for any liability incurred by
the other Borrowers under the terms of the Loan Documents.  Each Borrower agrees
that this provision shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case
may be, if at any time any payment, or any part thereof, of principal,  interest
or any other  amount  with  respect  to the  Obligations  is  rescinded  or must
otherwise   be  restored  by  Agent  or  the  Banks  upon  the   bankruptcy   or
reorganization of any Borrower, any other Person or otherwise.

            Each Borrower  further  agrees that, to the extent that any Borrower
makes a payment to Agent,  which  payment or  payments  or any part  thereof are
subsequently invalidated,  declared to be fraudulent or preferential,  set aside
or otherwise  required to be repaid to another  Borrower,  its estate,  trustee,
receiver or any other party, including without limitation,  under any bankruptcy
law, state or federal law, common law or equitable cause,  then to the extent of
such payment or repayment,  the  obligation or part thereof which has been paid,
reduced or satisfied by such amount shall be  reinstated  and  continued in full
force and effect as of the date such initial payment,  reduction or satisfaction
occurred.


                                   ARTICLE 3.

                               SECURITY AGREEMENT

      Section 3.1   SECURITY INTEREST. To  secure  the  prompt  repayment of the
Notes and the  Obligations,  Borrowers  hereby  grant,  and  hereby  pledge  and
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of the Lenders,  a lien and security  interest in and to all of each  Borrower's
personal  property  and  fixtures,  wherever  located,  whether now or hereafter
owned, existing or acquired or hereafter arising, including, without limitation,
the  Collateral  of each  Borrower;  further,  each  Borrower  has  executed and
delivered to Agent, on behalf of the Lenders, certificates of title and the like
as necessary from time to time to secure the  Obligations  hereunder;  and shall
deliver to Agent,  on behalf of the Lenders,  to the extent  required  herein or
upon  Agent's  request  in  accordance  with the  terms of this  Agreement,  all
instruments,  documents and chattel paper in which  Borrowers  from time to time
have an  interest  and such other  documents  as Agent may  request to perfect a
security interest in the Collateral.

      Section 3.2    MORTGAGES AND LIENS ON REAL  PROPERTY.  To  secure  further
such  liabilities  and  obligations,  each Borrower has granted or will grant to
Agent,  on behalf of the Lenders,  a first lien,  subject to the Permitted First
Liens,  upon all real property owned by such Borrower and a first lien,  subject
to the Permitted First Liens, on all leasehold  interests (with the exception of
the month-to-month  leasehold estate held by CCC Chester Twin Cinema Corporation
in Morris  County,  New Jersey and a leasehold  estate in the  Manasquan  Cinema
located in  Monmouth  County,  New Jersey) of such  Borrower,  each of which are
identified on Schedule 3.1, and each such Borrower has executed or shall execute
and deliver to Agent,  on behalf of the Lenders,  the  Mortgages  and  Leasehold
Mortgages and valid assignments of all other property rights (including, without
limitation,  rights to  receive  rents and  rights  with  respect  to  operating
agreements, options, judgments and claims) which now exist or which may exist or
arise hereafter from time to time including without limitation,  the Assignments
of Option and Operating  Agreements and any consents relating thereto reasonably
required by Agent.

            Borrowers  represent  that the Manasquan  Cinema is currently  being
leased by CCC Manasquan  Cinema  Corporation  from  Algonquin  Arts  Partnership
pursuant  to a certain  Lease  dated  October 5, 1995 (the  "Original  Manasquan
Lease"), and that a lease for an additional five (5) year term commencing on the
expiration  date of the  Original  Manasquan  Lease  has been  executed  by such
parties  ("Additional  Manasquan Lease" and together with the Original Manasquan
Lease, the "Manasquan Lease"). Holdings represents to Lenders and Agent that its
current intention is to abandon the premises. If at any time Holdings determines
not to cancel the Additional  Manasquan  Lease,  Holdings agrees to notify Agent
and CCC Manasquan Cinema Corporation shall promptly execute a Leasehold Mortgage
in favor of Agent  relating to the  leasehold  estate  created by the  Manasquan
Lease.  Further, if Holdings does not provide satisfactory  evidence to Agent of
the  termination of the Manasquan  Lease prior to the  commencement  date of the
Additional  Manasquan  Lease, CCC Manasquan  Cinema  Corporation  shall promptly
execute a Leasehold  Mortgage in favor of Agent relating to the leasehold estate
created by the Additional Manasquan Lease.  Borrowers covenant and agree that in
connection with such Leasehold  Mortgage,  they shall provide  evidence of title
and such other  documentation as Agent may require and Borrowers shall use their
best efforts to obtain a landlord  consent and a  subordination,  attornment and
nondisturbance   agreement  from  any  fee  simple   mortgagee   prior  to  such
commencement date.

      Section 3.3   PLEDGE  OF STOCK. As  additional collateral for the Loans to
be made hereunder,  Holdings shall execute and deliver to Agent, for the ratable
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Agreement  with respect to all Capital  Stock of all  Subsidiaries  now owned or
hereafter acquired by Holdings.

      Section 3.4   FINANCING STATEMENTS; ADDITIONAL  DOCUMENTS. Borrowers shall
take all necessary  action or as requested by Agent or any Lender to continue as
perfected  the first  lien  (subject  only to the  Permitted  First  Liens)  and
security  interest  in the  Collateral  of Lenders  and  Agent,  except for such
Collateral in which a first lien can be perfected  only by  possession  and such
possession is not required by Agent at such time.  Such filings shall be in form
and substance  required by Agent, and Borrowers shall pay all costs of recording
and  filing  the  financing  statements  (and any  continuation  or  termination
statements  with respect  thereto),  the  Mortgages,  Leasehold  Mortgages,  the
Assignment of Patents,  the Assignment of Trademarks,  and any other  documents,
titles,  statements,  assignments  or the like  reasonably  required  to create,
maintain,  preserve or perfect the liens or security interests granted under the
Loan  Documents,  together  with costs and  expenses of any lien or UCC searches
required  by Agent in  connection  with the  making  of the  Loans.  At  Agent's
request, Borrowers shall execute and deliver to Agent, on behalf of the Lenders,
at any time and from time to time hereafter, all supplemental documentation that
Agent may  reasonably  request to perfect,  maintain,  preserve or continue  the
security  interest and liens  granted  Lenders and Agent hereby and under any of
the other Loan Documents, in form and substance acceptable to Agent, and pay the
costs of preparing and recording or filing of the same.  Borrowers  agree that a
carbon, photographic,  or other reproduction of this Agreement or of a financing
statement is sufficient as a financing  statement.  Except as otherwise provided
in this Agreement,  Borrowers,  immediately on acquiring Real Estate, Inventory,
or Accounts or Proceeds  thereof for which  separate  perfection is necessary or
reasonably  considered  desirable by Agent, shall deliver to Agent, on behalf of
the Lenders,  any and all  evidence of ownership of any such  property and shall
take all such action as may be reasonably  necessary to perfect Agent's security
interest in such  Property,  including  without  limitation,  the  execution and
recording  or  filing  of  additional  Mortgages,  Leasehold  Mortgages  and UCC
financing statements. Each Lender (by any of its officers,  employees or agents,
but only upon  authorization of an officer of such Lender) shall have the right,
at any time or times during  Borrowers'  usual  business  hours,  to inspect the
Collateral, all records related thereto (and to make extracts from such records)
and the  premises  upon  which any of the  Collateral  is  located,  to  discuss
Borrowers' affairs and finances with any accountant,  account debtor or creditor
of any Borrower and to verify the amount, quality, quantity, value and condition
of, or any other matter relating to, the Collateral. Borrowers shall perform all
reasonable  acts and execute or cause to be executed all  documents,  including,
without limitation,  the Assignments of Option and Operating Agreements, and the
Assignment  of Patents  and the  Assignment  of  Trademarks  for filing with the
United  States  Patent and Trademark  Office,  state  offices and  corresponding
foreign  registries  as  Agent  reasonably  deems  necessary  or  desirable,  to
establish,   perfect,   record  and  maintain  the  security   interest  in  the
Intellectual  Property and the goodwill symbolized thereby (whether now existing
or hereafter acquired).

      Section  3.5   ACCOUNTS;  CHATTEL  PAPER;  LEASE  AGREEMENTS.   After  the
occurrence  of an Event of Default  and during the  continuance  thereof,  Agent
shall have the right at any time to notify any Person obligated to make payments
to a Borrower with respect to Accounts,  Chattel  Paper and lease  

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agreements to make such payments directly to Agent, on behalf of the Lenders, or
directly into the deposit accounts subject to a Blocked Account Agreement.

      Section 3.6   RELEASE OF COLLATERAL.  Upon Borrowers' full  performance of
their  Obligations  in  respect  of the Loans,  including,  without  limitation,
payment in full of the Notes,  and  termination  of  Borrowers'  right to borrow
under this  Agreement,  Agent and Lenders shall  release  their  interest in all
Collateral. Upon any sale of Collateral permitted pursuant to Section 8.6, Agent
shall release its interest in the portion of the Collateral being sold,  without
prejudice to the continuation of its lien on any other Collateral.


                                   ARTICLE 4.

                      CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO DISBURSEMENTS

      Section 4.1   CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO INITIAL  CLOSING. On or prior to the
Closing  Date,  each of the  following  conditions  precedent  shall  have  been
satisfied:

            (a) CERTIFIED COPIES OF CHARTER DOCUMENTS AND BYLAWS. Agent and each
Lender  shall have  received  from each  Borrower  (i) a copy,  certified by the
Secretary or an Assistant  Secretary of such Borrower to be true and complete on
and as of the Closing Date, of the charter or other  organization  documents and
by-laws of such Borrower as in effect on the Closing Date (together with all, if
any, amendments thereto);  and (ii) the charter or other organization  documents
of each Borrower certified by the applicable Secretary of State.

            (b) PROOF OF CORPORATE  AUTHORITY.  Agent and each Lender shall have
received from each Borrower  copies,  certified by the Secretary or an Assistant
Secretary  of such  Borrower  to be true and  complete  on and as of the Closing
Date,  of records of all action  taken by such  Borrower  to  authorize  (i) the
execution  and delivery of this  Agreement  and the other Loan  Documents and to
which  it is or is to  become  a  party  as  contemplated  or  required  by this
Agreement;  (ii) its  performance of all of its  obligations  under each of such
documents;  and (iii) the making by such Borrower of the borrowings contemplated
hereby.  Agent  shall  have  received  from the  Delaware  Secretary  of State a
Certificate  of Good Standing of recent date  certifying  the existence and good
standing of each  Borrower  under the laws of the State of Delaware and its good
standing  in each state  where each  Borrower  is required to qualify to conduct
business.

            (c) INCUMBENCY  CERTIFICATE.  Agent  and  each  Lender  shall  have
received from each Borrower an incumbency  certificate,  dated as of the Closing
Date,  signed by the  Secretary or an Assistant  Secretary of each  Borrower and
giving the name and bearing a specimen signature of each individual who shall be
authorized (i) to sign, in the name and on behalf of such Borrower,  each of the
Loan  Documents to which such Borrower is or is to become a party on the Closing
Date;  and (ii) to give  notices  and to take  other  action  on  behalf of such
Borrower under the Loan Documents.

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            (d)  OFFICERS' CERTIFICATES.  Agent   and  each  Lender  shall  have
received from each Borrower a certificate  dated as of the Closing Date,  signed
by a duly  authorized  officer of such Borrower and certifying  that each of the
representations  and warranties  made by and on behalf of such Borrower to Agent
and each Lender in this  Agreement and in the other Loan  Documents was true and
correct when made, and is true and correct on and as of the Closing Date.

            (e) LOAN  DOCUMENTS,  ETC. (i) Each of the Loan Documents shall have
been duly and properly  authorized,  executed and delivered by each Borrower and
shall be in full force and effect on and as of the Closing  Date;  (ii) executed
originals  of each of the Notes  shall  have been  delivered  to each  Lender in
accordance  with  their  respective  Credit  Commitments,   and  (iii)  executed
originals  or (as the case may be)  executed  counterparts  of each of the other
Loan  Documents  shall have been  delivered  to Agent  and/or  each  Lender.  In
addition, Borrowers will deliver to Agent the additional documents identified on
Schedule 4.1(e) hereto.

            (f) ACTIONS TO PERFECT LIENS.  Agent shall have received evidence in
form  and   substance   satisfactory   to  it  that  all  filings,   recordings,
registrations  and other actions,  including without  limitation,  the filing of
duly executed financing  statements on Form UCC-1,  necessary or, in the opinion
of Agent, desirable to perfect the Liens created by the Security Documents shall
have been completed.

            (g) INSURANCE.  Agent shall have received  copies of certificates of
insurance  executed  by each  insurer or its  authorized  agent  evidencing  the
insurance required to be maintained by each Borrower pursuant to Section 6.2(b),
and  a  certificate  of a  nationally  recognized  insurance  broker  reasonably
satisfactory to Agent certifying that insurance  complying with such Section has
been obtained and is in full force and effect.

            (h) MORTGAGE AND TITLE  INSURANCE.  The following  documents each of
which  shall be  executed  (and,  where  appropriate,  acknowledged)  by Persons
satisfactory to the Agent:

                  (i) each of the  Mortgages and  Leasehold  Mortgages,  in each
      case duly executed and delivered by Borrower (and where appropriate by the
      trustee  thereunder)  in  recordable  form,  together  with  such  Uniform
      Commercial Code financing  statements as may be needed in order to perfect
      the security  interests  granted by each of the  Mortgages  and  Leasehold
      Mortgages in any fixtures and other property  therein  described which may
      be subject to the  Uniform  Commercial  Code,  in each case  appropriately
      completed  and duly  executed and in proper form for filing in all offices
      in which required;

                  (ii) with respect to the Real Estate covered by the Mortgages,
      title evidence  satisfactory  to each Lender that the respective  Borrower
      has a good, marketable fee simple estate in the Real Estate.

                  (iii) with respect to the Real Estate covered by the Leasehold
      Mortgages, title evidence satisfactory to each Lender that each respective
      Borrower  has a good,  marketable  leasehold  estate  in the  Real  Estate
      subject only to the Permitted First Liens.

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                  (iv) with respect to the Real Estate covered by the Mortgages,
      if requested  by Agent,  an as-built  survey of recent date  prepared by a
      registered land surveyor or engineer, duly licensed in the state where the
      Real Estate is located certified to a Title Company in full ALTA form.

                  (v) an  Environmental  Indemnity  Agreement  duly executed and
      delivered by each of the Borrowers.

                  (vi) with respect to the Leasehold Mortgages,  and as required
      by  Agent,   consents  of  the  respective  landlords  consenting  to  the
      mortgaging of the respective Borrower's leasehold estate.

                  (vii) with respect to the Leasehold Mortgages, and as required
      by Agent,  non-disturbance  and attornment  agreements executed by each of
      the respective  landlords and their respective  mortgage holders,  each in
      form and substance satisfactory to Agent.

            Borrowers  shall have paid to the Agent an amount equal to all title
search and exam fees, mortgage and mortgage recording taxes,  intangibles taxes,
stamp  taxes and other  taxes  payable  in  connection  with the  execution  and
delivery of the Mortgages and Leasehold  Mortgages and the  obligations  secured
thereby and the  recording  of the  Mortgages  and  Leasehold  Mortgages  in the
appropriate land offices ("Real Estate Fees").

            (i) LEGALITY OF  TRANSACTIONS.  No   change  in applicable law shall
have occurred as a consequence  of which it shall have become and continue to be
unlawful  (i) for  Agent or any  Lender  to  perform  any of its  agreements  or
obligations  under  any of the  Loan  Documents  to  which  it is a party on the
Original  Closing Date or the Closing  Date; or (ii) for Borrower to perform any
of its agreements or obligations  under any of the Loan Documents to which it is
a party on the Original Closing Date or the Closing Date.

            (j) PERFORMANCE,  ETC. Each  Borrower  shall have duly and properly
performed,  complied with and observed  each of its  covenants,  agreements  and
obligations  contained in each of the Loan Documents to which each Borrower is a
party or by which such  Borrower is bound on the  Original  Closing  Date or the
Closing Date. No event shall have occurred on or prior to the Closing Date,  and
no condition shall exist on the Closing Date, which  constitutes a Default or an
Event of Default.

            (k) PROCEEDINGS AND DOCUMENTS. All corporate, governmental and other
proceedings  and consents in connection  with the  transactions  contemplated by
this  Agreement,  each of the  other  Loan  Documents  and all  instruments  and
documents  incidental  thereto  shall be in form and substance  satisfactory  to
Agent and  Lenders,  and Agent and each  Lender  shall  have  received  all such
counterpart  originals or certified or other copies of all such  instruments and
documents as Agent and each Lender shall have requested.

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            (l) COMPLIANCE  WITH LAWS. The borrowings  made under this Agreement
are and shall be in compliance  with the  requirements  of all applicable  laws,
regulations,  rules and orders, including without limitation,  the Environmental
Laws and the  requirements  imposed  by the Board of  Governors  of the  Federal
Reserve System under Regulations U, G and X, and by the SEC.

            (m) LEGAL  OPINION.  Agent and Lenders shall have received a written
legal  opinion or  opinions,  addressed to Agent and each Lender and dated as of
the  Closing  Date,  from  legal  counsel  for  each  Borrower,  which  shall be
substantially  in the form of attached Exhibit M hereto and which legal opinions
shall otherwise be acceptable to Agent and each Lender.

            (n) LEGAL FEES.  Borrowers shall have reimbursed  Agent for all fees
and  disbursements  of legal  counsel to Agent (in its  capacity  as Agent and a
Lender)  which  shall have been  incurred by Agent  through the Closing  Date in
connection with the preparation,  negotiation, review, execution and delivery of
the Loan Documents and the handling of any other matters incidental thereto.

            (o) PAYMENT OF CLOSING FEE.  Borrowers  shall have paid to Agent the
closing fee separately agreed to between Provident and Borrowers.

            (p) POST-CLOSING   AVAILABILITY.   After   giving   effect  to   the
consummation of the transactions  contemplated hereby, the sum of (i) Borrowers'
cash on hand, and (ii) unborrowed amounts of the Revolving Credit Loan, shall be
at least Five Hundred  Thousand  Dollars  ($500,000.00)  and Holdings shall have
delivered  to Agent a  certificate  as of the Closing  Date  demonstrating  such
excess availability.

            (q) UA ACQUISITION. On  the  Closing  Date,  Borrowers   shall  have
closed,  or be  prepared  to close the UA  Acquisition  on terms and  conditions
reasonably  satisfactory  to Agent and Agent and each Lender shall have received
satisfactory evidence such acquisition.

            (r) KEY MAN LIFE INSURANCE. Holdings shall have secured and assigned
to Agent the key man life insurance policy required to be maintained pursuant to
Section 6.3 hereof.

            (s) LIEN SEARCHES. Agent shall have received the results of a recent
search by a Person  satisfactory  to Agent,  of the UCC,  judgment  and tax lien
filings which may have been filed with respect to personal property of Borrowers
or any of their  Subsidiaries in the  jurisdictions  set forth on Schedule 5.21,
and the results of such search shall be satisfactory to Agent.

            (t) ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT.  Agent and Lenders shall have received
an environmental  survey and assessment by a firm of licensed  engineers in form
and substance  satisfactory to each, and the conditions disclosed in such survey
and assessment shall be satisfactory to Agent and Lenders.

            (u) CHANGES;  NONE ADVERSE.  From the date of the Current  Financial
Statements  referred to in Section 5.5 of this Agreement to the Closing Date, no
changes shall have  occurred 

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in  the  assets,  liabilities,  financial  condition,  business,  operations  or
prospects of Borrowers which,  individually or in the aggregate,  are materially
adverse to Borrowers.

            (v) FINANCIAL  STATEMENTS.  Each  Lender  shall have  received   the
financial  statements  referred to in Section  5.5,  certified  by an officer of
Holdings  and  each  Lender  shall  have  been  satisfied  that  such  financial
statements accurately reflect the financial status and condition of Borrowers in
all material respects.

            (w) SUBORDINATION   AGREEMENT.   Agent  shall   have   received  the
Subordination Agreement, executed by Holdings and CMNY.

      Section 4.2   CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO SUBSEQUENT  LOANS. The obligation of
the Lenders to make any Revolving Credit Loan or any disbursement of Term Loan B
shall be subject to the satisfaction,  prior thereto or concurrently  therewith,
of each of the  following  conditions  precedent  (PROVIDED  HOWEVER,  that  any
disbursement  of Term Loan B is further  subject to the conditions  precedent in
Section 4.3 hereto):

            (a) LEGALITY OF  TRANSACTIONS.  It shall not be unlawful (i) for any
Lender or the Agent to perform any of its agreements or obligations under any of
the Loan Documents to which such Person is a party on the Draw Date of such Loan
or  (ii)  for  any  Borrower  to  perform  any of  its  material  agreements  or
obligations under any of the Loan Documents.

            (b) REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES.  Each of the representations and
warranties made by or on behalf of Borrowers to the Lenders or the Agent in this
Agreement  or any  other  Loan  Document  (a) shall be true and  correct  in all
material  respects when made and (b) shall,  for all purposes of this Agreement,
be deemed to be  repeated on and as of the date of  Borrowers'  request for such
Loan, as the case may be, and shall be true and correct in all material respects
as of each of such  dates  (unless  specifically  stated  to  relate  only to an
earlier date, in which case such  representation  or warranty  shall be true and
correct in all material  respects as of such earlier date),  except, as affected
by the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents.

            (c) NO  DEFAULT.  No event  shall have  occurred on or prior to such
date and be continuing on such date,  and no condition  shall exist on such date
which constitutes a Default or Event of Default.

            (d) MAXIMUM CREDIT.  The making of such Revolving  Credit Loan shall
not result in the sum of all  outstanding  Revolving  Credit Loans exceeding the
Maximum Revolving Credit Commitment.

            (e) ADDITIONAL  REQUIREMENTS.    Compliance  with  the  Post-Closing
Requirements  from the Original  Credit  Agreement set forth on Schedule  4.2(e)
hereto.

      Section 4.3  CONDITIONS  PRECEDENT TO SUBSEQUENT  LENDING UNDER THE TERM B
LOAN.  Advances  under the Term Loan B shall be  subject  to the  discretion  of
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conditions  precedent in Sections 4.2 hereof,  and the proceeds thereof shall be
used  solely for such  purposes  as Agent may from time to time  approve and are
further subject to the satisfaction, prior thereto or concurrently therewith, of
each of the following conditions precedent:

            (a) Disbursements  under  the  Term B Loan  shall  be made  only in
connection with a Permitted Acquisition.

            (b) Disbursements  under  the Term B Loan  shall  be made  prior to
October 1, 2000.

            (c) Agent and each Lender shall have  received  certified  copies of
the purchase  agreement and all underlying and related documents with respect to
such Permitted Acquisition;

            (d) Agent and each  Lender  shall  have  received  updates  of such
corporate  documents more fully  described in Sections  4.1(a) through 4.1(d) as
Agent in its sole discretion may require.

            (e) immediately  prior to, and after giving effect to the pro forma
effect of such  acquisition,  no Default or an Event of Default has  occurred or
will occur;

            (f) Upon  completion of such Permitted  Acquisition,  on a pro forma
basis,  acceptable to Agent, and adjusted,  among others,  for all non-recurring
items,  Borrower will be in compliance with the terms of this Credit  Agreement,
including,  but not limited to, the  provisions in Article 7, and Sections 6.17,
8.1, 8.7.

            (g) Prior to, and after giving consideration to the acquisition on a
pro  forma  basis,  Borrowers  are and  shall  be in  compliance  with  all loan
covenants;

            (h) The ratio of Consolidated Senior Indebtedness for Borrowed Money
outstanding after such proposed funding to Consolidated EBITDA,  determined on a
proforma basis taking into account such transaction  using  historical  proforma
adjustments acceptable to Agent, shall not exceed 3.7 to 1.

            (i) Each  Borrower has executed and delivered to Agent a Term B Note
Supplement and such Loan  Documents as Agent requires  pursuant to the Permitted
Acquisition.

            (j) Agent  shall  have  received  evidence  in form  and  substance
satisfactory  to it  that  all  filings,  recordings,  registrations  and  other
actions, including without limitation, the recording of any Leasehold Mortgages,
or any Mortgages,  and the filing of duly executed financing  statements on Form
UCC-1,  necessary  or, in the opinion of Agent,  desirable  to perfect the Liens
created by the Security Documents shall have been completed.

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            (k) Agent shall have received such updated  information  required by
this Credit  Agreement,  including  but not limited to the searches  provided by
Section  4.1(s),  proof  of  insurance  and  revised  Schedules  to  the  Credit
Agreement.

            (l) REAL PROPERTY.  Where required by Agent, Agent and Lenders shall
have  received any or all of the  following,  and such  documents as Agent deems
necessary  relative  to the  Permitted  Acquisition,  substantially  in the form
required under, and as more fully described in Section 4.1, hereto:

                  (i)   Environmental Assessment;

                  (ii)  Mortgages, Leasehold Mortgages and Title Evidence;

                  (iii) Environmental   Indemnity   Agreement  or  an  amendment
                        thereto;

                  (iv)  Consents of the respective  landlords  consenting to the
                        mortgaging  of  the  respective   Borrower's   leasehold
                        estate;

                  (v) Non-disturbance and attornment agreements.

            (m) NEW  SUBSIDIARY  Any new   Subsidiary  created,  capitalized  or
acquired  relative to a Permitted  Acquisition  are subject to the provisions of
Section 8.1 hereof.

            (n) ADDITIONAL CONDITIONS PRECEDENT. In the Agent's sole discretion,
Borrower will provide to Agent and Lenders further documentation  including, but
not limited to conditions precedent set forth in Sections 4.1 and 4.2.

            (o) Borrowers shall pay all of Agent's costs and expenses  incurred,
including,  but not limited to, all legal  fees,  filing fees for UCC  financing
statements,  search  fees and Real  Estate  Fees (as  defined in Section  4.1(h)
hereof).


                                   ARTICLE 5.

                     GENERAL REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

      Each Borrower represents and warrants to Agent and each Lender as follows:

      Section 5.1   EXISTENCE, ETC.

            (a) Each  Borrower (i) is duly  organized,  validly  existing and in
good  standing  under the laws of the State of its  incorporation;  and (ii) has
full corporate  power and authority and full legal right to own or to hold under
lease its Property and to carry on its business.  Each Borrower is qualified and
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or  held  under  lease  by  it,  or  the  nature  of  its  business  makes  such
qualification  necessary or advisable.  Each Borrower is currently  qualified in
good  standing  as a  foreign  corporation  in each  jurisdiction  set  forth on
Schedule 5.1(a).

            (b) The authorized  Capital Stock of each Borrower and each of their
respective  Subsidiaries  is as set forth on  Schedule  5.1(b).  All  issued and
outstanding  shares  of  Capital  Stock  of each  Borrower  and  each  of  their
respective  Subsidiaries are duly authorized and validly issued,  fully paid and
nonassessable  and such  shares were issued in  compliance  with all  applicable
state and federal  laws  concerning  the issuance of  securities.  Except as set
forth on Schedule 5.1(b) and except for the Lien of the Pledge Agreements, there
are no outstanding  options,  rights or warrants  issued by any Borrower for the
acquisition of shares of the Capital Stock of such Borrower, nor any outstanding
securities or obligations  convertible  into such shares,  nor any agreements by
such  Borrower  to issue or sell such  shares.  Except as set forth on  Schedule
5.1(b) there are no options,  sale  agreements,  pledges  (other than the Pledge
Agreements in favor of the Agent), proxies, voting trusts, powers of attorney or
any other agreements or instruments binding upon any of Borrowers'  shareholders
with respect to beneficial or record  ownership of or voting rights with respect
to shares of the Capital Stock of any Borrower.

            (c) No Borrower has any Subsidiaries except as set forth on Schedule
5.1(c). All the Capital Stock of each Subsidiary are free and clear of all Liens
other than those in favor of Agent.

            (d) Except for stock of  Subsidiaries,  no Borrower owns or holds of
record  (whether  directly or indirectly) any shares of any class in the capital
of any  corporation,  nor does any  Borrower  own or hold  (whether  directly or
indirectly)  any legal and/or  beneficial  equity  interest in any  partnership,
business trust or joint venture or in any other unincorporated trade or business
enterprise.

      Section 5.2   AUTHORITY, ETC.

            (a) Each  Borrower has  adequate  power and  authority  and has full
legal right to enter into this  Agreement and each of the other Loan  Documents,
and to perform,  observe and comply with all of its agreements  and  obligations
under each of such  documents,  including,  without  limitation  the  borrowings
contemplated hereby.

            (b) The  execution  and  delivery  by  Borrower  of each of the Loan
Documents,  the  performance  by  Borrowers  of  all  of  their  agreements  and
obligations under such documents,  and the making by Borrowers of the borrowings
contemplated  by this  Agreement,  have been duly  authorized  by all  necessary
corporate  action  on the  part of each  Borrower  and do not and  will  not (i)
contravene any provision of such Borrower's  charter  documents or by-laws (each
as in effect from time to time);  (ii)  conflict  with,  or result in a material
breach of the terms, conditions or provisions of, or constitute a default under,
under  any  agreement,  trust  deed,  indenture,   mortgage  or  other  material
instrument  to which such  Borrower is a party or by which such  Borrower or any
other  Property  of such  Borrower  is  bound  or  affected;  (iii)  violate  or
contravene  any  provision of any law, rule or  regulation

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(including,  without  limitation,  Regulations  G,  T,  U or X of the  Board  of
Governors of the Federal Reserve System) or any order,  ruling or interpretation
thereunder  or any decree,  order or judgment  of any court or  governmental  or
regulatory  authority,  bureau,  agency or official (all as from time to time in
effect and applicable to such Borrower) in any manner that,  individually  or in
the aggregate  (i) would have an adverse  effect on the ability of a Borrower to
perform its  obligations  under any Loan Document to which it is a party or (ii)
would have a Material  Adverse  Effect;  (iv) require any  waivers,  consents or
approvals by any of the  creditors or trustees for  creditors of any Borrower or
any other Person;  or (v) result in the certain or imposition of any Lien on any
of the  property  of any  Borrower,  except  for  Liens  arising  under the Loan
Documents.

            (c) Other than filings  required to perfect the  security  interests
granted hereunder, no approval,  consent, order, authorization or license by, or
giving  notice to, or taking any other action with respect to, any  governmental
or  regulatory  authority  or agency is  required,  under any  provision  of any
applicable law:

                  (i)  for the  execution  and  delivery  by  Borrowers  of this
      Agreement, each Note, and the other Loan Documents, for the performance by
      Borrowers of any of the agreements and  obligations  thereunder or for the
      making by Borrowers of the borrowing contemplated by this Agreement or for
      the conduct by Borrowers of their business; or

                  (ii) to ensure  the  continuing  legality,  validity,  binding
      effect, enforceability or admissibility in evidence of this Agreement, the
      Notes and the other Loan Documents.

      Section 5.3 BINDING  EFFECT OF DOCUMENTS,  ETC. Each of the Loan Documents
which  Borrowers have or is to have executed and delivered as  contemplated  and
required to be executed and  delivered  as of the  Original  Closing Date or the
Closing Date by this  Agreement has been so executed and delivered by Borrowers,
and  each  such  Loan  Document  is or will be in full  force  and  effect.  The
agreements  and  obligations  of Borrowers  contained in each such Loan Document
constitute  or  shall  constitute  legal,  valid  and  binding   obligations  of
Borrowers,  enforceable  against  Borrowers in accordance with their  respective
terms,  except  as  may  be  limited  by  applicable   bankruptcy,   insolvency,
moratorium,  fraudulent  transfer,  preference  and  other  laws  and  equitable
principles  affecting the scope and enforcement of creditors'  rights generally,
and are also  limited by the  Lenders'  and Agent's  implied  covenants  of good
faith, fair dealing and commercially  reasonable  conduct,  and by the effect of
judicial  discretion on the availability of remedies and realization of benefits
under and enforceability of the Loan Document in all respects as written.

      Section 5.4   NO EVENTS OF DEFAULT, ETC.

            (a) No  event  has  occurred  and is  continuing,  and no  condition
exists, which constitutes a Default or an Event of Default.

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            (b) No default by any Borrower and no accrued  right of  rescission,
cancellation  or  termination  on the part of any  Borrower,  exists  under this
Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents.

      Section 5.5  FINANCIAL  STATEMENTS.  The  Consolidated  and  consolidating
balance  sheets and other  financial  statements of Holdings  dated December 31,
1996 previously  delivered to Agent ("Current  Financial  Statements") have been
prepared in accordance with GAAP and subject in the case of unaudited statements
to changes resulting from year-end adjustments.  The balance sheets contained in
the Current  Financial  Statements  present  fairly the  financial  condition of
Borrowers as of the dates thereof in  accordance  with GAAP.  The  statements of
income contained in the Current Financial  Statements present fairly the results
of operations of Borrowers for the fiscal periods then ended in accordance  with
GAAP.  There are no material  liabilities or  obligations,  secured or unsecured
(whether accrued, absolute or actual,  contingent or otherwise),  which were not
reflected in the audited  balance sheets of Borrowers or that as at such date or
in the footnotes  thereto,  and which should, in accordance with GAAP, have been
reflected in such balance sheets.

      Section 5.6  CHANGES;  NONE  ADVERSE.  Except as set forth on Schedule 5.6
attached  hereto as of the Closing Date, no changes have occurred in the assets,
liabilities  or  financial  condition  of Holdings  from those  reflected in the
Current Financial Statements, which, individually or in the aggregate, have been
adverse.  As of the Closing Date,  there has been no adverse  development in the
business or in the  operations  or prospects  of Holdings  since the date of the
Prospectus.

      Section 5.7  TITLE TO ASSETS;  MATERIAL   LEASES.   Each   Borrower    has
good,  sufficient  and legal  title to, or  leasehold  interest  in,  all of its
respective  Property and assets reflected in the Current  Financial  Statements.
Each  Borrower  enjoys  peaceful  and  undisturbed  possession  of  all  of  its
respective  Property subject to Material Leases and all such Material Leases are
valid  and in full  force  and  effect.  All  Material  Leases  are set forth on
Schedule 5.7.

      Section 5.8   INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY.

            (a) Schedule  5.8 hereto sets forth a complete  and correct list of
all Patents and  Trademarks  owned by each Borrower on the date hereof which are
material to each Borrower's business or financial condition.  Each Borrower owns
and  possesses the right to use, and has done nothing to authorize or enable any
other Person to use, any Patent or Trademark  set forth on said Schedule 5.8 and
all  registrations  set forth on  Schedule  5.8 are valid and in full  force and
effect. Each Borrower owns and possesses the right to use the respective Patents
and Trademarks.

            (b) Schedule  5.8 hereto sets forth a complete  and correct list of
all licenses and other user agreements included in the Intellectual  Property on
the date hereof.

            (c) (i) There is no violation by others of any right of any Borrower
with respect to any Patent or Trademark  set forth on Schedule 5.8 hereto;  (ii)
no Borrower is  infringing  in any respect  upon any Patent or  Trademark of any
other Person;  (iii) no proceedings  have been instituted 

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or are pending against any Borrower or, to any Borrower's knowledge, threatened,
and no claim against any Borrower has been  received by any  Borrower,  alleging
any such violation.

      Section 5.9   SUBORDINATED DEBT  AND  INDEBTEDNESS   FOR  BORROWED  MONEY.
Except as set forth on  Schedule  5.9 and except for the  Indebtedness  incurred
under this Agreement, no Indebtedness of any Borrower is secured by or otherwise
benefits  from  any  Lien on or with  respect  to the  whole or any part of such
Borrower's properties or assets,  present or future, except for Permitted Liens.
There exists no default or event or condition  which,  with the giving of notice
or passage of time, or both,  would constitute a default under the provisions of
any instrument evidencing such Indebtedness or of any agreement relating thereto
which would interfere with the priority of Agent's lien on the Collateral.

      Section 5.10   LITIGATION.  Except as set forth on Schedule 5.10, there is
no pending or to any Borrower's knowledge threatened action, suit, proceeding or
investigation before any court,  governmental or regulatory  authority,  agency,
commission or official, board of arbitration or arbitrator against a Borrower or
in which a Borrower is a participant  ("Litigation").  There are no  proceedings
pending or threatened against any Borrower which call into question the validity
or enforceability of any of the Loan Documents.

      Section 5.11  NO MATERIALLY ADVERSE CONTRACTS. No Borrower is a party to 
or bound by any forward purchase  contract,  futures  contract,  covenant not to
compete,  unconditional purchase, take or pay or other contracts,  agreements or
instruments  (whether written or oral) which materially restricts its ability to
conduct its business or,  either  individually  or in the aggregate has or could
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

      Section 5.12 TAXES AND TAX RETURNS, ETC.

            (a) Each Borrower and its  Subsidiaries  has timely filed (inclusive
of any  permitted  extensions)  or had filed on its behalf with the  appropriate
taxing authorities all material returns (including without limitation,  material
information returns and other material information) in respect of taxes required
to be filed  through the date  hereof.  The  information  filed was complete and
accurate in all  material  respects at the time of filing.  No Borrower  nor any
group  of  which a  Borrower  is or was the  common  parent  has  requested  any
extension  of time within which to file returns  (including  without  limitation
information  returns) in respect of any taxes other than routine  extensions  of
time for filing  returns  which have not involved the payment of material  taxes
(other than taxes immaterial in amount) beyond the due date thereof.

            (b) All taxes and assessments in respect of periods  beginning prior
to the date hereof have been timely paid, or will be timely paid, or an adequate
reserve has been established therefor, as reflected in the most recent financial
statements  of  Borrowers.  No  Borrower  nor  any of its  Subsidiaries  has any
liability for taxes in excess of the amounts so paid or reserves so established.

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            (c) No  deficiencies  for  taxes  have  been  claimed,  proposed  or
assessed by any taxing  authority or other  governmental  authority  against any
Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries and no tax liens have been filed. There are
no pending or threatened audits, investigations or claims for or relating to any
liability in respect to taxes,  and there are no matters under  discussion  with
any taxing authorities or other  governmental  authorities with respect to taxes
which are likely to result in an additional liability for taxes. No extension of
a statute of  limitations  relating  to taxes or  assessments  is in effect with
respect to any Borrower.

            (d) No Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries has any obligation under
any tax sharing agreement or agreement regarding payments in lieu of taxes.

      Section 5.13  CONTRACTS WITH AFFILIATES, ETC.

            (a) Except as set forth on Schedule  5.13(a) and except as permitted
by Section  8.14 hereof,  Borrower is not a party to or  otherwise  bound by any
written agreements,  instruments or contracts (whether written or oral) with any
Affiliate.

            (b) Except  as  set  forth  on  Schedule   5.13(b),   there  is  no
Indebtedness  for Borrowed Money owing by Borrower to any Affiliate nor is there
Indebtedness for Borrowed Money owing by any Affiliate to Borrower.

      Section 5.14  EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS.

            (a) Each Borrower and its ERISA  Affiliates are in compliance in all
material  respects with any applicable  provisions of ERISA and the  regulations
thereunder and of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, with respect to
all Employee Benefit Plans.

            (b) No Termination  Event has occurred or is reasonably  expected to
occur with respect to any Guaranteed Pension Plan.

            (c) The  actuarial  present value of all benefit  commitments  under
each Guaranteed Pension Plan does not exceed the assets of that Plan.

            (d) No  Borrower  nor any of its ERISA  Affiliates  has  incurred or
reasonably   expects  to  incur  any   withdrawal   liability   under  ERISA  to
Multiemployer Plans.

            As used in this Section,  the terms  "actuarial  present  value" and
"benefit  commitments"  shall have the  meanings  specified  in Section  4001 of
ERISA.

      Section 5.15  GOVERNMENTAL  REGULATION.  No Borrower is a "public  utility
company",  a "holding company" or a "subsidiary" or an "affiliate" of a "holding
company,"  as such  terms are  defined in the  federal  Public  Utility  Holding
Company Act of 1935,  as amended.  No Borrower is an  "investment  company" or a
company  "controlled"  by an "investment  company," as such terms are defined in
the Federal Investment  Company Act of 1940, as amended.  No Borrower is subject

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to regulation  under the Public  Utility  Holding  Company Act 1935, the Federal
Power Act, the Interstate  Commerce Act or the Investment Company Act of 1940 or
to any  federal or state  statute or  regulation  limiting  its ability to incur
Indebtedness for Borrowed Money.

      Section 5.16   SECURITIES  ACTIVITIES.  No  Borrower  is  engaged  in  the
business of  extending  credit for the  purpose of  purchasing  or carrying  any
"margin security" or "margin stock" as such terms are used in Regulation G, T, U
and X of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

      Section 5.17   DISCLOSURE.  Neither  this  Agreement,  any    other   Loan
Document, nor any other document,  certificate or written statement furnished to
Agent or any Lender by or on behalf of a Borrower for use in connection with the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement,  contains any untrue statement of a
material fact or omits to state a material  fact  necessary in order to make the
statements  contained  therein not  misleading as of the date of such  document,
certificate  or other  statement.  The  assumptions  upon  which  all  projected
financial  statements  which have been  delivered  to Agent and each  Lender are
based  as  stated   therein  and  provide   reasonable   estimations  of  future
performance.  There is no fact known to any  Borrower  which has or which  could
reasonably be expected in the future to have a Material Adverse Effect.

      Section  5.18  NO MATERIAL  DEFAULT.  No Borrower is in default  under any
material order,  writ,  judgment,  injunction,  decree,  statute or governmental
rule,  indenture,  agreement,  contract,  lease or other  instrument or contract
applicable  to it,  which  default  would  have a  Material  Adverse  Effect  or
adversely  effect  a  Borrower's  performance  of any  covenants  or  conditions
respecting  any of  its  Indebtedness,  and no  holder  of any  Indebtedness  of
Borrower has given notice of any asserted default thereunder, and no liquidation
or  dissolution  of a  Borrower  and no  receivership,  insolvency,  bankruptcy,
reorganization  or other  similar  proceedings  relative  to a  Borrower  or its
Property is pending or is to Borrower's knowledge threatened.

      Section 5.19   ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS.

            (a) Borrowers  and their  Affiliates  have  obtained  all  material
necessary  permits,  licenses,  variances,  clearances  and all  other  material
necessary approvals  (collectively the "EPA Permits") for use of the Real Estate
and the  operation  and conduct of its  business  from all  applicable  federal,
state,   and   local    governmental    authorities,    utility   companies   or
development-related  entities  including,  but  not  limited  to,  any  and  all
appropriate Federal or State environmental  protection agencies and other County
or City  departments,  public water works and public  utilities in regard to the
use of the Real Estate and the operation  and conduct of its  business,  and the
handling,  transporting,  treating, storage, disposal,  discharge, or Release of
Hazardous Substances,  if any, into, on or from the environment (including,  but
not limited to, any air, water, or soil).

            Each issued EPA Permit is in full force and effect,  has not expired
or been suspended,  denied or revoked, and is not under challenge by any Person.
Each Borrower is in compliance with each issued EPA Permit.

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            (b) Neither any Borrower,  the Real Estate,  nor any other  Property
owned or leased by a Borrower is subject to any material private or governmental
litigation,  threatened  litigation,  Lien or judicial or administrative notice,
order or action  relating to Hazardous  Substances  or  environmental  problems,
impairments  or  liabilities  with  respect  to the Real  Estate  or such  other
Property.

            (c) There has been no  "RELEASE"  (as defined in Section  101(22) of
CERCLA)  into,  on or from any Real Estate and no Hazardous  Substances  (except
"Household Waste" as that term is defined at 40 C.F.R.  261.4(b)(1)  (1990)) are
located  on or have been  treated,  stored,  processed,  disposed  of,  handled,
transported  to or from,  disposed  of upon the Real  Estate  during  Borrower's
ownership or into, upon or from the environment  including,  but not limited to,
any air,  water,  or soil.  No Borrower has allowed any  Hazardous  Substance to
exist or be treated, stored, disposed, Released, located, discharged, possessed,
managed,  processed, or otherwise handled on the Real Estate or in the operation
or conduct of its respective  businesses in material  violation of Environmental
Laws, and complied with all Environmental Laws affecting the Real Estate.

            (d) Borrowers and their Affiliates do not transport,  in any manner,
any Hazardous  Substances  except in the ordinary course of business in material
compliance with Environmental laws.

            (e) No Borrower has  received  written  notice of any  circumstances
which would result in any material  obligation  under any  Environmental  Law to
investigate  or  remediate  any  Hazardous  Substances  in, on or under the Real
Estate.

      Section 5.20  LICENSES AND PERMITS. Other than  Licenses and Permits,  the
lack of which individually or in the aggregate would not have a Material Adverse
Effect,  each Borrower  owns or possesses all material  Licenses and Permits and
rights  with  respect  thereto,  necessary  for the  conduct of its  business as
presently  conducted  and proposed to be conducted,  without any known  conflict
with the rights of others and, in each case,  free of any Lien not  permitted by
Section 8.9 of this Agreement.  All of the foregoing Licenses and Permits are in
full force and effect,  and each  Borrower is in  material  compliance  with the
foregoing  without any known  conflict  with the valid  rights of others  except
where the  failure so to comply  would not have a Material  Adverse  Effect.  No
event has occurred which permits, or after notice or lapse of time or both would
permit,  the revocation or termination of any such License or Permit,  or affect
the rights of any Borrower thereunder, except where such revocation, termination
or effect upon  Borrowers  would not  individually  or in the  aggregate  have a
Material Adverse Effect.

      Section 5.21   GENERAL COLLATERAL REPRESENTATION.

            (a) Borrowers  are the sole owners of and have good and  marketable
title to the Collateral,  free from all Liens, in favor of any Person other than
the Agent and except  Permitted Liens, and has full right and power to grant the
Agent a  security  interest  therein.  All  information  furnished  to the Agent
concerning the  Collateral is and will be complete,  accurate and correct in all
respects when furnished.

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            (b) No  security  agreement,  UCC  Financing  Statement,  equivalent
security or Lien instrument or continuation  statement  covering all or any part
of the Collateral is on file or of record in any public  office,  except such as
may have  been  filed (i) by any  Borrower  in favor of Agent  pursuant  to this
Agreement,  or (ii)  in  respect  of the  items  of  Collateral  subject  to the
Permitted Liens.

            (c) The  provisions of this  Agreement  are  sufficient to create in
favor of the Agent, as of the Original Closing Date, a valid and continuing lien
on, and first security interest in (subject to the Permitted  Liens),  the types
of the  Collateral  hereunder in which a security  interest may be created under
Article 9 of the UCC. UCC Financing Statements have been duly executed on behalf
of each Borrower and the  description  of such  Collateral  set forth therein is
sufficient  to  perfect  first  priority  security  interests  (subject  to  the
Bernardsville  Lien) in such  Collateral  in which a  security  interest  may be
perfected by the filing of UCC  Financing  Statements.  When such UCC  Financing
Statements  are duly  filed in the filing  offices  set forth on  Schedule  5.21
hereto,  and the requisite filing fees are paid, such filings will be sufficient
to perfect  security  interests in such of the  Collateral  described in the UCC
Financing Statements as can be perfected by filing (other than Equipment affixed
to real property so as to become fixtures),  which perfected  security interests
will be prior to all other  Liens  (except the  Bernardsville  Lien) in favor of
others and rights of others,  enforceable  as such as against  creditors  of and
purchasers  from each  Borrower  (other  than  purchasers  of  Inventory  in the
ordinary  course) and as against  any owner of the Real Estate  where any of the
Equipment  is located and as against any  purchaser  of such Real Estate and any
present or future creditor obtaining a Lien on such real property.

            (d) Upon  delivery to and  possession  by Agent of the Pledged Stock
pursuant  to the terms of the Pledge  Agreement,  Agent  shall  possess a valid,
first  priority  security  interest in such  Pledged  Stock in  accordance  with
Article 9 of the UCC; and

            (e) No  person  now  having  possession  or  control  of any of the
Collateral consisting of Inventory or Equipment has issued, in receipt therefor,
a negotiable bill of lading, warehouse receipt or other document of title.


                                   ARTICLE 6.

                        AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS OF BORROWER

      Each Borrower  covenants  with and warrants to Agent and each Lender that,
from and after the Closing  Date and until all of the  Obligations  are paid and
satisfied in full except as otherwise  expressly  consented to in writing by the
Requisite Lenders (unless the context otherwise requires):

      Section 6.1   REPORTS AND OTHER INFORMATION.

            (a) Borrowers  shall provide to the Agent as soon as available,  and
in any event within  fifteen (15) Business Days after the close of each month of
each fiscal year of Holdings,  balance  sheets of Holdings as of the end of such
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statements  of income and  statements of cash flow of Holdings and its divisions
and  Subsidiaries  for such month,  certified  by the chief  financial  officer,
principal  accounting  officer or chief  executive  officer of  Holdings  to the
effect that such financial statements,  while not examined by independent public
accountants,  reflect in his opinion and in the opinion of senior  management of
Holdings, all adjustments necessary to present fairly the consolidated financial
position  of  Holdings  as at the  end of such  month  and  the  results  of its
operations  for the month then ended in  conformity  with GAAP  (except  for the
absence of footnotes)  consistently applied,  subject only to year-end and audit
adjustments,  together with a certificate of such officer stating that as of the
date of such  certificate  that, to the best of his knowledge,  after reasonable
inquiry,  no event has occurred  which  constitutes an Event of Default or would
constitute an Event of Default with the giving of notice or the lapse of time or
both,  or,  if an  Event  of  Default  or  such an  event  has  occurred  and is
continuing,  a statement as to the nature thereof and the action which Borrowers
have taken or proposes to take with respect thereto,  and further setting out in
such detail as is reasonably required by the Lenders Borrowers'  compliance with
the requirements of Article 7 and Sections 8.9 and 8.12 hereof.  Notwithstanding
anything  in  this  Section  6.1(a)  to the  contrary,  Borrowers  shall  not be
obligated to deliver the monthly  balance  sheets and cash flow  statements  for
January and February until such time as the year-end  adjustments have been made
and the annual  audit has been  completed.  Together  with the  delivery of such
financial  statements  of  Holdings,  Borrowers  will  deliver  to the  Agent  a
Compliance  Certificate  and statements of income and  attendance  prepared on a
theater by theater  basis for such period,  together with a statement of Capital
Expenditures  (reasonably  identified  by theater  and  project)  and  corporate
overhead  expenses  for the period then ending for which such  reports are being
delivered.

            (b) Borrowers  shall provide to the Agent as soon as available,  and
in any  event  within  forty-five  (45)  Business  Days  after the close of each
quarter of each fiscal year of  Holdings,  balance  sheets of Holdings as of the
end of such quarter and consolidated and consolidating  statements of income and
statements of cash flow of Holdings and its divisions and  Subsidiaries for such
quarter and for the period commencing at the end of the previous fiscal year and
ending with the end of such quarter,  certified by the chief financial  officer,
principal  accounting  officer or chief  executive  officer of  Holdings  to the
effect that such financial statements,  while not examined by independent public
accountants,  reflect in his opinion and in the opinion of senior  management of
Holdings,  all adjustments necessary to present fairly the financial position of
Holdings (except for the absence of footnotes) as at the end of such quarter and
the results of its operations for the quarter then ended in conformity with GAAP
consistently applied,  subject only to year-end and audit adjustments,  together
with a  certificate  of  such  officer  stating  that  as of the  date  of  such
certificate  that, to the best of his knowledge,  after reasonable  inquiry,  no
event has occurred  which  constitutes a Default or an Event of Default or would
constitute  a Default  or an Event of  Default  with the giving of notice or the
lapse of time or both,  or, if a Default or an Event of Default or such an event
has occurred  and is  continuing,  a statement as to the nature  thereof and the
action which Borrowers have taken or proposes to take with respect thereto,  and
further  setting  out in such  detail as is  reasonably  required by the Lenders
Borrowers'  compliance  with the  requirements of Article 7 and Sections 8.9 and
8.12  hereof;  provided,  however,  that  delivery  of Form 10-Q to Agent  shall
satisfy the  requirements  of this  Section,  so long as Holdings is a reporting
company under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Together with the
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Holdings,  Borrowers  will  deliver to the Agent a  Compliance  Certificate  and
statements of income and  attendance  prepared on a theater by theater basis for
such  period,  together  with a statement  of Capital  Expenditures  (reasonably
identified  by theater and  project)  and  corporate  overhead  expenses for the
period then ending for which such reports are being delivered.

            (c) Borrowers shall provide to the Agent as soon as available and in
any event within one hundred  twenty (120)  calendar  days after the end of each
fiscal year of Holdings a copy of the annual financial  statements for such year
for Holdings,  including  therein a copy of the balance sheets of Holdings as of
the end of such fiscal year and  consolidated  and  consolidating  statements of
income and  statements of cash flow and  statements of  shareholders'  equity of
Holdings and its divisions and Subsidiaries,  certified without qualification by
the  Accountants,  together with a certificate of the chief  financial  officer,
principal  accounting  officer or chief  executive  officer of Holdings  stating
that, as of the date of such certificate, to the best of his knowledge and after
reasonable  inquiry,  no event has occurred  which  constitutes  a Default or an
Event of  Default  or, if a Default  or an Event of Default or such an event has
occurred and is continuing,  a statement as to the nature thereof and the action
which  Borrowers have taken or proposes to take with respect thereto and further
setting out in such detail as is reasonably  required by the Lenders  Borrowers'
compliance with the  requirements of Article 7 and Sections 8.9 and 8.12 hereof;
provided,  however,  that  delivery  of Form  10-K to Agent  shall  satisfy  the
requirements of this Section,  so long as Holdings is a reporting  company under
the Securities  Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.  Together with the delivery of
such  financial  statements of Holdings,  Borrowers  will deliver to the Agent a
Compliance  Certificate  and statements of income and  attendance  prepared on a
theater by theater  basis for such period,  together with a statement of Capital
Expenditures  (reasonably  identified  by theater  and  project)  and  corporate
overhead  expenses  for the period then ending for which such  reports are being
delivered.

            (d) Together with each delivery of financial  statements of Borrower
pursuant to  paragraphs  6.1(a),  6.1(b),  or 6.1(c),  Borrowers  will deliver a
management  report:  (1) describing  the  operations and financial  condition of
Holdings  for the period then ended and the  portion of the current  fiscal year
then  elapsed  (or for the  fiscal  year  then  ended  in the  case of  year-end
financials); (2) setting forth in comparative form the corresponding figures for
the  corresponding  periods of the  previous  fiscal year and the  corresponding
figures from the most recent  Projections  for the current fiscal year delivered
to the Agent pursuant to Section 6.1(e);  and (3) discussing the reasons for any
significant  variations.  The information above shall be presented in reasonable
detail and shall be certified by the chief  financial  officer or  controller of
Holdings  to the effect that such  information  fairly  presents  the results of
operations  and  financial  condition  of  Holdings  as at the dates and for the
periods indicated.

            (e) As soon as available and in any event not later than thirty (30)
days prior to the end of each fiscal year, Borrowers will deliver Projections of
Holdings for the forthcoming  three (3) fiscal years,  year by year, and for the
forthcoming fiscal year, month by month on a consolidated and theater by theater
basis.

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            (f) Borrowers shall provide to the Agent,  promptly after sending or
filing  thereof,  copies of all reports and  communications  which each Borrower
sends  to its  securityholders,  and  copies  of all  reports  and  registration
statements   which  each  Borrower   files  with  the  Securities  and  Exchange
Commission.

            (g) Borrowers shall provide to the Agent as soon as possible, and in
any event within  fifteen (15) days after a Borrower knows or has reason to know
that any Termination Event with respect to any Plan has occurred, a statement of
the chief financial officer or treasurer of each entity comprising such Borrower
describing such Termination Event and the action which Borrowers propose to take
with respect thereto.

            (h) Borrowers shall provide to the Agent as soon as possible, and in
any event within five (5) days after the  occurrence of a Default or an Event of
Default,  continuing  on the date of such  statement,  a statement  of the chief
financial  officer or  treasurer of Holdings  setting  forth the details of such
Default or Event of Default, and the action which Borrowers propose to take with
respect thereto.

            (i) If (and on each occasion that) any of the following events shall
occur:

                  (i)   any Loan  Document  shall  at any time be  terminated,
      canceled or rescinded for any reason whatever; or

                  (ii)  any  action  at  law,  suit in  equity  or  other  legal
      proceeding  shall at any time be commenced or threatened in writing by any
      person (1) to terminate,  cancel or rescind any Loan  Document,  or (2) to
      enforce any other Person's performance or observance of or compliance with
      any covenants, agreements or obligations under any Loan Document; or

                  (iii) any Person which is a party to or otherwise bound by any
      Loan Document  shall fail or refuse to perform,  comply with or observe or
      shall  otherwise  breach  any  one  or  more  of the  material  covenants,
      agreements or obligations under such Loan Document;

then Borrowers will promptly (and, in any event,  within five (5) Business Days)
after a Borrower  shall have first  become aware of the  occurrence  of any such
event, furnish to Agent written notice setting forth brief particulars thereof.

            (i) Borrowers shall provide the Agent with the following  additional
reports:

                  (i) as soon as available  and in any event within a reasonable
      time  after  the  close of each  fiscal  year of  Holdings  copies  of the
      portions of any and all management  letters from the Accountants,  if any,
      to the board of directors  of Holdings or to any other  entity  comprising
      Holdings regarding the various accounting practices and control procedures
      used by Holdings;


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                  (ii)   promptly   after  a  Borrower   becomes  aware  of  the
      commencement thereof,  notice of all actions, suits and proceedings before
      any court or governmental department, commission, board, bureau, agency or
      instrumentality,  domestic  or  foreign,  which  may  adversely  affect  a
      Borrower  and  which  are not  fully  covered  by  insurance  without  the
      applicability of any co-insurance provisions or which have not been bonded
      and in which either (A) the amount in controversy  exceeds Twenty Thousand
      Dollars  ($20,000)  for any single  proceeding or Fifty  Thousand  Dollars
      ($50,000) in the aggregate or (B) would cause a Material Adverse Effect;

                  (iii) as soon as  practicable  after becoming aware of a claim
      by any Person that a Borrower is in default  under any  agreement  entered
      into in connection with Indebtedness for Borrowed Money in excess of Fifty
      Thousand Dollars ($50,000), notice of any such claim or default;

                  (iv)  notice of any change in the  conduct of the  business or
      financial  condition of a Borrower promptly upon a Borrower becoming aware
      of any such change which would have a Material Adverse Effect;

                  (v) notice of any release of Hazardous  Substances on the Real
      Estate  that is in  material  violation  of  Environmental  Laws or  would
      require remediation  pursuant to applicable federal or state law or of any
      notification  having  been  filed with  regard to a release  of  Hazardous
      Substances  on  or  into  Real  Estate  under  the  Federal  Comprehensive
      Environmental Response,  Compensation and Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. Section
      9601, et seq., or the Federal  Resource  Conservation and Recovery Act, 42
      U.S.C.  Section 6901 et seq., or any other applicable  environmental  law.
      Such  notice  shall  indicate  the  steps  Borrowers  have or will take to
      remediate  all  hazardous  environmental  conditions if any such steps are
      required of it by applicable  Environmental Law and the estimated costs of
      such remediation; and

                  (vi) if (and on each  occasion  that) any  event  shall at any
      time occur or any condition shall at any time develop which  constitutes a
      Default or an Event of Default,  then, promptly (and, in any event, within
      five (5) Business  Days) after a Borrower shall have first become aware of
      the  occurrence or  development  of any such event or condition,  Holdings
      will furnish or cause to be furnished to Agent a written notice specifying
      the  nature and the date of the  occurrence  of such event or (as the case
      may be), the nature and the period of existence of such condition and what
      action Borrowers are taking or proposes to take with respect thereto.

            (k) Holdings   shall  also   provide   the  Agent  with  such  other
information relating to Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries (including,  without
limitation,  any  Employee  Benefit  Plan) as the  Agent  may from  time to time
reasonably  request. To the extent the Agent is obligated to do so by applicable
law,  rule  or  regulation,  it  may  deliver  to  any  regulatory  body  having
jurisdiction  over it, copies of the reports and other  information  provided by
Borrower to the Agent pursuant to this Section 6.1.

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            (l) Holdings shall provide the Agent reasonable prior notice of each
meeting of its board of directors  (and in any event not less than ten (10) days
prior to such  meetings)  and Agent shall attend any such meetings as it may, in
its discretion desire.

      Section 6.2   MAINTENANCE OF PROPERTY; AUTHORIZATION; INSURANCE.

            (a) Each Borrower covenants to keep and maintain all of its Property
in good repair, working order and condition,  reasonable wear and tear excepted,
and from time to time to make, or use all reasonable  legal remedies to cause to
be  made,  all  proper  repairs,  renewals  or  replacements,   betterments  and
improvements thereto so that the business carried on in connection therewith may
be properly and advantageously conducted at all times.

            (b) At its own cost and  expense,  each  Borrower  shall  obtain and
maintain  during  the  term  of  this  Agreement  (i)  insurance  against  loss,
destruction  or damage to its  properties as Agent may require from time to time
to fully  protect the Agent's and  Lenders'  interests in the  Collateral,  (ii)
insurance  against public liability and third party property  damage,  with such
insurance companies, in such amounts and covering such risks as are at all times
satisfactory  to Agent and naming Agent for the benefit of Lenders as mortgagee,
loss  payee and  additional  insured  as its  interests  may  appear,  and (iii)
insurance as required by the terms of the  Mortgages  and  Leasehold  Mortgages.
Each Borrower agrees to deliver to Agent upon request insurance  certificates or
policies  evidencing  compliance  with the  above  requirements.  Each  Borrower
covenants,  warrants and  represents  that it will not do any act or voluntarily
suffer or permit any act to be done  whereby any  insurance  required  hereunder
shall or may be suspended,  impaired or defeated.  In the event that any item of
Collateral  shall be lost,  destroyed  or  irreparably  damaged  from any  cause
whatsoever  during the term hereof,  Borrowers  agree to proceed  diligently and
cooperate  fully with Agent and Lenders in the  recovery of any and all proceeds
of  insurance  applicable  thereto,  and the carriers  named  therein are hereby
directed by Borrowers  to make payment for such loss to Agent,  on behalf of the
Lenders,  and not to any Borrower and Lenders  jointly.  If any insurance losses
are paid by check, draft or other instrument payable to a Borrower and Agent and
Lenders jointly, Agent may endorse the name of such Borrower thereon and do such
other things as it may deem advisable to reduce the same to cash. Subject to the
terms of the Mortgages and Leasehold Mortgages and provided Borrowers are not in
Default in any of their  Obligations  under any of the Loan Documents,  all loss
recoveries  received by Agent and Lenders upon any such insurance  shall be paid
by  Agent  and  Lenders  to  Borrowers  so long as such  proceeds  promptly  are
reinvested in Borrowers'  business.  Should a Borrower then be in default in any
of its  Obligations  to Agent or Lenders under any of the Loan  Documents,  such
cash  resources  may be  applied  and  credited  by  Agent  and  Lenders  to any
obligation,  subject to Section 2.7(b).  Each Borrower further covenants that it
shall  require  that the  insurer  with  respect to each such  insurance  policy
provide  for  thirty  (30)  days'  advance   written  notice  to  Agent  of  any
cancellation or termination of, or other change of any nature whatsoever in, the
coverage provided under any such policy.

      Section 6.3   KEY MAN LIFE  INSURANCE.  Holdings shall obtain and maintain
a key man life insurance policy covering A. Dale Mayo in an amount not less than
$2,500,000  and Holdings  shall maintain such insurance in full force and effect
until  the  Loans  have been  paid in full and all  

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financing agreements among Borrowers, Agent and the Lenders related thereto have
been terminated.  Holdings shall assign such policy to the Agent for the benefit
of itself  and the  Lenders  pursuant  to an  assignment  in form and  substance
satisfactory to the Agent with respect to such policy.

      Section 6.4   CORPORATE EXISTENCE.  Each  Borrower   shall   preserve  and
maintain its existence in the state of its  incorporation as of the Closing Date
and all of its rights, franchises and privileges as a corporation.

      Section 6.5   INSPECTION   RIGHTS.  At    any    reasonable   time,  upon 
reasonable notice, and from time to time Borrowers shall permit the Agent or any
Lender,  or any of their  agents,  representatives  or  current  or  prospective
participants in the Loans, to inspect the Collateral, to examine and make copies
of and  abstracts  from the  records  and  books of  account  of,  to visit  the
properties  of,  Borrowers and to discuss the affairs,  finances and accounts of
Borrowers with any of their officers, employees, agents or the Accountants.

      Section 6.6    PAYMENT  OF  TAXES  AND CLAIMS.  Each Borrower shall pay or
cause to be paid all taxes,  assessments and other governmental  charges imposed
upon its properties or assets or in respect of any of its franchises,  business,
income or profits before any penalty or interest accrues thereon, and all claims
(including,  without  limitation,  claims for  labor,  services,  materials  and
supplies)  for sums which have  become due and  payable and which by law have or
might  become due and  payable  and which by law have or might  become a lien or
charge upon any of its properties or assets,  provided that (unless any material
item of property  would be lost,  forfeited  or  materially  damaged as a result
thereof) no such charge or claim need be paid if the  amount,  applicability  or
validity  thereof is currently being contested in good faith and if such reserve
or other appropriate provision,  if any, as shall be required by GAAP shall have
been made therefor.

      Section 6.7    COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS.

            (a) Borrowers  will comply  with all  material  applicable  federal,
state and local laws, rules,  regulations and orders pertaining to the operation
of its business, paying before the same become delinquent all taxes, assessments
and governmental charges or levies imposed upon it or upon its income or profits
or its  properties,  and paying all lawful claims which if unpaid might become a
Lien upon any of its properties, except to the extent contested in good faith by
proper  proceedings  which  stay the  imposition  of any  penalty,  fine or Lien
resulting  from the  non-payment  thereof  and with  respect  to which  adequate
reserves have been set aside for the payment thereof.

            (b) Borrowers will promptly notify each Lender in the event that any
Borrower receives any notice, claim or demand from any governmental agency which
alleges that a Borrower is in material  violation of any of the terms of, or has
materially  failed to comply with any  applicable  order issued  pursuant to any
federal,   state  or  local  statute  regulating  its  operation  and  business,
including,  but not limited  to, the  Occupational  Safety and Health  Act,  the
Federal Comprehensive  Environmental  Response,  Compensation and Liability Act,
the  Resource  Conservation  and Recovery  Act and the Federal  Water  Pollution
Control Act.

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      Section  6.8   NOTICE  OF  OTHER   EVENTS.   Immediately   upon a Borrower
first becoming aware of any of the following occurrences, Borrowers will furnish
or cause to be furnished to Agent written  notice with full  particulars  of (i)
the  business  failure,  insolvency  or  bankruptcy  of any  Borrower;  (ii) the
rescission,  cancellation  or termination,  or the creation or adoption,  of any
material agreement or contract to which any Borrower is a party; (iii) any labor
dispute,  any  attempt by any labor  union or  organization  representatives  to
organize or represent  employees of any Borrower,  or any unfair labor practices
or  proceedings  of the  National  Labor  Relations  Board  with  respect to any
Borrower; or (iv) any defaults or events of default under any material agreement
of any Borrower or any violations of any laws, regulations,  rules or ordinances
of any  governmental or regulatory  body which  individually or in the aggregate
would reasonably cause a Material Adverse Effect.

      Section 6.9   COMMUNICATION WITH ACCOUNTANTS.  Each  Borrower   authorizes
Agent or any Lender to communicate  directly with the Accountants and authorizes
the  Accountants  to  disclose  to Agent or such  Lender  any and all  financial
statements and other information of any kind, including copies of any management
letter  or the  substance  of any oral  information  or  conversation  that such
Accountants may have with respect to the business, financial condition and other
affairs of Borrowers.

      Section 6.10   PAYMENT  OF    INDEBTEDNESS.   Borrowers  will   duly   and
punctually  pay or cause to be paid  principal and interest on the Loans and all
fees and  other  amounts  payable  hereunder  or under  the  Loan  Documents  in
accordance with the terms hereunder.  Borrowers shall pay all other Indebtedness
(whether  existing  on the  date  hereof  or  arising  at any  time  thereafter)
punctually in accordance with trade practices or within any applicable period of
grace except to the extent that any such  obligation  is contested in good faith
by proper  proceedings  or Borrowers  have provided Agent evidence that any Lien
resulting from the non-payment  thereof has been bonded or with respect to which
adequate reserves have been set aside for the payment thereof.

      Section 6.11   PERFORMANCE   OF   OBLIGATIONS   UNDER  CERTAIN  DOCUMENTS.
Borrowers  will duly and  properly  perform,  observe and comply with all of its
agreements, covenants and obligations under this Agreement and each of the other
Loan Documents.

      Section 6.12   GOVERNMENTAL CONSENTS AND APPROVALS.

            (a) Borrowers  will  obtain  or   cause  to  be  obtained  all  such
approvals,  consents,  orders,  authorizations  and licenses from, give all such
notices promptly to, register,  enroll or file all such agreements,  instruments
or documents promptly with, and promptly take all such other action with respect
to, any governmental or regulatory authority, agency or official, or any central
bank or other  fiscal  or  monetary  authority,  agency or  official,  as may be
required from time to time under any provision of any applicable law:

                  (i)  for  the  performance  by  each  Borrower  of  any of its
      agreements or  obligations  under the Notes,  this Agreement or any of the
      other Loan  Documents  or for the payment by Borrowers to the Agent at its
      Head Office of any sums which shall become due and payable by Borrowers to
      Agent or any Lender thereunder;

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                  (ii) to ensure  the  continuing  legality,  validity,  binding
      effect or  enforceability  of the Notes or any of the other Loan Documents
      or of any of the agreements or obligations thereunder of Borrowers; or

                  (iii) to continue  the proper  operation  of the  business and
      operations of Borrowers.

            (b) Borrowers  shall duly  perform   and  comply  with the terms and
conditions of all such approvals,  consents, orders, authorizations and Licenses
and Permits from time to time granted to or made upon Borrowers.

      Section 6.13   EMPLOYEE  BENEFIT  PLANS  AND  GUARANTEED   PENSION  PLANS.
Each  Borrower  will and will cause each of its ERISA  Affiliates  to (a) comply
with all requirements imposed by ERISA and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended,  applicable from time to time to any of its Guaranteed Pension Plans or
Employee  Benefit  Plans,  (b) make full payment when due of all amounts  which,
under the  provisions  of Employee  Benefit Plans or under  applicable  law, are
required  to be paid as  contributions  thereto,  (c) not  permit  to exist  any
accumulated  funding  deficiency,  whether or not  waived,  (d) file on a timely
basis all reports, notices and other filings required by any governmental agency
with  respect to any of its  Employee  Benefit  Plans,  (e) make any payments to
Multiemployer  Plans  required to be made under any  agreement  relating to such
Multiemployer  Plans,  or under  any law  pertaining  thereto,  (f) not amend or
otherwise alter any Guaranteed  Pension Plan if the effect would be to cause the
actuarial present value of all benefit commitments under each Guaranteed Pension
Plan to be less than the current value of the assets of such Guaranteed  Pension
Plan  allocable to such benefit  commitments,  (g) furnish to all  participants,
beneficiaries and employees under any of the Employee Benefit Plans,  within the
periods  prescribed by law, all reports,  notices and other information to which
they are entitled under applicable law, and (h) take no action which would cause
any of the Employee Benefit Plans to fail to meet any qualification  requirement
imposed  by the  Internal  Revenue  Code of 1986,  as  amended.  As used in this
Section  6.13,  the  term  "accumulated  funding  deficiency"  has  the  meaning
specified in Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Internal  Revenue Code,
and the terms  "actuarial  present value",  "benefit  commitments"  and "current
value" have the meaning specified in Section 4001 of ERISA.

      Section 6.14    FURTHER  ASSURANCES.     Each   Borrower   will   execute,
acknowledge  and deliver and, in the case of third party consents or third party
agreements, diligently seek to obtain the execution, acknowledgment and delivery
or  completion,  any and all such further  assurances  and other  agreements  or
instruments,  and take or cause to be taken all such other  action,  as shall be
reasonably requested by the Agent from time to time in order to give full effect
to any of the Loan Documents.  Further, each Borrower shall execute, acknowledge
and deliver and shall,  with  diligent and best  efforts,  cause to be executed,
acknowledged  and delivered  and, in the case of third party  consents,  seek to
obtain the execution,  acknowledgment  and delivery or  completion,  any and all
documents or actions in connection with the Post-Closing  Requirements set forth
on Schedule 4.2(e) hereto.

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      Section 6.15   INTEREST  RATE  RISK  MANAGEMENT.  Borrowers shall purchase
and  maintain  in full  force  and  effect  during  the term of this  Agreement,
effective on or before thirty (30) days  following the Closing Date, an interest
rate swap,  interest  rate cap,  interest  rate  collar or  similar  arrangement
designed to protect Borrowers against the effect of fluctuations in the Interest
Rate,  such  arrangement  and  related  agreements  to be in form and  substance
reasonably acceptable to Agent.

      Section 6.16   BORROWER'S    DEPOSITORY   ACCOUNTS.    Borrowers     shall
concentrate  all of their bank and  depository  accounts  with Agent,  including
without  limitation,  all demand deposit,  time deposit,  concentration and zero
balance accounts except that Borrowers may maintain  operating accounts with any
local financial institution,  provided Borrowers shall use their best efforts to
maintain such accounts with one or more of the Lenders.

      Section  6.17  USE OF  PROCEEDS.  Borrowers  shall  use all  Loan proceeds
disbursed only in accordance  with the purposes set forth in Section 2.9 of this
Agreement.

      Section 6.18   SUBSIDIARIES.  Each  Borrower shall pledge to the Agent for
the  ratable  benefit  of the  Lenders,  the  shares  of  Capital  Stock  of any
Subsidiary hereafter acquired or created.  Further,  each Borrower shall grant a
Mortgage or Leasehold Mortgage to Agent, for the ratable benefit of Lenders,  on
all Real Estate hereafter acquired by any Borrower.


                                   ARTICLE 7.

                               FINANCIAL COVENANTS


      Each Borrower  covenants  with and warrants to Agent and each Lender that,
from and after the Closing  Date and until all of the  Obligations  are paid and
satisfied in full except as otherwise  expressly  consented to in writing by the
Requisite Lenders (unless the context otherwise  requires),  PROVIDED,  HOWEVER,
that  for  the  purposes  of  financial   calculations  under  this  Article  7,
calculations  for any  Reference  Period shall be made using  actual  historical
financial data of any property acquired during said Reference Period,  including
without limitation, the Bergen Transaction, the UA Acquisition and any Permitted
Acquisition, to the extent applicable for such period:

      Section 7.1 INTEREST  COVERAGE RATIO.  Holdings shall not permit the ratio
of Consolidated  EBITDA to Consolidated  Cash Interest Expense for the Reference
Period  ending  on each  Computation  Date set  forth  below to be less than the
amount set forth opposite such Computation Date.

               ========================================================
                      COMPUTATION DATE                  RATIO
               --------------------------------------------------------
               Prior to December 31, 1997            2.0 to 1.0

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               ========================================================
                      COMPUTATION DATE                  RATIO
               --------------------------------------------------------

               December 31, 1997 and                 2.5 to 1.0
               thereafter
               ========================================================

      Section  7.2   DEBT  SERVICE  COVERAGE.   Holdings  shall  not  permit its
Consolidated ratio of Cash Flow to Fixed Charges for the Reference Period ending
on each  Computation  Date set forth below to be less than 1.25 to 1.00 for each
Computation Date.

      Section 7.3   MINIMUM NET WORTH.  Holdings  shall  not   permit        its
Consolidated  Net Worth at any time while the Loans are  outstanding  to be less
than Eight Million and 00/100 Dollars ($8,000,000.00).

      Section 7.4   DEBT TO EBITDA.  As of the last day of each fiscal  quarter 
of  Holdings,  the  ratio  of  Consolidated   Indebtedness  for  Borrowed  Money
outstanding  as of such date to  Consolidated  EBITDA for the twelve (12) months
ending on each Computation Date shall not exceed 4.2 to 1.0.

      Section  7.5  SENIOR  DEBT TO  EBITDA.  As of the last day of each  fiscal
quarter of Holdings,  the ratio of Consolidated Senior Indebtedness for Borrowed
Money  outstanding  as of such date to  Consolidated  EBITDA for the twelve (12)
months ending on each Computation Date shall not exceed 3.7 to 1.0.

      Section 7.6   LIMITATION ON CAPITAL  EXPENDITURES.  Borrowers shall not 
make or incur any Capital  Expenditures in the aggregate  during any fiscal year
in excess of One Million Dollars ($1,000,000.00).

      If any Borrower  enters into a Capital Lease with respect to fixed assets,
for  purposes  of  calculating  Capital  Expenditures  under this  Section,  the
aggregate  amount of all payments due for the entire term of such Capital  Lease
(excluding,  however,  the interest portion of capitalized lease payments or the
interest  portion  of any  other  permitted  Indebtedness)  shall be  considered
expended in full on the date that such Borrower enters into such Capital Lease.


                                   ARTICLE 8.

                         NEGATIVE COVENANTS OF BORROWER

      Each  Borrower  covenants  with and warrants to Agent and each Lender that
from and after the Closing  Date and until all of the  Obligations  are paid and
satisfied in full except as otherwise  expressly  consented to in writing by the
Requisite Lenders:

      Section 8.1   LIMITATION ON NATURE OF BUSINESS.  No Borrower  will  at any
time make any material change in the nature of its business as carried on at the
date  hereto  or  undertake,  conduct  or  transact  any  business  in a  manner
prohibited by applicable  law. No Borrower  shall create,  

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capitalize  or acquire any  Subsidiary  after the Closing Date without the prior
written consent of Lender. Lender's consent to the creation or capitalization of
a Subsidiary  shall be  conditioned  upon such New  Subsidiary  executing  (a) a
Joinder Agreement in form and substance  satisfactory to Agent, wherein such New
Subsidiary  agrees to be bound by the terms of this Amended and Restated  Credit
Agreement,  the Notes and the Loan Documents,  and (b) such additional  Security
Documents  as Agent shall  require to grant  Agent,  for the ratable  benefit of
Lenders, a first Lien on all of such New Subsidiaries Property,  subject only to
Permitted Liens.

      Section 8.2   LIMITATION ON FUNDAMENTAL  CHANGES.  No Borrower  nor any of
its  Subsidiaries  shall at any time  consolidate with or merge into or with any
Person  or  Persons  or  enter  into  or  undertake  any  plan or  agreement  of
consolidation  or merger with any  Person,  except  that any  Subsidiary  may be
merged with and into Holdings or any other Borrower.  No Borrower nor any of its
subsidiaries shall liquidate,  wind-up or dissolve (or suffer any liquidation or
dissolution),  or convey,  lease, sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of, in one
transaction  or  series  of  transactions,  all or  substantially  all  of  such
Borrower's  or  any  such  Subsidiary's  business  or  property  whether  now or
hereafter  acquired except to Holdings or another Borrower.  No Borrower nor any
Subsidiary  shall make or permit any  amendment or  modification  to its charter
documents or by-laws.

      Section 8.3  RESTRICTED  PAYMENTS.  No Borrower will or will permit any of
its  Subsidiaries  to directly or indirectly  declare,  order,  pay, make or set
apart any sum for any Restricted Payments except that:

            (a) Subsidiaries may make Restricted  Payments with respect to their
common stock to Holdings or to other Borrowers that are directly wholly-owned by
a Borrower,  but only to the extent necessary to permit such Borrower to pay the
Obligations;

            (b) A  Borrower  may  make  interest  payments  to  the  holders  of
Subordinated Debt but only to the extent set forth in and permitted by the terms
of the respective  Subordination  Agreement;  PROVIDED,  HOWEVER,  that Borrower
shall be entitled to pay in full at maturity the obligations  listed on Schedule
8.3(b) hereto;

            (c) Provided  there  is no Default  or Event of  Default  under this
Agreement  or  any  other  Loan  Documents,  Holdings  may  make  loans  to  its
Subsidiaries and the Subsidiaries may make distributions to Holdings but only to
facilitate  their normal and customary  operating and management  conditions and
procedures  and provided  that all such  Restricted  Payments are  documented in
accordance with standard and acceptable business practices.

      Section 8.4  LEASE OBLIGATIONS.   Borrowers  will  not become obligated to
pay rent under any leases or other rental agreements  (excluding  Capital Leases
and real estate  leases) under which the amount of the aggregate  lease or other
payments for all such  agreements or arrangements  exceeds One Hundred  Thousand
Dollars ($100,000.00) per screen for any 12 month period.

      Section  8.5  MANAGEMENT  COMPENSATION.  Neither  Holdings  nor any  other
Borrower  or  Subsidiary  shall  pay or  enter  into  an  agreement  to pay  any
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Compensation  in excess of the  amounts  set forth in the  Employment  Agreement
dated as of May 29, 1996 between A. Dale Mayo and  Holdings (as such  Employment
Agreement is in effect on the Closing Date) and the Managing and  Monitoring Fee
Agreement  dated  as of May 29,  1996  between  Holdings  and  MidMark  (as such
Managing  and  Monitoring  Fee  Agreement  is in  effect on the  Closing  Date);
provided,  however,  that upon a Default or Event of Default  hereunder or under
any other Loan  Document,  no Borrower  shall be  permitted to make any payments
under the Managing and Monitoring Fee Agreement  until such time as such Default
or Event of Default has either been  waived by Agent or cured by  Borrowers.  As
used  herein,  "Compensation"  shall  mean all  forms  of  direct  and  indirect
remuneration and include, without limitation,  salaries,  commissions,  bonuses,
securities, property, insurance benefits, personal benefits and contingent forms
of remuneration.

      Section 8.6    LIMITATION ON DISPOSITION OF ASSETS.

            (a) No  Borrower  or  any  of its  Subsidiaries  will  sell,  lease,
transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its property, business or assets ("Asset
Dispositions"),  or grant any  Person an option to  acquire  any such  property,
business or assets except for:

                  (i) bona fide sales of  Inventory to customers in the ordinary
      course of business  and  dispositions  of obsolete  equipment  not used or
      useful in the business;

                  (ii)  Asset   Dispositions   which   satisfy   the   following
      conditions:

                        (1) Borrowers  shall promptly notify Agent in writing of
            the terms of such Asset  Disposition,  including  within such notice
            the assets sold and the consideration received;

                        (2) the consideration  received is at least equal to the
            fair market value of such assets;

                        (3) if the consideration received is not solely in cash,
            all  non-cash  consideration  is  pledged to the Agent  pursuant  to
            documents satisfactory to the Agent so that the Agent has received a
            first  priority   perfected   security  interest  in  such  non-cash
            consideration to secure the Obligations;

                        (4)  the Net  Proceeds  of such  Asset  Disposition  are
            applied as required by subsection 2.6(e);

                        (5) after giving effect to the sale or other disposition
            of  the  assets  included  within  the  Asset  Disposition  and  the
            repayment of Indebtedness with the proceeds  thereof,  Borrowers are
            in  compliance  on a pro forma basis with the covenants set forth in
            Article 7,  recomputed  for the most recently  ended month for which
            information  is available and is in compliance  with all other terms
            and conditions contained in this Agreement; and

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                        (6) no  Default or Event of Default  shall  result  from
            such sale or other disposition.

            (b) Except as permitted  elsewhere in this  Agreement and except for
agreements  or  contracts  in  existence  as of the date of this  Agreement  and
disclosed to Lenders in the schedules  hereto,  Borrowers  will not and will not
permit any of their Subsidiaries  directly or indirectly to sell, assign, pledge
or otherwise  encumber or dispose of any shares of capital stock or other equity
securities in such Borrower or any such Subsidiary including warrants, rights or
options to acquire shares or other equity securities of any of its Subsidiaries,
except to Holdings or another Subsidiary of Holdings.

      Section 8.7  LIMITATION ON INVESTMENTS.  No  Borrower  shall  at  any time
make any  Investments of any kind whatever in any Person or Persons;  excluding,
HOWEVER, from the operation of the foregoing provisions of this Section:

            (a) Property  to  be  used  in  the  ordinary  course of business of
Borrower;

            (b) Assets  arising  from  the sale  of goods  and  services  in the
ordinary course of business of Borrower;

            (c) Investments in cash and Cash Equivalents.

            (d) Investments  in any  wholly-owned  Subsidiary  as  long   as its
Capital  Interest  is  pledged  to the  Agent  and  all of the  assets  of  such
Subsidiary are pledged to Agent upon terms and conditions satisfactory to Agent;

            (e) Investments in Holdings by any other Borrower.

      Section 8.8  ACQUISITION  OF MARGIN  SECURITIES.  No  Borrower  shall own,
purchase  or acquire (or enter into any  contract  to  purchase or acquire)  any
"margin  security" as defined by any regulation of the Federal  Reserve Board as
now in effect or as the same may  hereafter  be in effect  unless,  prior to any
such purchase or acquisition or entering into any such contract,  Agent and each
Lender shall have received an opinion of counsel  satisfactory to Agent and each
Lender to the  effect  that such  purchase  or  acquisition  will not cause this
Agreement or the Notes to be in violation of  Regulation G, T, U, X or any other
regulation of the Federal Reserve Board then in effect.

      Section 8.9  LIMITATION ON MORTGAGES, LIENS AND ENCUMBRANCES.  No Borrower
shall at any time create,  assume, incur or permit to exist, any mortgage,  Lien
or other  encumbrance  in  respect  of any of its  Property,  assets,  income or
revenues of any  character,  whether  heretofore  or  hereafter  acquired by it;
EXCLUDING,  HOWEVER,  from the  operation of the  foregoing  provisions  of this
Section (each a "Permitted Lien"):

            (a) Any Liens for  taxes,  assessments  or  governmental  charges or
claims the  payment of which is not at the time  required by Section 6.6 of this
Agreement;

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            (b) Any  statutory  Liens  of  landlords  and   Liens  of  carriers,
warehousemen,  mechanics, materialmen and other Liens imposed by law incurred in
the ordinary course of business for sums not yet delinquent;

            (c) Any Liens  (other  than any Lien  imposed by ERISA)  incurred or
deposits  made in the ordinary  course of business in  connection  with workers'
compensation, unemployment insurance and other types of social security;

            (d) Any easements, rights-of-way,  encroachments, leases, royalties,
restrictions and other similar title exceptions or encumbrances provided such do
not, in the aggregate,  materially  interfere  with the ordinary  conduct of the
business of any  Borrower or  materially  reduce or impair the value of the Real
Estate so encumbered;

            (e) Any interest or title of a lessor  under any Material  Lease set
forth on Schedule 5.7 annexed to this Agreement;

            (f) Liens  created in  connection  with the  incurrence  of purchase
money  Indebtedness not prohibited  hereby,  so long as such Lien encumbers only
the asset purchased, is in favor only of the Seller thereof, and does not secure
any other Indebtedness of any Borrower.

            (g) Liens granted to Agent for the benefit of Lenders;

            (h) The additional  existing  mortgages,  Liens and  encumbrances of
Borrowers,  listed and described,  but only to the extent  indicated on Schedule
8.9(h) annexed to this Agreement; and

            (i) The Liens with respect to  Indebtedness  of Borrower under or in
respect to any conditional  sales  agreements,  security  agreements,  equipment
leases in the nature of title  retention  agreements  or security  agreements or
other similar title retention  agreements entered into by Borrowers on, prior to
or after  the date of this  Agreement  in order to  secure  the  payment  of the
purchase price of any equipment  purchased,  leased or otherwise acquired by any
Borrower for use in the ordinary course of its business; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that
such  Borrower  is,  by the  terms  of each  of  Sections  8.13 or 8.14  hereof,
expressly permitted to enter into such agreement or lease.

      Section 8.10   NO ADDITIONAL  NEGATIVE  PLEDGES.  No Borrower will create
or  otherwise  cause or  suffer  to  exist  or  become  effective,  directly  or
indirectly,  (a) any  prohibition  or  restriction  (including  any agreement to
provide  equal or ratable  security  to any other  Person in the event a Lien is
granted to or for the benefit of the Agent) on the  creation or existence of any
Lien upon the assets of a Borrower; or (b) any contractual  obligation which may
restrict or inhibit the Agent's  rights or ability to sell or otherwise  dispose
of the  Collateral  or any part  thereof  after  the  occurrence  of an Event of
Default.

      Section 8.11    NO RESTRICTIONS  ON SUBSIDIARY DISTRIBUTIONS TO BORROWERS.
Except as provided  herein,  Borrowers will not and will not permit any of their
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create or otherwise cause or suffer to exist or become  effective any consensual
encumbrance or restriction of any kind on the ability of any such Subsidiary to:
(1) pay  dividends or make any other  distribution  on any of such  Subsidiary's
Capital Stock owned by a Borrower or any  Subsidiary of a Borrower;  (2) subject
to  subordination  provisions,  pay any  indebtedness  owed to a Borrower or any
other  Subsidiary;  (3)  make  loans  or  advances  to  Borrower  or  any  other
Subsidiary;  or (4)  transfer any of its property or assets to a Borrower or any
other Subsidiary.

      Section 8.12  LIMITATION ON  INDEBTEDNESS.  No Borrower  shall at any time
create,  incur or assume,  or become or be liable  (directly or  indirectly)  in
respect of, any Indebtedness for Borrowed Money, other than:

            (a) Indebtedness  arising  under  this  Agreement  and the other
Loan Documents;

            (b) Indebtedness described on Schedule 5.9;

            (c) Indebtedness evidenced by Subordinated Debt; and

            (d) Indebtedness  of  Holdings  as a  guarantor  of a lease PROVIDED
that Agent in its sole  discretion  has  designated  such lease as a  Guaranteed
Lease.

            (e) Indebtedness  representing the refinancing of Subordinated  Debt
or any part thereof  ("Refinanced  Subordinated  Debt") provided such Refinanced
Subordinated  Debt is on  terms  that  are in  Agent's  discretion,  at least as
favorable  to  Borrowers,  Agent  and  Lenders  as the  Subordinated  Debt to be
redeemed or refinanced thereby,  provided (i) that no covenant contained in this
Agreement or any other Loan  Document  would be violated on the  proposed  issue
date of the Refinanced Subordinated Debt after giving effect to (1) the issuance
of notes and or  debentures  in  connection  therewith,  (2) the  payment of all
insurance costs, commissions, discounts, redemption premiums, and other fees and
charges  associated  therewith,  (3) the  use of  proceeds  thereof  and (4) the
redemption,  repayment, or retirement of all Indebtedness of the Borrowers to be
redeemed,  repaid, or retired in connection therewith; and (ii) Borrowers, Agent
and the holders of the  Refinanced  Subordinated  Debt  execute a  subordination
agreement upon terms satisfactory to Agent.

      Section 8.13   LIMITATION  ON  SALES AND LEASEBACKS.  No Borrower shall at
any time,  directly or  indirectly,  sell and  thereafter  lease back any of its
respective assets or Property.

      Section 8.14   TRANSACTIONS WITH AFFILIATES. No Borrower shall at any time
enter into or participate in any agreements or transactions of any kind with any
Affiliates of any Borrower,  except  agreements or transactions  entered into in
the ordinary course of business upon fair and terms determined by Agent to be no
less  favorable to Borrower  than could be obtained in a comparable  arms-length
transaction with an unaffiliated Person.

      Section 8.15  NO  ADDITIONAL   BANK   ACCOUNTS.   Except  as  provided  in
Section 6.16,   Borrowers   shall not open,  maintain or otherwise have any bank
accounts.

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                                   ARTICLE 9.

                         EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES

      Section 9.1   EVENTS  OF  DEFAULT.  The  occurrence  of any one or more of
the following events shall constitute an "Event of Default":

            (a) PRINCIPAL AND  INTEREST.  Any principal  shall  not be paid when
due, or any interest or any other sum payable under this  Agreement or the Notes
shall not be paid within three (3) days after the same is due and payable;

            (b) REPRESENTATION AND WARRANTIES. Any representation or warranty at
any time  made by or on  behalf  of any  Borrower  in this  Agreement,  any Loan
Document or in any certificate,  written report or statement  furnished to Agent
or any  Lender  pursuant  hereto or  thereto  shall  prove to have been  untrue,
incorrect or breached in any material respect on or as of the date on which such
representation or warranty was made or deemed to have been made or repeated;

            (c) CERTAIN  COVENANTS.  Borrowers  shall   fail to comply  with the
covenants set forth in Sections  6.2(b),  6.4,  6.8,  6.10 or 2.9,  Article 7 or
Article 8 and such  failure or breach  shall  continue for more than thirty (30)
days from the date Borrower learns of such failure to comply;

            (d) OTHER COVENANTS. Borrowers shall fail to perform, comply with or
observe or shall otherwise  breach any other covenant or agreement  contained in
this  Agreement  and such failure or breach shall  continue for more than thirty
(30) days after the earlier of the date on which any  Borrower  shall have first
become  aware of such  failure or breach or Agent or any Lender shall have first
notified Borrowers of such failure or breach;

            (e) LOAN DOCUMENTS. The breach or a failure of Borrowers to perform,
comply  with or observe  any Loan  Document  or any other  agreement,  document,
instrument  or  certificate  executed  or  delivered  in  connection  with  this
Agreement  and if such  failure  shall  continue for more than fifteen (15) days
after the earlier of the date on which a Borrower  shall have first become aware
of such  failure  or breach or Agent or any Lender  shall  have  first  notified
Borrowers  of such  failure or breach,  or any Loan  Document  shall cease to be
legal, valid, binding or enforceable in accordance with the terms thereof;

            (f) LITIGATION.  Any action at  law,  suit in equity or other  legal
proceeding  to amend,  cancel,  revoke or  rescind  any Loan  Document  shall be
commenced by or on behalf of any Borrower or any other Person bound thereby,  or
by any court or any other  governmental  or  regulatory  authority  or agency of
competent  jurisdiction;  or any court or any other  governmental  or regulatory
authority or agency of competent  jurisdiction shall make a determination  that,
or shall issue a judgment,  order,  decree or ruling to the effect that, any one
or more of the  covenants,  agreements or  obligations of any Borrower under any
one or more of the Loan  Documents  are  illegal,  invalid or  unenforceable  in
accordance with the terms thereof;

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            (g) DEFAULT BY BORROWERS UNDER OTHER AGREEMENTS.  Any default by any
Borrower or any event of default shall occur under any agreement,  instrument or
contract relating to Indebtedness  individually or in the aggregate in excess of
One Hundred  Thousand  Dollars  ($100,000)  to which a Borrower is at any time a
party or by which any Borrower is at any time bound or  affected,  or a Borrower
shall fail to perform or observe any of its agreements or covenants  thereunder,
and such default,  event of default or failure shall continue for such period of
time as would  permit,  or as would  have  permitted  (assuming  the  giving  of
appropriate  notice),  holders of  Indebtedness  of a Borrower to accelerate the
maturity of all or any part of such Indebtedness under any such document;

            (h) INSOLVENCY.  Any  action  shall be  taken by or on behalf of any
Borrower  for the  termination,  winding up,  liquidation  or  dissolution  of a
Borrower; or any Borrower shall make an assignment for the benefit of creditors,
become  insolvent or be unable to pay its debts as they mature;  or any Borrower
shall file a petition in voluntary  liquidation or  bankruptcy;  or any Borrower
shall  file a petition  or answer or consent  seeking  the  reorganization  of a
Borrower,  or the readjustment of any of the Indebtedness of a Borrower;  or any
Borrower shall commence any case or proceeding  under  applicable  insolvency or
bankruptcy laws now or hereafter existing;  or any Borrower shall consent to the
appointment of any receiver, administrator,  custodian, liquidator or trustee of
all or any part of the Property or assets of a Borrower; or any corporate action
shall  be  taken  by any  Borrower  for  the  purpose  of  effecting  any of the
foregoing;  or by order or decree of any court of  competent  jurisdiction,  any
Borrower shall be adjudicated as bankrupt or insolvent;  or any petition for any
proceedings  in  bankruptcy  or  liquidation  or  for  the   reorganization   or
readjustment  of  Indebtedness  of a  Borrower  shall be  filed,  or any case or
proceeding  shall be commenced,  under any  applicable  bankruptcy or insolvency
laws  now  or  hereafter  existing,  against  any  Borrower,  or  any  receiver,
administrator,  custodian,  liquidator  or trustee  shall be  appointed  for any
Borrower or for all or any part of the  Property of a Borrower  and such case or
proceeding  shall  remain  undismissed  for a period of sixty (60) days,  or any
order for relief  shall be entered in a  proceeding  with  respect to a Borrower
under the provisions of the United States Bankruptcy Code, as amended;

            (i) JUDGMENT. Any judgment, order or decree for the payment of money
in excess of Twenty Thousand  Dollars  ($20,000)  shall be rendered  against any
Borrower,  and such  Borrower  shall not  discharge  the same or provide for its
discharge in accordance with its terms, or procure a stay of execution  thereof,
within Thirty (30) days after the date of the entry thereof;

            (j) ERISA.  Any  Termination  Event  shall  occur and as of the date
thereof or any subsequent date, the sum of the various  liabilities of Borrowers
and their ERISA Affiliates (such liabilities to include, without limitation, any
liability to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (or any successor thereto)
or to any other party under Sections  4062,  4063, or 4064 of ERISA or any other
provision  of  law  and  to  be  calculated  after  giving  effect  to  the  tax
consequences  thereof)  resulting from or otherwise  associated  with such event
exceeds Ten  Thousand  Dollars  ($10,000);  or any  Borrower of any of its ERISA
Affiliates  as an  employer  under  any  Multiemployer  Plan  shall  have made a
complete  or  partial  withdrawal  from  such  Multiemployer  Plans and the plan
sponsors  of such  Multiemployer  Plans  shall have  notified  such  withdrawing
employer  that such  employer has

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incurred a  withdrawal  liability  requiring  a payment  in an amount  exceeding
Twenty Thousand Dollars ($20,000);

            (k) CHANGE OF CONTROL. Any Change of Control shall occur;

            (l) MATERIAL  ADVERSE  CHANGE.  Any event or occurrence  which has a
Material Adverse Effect.


      Section 9.2  TERMINATION     OF    COMMITMENTS   AND    ACCELERATION    OF
OBLIGATIONS.  If any one or more of the  Events of  Default  shall at any time
occur:

            (a) The Agent may,  and upon the request of the  Requisite  Lenders,
shall,  by  giving  notice  to  Borrowers,   immediately  terminate  the  Credit
Commitments  of all of the Lenders in full and each Lender  shall  thereupon  be
relieved of all of its obligations to make any Loans thereunder;  except that if
there  shall be an Event of Default  under  Section  9.1(h)  hereof,  the Credit
Commitments  of all of the Lenders shall  automatically  terminate in full,  and
each Lender shall  thereupon be relieved of all of its  obligations  to make any
Loans hereunder.

            (b) The Agent may,  and upon the request of the  Requisite  Lenders,
shall,  by giving notice to Borrowers  (in this  Agreement and in the other Loan
Documents  called a "Notice of  Acceleration"),  declare all of the Obligations,
including the entire unpaid  principal of the Notes,  all of the unpaid interest
accrued  thereon,  and all other sums (if any) payable by  Borrowers  under this
Agreement,  the Notes, or any of the other Loan Documents, to be immediately due
and  payable;  except that if there shall be an Event of Default  under  Section
9.1(h),  all of the  Obligations,  including the entire unpaid balance of all of
the Notes,  all of the unpaid  interest  accrued  thereon and all other sums (if
any) payable by Borrowers  under this  Agreement,  the Notes or any of the other
Loan Documents  shall  automatically  and immediately be due and payable without
notice to Borrowers.  Thereupon,  all of such Obligations  which are not already
due and payable shall forthwith become and be absolutely and unconditionally due
and payable,  without any further  notice or any other  formalities of any kind,
all of which are hereby expressly and irrevocably waived.

      Section 9.3   REMEDIES. From  and after the  occurrence   of  an  Even  of
Default  which is  continuing  and which has not been waived by the Agent at the
direction of the Requisite  Lenders,  the Agent may, and upon the request of the
Requisite Lenders, shall:

            (a) subject always to the provisions of Section 10.9 hereof, proceed
to protect  and  enforce  all or any of its or the  Lenders'  rights,  remedies,
powers and privileges  under this Agreement,  the Notes or any of the other Loan
Documents  by action at law,  suit in equity or other  appropriate  proceedings,
whether for specific  performance of any covenant  contained in this  Agreement,
any Note or any of the other Loan  Documents,  or in aid of the  exercise of any
power  granted to Agent herein or therein.  In the event the Agent shall fail or
refuse to so  proceed,  the  Requisite  Lenders  shall be  entitled to take such
action as they shall deem  appropriate  to enforce  their rights  hereunder  and
under the other Loan Documents;

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            (b) remove from any  premises  where same may be located any and all
Inventory or any and all documents,  instruments,  files and records  (including
the copying of any computer records), and any receptacles or cabinets containing
same,  relating to the Accounts of each  Borrower,  or the Agent may use (at the
expense of Borrowers) such of the supplies or space of Borrowers,  at Borrowers'
place or places of  business  or  otherwise,  as may be  necessary  to  properly
administer  and control the Accounts of Borrowers or the handling of collections
and realizations thereon;

            (c) bring  suit,  in the name of any  Borrower or the  Lenders,  and
generally  shall  have all other  rights  respecting  said  Accounts,  including
without  limitation  the  right to  accelerate  or extend  the time of  payment,
settle,  compromise,  release in whole or in part any amounts  owing on any such
Accounts and issue credits in the name of any Borrower or the Lenders;

            (d) sell,  assign and deliver  such  Inventory  and Accounts and any
returned,  reclaimed or repossessed merchandise,  with or without advertisement,
at public or private sale, for cash, on credit or otherwise, at the Agent's sole
discretion,  and any Lender may bid-or become a purchaser at any such sale, free
from any right of  redemption,  which right is hereby  expressly  waived by each
Borrower;

            (e) (i) notify the Account Debtor on any Account or chattel paper of
Lenders' security interest therein; (ii) demand that monies due or to become due
be paid directly to Agent for the account of Lenders;  (iii) open any Borrower's
mail and collect any and all amounts due Borrowers  from account  debtors;  (iv)
enforce payment of the accounts receivable or chattel paper by legal proceedings
or otherwise; (v) exercise all of Borrowers' rights and remedies with respect to
the collection of the accounts receivable or chattel paper; (vi) settle, adjust,
compromise,  modify,  extend or renew the accounts  receivable or chattel paper;
(vii) settle,  adjust or compromise any legal proceedings brought to collect the
accounts  receivable  or  chattel  paper;  (viii)  to the  extent  permitted  by
applicable  law,  sell or assign the accounts  receivable  or chattel paper upon
such terms, for such amounts and at such time or times as Agent deems advisable;
(ix) grant waivers or indulgences with respect to, accept partial payments from,
discharge,  release,  surrender,  substitute  any customer  security  for,  make
compromise with or release, any other party liable on, any account receivable or
chattel  paper;  (x) take  control,  in any  manner,  of any item of  payment or
proceeds from any account  debtor;  (xi) prepare,  file, and sign any Borrower's
name on any proof of claim in Bankruptcy or similar document against any account
debtor;  (xii) prepare,  file, and sign a Borrower's name on any notice of lien,
assignment or  satisfaction  of lien or similar  document in connection with the
accounts  receivable or chattel  paper;  (xiii) endorse the name of any Borrower
upon any chattel paper,  document,  instrument,  invoice,  freight bill, bill of
lading or similar document or agreement  relating to the accounts  receivable or
chattel paper or inventory;  (xiv) use any  Borrower's  stationery  and sign any
Borrower's name to verifications of the accounts receivable or chattel paper and
notices thereof to account debtors;  and (xv) use the information recorded on or
contained  in any data  processing  equipment  or computer  hardware or software
relating to the  accounts  receivable,  chattel  paper,  inventory,  or proceeds
thereof to which any Borrower has access; and

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            (f) foreclose the security  interests  created  pursuant to the Loan
Documents by any available judicial procedure,  or take possession of any or all
of the Inventory and equipment of Borrowers  without  judicial process and enter
any  premises  where any such  Inventory  and  equipment  may be located for the
purpose of taking possession of or removing the same.

            The Agent shall have the right, without notice of advertisement,  to
sell,  lease,  or  otherwise  dispose  of all or any part of the  Inventory  and
Equipment  of  Borrowers,  whether  in  its  then  condition  or  after  further
preparation or processing,  in the name of any Borrower,  or the Lenders,  or in
the name of such  other  party as the Agent may  designate,  either at public or
private  sale or at any  broker's  board,  in lots or in  bulk,  for cash or for
credit, with or without warranties or representations, and upon such other terms
and conditions as the Agent in its sole discretion may deem  advisable,  and the
Agent or any other Lender shall have the right to purchase at any such sale.  If
any  such  Inventory  and  Equipment   shall  require   rebuilding,   repairing,
maintenance or preparation, the Agent shall have the right, at its option, to do
such of the aforesaid as is necessary, for the purpose of putting such Inventory
and Equipment in such saleable  form as the Agent shall deem  appropriate.  Each
Borrower  agrees,  at the request of the Agent,  to assemble such  Inventory and
Equipment  and to make it available to the Agent at places which the Agent shall
reasonably  select,  whether at the premises of a Borrower or elsewhere,  and to
make  available to the Agent the premises and  facilities  of Borrowers  for the
purpose of the Agent's taking  possession of, removing or putting such Inventory
and Equipment in saleable form.  However,  if notice of intended  disposition of
any  Collateral  is required by law,  it is agreed that five (5)  Business  Days
notice shall  constitute  reasonable  notification  and full compliance with the
law. The Agent shall be entitled to use all  intangibles  and computer  software
programs and data bases used by each Borrower in connection with its business or
in connection  with the  Collateral.  The net cash proceeds  resulting  from the
Agent's  exercise of any of the foregoing  rights (after  deducting all charges,
costs and expenses including reasonable attorneys' fees) shall be applied by the
Agent to the payment of the  Obligations,  whether due or to become due, in such
order as the Agent may elect.  Each Borrower  shall remain liable to the Lenders
for any  deficiencies,  and the Lenders in turn agree to remit to  Borrowers  or
their successors or assigns, any surplus resulting therefrom. The enumeration of
the foregoing  rights is not intended to be  exhaustive  and the exercise of any
right shall not preclude the exercise of any other rights, all of which shall be
cumulative.

      Section 9.4   NO IMPLIED WAIVER; RIGHTS CUMULATIVE.  No  delay on the part
of the Agent or any Lender in exercising any right,  remedy,  power or privilege
under any of the Loan Documents or provided by statute or at law or in equity or
otherwise  shall  impair,  prejudice  or  constitute a waiver of any such right,
remedy,  power or  privilege or be construed as a waiver of any Default or Event
of Default or as an acquiescence  therein. No right,  remedy, power or privilege
conferred on or reserved to Agent or any Lender under any of the Loan  Documents
or otherwise is intended to be  exclusive of any other right,  remedy,  power or
privilege.  Each and every right,  remedy,  power and privilege  conferred on or
reserved to Agent or any Lender  under any of the Loan  Documents  or  otherwise
shall be cumulative and in addition to each and every other right, remedy, power
or  privilege so conferred on or reserved to Agent or any such Lender and may be
exercised  at such  time or times and in such  order and  manner as Agent or any
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      Section 9.5 SET-OFF;  PRO RATA SHARING.  Each Borrower  hereby  confirm to
Agent and each Lender the  continuing  and immediate  rights of set-off of Agent
and each Lender with respect to all  deposits,  balances and other sums credited
by or due from Agent or such  Lender or any of the  offices or branches of Agent
or such  Lender to each  Borrower,  which  rights are in  addition  to any other
rights  which  Agent  or such  Lender  may have  under  applicable  law.  If any
principal,  interest  or other sum payable by  Borrowers  to Agent or any Lender
under the Notes or any of the Loan Documents is not paid to Agent or such Lender
punctually when the same shall first become due and payable,  or if any Event of
Default shall at any time occur,  any deposits,  balances or other sums credited
by or due from Agent or such  Lender or any of the  offices or branches of Agent
or any Lender to any  Borrower,  may,  without  any prior  notice of any kind to
Borrowers,  or compliance with any other  conditions  precedent now or hereafter
imposed by statute,  rule or law or otherwise (all of which are hereby expressly
and irrevocably waived by each Borrower),  be immediately set off,  appropriated
and applied by Agent or such Lender toward the payment and  satisfaction  of the
Obligations  (but not to any other  obligations  of  Borrowers  to Agent or such
Lender  until all of the  Obligations  have been paid in full) in such order and
manner  as  Agent or such  Lender  (in its sole  and  complete  discretion)  may
determine, subject, however, to the provisions of Section 10.13.


                                  ARTICLE 10.

                      CONCERNING THE AGENT AND THE LENDERS

      The Agent and the Lenders agree as follows:

      Section 10.1  APPOINTMENT OF THE  AGENT.    Each  of  the  Lenders  hereby
appoints  Provident to serve as Agent,  under this  Agreement and the other Loan
Documents,  and in such capacity,  to administer this  Agreement,  and the other
Loan Documents.

      Section 10.2  AUTHORITY. Each of the Lenders hereby irrevocably authorizes
the Agent (i) to take such action on such Lender's  behalf under this  Agreement
and the other Loan  Documents  and to exercise  such powers and to perform  such
duties  hereunder and thereunder as are delegated to or required of the Agent by
the terms  hereof  or  thereof,  together  with  such  powers as are  reasonably
incidental thereto;  and (ii) to take such action on such Lender's behalf as the
Agent shall consider  necessary or advisable for the  protection,  collection or
enforcement of any of the  Obligations.  The Agent will promptly  notify each of
the  Lenders as soon as it becomes  aware of any  Default or Event of Default or
any  failure by  Borrowers  to make any  payment in respect of any of the Notes,
PROVIDED,  HOWEVER, that Agent shall not be deemed to have knowledge of any item
until such time as Agent's officers  responsible for administration of the Loans
shall receive written notice thereof or have actual  knowledge of such event. If
any Lender  becomes  aware of any Default or Event of Default by  Borrowers,  it
shall promptly notify Agent thereof PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that Lenders shall not be
deemed  to have  knowledge  of any item  until  such time as  Lenders'  officers
responsible for administration of the Loans shall receive written notice thereof
or have actual knowledge of such event.

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      Section 10.3   ACCEPTANCE  OF  APPOINTMENT. The Agent  hereby  accepts its
appointment  as Agent for each of the Lenders under this Agreement and the other
Loan Documents, but only on the terms set forth in this Agreement, including the
following:

            (a) Agent  makes no  representation  as to the  value,  validity  or
enforceability  of this Agreement or of any of the other Loan Documents or as to
the  correctness  of any statement  contained in this Agreement or in any of the
other Loan Documents;

            (b) Agent may  exercise its powers and perform its duties under this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents  either directly or through its agents or
attorneys;

            (c) Agent shall be entitled  to obtain from  counsel  selected by it
with  reasonable  care advice with respect to legal  matters  pertaining to this
Agreement,  or any of the other Loan  Documents  and shall not be liable for any
action taken,  omitted to be taken or suffered in good faith in accordance  with
the advice of such counsel;

            (d) Agent  shall  not be  required  to use  its  own  funds  in the
performance  of any of its  duties or in the  exercise  of any of its  rights or
powers,  and Agent  shall not be  obligated  to take any  action  which,  in its
reasonable  judgment,  would  involve it in any expense or  liability  unless it
shall have been  furnished  security or  indemnity  in an amount and in form and
substance satisfactory to it; and

            (e) Agent,  in  performing  its  duties   and  functions  under this
Agreement and the other Loan  Documents on behalf of the Lenders,  will exercise
the same care which it normally  exercises in making and handling loans in which
it alone is interested, but does not assume further responsibility.

      Section 10.4   COLLATERAL MATTERS.

            (a) RELEASE OF  COLLATERAL.  Lenders  hereby  irrevocably  authorize
Agent,  at its option and in its  discretion,  to release any Lien granted to or
held by Agent upon any  property  covered  by the  Security  Documents  (i) upon
termination  of the Credit  Commitments  and  payment  and  satisfaction  of all
Obligations;  or  (ii)  constituting  property  being  sold  or  disposed  of if
Borrowers  certify to Agent that the sale or  disposition  is made in compliance
with  the  provisions  of this  Agreement  (and  Agent  may  rely in good  faith
conclusively  on any  such  certificate,  without  further  inquiry);  or  (iii)
constituting  property  leased to a Borrower  under a lease which has expired or
been  terminated in a transaction  permitted under this Agreement or is about to
expire  and which has not been,  and is not  intended  by such  Borrower  to be,
renewed or extended.  Upon request by Agent at any time, any Lender will confirm
in writing Agent's  authority to release  particular  types or items of property
covered by the Security Documents pursuant to this subsection 10.4(a).

            (b) CONFIRMATION OF AUTHORITY; EXECUTION OF RELEASES. Without in any
manner  limiting  Agent's  authority  to act  without  any  specific  or further
authorization  or  consent  by  Requisite  Lenders  (as set forth in  subsection
10.4(a)),  each Lender agrees to confirm in writing,  upon request

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by  Borrowers,  the  authority to release any  property  covered by the Security
Documents  conferred  upon Agent under  clauses (i) through  (iii) of subsection
10.4(a).  So long as no Event of Default  is then  continuing,  upon  receipt by
Agent of confirmation from the Requisite Lenders of its authority to release any
particular item or types of property covered by the Security Documents, and upon
at least five (5) Business Days prior written request by Borrowers,  Agent shall
(and is hereby  irrevocably  authorized by Lenders to) execute such documents as
may be necessary  to evidence the release of the Liens  granted to Agent for the
benefit of Lenders  herein or pursuant  hereto upon such  Collateral;  PROVIDED,
HOWEVER,  that (i) Agent shall not be  required to execute any such  document on
terms which, in Agent's  opinion,  would expose Agent to liability or create any
obligation  or entail  any  consequence  other  than the  release  of such Liens
without  recourse or  warranty,  and (ii) such  release  shall not in any manner
discharge, affect or impair the Obligations or any Liens upon (or obligations of
Borrowers,  in respect  of),  all  interests  retained by  Borrowers,  including
(without  limitation)  the proceeds of any sale,  all of which shall continue to
constitute part of the property covered by the Security Documents.

            (c) ABSENCE OF DUTY.  Agent shall have no  obligation  whatsoever to
any  Lender or any  other  Person to assure  that the  property  covered  by the
Security Documents exists or is owned by Borrowers or is cared for, protected or
insured or has been  encumbered  or that the Liens  granted  to Agent  herein or
pursuant  hereto  have  been  properly  or  sufficiently  or  lawfully  created,
perfected,  protected or enforced or are entitled to any particular priority, or
to  exercise  at all or in any  particular  manner  or  under  any duty of care,
disclosure  or  fidelity,  or  to  continue  exercising,   any  of  the  rights,
authorities  and powers granted or available to Agent in this Section 10.4 or in
any of the Loan Documents, it being understood and agreed that in respect of the
property covered by the Security Documents or any act, omission or event related
thereto, Agent may act in any manner it may deem appropriate, it its discretion,
given Agent's own interest in property covered by the Security  Documents as one
of the Lenders and that Agent shall have no duty or liability  whatsoever to any
of the other Lenders for so acting;  provided that Agent shall exercise the same
care which it would in dealing with loans for its own account.

      Section 10.5   AGENCY  FOR  PERFECTION.  Each  Lender hereby appoints each
other Lender as agent for the purpose of perfecting  Lenders'  security interest
in assets which, in accordance with Article 9 of the Uniform  Commercial Code in
any applicable  jurisdiction,  can be perfected  only by possession.  Should any
Lender (other than Agent) obtain possession of any such Collateral,  such Lender
shall notify Agent thereof,  and, promptly upon Agent's request therefor,  shall
deliver such  Collateral  to Agent or in accordance  with Agent's  instructions.
Each Lender  agrees that it will not have any right  individually  to enforce or
seek to enforce any Security Document or to realize upon any collateral security
for the Loans, it being  understood and agreed that such rights and remedies may
be exercised only by Agent.

      Section 10.6   APPLICATION  OF  MONEYS.  All  moneys realized by the Agent
under  the Loan  Documents  shall be held by Agent to apply in  accordance  with
Section 2.7(b) hereof.
 
      Section 10.7   RELIANCE BY THE AGENT.  Agent shall  be entitled to rely on
any  notice,  consent,  certificate,   affidavit,  letter,  telegram,  telecopy,
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instrument  or other  document  believed  by it to be genuine and correct and to
have been signed or sent by the proper  person or persons.  Agent shall deem and
treat the  payee of any Note as the  absolute  owner  thereof  for all  purposes
hereof until such time as it receives  actual notice of an assignment  permitted
hereunder of such payee's  interest,  together with the written agreement of the
assignee in form and substance satisfactory to Agent that such assignee is bound
by this Agreement as a "Lender" hereunder.

      Section  10.8  EXCULPATORY  PROVISIONS.  Neither  Agent  nor  any  of  its
shareholders,  directors,  officers,  employees or agents shall be liable in any
manner  to any of the  Lenders  for any  action  taken,  omitted  to be taken or
suffered  in good  faith by it or them  under  any of the Loan  Documents  or in
connection therewith, or be responsible for the consequences of any oversight or
error of  judgment,  except  for  losses  due to  gross  negligence  or  willful
misconduct of such Agent,  shareholder,  director,  officer,  employee or agent.
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing  sentence of this Section 10.8,
under no circumstances shall the Agent be subject to any liability to any Lender
on  account  of any  action  taken  or  omitted  to be  taken  by such  Agent in
compliance with the direction of the Requisite Lenders or all of the Lenders, as
the case may be as provided for hereunder.

            Agent shall not be  responsible  in any manner to any of the Lenders
for the due execution,  effectiveness,  genuineness, validity or enforceability,
perfection or recording of this  Agreement,  any of the Notes,  any of the other
Loan Documents or for any certificate, report or other document used under or in
connection  with this Agreement or any of the other Loan  Documents,  or for the
truth or accuracy of any recitals,  statements,  warranties  or  representations
contained  herein or in any  certificate,  report or other  document at any time
hereafter  furnished or purporting to have been  furnished to it by or on behalf
of a Borrower,  or any other  Person,  or be under any  obligation to any of the
Lenders  to  ascertain  or  inquire  as to  the  performance  or  observance  by
Borrowers, or any other Person of any of the covenants, agreements or conditions
set forth in this Agreement,  the Notes or any of the other Loan Documents or as
to the use of any moneys lent hereunder or thereunder.

            Agent  shall not be  obligated  to take any action or  refrain  from
taking any action under any Loan Document that might,  in its judgment,  involve
it in any  expense  or  liability  until it shall have been  indemnified  to its
satisfaction  by or received an agreement  to  indemnify  from each Person which
such  Agent   reasonably   believes  may  be  an  intended   recipient  of  such
distribution. If a court of competent jurisdiction shall adjudge that any amount
received and  distributed by the Agent is to be repaid,  each Person to whom any
such  distribution  shall  have been made  shall  either  repay to the Agent its
proportionate share of the amount so adjudged to be repaid or shall pay over the
same in such manner and to such Persons as shall be determined by such court.

      Section 10.9  ACTION BY THE AGENT. Except as otherwise  expressly provided
under this Agreement or in any other of the Loan Documents, Agent will take such
action, assert such rights and pursue such remedies under this Agreement and the
other Loan Documents as the Requisite Lenders or all of the Lenders, as the case
may be as provided for  hereunder  shall direct.  Except as otherwise  expressly
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obligated  to) take any action,  assert any rights or pursue any remedies  under
this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents in violation or  contravention
of any express  direction or instruction of the Requisite  Lenders or all of the
Lenders,  as the case may be as provided  for  hereunder.  Agent may refuse (and
will not be  obligated)  to take any  action,  assert  any  rights or pursue any
remedies  under this  Agreement or any of the other Loan  Documents  without the
express written direction and instruction of the Requisite Lenders or all of the
Lenders, as the case may be as provided for hereunder. In the event Agent fails,
within a commercially  reasonable time, to take such action, assert such rights,
or pursue such remedies as the Requisite  Lenders or all of the Lenders,  as the
case may be as provided for hereunder,  direct,  the Requisite Lenders or all of
the Lenders, as the case may be as provided for hereunder,  shall have the right
to take such action, to assert such rights, or pursue such remedies on behalf of
all of the Lenders unless the terms hereof otherwise  require the consent of all
the  Lenders to the  taking of such  actions.  All  notices  and other  material
information  required to be delivered by Borrowers to Agent  hereunder  shall be
delivered  within a  reasonable  time  (and in any  event not more than five (5)
days) after  Agent's  receipt of same by Agent to each Lender.  No Lender (other
than the Agent,  acting in its  capacity as Agent) shall be entitled to take any
enforcement  action  of any kind  under  any of the Loan  Documents,  except  as
expressly  provided in this  Agreement.  Action  that may be taken by  Requisite
Lenders or all of the Lenders,  as the case may be as provided for hereunder may
be  taken  pursuant  to a vote at a  meeting  (which  may be  held by  telephone
conference  call) of all of the Lenders,  or pursuant to the written  consent of
such Lenders.

      Section  10.10   AMENDMENTS, WAIVERS AND  CONSENTS.  Any provision of this
Agreement,  the Notes or the other Loan  Documents may be amended or waived upon
the consent of the Requisite Lenders,  and after such consent,  Agent, on behalf
of the  Lenders,  may  execute and  deliver to  Borrowers  a written  instrument
waiving or  amending  such  provision;  PROVIDED,  HOWEVER,  that  neither  this
Agreement, the Notes, nor any of the other Loan Documents may be amended, waived
or a variation therefrom or forbearance with respect to such variation consented
to without the written  consent of the Agent and all of Lenders which effect (i)
a change in the  Maximum  Revolving  Commitment;  (ii) a change in any  Lender's
Credit  Commitment;  (iii) a reduction in the interest rates or reduction of the
principal set forth in the Notes; (iv) the extension of the maturity date on the
Notes; (v) a change in the payment schedule or scheduled date for the payment of
or amount of any  interest or  principal;  (vi) any change in Article 7; (vii) a
change in this paragraph, the definition of Requisite Lender or any provision of
this Agreement  which  requires  consent or action of all the Lenders for action
thereunder;  (viii) a change in the obligations and liabilities of Agent; (ix) a
change which  increases the  obligations  of any Lender;  or (x) a change in any
fees or charges hereunder or in Sections 2.10 or 11.5 hereof.

      Section 10.11   INDEMNIFICATION. Each Lender agrees to indemnify Agent (to
the extent Agent is not promptly reimbursed by Borrower), in accordance with its
Participation Percentage from and against any and all liabilities,  obligations,
losses, damages, penalties,  interests, actions, judgments and suits of any kind
or nature  whatsoever  which may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted  against
Agent  relating  to or arising  out of this  Agreement  or any of the other Loan
Documents  or relating  to any action  taken or omitted by such Agent under this
Agreement or any of the other Loan  Documents,  PROVIDED that no Lender shall be
liable  for any  portion  of such  liabilities,  obligations,  

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losses, damages, penalties, interest, actions, judgments or suits resulting from
Agent's own gross negligence or willful misconduct.

      Section 10.12  REIMBURSEMENT  OF THE AGENT.  Each Lender further agrees to
reimburse  Agent,  in  accordance  with its  Participation  Percentage,  for any
reasonable  out-of-pocket costs or expenses incurred by Agent in connection with
its duties under this Agreement (including,  but not limited to, reasonable fees
and  disbursements  of  counsel,  travel and living  expenses  away from home of
employees  or  agents  of the Agent  and  compensation  of agents or of  experts
employed by the Agent to render services for the Lenders hereunder), but only to
the extent such fees,  disbursements,  expenses and  compensation  have not been
promptly  reimbursed to the Agent by Borrowers.  If any such sums are reimbursed
to the Agent by Borrowers  after one or more of the Lenders have  reimbursed the
Agent for such sums,  the Agent will refund such sums ratably to the Lenders who
contributed such sums.

      Section 10.13  SHARING  OF  FUNDS  RECEIVED.  Each Lender and Agent agrees
with Agent and each of the other  Lenders that if such Lender shall receive from
any  Borrower  or any other  Person or  Persons,  whether  by  payment  received
otherwise than in accordance with the terms of the Loan  Documents,  exercise of
the right of set-off,  counterclaim,  cross-claim,  enforcement of any claim, or
proceedings against a Borrower or any other Person or Persons, proof of claim in
bankruptcy,   reorganization,   liquidation,   receivership   or  other  similar
proceedings,  or otherwise,  and shall retain and apply to the payment of any of
the Obligations  owing to such Lender any amount in excess of its Pro Rata Share
of the  payments  received by all of the Lenders and the Agent in respect of all
of the  Obligations,  such  Lender  will  promptly  make such  dispositions  and
arrangements  with the other  Lenders and the Agent with respect to such excess,
either by way of  distribution,  PRO TANTO  assignment of claim,  subrogation or
otherwise,  as shall  result in each of the Lenders  receiving in respect of the
Obligations owing to it, its Pro Rata Share of such payments.

      Section  10.14  DEALING WITH  LENDERS.  Agent may at all times deal solely
with the several  Lenders for all purposes of this Agreement and the protection,
enforcement  and  collection  of the Notes,  including  without  limitation  the
acceptance and reliance upon any certificate, consent or other document executed
on behalf of one or more of the Lenders and the division of payments pursuant to
Sections  2.5,  2.6, 2.7,  10.6,  and 10.13  hereof.  The Agent shall not have a
fiduciary relationship in respect of any Lender by reason of this Agreement. The
Agent shall have no implied  duties to the  Lenders,  or any  obligation  to the
Lenders to take any action hereunder except any action specifically  provided by
this Agreement to be taken by the Agent.

      Section 10.15   AGENT AS LENDER.  Provident shall have, in its capacity as
a Lender under the Loan  Documents,  the same  obligations  and the same rights,
remedies,  powers  and  privileges  under  this  Agreement  and the  other  Loan
Documents as it would have were it not also an Agent.

      Section 10.16   DUTIES NOT TO BE INCREASED. The duties and  liabilities of
Agent under this Agreement and the other Loan  Documents  shall not be increased
or otherwise changed without its express prior written consent.  The Agent shall
have no duty to provide information to the Lenders except as expressly set forth
herein.

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      Section 10.17   LENDER  CREDIT  DECISIONS.  Each Lender  acknowledges that
it has,  independently  of and without  reliance  upon Agent or any of the other
Lenders,  made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement
and  the  other  Loan  Documents  to  which  it is a  party.  Each  Lender  also
acknowledges  that it will,  independently of and without reliance upon Agent or
any of the other Lenders, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or
not taking action under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents and in
determining the compliance or lack thereof by Borrower and any other Person with
any provision of any Loan Document or other document or agreement.

      Section 10.18   RESIGNATION OF AGENT.  Provident and  any  successor Agent
may resign as such at any time by giving thirty (30) days' prior written  notice
of resignation to each Lender and Borrowers, such resignation to be effective on
the date  which is  specified  in such  notice.  Upon  any such  resignation  by
Provident as Agent, or in the event the office of Agent shall thereafter  become
vacant for any other  reason,  the  Requisite  Lenders shall appoint a successor
Agent,  by an instrument in writing signed by such Lenders and delivered to such
successor Agent and Borrowers  whereupon,  such successor Agent shall succeed to
all of the rights and obligations of the retiring Agent as if originally  named.
The  retiring  Agent shall duly assign,  transfer and deliver to such  successor
Agent  all  moneys  at the  time  held by the  retiring  Agent  hereunder  after
deducting therefrom its expenses for which it is entitled to be reimbursed. Upon
such  succession  of any such  successor  Agent,  the  retiring  Agent  shall be
discharged  from its  duties  and  obligations  hereunder,  except for its gross
negligence  or willful  misconduct  arising  prior to its  retirement or removal
hereunder.  After any Agent's  resignation,  the  provisions  of this Section 10
shall  continue  in effect for its  benefit in respect of any  actions  taken or
omitted to be taken by it while it was acting as Agent.

      Section 10.19     ASSIGNMENT OF NOTES; PARTICIPATION.

            (a) Each Lender may, with concurrent notice to Agent,  assign to one
or more banks or other financial institutions all or a portion of its rights and
obligations  under this Amended and  Restated  Credit  Agreement  and the Notes;
PROVIDED that (i) for each such  assignment,  the parties  thereto shall execute
and  deliver  to Agent  an  assignment  and  assumption  agreement,  in form and
substance  acceptable  to  Agent,  together  with  any  Notes  subject  to  such
assignment,  and (ii) no such  assignment  shall reduce the  assigning  Lender's
Credit Commitment to less than Fifty-One Percent (51%) of such Lender's original
Credit Commitment  without the consent of Agent,  unless such assignment is to a
then-current  holder of a Note,  provided  that the  number of  Lenders  holding
rights  hereunder shall not exceed five (5) at any one time. Upon such execution
and delivery of such  assignment and  assumption  agreement to Agent in form and
substance satisfactory to Agent and the payment by the Assigning Lender to Agent
of a  processing  and  administration  fee of  $3,500,  from and  after the date
specified as the effective date in such Agreement (the "Acceptance  Date"),  (x)
the assignee  thereunder shall be a party hereto, and, to the extent that rights
and  obligations  hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such agreement,
such assignee shall have the rights and  obligations  of a Lender  hereunder and
(y) the assignor  thereunder  shall,  to the extent that rights and  obligations
hereunder  have been assigned by it pursuant to such  agreement,  relinquish its
rights  (other than any rights it may have  pursuant to Section  11.5 which will
survive) and be released from the  obligations  so assigned under this Agreement
(and, in the case of an assignment  covering all or 



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the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's rights and obligations under this
Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto).

            (b) Each Lender may sell  participations of up to forty-nine percent
(49%) of its  rights and  obligations  under the Loan  Documents  to one or more
banks or other entities  (including,  without limitation,  up to such portion of
its  Credit  Commitment,  the  Loans  owing  to it,  and the  Note  held by it);
PROVIDED,  HOWEVER,  that (i) such Lenders' obligations under the Loan Documents
(including,  without limitation,  its Credit Commitment to Borrowers  hereunder)
shall remain unchanged,  (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the
other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations,  (iii) such Lender
shall remain the holder of any such Note for all purposes of the Loan Documents,
(iv) the  participating  banks or other  entities  shall be entitled to the cost
protection  provisions of Sections 2.10 and 11.5 hereof, but a participant shall
not be entitled to receive pursuant to such provisions an amount larger than its
share of the amount to which the Lender granting such  participation  would have
been entitled, (v) Borrowers,  the Agent and the other Lenders shall continue to
deal  solely and  directly  with such  selling  Lender in  connection  with such
Lender's  rights  and  obligations  under the Loan  Documents,  and (vi) no such
transfer  shall  include the  transfer of any of such  Lender's  rights to grant
consents or waivers or approve amendments or modifications to the Loan Documents
except with respect to those items  requiring the action of or consent by all of
the Lenders or affecting the rights and  obligations of Agent.  It is understood
and agreed  that each  Lender may share any and all  information  received by it
from or on behalf of any Borrower pursuant to this Agreement or any of the other
Loan Documents with any participant or prospective participant of such Lender.

                                   ARTICLE 11.

                        PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION

      Section 11.1   TERM OF  AGREEMENT.  This Agreement  shall continue in full
force and  effect  and the  duties,  covenants,  and  liabilities  of  Borrowers
hereunder and all the terms, conditions,  and provisions hereof relating thereto
shall  continue to be fully  operative  until all  Obligations to Agent and each
Lender have been satisfied in full.

      Section 11.2   NOTICES.

            (a) All notices and other communications  pursuant to this Agreement
shall be in  writing,  either  delivered  in hand or sent by  first-class  mail,
postage  prepaid,  or sent  by  telex,  telecopier,  facsimile  transmission  or
telegraph, addressed as follows:

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                  (i)   If to Borrowers, at:

                        Clearview Cinema Group, Inc.
                        7 Waverly Place
                        Madison, New Jersey 07940
                        Attn: A. Dale Mayo, President
                        Fax Number: (201) 377-4303

                        with copies to:

                        Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP
                        1251 Avenue of the Americas
                        New York, New York 10020
                        Attn: Warren H. Colodner, Esq.
                        Fax Number: (212) 536-3901

                  (ii)  If to Agent, at:

                        The Provident Bank
                        One East Fourth Street
                        Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
                        Attn: Christopher B. Gribble
                        Fax Number: (513) 579-2858

                        with a copy to:

                        Keating, Muething & Klekamp
                        1800 Provident Tower
                        One East Fourth Street
                        Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
                        Attn:  J. David Rosenberg, Esq.
                        Fax Number:  (513) 579-6457

                  (iii) If to a Lender, at such address set forth on Schedule 1;
                        or to such other  addresses  or by way of such telex and
                        other numbers as any party hereto shall have  designated
                        in a written notice to the other parties hereto.

            (b) Except as otherwise  expressly  provided  herein,  any notice or
other communication  pursuant to this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall
be  deemed to have been duly  given or made and to have  become  effective  when
delivered  in  hand  to the  party  to  which  it is  directed,  or,  if sent by
first-class  mail,  postage  prepaid,   or  by  telex,   telecopier,   facsimile
transmission  or telegraph,  and properly  addressed in accordance  with Section
11.2(a),  (i) when  

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received by the addressee; or (ii) if sent by first class mail, postage prepaid,
on the third (3rd)  Business  Day  following  the day of the  dispatch  thereof,
whichever of (i) or (ii) shall be the earlier.

      Section  11.3  SURVIVAL  OF   REPRESENTATIONS.   All  representations  and
warranties made by or on behalf of any Borrower in this Agreement, or any of the
other Loan Documents  shall be deemed to have been relied upon by Agent and each
Lender  notwithstanding  any investigation made by Agent or any Lender and shall
survive the making of each of the Loans.

      Section  11.4  AMENDMENTS.  Each of the Loan  Documents  may be  modified,
amended or  supplemented  in any respect  whatever,  only with the prior written
consent or approval of Agent and the Requisite Lenders or all of the Lenders (as
the case may be) and each other Person (other than a Lender) which is a party to
such Loan Document, all in accordance with the terms of Section 10.10 hereof.

      Section 11.5   COSTS, EXPENSES, TAXES AND INDEMNIFICATION.

            (a) Each Borrower  absolutely and  unconditionally  agrees to pay to
the Agent,  for the  respective  pro rata  account of the Agent and each Lender,
upon  demand  by Agent or any  Lender  at any time and as often as the  occasion
therefor may require, whether or not all or any of the transactions contemplated
by any of the Loan  Documents  are  ultimately  consummated  (i) all  reasonable
out-of-pocket  costs  and  expenses  which  shall  at any  time be  incurred  or
sustained by Agent or any of its directors,  officers,  employees or agents as a
consequence  of, on account of, in relation to or any way in connection with the
preparation,  negotiation,  execution and delivery of the Loan Documents and the
perfection and continuation of the rights of the Lenders and Agent in connection
with the Loans, as well as the preparation,  negotiation, execution, or delivery
or in connection with the amendment or modification of any of the Loan Documents
or as a  consequence  of, on account of, in relation to or any way in connection
with the granting by Agent or any of the Lenders of any  consents,  approvals or
waivers  under  any of  the  Loan  Documents  including,  but  not  limited  to,
reasonable   attorneys'  fees  and   disbursements;   and  (ii)  all  reasonable
out-of-pocket  costs and expenses  which shall be incurred or sustained by Agent
or any of the Lenders or any of their directors,  officers,  employees or agents
as a consequence of, on account of, in relation to or any way in connection with
the exercise,  protection or enforcement (whether or not suit is instituted) any
of its rights, remedies, powers or privileges under any of the Loan Documents or
in connection with any litigation,  proceeding or dispute in any respect related
to any of the relationships under, or any of the Loan Documents (including,  but
not limited to, all of the reasonable  fees and  disbursements  of  consultants,
legal advisers, accountants, experts and agents for Agent or any of the Lenders,
the  reasonable  travel  and  living  expenses  away  from  home  of  employees,
consultants,  experts  or  agents  of  Agent  or  any of the  Lenders,  and  the
reasonable fees of agents,  consultants and experts not in the full-time  employ
of Agent or any of the Lenders for  services  rendered on behalf of Agent or any
of the Lenders).

            (b) Each Borrower shall absolutely and unconditionally indemnify and
hold harmless Agent and each Lender against any and all claims,  demands, suits,
actions, causes of action, damages,  losses,  settlement payments,  obligations,
costs,  expenses and all other liabilities

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whatsoever  except for claims arising out of or related to the gross  negligence
or wilful  misconduct of Agent or any Lender which shall at any time or times be
incurred or  sustained  by Agent or any Lender or by any of their  shareholders,
directors,  officers, employees,  subsidiaries,  Affiliates or agents on account
of, or in relation to, or in any way in connection with, any of the arrangements
or transactions  contemplated by, associated with or ancillary to this Agreement
or  any  of  the  other  Loan  Documents,  whether  or  not  all  or  any of the
transactions contemplated by, associated with or ancillary to this Agreement, or
any of such Loan Documents are ultimately consummated.

            (c) Each Borrower hereby covenants and agrees that any sums expended
by Agent or any Lender  which Agent or any Lender is  entitled to be  reimbursed
for pursuant to this Section  11.5,  shall be  immediately  due and payable upon
demand by Agent or any Lender,  and shall bear interest at the Default  Interest
Rate  applicable to Term Loan B from the date Agent or any such Lender  incurred
such  expense  until  the  date  such  payment  is made in full to Agent or such
Lender.

      Section 11.6   LANGUAGE.   All    notices,   applications,   certificates,
reports,  financial statements and other financial  information,  correspondence
and all other  communications  from Borrowers to Agent or any Lender pursuant to
this  Agreement  or any of the  other  Loan  Documents  shall be in the  English
language or shall be accompanied by an English  translation  thereof  completely
satisfactory to Agent or such Lender.

      Section 11.7    BINDING EFFECT;  ASSIGNMENT.   This   Agreement  shall  be
binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective
successors  in title and assigns;  PROVIDED,  HOWEVER,  that (i) no Borrower may
assign or delegate any of its rights or  obligations  hereunder to any Person or
Persons  without the express prior  written  consent of the Agent and all of the
Lenders;  and (ii) no Lender may  assign or  delegate  its rights or  obligation
hereunder  to any Person or Persons  except in  accordance  with  Section  10.19
hereof.

      Section 11.8    GOVERNING LAW;  JURISDICTION  AND  VENUE. The  undersigned
agree that inasmuch as this  Agreement,  the Notes and the Loan Documents are to
be executed by Borrowers and accepted by Agent and Lenders in  Cincinnati,  Ohio
and the funds to be disbursed  under the Loans are to be disbursed in Ohio, this
instrument  and the rights and  obligations  of all parties  hereunder  shall be
governed  by and  construed  under  the  substantive  laws of the State of Ohio,
without reference to the conflict of laws principles of such state.

      The Agent,  each Lender and each Borrower  hereby  designate all courts of
record sitting in Cincinnati,  Ohio, both state and federal, as forums where any
action,  suit or proceeding in respect of or arising out of this Agreement,  the
Notes, Loan Documents, or the transactions contemplated by this Agreement may be
prosecuted as to all parties, their successors and assigns, and by the foregoing
designations the Agent,  each Lender,  and Borrower consents to the jurisdiction
and venue of such courts. EACH BORROWER WAIVES ANY AND ALL PERSONAL RIGHTS UNDER
THE LAWS OF ANY OTHER STATE TO OBJECT TO  JURISDICTION  WITHIN THE STATE OF OHIO
FOR THE PURPOSES OF LITIGATION TO ENFORCE SUCH OBLIGATIONS OF BORROWERS.  In the
event such litigation is commenced, each Borrower agrees that service of process
may be made and personal  jurisdiction  over Borrowers  obtained by service of a
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summons, complaint and other pleadings required to commence such litigation upon
Borrowers'  appointed  Agent for Service of Process in the State of Ohio,  which
the undersigned  hereof  designates to be: CT Corporation  Systems,  Cincinnati,
Ohio.  Each Borrower  recognizes and agrees that the agency has been created for
the benefit of  Borrowers,  and Agent and each Lender and agree that this agency
shall not be revoked, withdrawn, or modified without the consent of the Agent.

      Section 11.9  WAIVER  OF  JURY  TRIAL    AS   A  SPECIFICALLY    BARGAINED
INDUCEMENT  FOR THE LENDERS TO EXTEND CREDIT TO BORROWERS,  AND AFTER HAVING THE
OPPORTUNITY TO CONSULT COUNSEL,  EACH BORROWER HEREBY EXPRESSLY WAIVES THE RIGHT
TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY  LAWSUIT OR  PROCEEDING  RELATING TO THIS  AGREEMENT  OR
ARISING IN ANY WAY FROM THE OBLIGATIONS.

      Section 11.10  WAIVERS. Each Borrower waives notice of nonpayment, demand,
notice of demand, presentment, protest and notice of protest with respect to the
Obligations,  or notice of acceptance  hereof,  notice of the Loans made, credit
extended,  or any other action taken in reliance  hereon,  and all other demands
and  notices of any  description,  except  such as are  expressly  provided  for
herein.

      Section  11.11  INTERPRETATION  AND  PROOF  OF  LOAN  DOCUMENTS.  Whenever
possible,  the  provisions  of each Loan  Document  will be  construed in such a
manner as to be consistent with this Agreement and each other Loan Document.  If
any of the provisions of any Loan Document are inconsistent with this Agreement,
such  provisions of this Agreement  will supersede such  provisions of such Loan
Document. This Agreement,  the Loan Documents and all documents relating hereto,
including, without limitation, (a) consents, waivers and modifications which may
hereafter be executed,  (b) documents received by the Agent or any Lender at the
closing or  otherwise,  and (c)  financial  statements,  certificates  and other
information previously or hereafter furnished to the Agent or any Lender, may be
reproduced  by  the  Agent  or  such  Lender  by an  photographic,  photostatic,
microfilm,  micro-card,  miniature photographic or other similar process and the
Agent or such Lender may  destroy any  original  document  so  reproduced.  Each
Borrower agrees and stipulates that any such reproduction shall be admissible in
evidence as the  original  itself in any judicial or  administrative  proceeding
(whether  or  not  the  original  is  in  existence  and  whether  or  not  such
reproduction  was made by the  Agent of such  Lender  in the  regular  course of
business) and that any  enlargement,  facsimile or further  reproduction of such
reproduction shall likewise be admissible in evidence.

      Section 11.12  INTEGRATION  OF SCHEDULES  AND  EXHIBITS.  The Exhibits and
Schedules  annexed to this  Agreement are an integral part of this Agreement and
are incorporated herein by reference.

      Section  11.13  HEADINGS.  The  headings  of the  Articles,  Sections  and
paragraphs of this  Agreement  have been inserted for  convenience  of reference
only and shall not be deemed to be a part of this Agreement.

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      Section 11.14  COUNTERPARTS.  This Agreement may be executed in any number
of counterparts,  but all of such counterparts shall together constitute but one
agreement.  In making  proof of this  Agreement,  it shall not be  necessary  to
produce or account for more than one  counterpart  hereof  signed by each of the
parties hereto.

      Section  11.15  SEVERABILITY.  Any  provision of this  Agreement  which is
prohibited and unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction,
be ineffective to the extent of such  prohibition  or  unenforceability  without
invalidating  the  remaining  provisions  hereof or  affecting  the  validity or
enforceability of such provision in any other jurisdiction.

      Section 11.16 ONE GENERAL OBLIGATION. All Loans and advances by Lenders to
Borrowers  under this  Agreement  constitute  one loan,  and all  Obligations of
Borrowers to Agent and the Lenders under this  Agreement  constitute one general
obligation.  It is  expressly  understood  and agreed  that all of the rights of
Agent and each Lender  contained in this Agreement  shall likewise apply insofar
as applicable to any modification of or supplement to this Agreement.

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      IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by
or on behalf of each of the  parties as of the day and in the year  first  above
written in Cincinnati, Ohio.


SIGNED IN THE PRESENCE OF:

                                    CLEARVIEW CINEMA GROUP, INC.


                                    By: /s/ A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------         -----------------------------------
                                    Name:  A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------     Title: President

                                    CLEARVIEW THEATRE GROUP, INC.

                                    By: /s/ A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------         -----------------------------------
                                    Name:  A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------     Title: President

                                    CCC ALLWOOD CINEMA CORP.

                                    By: /s/ A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------         -----------------------------------
                                    Name:  A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------     Title: President


                                    CCC B.C. REALTY CORP.

                                    By: /s/ A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------         -----------------------------------
                                    Name:  A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------     Title: President

                                    CCC BAYONNE CINEMA CORP.

                                    By: /s/ A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------         -----------------------------------
                                    Name:  A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------     Title: President


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                                    CCC BEDFORD CINEMA CORP.

                                    By: /s/ A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------         -----------------------------------
                                    Name:  A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------     Title: President

                                    CCC BERGENFIELD CINEMA CORP.

                                    By: /s/ A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------         -----------------------------------
                                    Name:  A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------     Title: President

                                    CCC BRONXVILLE CINEMA CORP.

                                    By: /s/ A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------         -----------------------------------

                                    Name:  A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------     Title: President

                                    CCC CHESTER TWIN CINEMA CORPORATION

                                    By: /s/ A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------         -----------------------------------
                                    Name:  A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------     Title: President

                                    CCC CINEMA 304 CORP.

                                    By: /s/ A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------         -----------------------------------
                                    Name:  A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------     Title: President

                                    CCC CLOSTER CINEMA CORP.

                                    By: /s/ A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------         -----------------------------------
                                    Name:  A. Dale Mayo   
- -------------------------------     Title: President

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                                    CCC EMERSON CINEMA CORP.

                                    By: /s/ A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------         -----------------------------------
                                    Name:  A. Dale Mayo
                                    Title: President

                                    CCC GRAND AVENUE CINEMA CORP.

                                    By: /s/ A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------         -----------------------------------
                                    Name:  A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------     Title: President

                                    CCC HERRICKS CINEMA CORP.

                                    By: /s/ A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------         -----------------------------------
                                    Name:  A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------     Title: President

                                    CCC KISCO CINEMA CORP.

                                    By: /s/ A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------         -----------------------------------
                                    Name:  A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------     Title: President

                                    CCC LARCHMONT CINEMA CORP.

                                    By: /s/ A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------         -----------------------------------
                                    Name:  A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------     Title: President

                                    CCC MADISON TRIPLE CINEMA CORP.

                                    By: /s/ A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------         -----------------------------------
                                    Name:  A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------     Title: President

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                                    CCC MAMARONECK CINEMA CORP.

                                    By: /s/ A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------         -----------------------------------
                                    Name:  A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------     Title: President

                                    CCC MANASQUAN CINEMA CORPORATION

                                    By: /s/ A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------         -----------------------------------
                                    Name:  A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------     Title: President

                                    CCC MARBORO CINEMA CORP.

                                    By: /s/ A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------         -----------------------------------
                                    Name:  A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------     Title: President

                                    CCC NEW CITY CINEMA CORP.

                                    By: /s/ A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------         -----------------------------------
                                    Name:  A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------     Title: President

                                    CCC PORT WASHINGTON CINEMA CORP.

                                    By: /s/ A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------         -----------------------------------
                                    Name:  A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------     Title: President

                                    CCC SUMMIT CINEMA CORP. (formerly known
                                    as 343-349 Springfield Avenue Corp.)

                                    By: /s/ A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------         -----------------------------------
                                    Name:  A. Dale Mayo 
- -------------------------------     Title: President

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                                    CCC  TENAFLY CINEMA CORP.

                                    By: /s/ A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------         -----------------------------------

                                    Name:  A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------     Title: President

                                    CCC WASHINGTON CINEMA CORP.

                                    By: /s/ A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------         -----------------------------------
                                    Name:  A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------     Title: President

                                    CCC WAYNE CINEMA CORP

                                     By: /s/ A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------         -----------------------------------
                                    Name:  A. Dale Mayo
- -------------------------------     Title: President

                                    THE LENDERS:

                                    THE PROVIDENT BANK

                                    By: /s/ Christopher B. Gribble
- -------------------------------        -----------------------------------
                                    Name:  Christopher B. Gribble
- -------------------------------     Title: Assistant Vice President

                                    AGENT:

                                    THE PROVIDENT BANK, as Agent

                                    By: /s/ Christopher B. Gribble
- -------------------------------        -----------------------------------
                                    Name:  Christopher B. Gribble
- -------------------------------     Title: Assistant Vice President


                                                                   EXHIBIT 10.02


            AGREEMENT,  dated as of  September 1, 1997,  by and among  Clearview
Cinema Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation ("Clearview"),  First New York Realty
Co.  Inc., a New York  corporation  ("First New York"),  and Brett E. Marks,  an
individual resident of the State of New York ("Marks").

            WHEREAS,  from its formation until May 31, 1997,  Marks was the Vice
President-Development  of Clearview and, as such, among other things,  sought to
identify  movie  theaters  that could be  suitable  acquisition  candidates  for
Clearview and to identify  locations in  appropriate  communities  that could be
developed as movie theaters to be operated by Clearview; and

            WHEREAS,  effective as of June 1, 1997,  Marks  resigned as the Vice
President-Development of Clearview and executed a consulting and confidentiality
agreement (the "Consulting  Agreement") with Clearview  pursuant to which, among
other  things,  Marks as a consultant  has been  retained to continue to seek to
identify suitable theaters and locations; and

            WHEREAS,  First New York is a New York City-based  realty  brokerage
firm that represents  buyers,  sellers,  lessors and lessees of real property in
New York and New Jersey; and

            WHEREAS,  generally,  First  New  York is paid a  commission  by the
seller or lessor  of a  property  when  First New York has  represented  a party
involved  in the sale or lease of such  property,  regardless  of whom First New
York represented in such transaction; and

            WHEREAS, Marks is a licensed real estate salesman with and executive
vice president of First New York and, as such, is involved in the representation
of parties in real estate transactions; and

            WHEREAS,  the parties  hereto have agreed that it is  desirable  and
appropriate to set forth their mutual  understanding  of the  circumstances,  if
any,  in which  First  New York may be  entitled  to be paid a  commission  with
respect to a transaction to which Clearview is a party.

            NOW,   THEREFORE,   the  parties  hereto,   for  good  and  valuable
consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, and
intending to be legally bound hereby, agree as follows.

             1.   ACKNOWLEDGMENT   OF  PRIOR   COMMISSIONS.   Clearview   hereby
acknowledges and agrees that, if such  transactions  are consummated,  First New
York will be entitled to commissions  (payable by the  seller/landlord  thereof)
with respect to Clearview's acquisition of the fee or leasehold interests in the
real properties  currently owned or operated by United Artists Theatre  Circuit,
Inc. a Maryland  corporation ("UA"), or one of its subsidiaries and known as the
Marboro Cinema 4 in Brooklyn,  New York,  the Bronxville  Theatre in Bronxville,
New York, the Larchmont Theatre in Larchmont, New York, the Mamaroneck Playhouse
in  Mamaroneck,  New 

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York,  the New City  Cinema 304 in New City,  New York and the Wayne  Theatre in
Passaic,  New Jersey.  Clearview also hereby  acknowledges and agrees,  that, if
such transactions are consummated, Marks will be entitled to commissions payable
by First New York.

             2.   ACKNOWLEDGMENT  OF  NO  COMMISSION.   First  New  York  hereby
acknowledges  and agrees that, with respect to each  acquisition by Clearview or
any of its  subsidiaries  of any interest in any real property prior to the date
hereof,  it is not entitled to any fee or  commission of any kind from any party
thereto  regardless  of whether  Marks was involved on  Clearview's  behalf with
respect  thereto.  In addition,  First New York hereby  acknowledges  and agrees
that,  absent an agreement in writing with  Clearview to the contrary,  it shall
not be entitled to any fee or  commission  from  Clearview  with  respect to any
transaction  of any type  regardless  of the  activities  of Marks with  respect
thereto.  Finally,  First New York  hereby  acknowledges  and agrees that UA and
Clearview had a relationship  prior to the negotiation of the agreements for the
transactions  referred  to above in  Section 1, that  representatives  of UA and
Clearview  have been,  are and, in the  future,  may be  discussing  one or more
possible  transactions other than those referred to above in Section 1 and that,
subject to Section 4, First New York will be  entitled  to a  commission  or fee
with  respect to any such  transaction  to the  extent,  but only to the extent,
agreed to in writing by UA or its duly authorized representative.

             3.    MARKS'  COMMISSIONS   ON  FUTURE  TRANSACTIONS.  Marks  shall
disclose  in  writing  to  Clearview,  at the time he  identifies  a theater  or
location  as a  possible  target/opportunity  to  Clearview  or as  promptly  as
practicable  thereafter  if he does not know the  information  at such time,  if
First New York pursuant to an agreement with the seller/landlord thereof or with
an agent of such person  could be entitled to a fee or  commission  therefrom if
Clearview  were  to  acquire  the  relevant  fee or  leasehold  interest.  Marks
acknowledges  and agrees that he shall not be entitled to any  commission or fee
from  First New York with  respect  to any such  transaction  without  the prior
written consent of Clearview, which may be withheld in its sole discretion.

            4.    FIRST  NEW  YORK'S  COMMISSIONS  ON FUTURE TRANSACTIONS. First
New York  shall  disclose  in  writing  to  Clearview,  prior  to the time  that
Clearview  executes any agreement to acquire a fee or leasehold  interest in any
real  property,  if First  New York  believes,  for any  reason,  that it may be
entitled to a commission or fee from the  seller/landlord  of such property with
respect to such  transaction  and the  maximum  amount  thereof.  First New York
acknowledges  and agrees that it shall not be entitled to any  commission or fee
with respect to any such  transaction  if such prior  disclosure is not made and
shall  only be  entitled  to any  commission  or fee  with  respect  to any such
transaction to the extent,  if any, that Clearview  consents  thereto in writing
prior to the execution of any such  agreement.  Clearview's  determination  with
respect to First New York's right to receive any such commission or fee shall be
solely within its  discretion and may be withheld for any reason or no reason at
all.

           5.    REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES.

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<PAGE>

                  a.     Marks  represents  and warrants to Clearview  and First
New York as follows:
                        (i)   Marks is an individual resident of the State of
New York and is over twenty-one years old.

                        (ii)  Neither   this    Agreement   nor   any   of   the
transactions contemplated hereby conflicts with or violates (x) any agreement by
which Marks is bound or (y) any federal,  state or local law, rule or regulation
or judicial order to which Marks is subject.

                  b.    First New York  represents  and  warrants  to  Clearview
and Marks as follows:

                        (i)   First New York is  a  corporation  duly  organized
and existing in good standing under the laws of the State of New York.

                        (ii)  This  Agreement  and the transactions contemplated
hereby have been duly  authorized  by all necessary  corporate  and  stockholder
action of First New York.  Neither this  Agreement  nor any of the  transactions
contemplated  hereby  conflicts  with  or  violates  (x)  any  provision  of the
Certificate of  Incorporation or By-laws of First New York; (y) any agreement by
which First New York,  any  subsidiary  of First New York or any of its or their
respective  properties  is  bound in any  manner  that,  individually  or in the
aggregate,  could  have a  material  adverse  effect  on the  business,  assets,
financial  condition  or  results  of  operations  of  First  New  York  and its
subsidiaries  taken as a whole; or (z) any federal,  state or local law, rule or
regulation  or  judicial  order,  in any  manner  that,  individually  or in the
aggregate,  could  have a  material  adverse  effect  on the  business,  assets,
financial  condition  or  results  of  operations  of  First  New  York  and its
subsidiaries  taken as a whole.  This Agreement is binding on First New York and
enforceable  against  First New York in  accordance  with its  terms,  except as
limited by applicable bankruptcy,  insolvency,  moratorium, fraudulent transfer,
preference  and other  laws and  equitable  principles  affecting  the scope and
enforcement of creditors' rights generally.

                        (iii)    No consent, approval  or  authorization  of, or
filing,  registration or qualification  with, any governmental  authority or any
other  person on the part of First New York is required in  connection  with the
execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement.

                  c.  Clearview  represents  and  warrants to First New York and
Marks as follows:

                        (i)   Clearview is  a  corporation  duly  organized  and
existing in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware.

                        (ii)  This  Agreement  and the transactions contemplated
hereby have been duly  authorized  by all necessary  corporate  and  stockholder
action  of  Clearview.  Neither  this  Agreement  nor  any of  the  transactions
contemplated  hereby  conflicts  with  or  violates  

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(x) any provision of the Certificate of  Incorporation  or By-laws of Clearview;
(y) any agreement by which Clearview,  any subsidiary of Clearview or any of its
or their respective  properties is bound in any manner that,  individually or in
the aggregate,  could have a material  adverse  effect on the business,  assets,
financial  condition or results of operations of Clearview and its  subsidiaries
taken as a whole; or (z) any federal,  state or local law, rule or regulation or
judicial order, in any manner that, individually or in the aggregate, could have
a material  adverse  effect on the  business,  assets,  financial  condition  or
results of operations of Clearview and its subsidiaries  taken as a whole.  This
Agreement  is  binding  on  Clearview  and  enforceable   against  Clearview  in
accordance  with  its  terms,  except  as  limited  by  applicable   bankruptcy,
insolvency,  moratorium,  fraudulent  transfer,  preference  and other  laws and
equitable  principles  affecting the scope and enforcement of creditors'  rights
generally.

                        (iii)   No consent,  approval  or  authorization  of, or
filing,  registration or qualification  with, any governmental  authority or any
other  person  on the part of  Clearview  is  required  in  connection  with the
execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement.


            6. ENTIRE AGREEMENT. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement
among the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof.  Any changes
in or additions to this  Agreement may be made only upon the written  consent of
all parties hereto.

            7. SUCCESSORS.    This  Agreement  shall  be  binding upon and inure
to the benefit of  the  parties  hereto  and  their  respective  successors  and
assigns.

            8. GOVERNING LAW. This Agreement  shall be construed and enforced in
accordance  with the laws of the State of New York without  regard to any of its
principles of conflicts of laws.

            9.  COUNTERPARTS.  This  Agreement  may be  executed  in two or more
counterparts,  each of  which  shall  be  deemed  an  original  and all of which
together shall constitute one and the same instrument.

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<PAGE>


            IN WITNESS WHEREOF,  the parties hereto have executed this Agreement
as of the date first set forth above.


                                          CLEARVIEW CINEMA GROUP, INC.



                                          By:
                                             -----------------------------
                                                A. Dale Mayo
                                                President


                                          FIRST NEW YORK REALTY CO. INC.



                                          By:
                                             -----------------------------
                                                Mitchell A. Marks
                                                President



                                          --------------------------------
                                          Brett E. Marks


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                                                                   EXHIBIT 11.01


                                                 

                    Statement Regarding Earnings per Share

     A summary of Shares of Common Stock and equivalents  treated as outstanding
for the  purposes  of  calculating  net income  (loss) per Common  Share for all
reported periods herein is as follows:

      Shares of Common Stock outstanding               832,800

      Shares of Common Stock issuable upon:(1)

         Conversion of 779 shares of Class A
             Preferred Stock                           467,400

          Exercise of Warrants--

             200 A/B Warrants                          120,000

              157 Provident Warrants                    94,200(2)

               Class A Warrants                        282,600
                                                  ------------

                                                     1,797,000


(1) Reference should be made to the Company's  accounting policy as disclosed in
    the consolidated financial statements included in Form SB-2.

(2) Such warrants were repurchased by the Company on June 30, 1997.


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