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Peter Bart: Academy Museum Hopes To Illuminate Hollywood’s Story – And Dramatize Its Founders’ Role

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It was an imposing opening, and Hollywood loves openings that are grand in concept, star-studded and famously over budget. The new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures finally is complete, and key industry players have paid homage and faithfully scrutinized its exhibits.But they’ve also pondered the key question that has hovered over the museum from its inception: What story should it tell?Up front, the museum’s auteurs let it be known they did not want to present a chronological history of the movie industry, with its fables and foibles.

The museum would not be a re-creation of, say, Neal Gabler’s An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood.The upshot: The industry’s assessments seem to be playing out on two levels.

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