New and renovated architecture by Renzo Piano is stunning, but 'why make the visitor work so hard to get through it all?'
According to Hollywood lore, a world-class motion picture museum situated in Los Angeles has been in the works for nine decades. By the 1960s, a group of industry legends — including Walt Disney, Louis B. Mayer, Mary Pickford and Gloria Swanson — had moved forward with the concept.
Yet they threw in the towel after legal challenges ultimately resulted in a showdown, during which a shotgun-toting owner of a property situated on an intended site defended his turf, backing down only after an intervention from an “army” of L.A. County sheriff’s deputies. The idea for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to build a film museum — intended to be to the medium what the Louvre is to fine art — first took shape at a 2002 Academy board meeting.
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