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• IMAX® Theater Film Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag Surpasses 150 Million Viewers Worldwide

  - 2008-07-28

  Film Has Reached Over 1 Million Viewers at the Smithsonian IMAX[R] Theaters Alone, Making It the 2nd-Highest Grossing Aviation Film Ever at the Smithsonian EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- According to Smithsonian V.P. of IMAX[R] Theater Operations, Toby Mensforth, the dynamic Giant Screen film "Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag" has...

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• Smithsonian lambastes ex-Utahn on expenses

  - 2007-08-02

  WASHINGTON -- A new report by the Smithsonian Institution's inspector general has found that former Utahn Gary Beer, ex-chief of the museum's business unit, accrued $202,659 in expenses from 2000 to 2005, of which most -- 88 percent -- were either unallowable, poorly documented or unauthorized. Some of...

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• Dedication Ceremony June 21 for Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture, Home to National Portrait Gallery

  - 2006-06-13

  News Advisory: WHAT: Dedication ceremony for the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture, home to the National Portrait Gallery and Smithsonian American Art Museum --- NOTE: INVITATION ONLY WHEN: Wednesday, June 21, 10 to 11 a.m. WHERE: Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium Reynolds Center Eighth and G streets...

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• U.S. editorial excerpts -7-

  - 2006-06-05

  NEW YORK, May 30 Kyodo Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press: SHOWTIME FOR THE SMITHSONIAN (Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles) FOR A DEAL THAT WAS supposed to bring in extra cash, the Smithsonian Institution's new television venture is shaping up to be remarkably costly....

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• Fact Sheet: Smithsonian On Demand TV Programming

  - 2006-05-04

  WASHINGTON, May 4 /U.S. Newswire/ -- For many years the Smithsonian had sought to establish a presence on television to showcase the Institution's vast resources-collections, exhibitions, archives and curatorial expertise to further its mission, the "increase and diffusion of knowledge." With the full support of its Board of Regents, Smithsonian...

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• Hip-hop exhibit at Smithsonian

  - 2006-03-20

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: HIP-HOP EXHIBIT AT SMITHSONIAN: Rapper-actor Ice-T, star of the TV drama "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," speaks at a news conference to launch Hip-Hop Won't Stop: The Beat, The Rhymes, The Life, a hip-hop exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in New...

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• Smithsonian Announces Major Donation for the National Portrait Gallery and Smithsonian American Art Museum

  - 2005-10-11

  News Advisory: WHAT: Smithsonian announces major donation for the National Portrait Gallery and Smithsonian American Art Museum WHEN: Wednesday, Oct. 12, 10 a.m. WHERE: Patent Office Building, Washington, D.C. (Enter at construction fence on F Street at Ninth Street, directly opposite the Spy Museum; Metro stop is Gallery Place) WHO:...

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• Pressing for media reform: a silver bullet aimed at consolidation.(FIFTH ESTATER)

  - 2005-07-04

  After a day spent hitting up foundations and wealthy individuals on behalf of the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage in Washington, Josh Silver one evening three years ago tuned into a local TV station to catch the latest news. ...

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• Seinfeld's puffy shirt hangs in Smithsonian

  - 2004-11-20

  Move over, ruby slippers. That puffy shirt's moving in. The outlandishly unfashionable shirt worn by Jerry Seinfeld on his hit TV show went on display Friday at the Smithsonian, alongside Kermit the Frog, Archie Bunker's chair and Dorothy's magic slippers from "The Wizard of Oz." At...

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• Newsreel's Role in Reporting World War II and the Evolution of Visual News to be Discussed at National Press Club Wednesday

  - 2004-07-06

  News Advisory: WHAT: "A Night at the Newsreels: World War II on Film," a cooperative effort between the Newseum, The Smithsonian Associates and the National Press Club, will recreate a night at the movies, 1940's style. The program will feature footage from the war years and a panel discussion of...

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