R o R T FROM THE PRESIDENT Many ofyou probably have wondered when The Pure you'd be approached for a contribution to the Endowment Fund JOY of the campaign for the new Center jor Motion Picture Study. Don't Academy worry. We haven 'tfor­ gotten you. You 're on Awards our list. And you'll be hearing from us several times over the Four happy actors backstage at the Awards: Mercedes Ruehl, Anthony next few months. Hopkins, jodie Foster and jack Palance. We're working on the final $5 million of the In the printed program for the 64th the Academy voters had in store for them. campaign goal now. We passed the $10 million Academy Awards, show producer Gilbert The production team - ably captained by mark injanuary. We 'll be approaching each of Cates explained, "Motion pictures proVide host Billy Crystal for the third year - also you by branch, and our approach will be slightly different for each branch. Some of the us with laughter, romance, adventure and included director Jeff Margolis, writers Hal branches are "adopting " Center programs or a deeper understanding of ourselves. Kanter and Buz Kohan (with special mate­ collections, and will be trying to create special With all the extraordinary events that are rial by David Steinberg, Bruce Vilanch, endowments for those adopted programs. The taking place today it's wonderful that we Robert Wuhl and Crystal), production de­ Directors Branch has adopted the Special can still get away to see a flim. That's signer Roy Christopher, music director Bill Collections Archive, the Public Relations what we're celebrating this year at the Conti, choreographer Debbie Allen and Branch has adopted the Poster Collection and Oscars: The pure joy of the movies." And costume designer Ray Aghayan. the Music Branch has adopted the Film celebrate we did. Music Collection. Each viewer will retain his or her own Some branches are concentrating on generat­ Television viewers around the globe helped memories of the event: For some, it will be ing "deferred" gifts from among the branch us celebrate, as movie fans in 90 countries the flim clip tributes to comedy and docu­ membership. A deferred gift is one that won't tuned in to see what Cates, his team and mentaries, painstakingly researched and be paid until the death of the donor, and it (continued on page 4) could be a bequest, a life insurance policy or a charitable remainder trust. Deferred gifts often allow a potential donor to make a much more Significant gift than the donor could afford to make in cash. An estate planning seminar to describe some of these techniques was spon­ sored thefirst week o/june by the Sound Branch. I hope all of our members will think of this campaign as an opportunity to make a "life­ time" gift to the Foundation. We 've never asked our members for contributions before and we don 't expect to ask you again. So this is your chance to make a personal commitment to film history and preservation, to show your pride in an art form that's been financially rewarding for most of us. The Center is preserving our work, our contri­ During the Awards telecast on March 30, the crew Academy in a brief ceremony. Pictured (left to butions to motion pictures. It 's our job to pass of the space shuttle Atlantis beamed their right): Show producer Gilbert Cates, Atlantis Commander Charles Bolden, NASA Administrator that work on to posterity. Think big . Think congratulations to Thalberg recipient George Lucas while an Oscar floated weightlessly nearby. Daniel Goldin, Karl Malden, Mission Specialist stupendous. Think Hollywood! 1 On May 27 that Oscar was returned to the David Leestma and Atlantis Pilot Brian Duffy. .