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<p>Denis Hayes was a 25-year-old student at Harvard Kennedy School in 1969 but dropped out after a semester to become a principal organizer of a grass-roots nonprofit that planned a nationwide rally on April 22, 1970, an event they would call <a href="https://www.earthday.org/">Earth Day</a>. That one-day gathering to raise awareness of threats to the environment, held in hundreds of cities and towns across the country, attracted a reported 20 million people. Now CEO of the Bullitt Foundation, a Seattle <a href="https://www.bullitt.org/">nonprofit</a> that promotes and supports environmental and climate protection efforts in the Pacific Northwest, Hayes spoke with the Gazette, as Earth Day’s 50th anniversary approaches on Wednesday, about the birth of the event, how he stumbled into a leadership role as a Kennedy School student, and Earth Day’s lasting influence on environmental policy.</p>
<h2 class="transcript-header-1">Q&amp;A</h2>
<h3 class="transcript-header-2">Denis Hayes</h3>
<p><span class="transcript-speaker"><strong>GAZETTE:</strong></span> How did you first become interested in environmentalism?</p>
<p><span class="transcript-speaker"><strong>HAYES:</strong></span> When I grew up, in a [Washington state] paper-mill community, there was no form of pollution control on the smokestacks. The stench from sulfur dioxide and hydrogen sulfide was pervasive. The dominant image everybody had of my town for 25 miles in every direction was “That’s the place that stinks.” The mill poured uncontrolled water pollution into the Columbia River. Occasionally, we would go down there and come across massive fish kills. Paper, of course, is made from wood, and the logging was about as rapacious as it could be. I’d be out camping one summer in a beautiful place and go back the following summer, and it would be a moonscape. When I was very young, all this didn’t really turn me into a rabid activist. But I did have this sense that “My God, we should be able to create paper without destroying the world.”</p>
<p><span class="transcript-speaker"><strong>GAZETTE:</strong></span> You got into Harvard Law School, but deferred for a year and then wound up at Harvard Kennedy School in the fall of 1969. What brought you there?</p>
<p><span class="transcript-speaker"><strong>HAYES:</strong></span> I took off after my sophomore year in college and went hitchhiking around the world for three years, sort of in search of myself. I wanted to see firsthand all of the different basic philosophies and economic systems in the world, looking for some unique contribution that I could make. By the time I returned, I had decided that what I wanted to do with my life was to pursue ways to integrate the principles of ecology into human affairs. So I came back, finished up my undergraduate degree. It was the first year of the M.P.P. program at the Kennedy School. The way they did it was to invite 12 university presidents to each nominate one student to this pilot class. Stanford nominated me. I accepted because 1) I thought that there would be things taught there that I could profit from and 2) just the honor. Plus, candidly, Harvard provided some financial support and that was something that I really needed. So, all of those things came together.</p>
<p><span class="transcript-speaker"><strong>GAZETTE:</strong></span> Was there widespread interest in environmental issues at Harvard then, or were you hoping to be the one to bring that to the forefront?</p>
<p><strong><span class="transcript-speaker">HAYES:</span> </strong>We had a war going on in Southeast Asia and the Civil Rights Movement had moved to a new state of black nationalism. The environment was not, at that point, a college issue, certainly not in Cambridge, but really, not much anyplace. I didn’t view myself as a person who was trying to bring that to Harvard particularly — at least, not when I arrived.</p>
<p>There was a senator from Wisconsin, Gaylord Nelson, who had an intuitive, political belief that the time was right for environmental issues to start achieving a higher degree of political traction in the country. Gaylord thought that progress was actually leading to a degradation in our standard of living, and that a hidden anger was building up. We’ve kind of forgotten now, but the air in Gary, Ind., in Pittsburgh, in Los Angeles then, was like the air in Shenzhen or New Delhi or Mexico City today. He saw rivers catching fire, lots of bird species (including the bald eagle) endangered, the Santa Barbara oil spill, urban freeways slashing through vibrant inner-city neighborhoods, and he concluded that the issue was ripe, even though nobody was speaking of it. He started giving speeches calling for campus “teach-ins” on the environment. And precisely because I hadn’t heard anything about the environment, I thought, maybe I could organize Harvard if no one else was already doing it.</p>
<p><span class="transcript-speaker"><strong>GAZETTE:</strong></span> So why was your tenure at Harvard so short?</p>
<p><span class="transcript-speaker"><strong>HAYES:</strong></span> With the audacity of youth, I flew down to Washington, D.C., for a 15-minute courtesy interview with the senator. It turned into a more than two-hour talk about how to try to get such a campaign organized. We talked about what one might do, and I returned with a charter to organize all of Boston. And then, a couple of days later, I had a call from his chief of staff asking whether I would drop out [of HKS] and come down to organize the United States. Within a week of my conversation with the senator, I was packing up and leaving for Washington, D.C.</p>
<p><span class="transcript-speaker"><strong>GAZETTE:</strong></span> What did environmental activism look like at that time?</p>
<p><span class="transcript-speaker"><strong>HAYES:</strong></span> Candidly, there wasn’t much activism around “the environment” as an issue. The real situation in the 1960s is that there were people who cared about birds in the Audubon Society and the Environmental Defense Fund. There were people who lived in Santa Barbara who cared about oil spills, or lived in Gary, Ind., and cared about air pollution. There were anti-freeway coalitions in a dozen cities. But all of these groups, and dozens of others, thought of themselves as freeway groups, as air pollution groups, as bird groups. One of the most important things — I think the most important thing — that Earth Day did was to take all of those different threads and weave them together into this fabric of modern environmentalism, to help them understand that they were operating from similar sets of values and then that they could support one another and be much stronger as a whole than they were individually. I remember this one passionate conversation with the then-president of the Audubon Society. He basically said, “What the hell does clean air have to do with birds?” After Earth Day, nobody would say something that absurd.</p>
<p><span class="transcript-speaker"><strong>GAZETTE:</strong></span> When you left HKS for this fledgling organization in D.C. as one of Earth Day’s very few full-time paid staffers, your charge was to do what exactly?</p>
<p><span class="transcript-speaker"><strong>HAYES:</strong></span> Senator Nelson turned out to be absolutely right: The country was very ripe and ready for something like this. But campus teach-ins turned out not to be the place to start. The first thing that we did was find some regional organizers and send them out to colleges across the country. This was all starting the first week in January [1970]. And everybody came back after a week or two and said, “This is like running into a brick wall. This is not something activist students care about.” So we analyzed the mail that had come into Nelson’s office as a result of press coverage of his speeches. Overwhelmingly, it was from women, mostly they were 25 to 35, mostly college-educated, mothers of young children, mostly in single-wage-earner families, and they want to know what they could do to get involved. By the end of January, we had changed the name from Environmental Teach-in to Earth Day and taken out a full-page ad in The New York Times announcing the change.</p>
<p><span class="transcript-speaker"><strong>GAZETTE:</strong></span> What else did you do to help get out the word?</p>
<p><span class="transcript-speaker"><strong>HAYES:  </strong></span>At that point, we were sending organizers out to talk to community organizations and civic groups across the country. But a very big part of what we did was work with newspapers, with magazines, journals, with various associations to get information broadcast and into people’s hands. Our biggest supporter by far was the United Auto Workers. We would have these floods of mail after we got something placed in a magazine. In the end, we got the United Auto Workers to start printing our newsletters for us and paying for our postage. We ultimately had about 60,000 names [on our mailing list]. We’d run the envelopes through the addressograph machine; the volunteers would stuff them with the newsletters, stamp them, and haul them off to the post office. We didn’t have computers or cellphones; there was no internet or social media. And until the last two months, we couldn’t even afford a 1-800 telephone line. We’d broadcast our messages, wait for interested people to respond, and then follow up with them. Fortunately, some of those young women volunteers turned out to be world-class organizers.</p>
<p><span class="transcript-speaker"><strong>GAZETTE:</strong></span> When did everyone in the organization start to feel a momentum, or realize that maybe this was going to be bigger than you initially thought?</p>
<p><span class="transcript-speaker"><strong>HAYES:</strong></span> We had some feelings of that as early as late February or early March, just because of the volume of mail that was coming in and the numbers of people who were signing up to become organizers. But it was difficult for us to tell until the event itself how real this would be.</p>
<p>The first time that I really knew was in New York City. On Earth Day, one of the places I went was a huge rally in Manhattan. Mayor [John] Lindsay had shut down Fifth Avenue, barricading the streets that would ordinarily pass through it, for Earth Day. And I climbed up onto this speakers’ platform several stories high, and I could not see the end of the crowd. It stretched out for 40 or 50 city blocks. It was like looking out at the ocean!</p>
<p><span class="transcript-speaker"><strong>GAZETTE:</strong></span> Though you ended up drawing big crowds in a number of cities, wouldn’t you agree that the one in New York City proved especially important for your organization?</p>
<p><span class="transcript-speaker"><strong>HAYES</strong>:</span> We thought we would be as big as a typical anti-war rally by the time we started getting optimistic. But what was different about Earth Day was, whereas the Vietnam Moratorium [demonstration on Oct. 15, 1969] was focused in perhaps six or eight cities, Earth Day was in basically every city, every town, every village, every crossroads in America. Back then, The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, NBC, CBS, ABC, AP, UPI were all [based] in New York City, [so when] they look out their windows and see the crowd, and they’re getting [reports] in from all over the country and suddenly … this estimate that has now become the revealed wisdom of 20 million people, made it the largest organized event in the nation’s history.</p>
<p>In late 1969, had you asked the question, “What do you think about the environment?” I think the most common response would have been, “What is the environment?” Maybe someone who had taken a psychology course would know, but it just didn’t have any kind of political connotation to it at all. By midway through 1970, something like 80 percent of Americans said that they were environmentalists.</p>
<p><span class="transcript-speaker"><strong>GAZETTE:</strong></span> The Environmental Protection Act (EPA) was established in late 1970 and followed not long after by a slate of important environmental laws, like the National Environmental Policy Act, the Clean Water and Clean Air acts. What role did Earth Day play in the national policy debate and in the passage of those laws?</p>
<p><span class="transcript-speaker"><strong>HAYES:</strong></span> When [aide to former President Richard Nixon] John Ehrlichman got out of the slammer, I was practicing law, and one of his sons was my paralegal. So John stopped by, and we all went out for dinner. According to him, with regard to the EPA, the effect was crystal clear. Nixon, in setting off the Southern strategy to try to flip the conservative, racist, solidly Democratic South to the Republican Party, had put in peril a whole lot of Republican support from the Romneys, the Lindsays, the Scrantons, the McCloskeys, the Brookes, the Chafees — the progressive wing of the party. Nixon was particularly worried about John Lindsay, who was everything that he was not: Lindsay was tall and handsome and rich, attractive to women. So Ehrlichman says he’s there with the president and Nixon looks out at this very large crowd out on the Mall in Washington, D.C., and he looks at the television and sees a much larger crowd in New York where John Lindsay is addressing it. And he said, “We gotta somehow become players in this.” According to Ehrlichman, he said to Nixon, “Remember that commission that you had on government organization that Roy Ash chaired for you? It proposed an environmental protection agency. And the beauty of it, Dick, is we’re already doing this stuff: Air pollution? We got that in Health, Education, and Welfare. Water pollution? That’s over in Interior. Radioactive waste? That’s with the Atomic Energy Commission. Pesticides? That’s over at the Department of Agriculture. You can take all of these things out of those departments, you stick them into an agency, you call it an EPA. You might even save a little bit of money and suddenly, you’re a player.” And Ehrlichman says that, although the Executive Order wasn’t issued for several months thereafter, Earth Day was the day that Nixon decided to set up the Environmental Protection Agency.</p>
<p><span class="transcript-speaker"><strong>GAZETTE:</strong></span> So you had some political momentum at that point, but this was a time of widespread political and social upheaval and unrest. Washington was facing calls for various kinds of reform from a number of directions. How did you keep Earth Day from getting lost in the noise?</p>
<p><span class="transcript-speaker"><strong>HAYES:</strong></span> We had this gigantic number of people out for Earth Day, which caught the attention of everybody. For a day, all things were environmental. But a few days later, Nixon invaded Cambodia and a couple days after that, the National Guard shot four students at Kent State. And the environment completely disappeared from the radar.</p>
<p>That fall, we launched a campaign against 12 members of Congress, incumbent congressmen who had bad records on the environment, who’d won their previous elections by a relatively narrow margin, who had an important environmental issue in their districts, and in whose districts we also had a good strong Earth Day organization. With a very small budget, like $50,000, we launched this campaign against “The Dirty Dozen.” In the end, seven of the 12 were defeated, and more than the margin of victory was clearly made up by people who voted largely on the basis of their environmental record to throw them out. One of them was the chairman of the House Public Works Committee — that really got the attention of Congress. The 1970 election was when Congress understood that Earth Day was not an anti-litter campaign where people went out in the park and danced around mulberry bushes.</p>
<p>The Clean Air Act was aggressively opposed by the coal industry, the electric utility industry, the oil industry, the automobile industry, the steel industry. The Clean Air Act passed the Senate on a voice vote unanimously and passed the House of Representatives with, I think, one dissenting vote. Congress was running scared over “The Dirty Dozen” campaign. We carried the momentum from the overwhelming vote for clean air into lobbying campaigns for the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act, the Marine Mammal Protection Act, on and on.</p>
<p><span class="transcript-speaker"><strong>GAZETTE:</strong></span> What’s been the most heartening sign that Earth Day has made a meaningful difference in the world over the last 50 years?</p>
<p><span class="transcript-speaker"><strong>HAYES:</strong></span> I think the widespread, almost universal respect for environmental values. That paper mill that stunk beyond belief, that sent out those acids that ate through the roofs of houses and pitted the roofs of automobiles whenever it rained (and it rained all the time in Camas, Wash., a 5,000-person community on the Columbia River) — today, something like that would be literally inconceivable any place in the United States. What was normal in 1969 became unthinkable in the early 1970s, and it has retained that. It’s strongest with regard to things that influence human health, and most of those laws have human health built right into them as what’s to be protected. But it goes beyond that. It involves a respect for the diversity of life and the healthiness of the environment. And the need to protect this planet as our only home. All of these things are now enshrined. I think, if one were to take a poll today, there would be stronger support for the proposition that Americans should have a constitutional right to a clean, healthy environment, than for most of the items in the actual Bill of Rights. Pretty formidable change.</p>
<p><em>Interview has been edited for clarity and condensed for length.</em></p>
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		<title>This song sequence from the film Original Mughal-E-Azam (1960)</title>
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<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-73469" src="http://goodnewsplanet.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Mughal-e-Azam-film-still-010.jpg" alt="" width="1600" height="719" srcset="https://goodnewsplanet.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Mughal-e-Azam-film-still-010.jpg 1600w, https://goodnewsplanet.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Mughal-e-Azam-film-still-010-300x135.jpg 300w, https://goodnewsplanet.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Mughal-e-Azam-film-still-010-1024x460.jpg 1024w, https://goodnewsplanet.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Mughal-e-Azam-film-still-010-768x345.jpg 768w, https://goodnewsplanet.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Mughal-e-Azam-film-still-010-1536x690.jpg 1536w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px" /></p>
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		<title>HOW TO MAINTAIN FRIENDSHIP IN THE GROUP YOU BELONG TO</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>? (1). Take everything as a joke. ? (2). No one is bigger than others in the group. ? (3). Everybody is important in the group. But no one is too important for the group. ? (4). Everyone should do his or her best. ? (5). Nothing is original, all forwards (including the message you &#8230;</p>
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<p>? (1). Take everything as a joke.<br />
? (2). No one is bigger than others in the group.<br />
? (3). Everybody is important in the group. But no one is too important for the group.<br />
? (4). Everyone should do his or her best.<br />
? (5). Nothing is original, all forwards (including the message you are reading now).<br />
? (6). So no need to react, Sometimes repeats are there, Do not bother, Welcome them. It is Normal everywhere .<br />
? (7). No one gets paid so it is a thing of love and volunteering efforts.<br />
? (8). Live your normal life, you are unique and without some of you the group will be boring.<br />
? (9). Never expect someone else to build the group, but do your best by making your contribution.<br />
? (10). Group members should learn how to socialize, meet new friends and improve on their social skills.<br />
? (11). Groups are always for fun, so let&#8217;s make and have fun out of whatever is posted. Don&#8217;t just read a post, make a comment to enrich it.<br />
? (12). Don&#8217;t take every chat too serious because we are all in the group to have fun, learn, entertain each other.</p>
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Some of the original cast of Hamilton performing  with LaGuardia High School Students.  This is a great performance.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Kiss All The Bullies Goodbye&#8221; is the most important song I&#8217;ve ever released, because the subject is a matter of life or death. The fact is, bullied teens often commit suicide. That&#8217;s why iconic pop singer Taylor Dayne and legendary DJ Paul Oakenfold have both joined me in this special project. All net proceeds from &#8230;</p>
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&#8220;Kiss All The Bullies Goodbye&#8221; is the most important song I&#8217;ve<br />
ever released, because the subject is a matter of life or death.<br />
The fact is, bullied teens often commit suicide.<br />
That&#8217;s why iconic pop singer Taylor Dayne and<br />
legendary DJ Paul Oakenfold have both joined me<br />
in this special project.<br />
All net proceeds from video views, song streams and downloads of<br />
&#8220;Kiss All The Bullies Goodbye&#8221; will go to anti-bullying charities.</p>
<p>Peace and Love,<br />
Sir Ivan<br />
Recording Artist Sir Ivan Releases New Anthem and Makes $100,000 Donation in Support of Anti-Bullying Efforts </p>
<p>Sir Ivan &#8211; Kiss All The Bullies Goodbye [feat. Taylor Dayne] (Paul Oakenfold Original Mix)<br />
<a href="http://www.SirIvan.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">www.SirIvan.com</a></p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Good News speaks to Mickey Ross owner of the gallery to share the Bob Dylan Good News and it was very special.  Stop by the gallery and see for yourself how talented this living legend is. Thank you again to all those who attended our Reception for Bob Dylan&#8217;s &#8220;The Drawn Blank Series&#8221; last week! &#8230;</p>
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Good News speaks to Mickey Ross owner of the gallery to share the Bob Dylan Good News and it was very special.  Stop by the gallery and see for yourself how talented this living legend is.</p>
<p>Thank you again to all those who attended our Reception for Bob Dylan&#8217;s &#8220;The Drawn Blank Series&#8221; last week!</p>
<p>We are pleased to announce that the Reception was a success, with over one hundred and fifty people who joined us to see our wonderful collection of original paintings, original works on paper, and limited edition prints by Bob Dylan.</p>
<p><strong>For those of you unable to attend last week, please know that our exhibition is up from now until </strong><strong>May 30th</strong><strong>. </strong></p>
<p>Our gallery is open to the public Monday- Saturday, from 10am-6pm, with the exception of Memorial Day Weekend during which we will be closed on Saturday. If none of the above work, please let us know and we can arrange a private appointment.</p>
<p>We invite you to come and view the exhibition, and remember to tell your friends!</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Home to the Original Cuts of The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, the world’s oldest photography museum and one of the world’s oldest film archives, opened to the public in 1949 as an independent, non-profit museum. It combines the world’s leading collections of &#8230;</p>
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</a>Home to the Original Cuts of <em>The Wizard of Oz</em> and <em>Gone with the Wind</em></strong></p>
<p>George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, the world’s oldest photography museum and one of the world’s oldest film archives, opened to the public in 1949 as an independent, non-profit museum. It combines the world’s leading collections of photography and film with the stately pleasures of the landmark Colonial Revival mansion and gardens that George Eastman called home from 1905 to 1932. The Museum is a National Historic Landmark. Mr. Eastman, the founder of Eastman Kodak Company, is heralded as the father of modern photography and motion picture film.</p>
<p>World-renowned for its photograph and motion picture archives, the Museum is also a leader in film preservation and photograph conservation, educating the top archivists and conservators from around the world.</p>
<p>Mr. Eastman (1854–1932) built his home at 900 East Avenue between 1902 and 1905. He created a unique urban estate complete with 10.5 acres of working farm land, formal gardens, greenhouses, stables, barns, pastures, and a 35,000-square-foot, 50-room Colonial Revival mansion with a fireproof structure made of reinforced concrete.</p>
<p>Mr. Eastman’s house presented a classical facade of decorative craftsmanship. Beneath this exterior were such modern conveniences as an electrical generator, an internal telephone system with 21 stations, a built-in vacuum cleaning system, a central clock network, an elevator, and a great pipe organ, which made the home itself an instrument, a center of the city’s rich musical life from 1905 until Eastman’s death in 1932.</p>
<p>Mr. Eastman’s will bequeathed his estate to the University of Rochester for 10 years. His close friend Rush Rhees, then president of the university, resided here until 1935, succeeded by the Valentine family. Following World War II, the university transferred the estate to a board of trustees, which formed to establish a museum of photography, attracting precious artifacts from around the world to a center of study, care, and exhibition.</p>
<p>The George Eastman House Museum of Photography was chartered in 1947. Today the Museum’s full name is George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film. The Museum’s mission from the outset was to collect, preserve, and present the history of photography and film. The Museum opened its doors to a diverse public audience in 1949, displaying its core collections in the former public rooms of Eastman’s house.</p>
<p>The Museum’s original collections–including the Medicus collection of Civil War photographs by Alexander Gardner, Eastman Kodak Company’s historical collection, and the invaluable, massive Gabriel Cromer collection from France–attracted significant additions over the next 40 years. Entire archives, corporate collections, and artists’ lifetime portfolios have been donated to the Eastman House, as well as a staggering assemblage of rare motion pictures and ephemera.</p>
<p>By 1984, the Museum’s holdings were considered among the world’s finest. However, with the collections growing at a rapid pace, the Museum increasingly suffered from its own success. With an increasing number of materials to store, protect, and study, space and financing became critical.</p>
<p>Between 1985 and 1988, more than $30 million was raised for capital improvement and collections care. Eastman Kodak Company led the way, challenging the public with an endowment gift worth more than $17 million. Public contributions of $12.5 million provided for the construction of a state-of-the-art archives building, including a study center and exhibition galleries. The archives building is 73,000 square feet of climate- controlled vault, archival, research, and gallery space, much of it built below ground, with restored historic gardens above.</p>
<p>For the first time in its history, the Museum had attained physical and financial security for its precious materials and the ability to offer unlimited access for a range of audiences. The new facility opened to the public in January 1989, and now houses more than 400,000 photographs and negatives; 28,000 films and more than 4 million film stills; 53,000 publications; and more than 25,000 pieces of technology.</p>
<p>Also as part of the capital improvements, nearly $2 million was devoted to an exacting restoration of Mr. Eastman’s house and grounds. Using vintage photographs and other historical evidence, more than 85 percent of the original furnishings and virtually all of the complex decorative interior were returned or restored during the three-year process. Reopened to the public in January 1990, the Eastman House is a biographical treatment of Eastman’s estate as a reflection of his unique life. Four of Mr. Eastman’s formal gardens have been restored, and the remaining areas of the grounds will be restored or adapted to Museum’s needs.</p>
<p>Other museum programs and facilities were significantly improved during this period. Second floor galleries in the mansion document Mr. Eastman’s life and times; the Discovery Room, a popular hands-on education department program, enjoys expanded facilities in a wing of the second floor; a lecture hall has been renovated as a multimedia theater in memory of General Edward Peck Curtis; and the Dryden Theatre, a motion-picture venue with 535 seats, was renovated in order to continue its tradition of film exhibition, specializing in restored film classics.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>NEW ORIGINAL SONG “ORDINARY LOVE” BY U2 The Weinstein Company (TWC) and producer Anant Singh announced today that a new trailer for their upcoming release MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM will premiere on Thursday, October 17th at 7:30pm EST.  Depicting key moments from the biopic starring Idris Elba and Naomie Harris, this trailer will also feature a &#8230;</p>
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<p>The Weinstein Company (TWC) and producer Anant Singh announced today that a new trailer for their upcoming release MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM will premiere on Thursday, October 17<sup>th</sup> at 7:30pm EST.  Depicting key moments from the biopic starring Idris Elba and Naomie Harris, this trailer will also feature a new song, “Ordinary Love” written especially for the film by U2.</p>
<p>The trailer will be broadcast on Access Hollywood, with an online premiere on Yahoo. Additionally, it will land in theaters nationwide this coming weekend in front of new release 12 YEARS A SLAVE.</p>
<p>Said TWC Co-Chairman Harvey Weinstein. “Over the years U2 and I have had a superb relationship including partnering on the Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe winning song ‘The Hands That Built America’ for Martin Scorsese’s GANGS OF NEW YORK.  When I asked them to consider writing a song for MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM, it was the fastest ‘yes’ I have ever received.  The band saw various cuts of the film over the summer and worked diligently to write a song that truly reflects Nelson Mandela.  I think they did a brilliant job honoring the man and the leader they have known for over 20 years.”</p>
<p>Noted director Justin Chadwick: “Having U2 contribute their talents adds to the already enormous body of support we’ve had in making MANDELA. I’m incredibly excited for audiences to get this latest glimpse at the film.”</p>
<p>Commented producer Singh: &#8220;We are delighted to have U2 write an original song for MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM. This is really fitting as U2 have always been a staunch supporter of Madiba. As a board member of Madiba&#8217;s 46664 anti AIDS initiative together with U2, I was fortunate to be with them when we visited Robben Island together, accompanied by Madiba.&#8221;</p>
<p>MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM, which the TWC is releasing theatrically on November 29<sup>th</sup>,  is based on South African President Nelson Mandela’s autobiography of the same name, which chronicles his early life, coming of age, education and 27 years in prison before becoming President and working to rebuild the country’s once segregated society. Idris Elba (PROMETHEUS) stars as Nelson Mandela, Naomie Harris (SKYFALL) stars as Winnie Mandela, with Justin Chadwick (THE FIRST GRADER, THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL, BLEAK HOUSE) directing. The film had its world premiere earlier this year at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.</p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>ABOUT PRODUCER ANANT SINGH</b></span></p>
<p>Anant Singh is acknowledged as South Africa&#8217;s preeminent film producer. He has produced some of the most notable films made in South Africa, among which are SARAFINA!, CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY, RED DUST and the Academy Award nominated YESTERDAY. Nelson Mandela personally awarded the film rights to his autobiography &#8216;Long Walk To Freedom&#8217; to Singh.</p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>ABOUT THE WEINSTEIN COMPANY</b></span></p>
<p>The Weinstein Company (TWC) is a multimedia production and distribution company launched in October 2005 by Bob and Harvey Weinstein, the brothers who founded Miramax Films in 1979. TWC also encompasses Dimension Films, the genre label founded in 1993 by Bob Weinstein, which has released such popular franchises as SCREAM, SPY KIDS and SCARY MOVIE. Together TWC and Dimension Films have released a broad range of mainstream, genre and specialty films that have been commercial and critical successes.  TWC releases took home eight 2012 Academy Awards®, the most wins in the studio’s history. The tally included Best Picture for Michel Hazanavicius’s THE ARTIST and Best Documentary Feature for TJ Martin and Dan Lindsay’s UNDEFEATED. THE ARTIST brought TWC its second consecutive Best Picture statuette following the 2011 win for Tom Hooper’s THE KING’S SPEECH.</p>
<p>Since 2005, TWC and Dimension Films have released such films as GRINDHOUSE; 1408; I’M NOT THERE; THE GREAT DEBATERS; VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA; THE READER; THE ROAD; HALLOWEEN; THE PAT TILLMAN STORY; PIRANHA 3D; INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS; A SINGLE MAN; BLUE VALENTINE; THE COMPANY MEN; MIRAL; SCRE4M; SUBMARINE; DIRTY GIRL; APOLLO 18; OUR IDIOT BROTHER; I DON’T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT; SARAH’S KEY; SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD IN 4D; MY WEEK WITH MARILYN; THE IRON LADY; W.E.; CORIOLANUS; UNDEFEATED; THE ARTIST; BULLY; THE INTOUCHABLES; LAWLESS; KILLING THEM SOFTLY; THE MASTER; SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK; DJANGO UNCHAINED; QUARTET; ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH; DARK SKIES; THE SAPPHIRES; SCARY MOVIE 5; and KON-TIKI. Currently in release are UNFINISHED SONG and FRUITVALE STATION, LEE DANIELS&#8217; THE BUTLER, THE GRANDMASTER and SALINGER. Upcoming releases include 12-12-12, PHILOMENA, MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM and AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY.</p>
<p>TWC is active in television production, led by former Miramax Films President of Production Meryl Poster. TWC is the studio behind such hit television series as the Emmy® nominated and Peabody Award winning reality series PROJECT RUNWAY and its spin-off series PROJECT RUNWAY ALL STARS and PROJECT ACCESSORY; the VH1 reality series MOB WIVES and its spin-off series MOB WIVES CHICAGO and BIG ANG; and the critically acclaimed scripted HBO comedy/crime series THE NO. 1 LADIES&#8217; DETECTIVE AGENCY which also received a Peabody Award. The company is in production on the upcoming TLC series WELCOME TO MYRTLE MANOR, the A&amp;E series RODEO QUEENS, and the Lifetime reality competition show SUPERMARKET SUPERSTAR hosted by Stacy Keibler.  Among TWC’s other projects in development for television are the martial-arts epic MARCO POLO for Starz, an untitled private eye procedural for FX, and THE NANNY DIARIES developed by ABC with a pilot by Amy Sherman Palladino.</p>
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