The protests that saved the program included director Martin Scorsese's open letter in The Times asserting the importance of movie screenings in a museum context. But despite the high-profile backdrop to their fundraising efforts, LACMA officials say that financial support — presumably from film industry figures who'd be the logical donors to an L.A. film endowment — has not materialized.I definitely don't want to see this program go away - at least not until I've actually been to a screening. I think I'll write them a check for the $6 million right now.
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