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Originally Posted by Jibba

I'm in agreement with the principle that Friends of the Parks was promoting, but I have a sense they were using it for rhetorical cover for some other motive (someone with a vendetta against Lucas?).

As for the museum itself, I'm not shedding any tears. Are we sure it wasn't just a place for Lucas to stash all his film-related assets tax-free? I'm suspicious of all these "non-profit" centers the rich like to build. Like Larry Ellison's museum in Newport, RI, that he opens to the public one (yes -- 1) day out of the year, all while not paying taxes on the land.

And the proposed building was ugly and was ego-driven in form -- you're going to build on the famously open lakefront and make the museum the shape of a tall mountain? All under the flimsy pretense of that look-out at the top? Nah.

I appreciate you proving my point