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The projectors are rolling. The ruby slippers are on. Many an Oscar sits glistening. The shark has been hanging, and waiting, for nearly a year.   Nine years after it was announced, four years after its first projected open date, and five months since its last planned launch date, the U.S. film academy's museum is ready to open to the public on Sept 30.   "I'm very moved to be able to say to you, finally, at last, boy howdy hey, welcome to the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures," Tom Hanks told reporters Tuesday at a media preview of the Los Angeles building and its exhibits.   Hanks, a member of the board of trustees, led the fundraising for the project along with fellow actor Annette Bening and Walt Disney Co. executive chairman Bob Iger.   "We all know, films are made everywhere in the world, and they are wonderful films," Hanks said. "And there are other cities with film museums, but with all due respect, created by the Motion Picture Academy, in Los Angeles, this museum has really got to be the Parthenon of such places."   The first thing most visitors will notice on entering the building is Bruce, a 1,208-pound (548-kilogram), 25-foot-long (7.6-meter), 46-year-old shark made from the "Jaws" mold. Bruce hangs above the bank of main escalators and was hoisted there last November in anticipation of what was then a planned April opening.  The featured inaugural exhibit celebrates the works of the legendary Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki. Others examine the work of directors Spike Lee and Pedro Almodovar.   Some galleries focus on the Oscars, with actual statuettes won across the decades, and speeches projected on walls.   Projected scenes are a theme in all the museum's galleries, with technology from 18th century "magic lanterns" through silent films to the 3-D digital tech of today.   Costumes from "The Wizard of Oz" to "The Wiz" are on display, including Dorothy's ruby slippers.  Announced in 2012 and first slated to open in 2017, the museum was beset with delays that are typical for such a project, but they were compounded by a pair of pandemic postponements.   Designed by architect Renzo Piano, The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is a 300,000-square-foot (27,871-square-meter) space made up of two buildings, one old, one new, at the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue next to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.   "It's shiny and new and enormous, and it's crammed with about 125 years’ worth of ideas and dreams and life-changing cinematic experiences," actor Anna Kendrick said at the media preview.   The older structure is the 1930s Saban Building, once home to the May Company department store. It's linked by bridges to a new building that is topped by a terrace and a concrete-and-glass dome that has a distinctiveness that could lead to a nickname.   Piano said Tuesday that he hopes it's "the soap bubble" and not something more cinematic.   "Please," the architect said, "don't call it the Death Star."   ...

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Four temples from ancient Rome, dating back as far as the 3rd century B.C. stand smack in the middle of one of the modern city's busiest crossroads. But until Monday, practically the only ones getting a close-up view of the temples were the cats that prowl the so-called "Sacred Area," on the edge of the site where Julius Caesar was assassinated. Now, with the help of funding from Bulgari, the luxury jeweler, the group of temples can be visited by the public. For decades, the curious had to gaze down from the bustling sidewalks rimming Largo Argentina (Argentina Square) to admire the temples below. That's because, over the centuries, the city had been built up, layer by layer, to levels several meters above the area where Caesar masterminded his political strategies and was later fatally stabbed in 44 B.C. Behind two of the temples is a foundation and part of a wall that archaeologists believe were part of Pompey's Curia, a large rectangular-shaped hall that temporarily hosted the Roman Senate when Caesar was murdered. What leads archaeologists to pinpoint the ruins as Pompey's Curia? "We know it with certainty because latrines were found on the sides" of Pompey's Curia, and ancient texts mentioned the latrines, said Claudio Parisi Presicce, an archaeologist and Rome's top official for cultural heritage. Ruins among 'best preserved' The temples emerged during the demolition of medieval-era buildings in the late 1920s, part of dictator Benito Mussolini's campaign to remake the urban landscape. A tower at one edge of Largo Argentina once topped a medieval palace. The temples are designated A, B, C and D, and are believed to have been dedicated to female deities. One of the temples, reached by an imposing staircase and featuring a circular form and with six surviving columns, is believed to have been erected in honor of Fortuna, a goddess of chance associated with fertility. Taken together, the temples make for "one of the best-preserved remains of the Roman Republic,'' Parisi Presicce said after the Mayor of Rome Roberto Gualtieri cut a ceremonial ribbon Monday afternoon. On display in a corridor near the temples is a black-and-white photograph showing Mussolini cutting the ribbon in 1929 after the excavated ruins were shown off. Also visible are the travertine paving stones that Emperor Domitian had laid down after a fire in 80 A.D. ravaged a large swath of Rome, including the Sacred Area. Artifacts on display On display are some of the artifacts found during last century's excavation. Among them is a colossal stone head of one of the deities honored in the temples, chinless and without its lower lip. Another is a stone fragment of a winged angel of victory. Over the last decades, a cat colony flourished among the ruins. Felines lounged undisturbed, and cat lovers were allowed to feed them. On Monday, one black-and-white cat sprawled lazily on its back atop the stone stump of what was once a glorious column. Bulgari helped pay for the construction of the walkways and nighttime illumination, a relief to tourists who step gingerly over the uneven ancient paving stones of the Roman Forum. The Sacred Area's wooden walkways are wheelchair- and baby-stroller-friendly. For those who can't handle the stairs down from the sidewalk, an elevator platform is available. The attraction is open every day except for Mondays and some major holidays, with general admission tickets priced at 5 euros ($5.50). Curiously, the square owes its name not to the South American country but to the Latin name of Strasbourg, France, which was the home seat of a 15th-century German cardinal who lived nearby and who served as master of ceremonies for pontiffs, including Alexander VI, the Borgia pope. ...