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Article: Mayer: restoration missionary.(Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, Roger Mayer)
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- February 25, 2005
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According to Turner Entertainment president Roger Mayer, all films should be restored and preserved.
"When we first started film preservation we would sit around and try to decide which films to preserve and say, 'This film will last but that one won't.' But we were wrong half of the time. You will not know whether a film is a classic right away. It really doesn't retain its position as a work of art until 10, 20, 25 years later."
This all-inclusive mentality may be one of the reasons why Mayer--following in the footsteps of Quincy Jones, Elizabeth Taylor and Audrey Hepburn--will receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award on Oscar night.
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