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Article: American Film Institute announces another `100 Years' poll.
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- January 12, 1999
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The American Film Institute announced Tuesday that it will create a new ``national celebration of American film,'' similar in magnitude to last year's controversial ``100 Years ... 100 Movies.''
Presented as a three-hour CBS television special last June, ``100 Years ... 100 Movies'' paid tribute to the top 100 American movies as selected by filmmakers, critics, historians and other cultural leaders.
The results of the new poll, called ``AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Stars,'' will also be unveiled in early June on another three-hour CBS special. Fifty of today's stars will pay tribute to 50 of the screen legends.
``We wanted to continue this national ...