Clint Eastwood at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival. Photo by gdcgraphics, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.

Smithsonian honors Eastwood, opens theater on mall

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Clint Eastwood at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival. Photo by gdcgraphics, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.

Clint Eastwood at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival. Photo by gdcgraphics, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Smithsonian Institution has honored Clint Eastwood for his six decades of work in American film. Yesterday the actor and director helped to open a new theater to showcase film at the National Museum of American History.

Eastwood visited the museum to help dedicate the Warner Bros. Theater as a new space to present the history of Hollywood. Warner Bros. Entertainment had donated $5 million to renovate the old Carmichael Auditorium into a modern theater with 3D projection capability.

On Friday, the museum will open a three-day film festival to highlight the work of Humphrey Bogart with free screenings of Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon and other films.

The 81-year-old Eastwood will be awarded the James Smithson Bicentennial Medal for his distinguished contributions.

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