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Hollywood Southwest

FADE IN:    EXT.   MUSEUM-DAY A glass and brick building with sculptures made of bronze and metal arranged around a grassy lawn encircled by a sidewalk.    A middle aged white guy with a baseball cap walks into the shot, up to large glass doors and steps into the building. DISSOLVE TO: A small sign with a graphic of a the iconic "Hollywood" and below it "Southwest" announces the exhibit behind the double doors. Middle aged white guy is now standing in front of a movie poster for Glenn Ficarra and John Requa's 2016 Whiskey Tango Foxtrot , starring Tina Fey.   He writes in a small notebook, "I was watching Whiskey Tango Foxtrot , a movie based on reporter Kim Barker's time in Afghanistan, when I was jolted out of the moment with a landscape I knew.   So as the credits rolled I kept reading until it confirmed that landscape that was standing in for Afghanistan was actually New Mexico."   DISSOLVE TO: A wing in the exhibit. ...