DAILY VARIETY ITEM 

By Army Archerd 

February 27, 2002

Debbie Reynolds, who will have the same number of candles on her cake April 1, is still criss-crossing the country with her show - and continues to ready her Hollywood Motion Picture Collection for the Hollywood & Highland complex. 

The opening is "way off schedule," admits her son, Todd Fisher, who is CEO of the attraction and the parent company, the Hollywood Motion Picture Museum. The delay is for "a variety of reasons," he said, including no access to the space until recently when a 6-foot-by-6-foot ventilator from restaurant construction went through the roof of the museum.

"We had to redesign the space for the third time." He now expects it to open in late summer - "if we're lucky." He's hoping they can have a "preview center" of the museum prior to the Oscars, to be located in the walkway toward the Kodak Theater's main entrance.

The backers of Debbie's dream collection are spending $15 million on the 20,000-square-foot nonprofit venture.

[click here to visit the official Hollywood Motion Picture Collection website]