Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Smithsonian gets Colbert or Colbert gets Smithsonian ??

WASHINGTON -- The line outside the bathroom at the National Portrait Gallery has been out the door ever since museum officials decided to hang a portrait of late-night host Stephen Colbert between the men's and women's restrooms.

"The lines have been extraordinary," museum director Marc Pachter said Monday as he prepared to end his 33-year tenure with the Smithsonian Institution. "A friend e-mailed that it was good I was leaving with my dignity."

Colbert, who plays an egotistical conservative talk show host on his Comedy Central show, "The Colbert Report," has made a running joke of his campaign to get his portrait into the Smithsonian.

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