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Warren Beatty will receive the American Film Institute's (AFI) 36th Life Achievement Award in a special ceremony airing on Wednesday, June 25 at 9/8C on USA Network. Barbra Streisand sent in a pre-recorded video message presenting the award to Mr. Beatty. AFI TRIBUTE TO WARREN BEATTY Warren Beatty will receive the American Film Institute's (AFI) 36th Life Achievement Award in a special ceremony airing on Wednesday, June 25 at 9/8C on USA Network. The event will feature tributes from a number of Beatty's friends and colleagues-including Halle Berry, Don Cheadle, Faye Dunaway, Jane Fonda, Dustin Hoffman, Diane Keaton and Barbra Streisand among others. In addition, there will be special tributes from Gene Hackman, Goldie Hawn, Harvey Keitel, George McGovern, Quentin Tarantino and others. The evening will also feature performances from Pras and Earl Scruggs. [5331BS-174.jpg] The AFI Life Achievement Award is regarded as the highest honor for a career in film. As the first award in the film community to acknowledge career achievement, the honor has been bestowed upon many of the greatest film artists in history such as Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro, Clint Eastwood, Tom Hanks, Barbra Streisand, Harrison Ford, Dustin Hoffman, Sean Connery, Steven Spielberg, Jack Nicholson, Elizabeth Taylor, Sidney Poitier, George Lucas, Gregory Peck, Barbara Stanwyck, Billy Wilder, Fred Astaire, James Stewart, Alfred Hitchcock, Bette Davis, Orson Welles, James Cagney and John Ford.

Warren Beatty will receive the American Film Institute's (AFI) 36th Life Achievement Award in a special ceremony airing on Wednesday, June 25 at 9/8C on USA Network. Barbra Streisand sent in a pre-recorded video message presenting the award to Mr. Beatty. AFI TRIBUTE TO WARREN BEATTY Warren Beatty will receive the American Film Institute's (AFI) 36th Life Achievement Award in a special ceremony airing on Wednesday, June 25 at 9/8C on USA Network. The event will feature tributes from a number of Beatty's friends and colleagues-including Halle Berry, Don Cheadle, Faye Dunaway, Jane Fonda, Dustin Hoffman, Diane Keaton and Barbra Streisand among others. In addition, there will be special tributes from Gene Hackman, Goldie Hawn, Harvey Keitel, George McGovern, Quentin Tarantino and others. The evening will also feature performances from Pras and Earl Scruggs. [5331BS-174.jpg] The AFI Life Achievement Award is regarded as the highest honor for a career in film. As the first award in the film community to acknowledge career achievement, the honor has been bestowed upon many of the greatest film artists in history such as Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro, Clint Eastwood, Tom Hanks, Barbra Streisand, Harrison Ford, Dustin Hoffman, Sean Connery, Steven Spielberg, Jack Nicholson, Elizabeth Taylor, Sidney Poitier, George Lucas, Gregory Peck, Barbara Stanwyck, Billy Wilder, Fred Astaire, James Stewart, Alfred Hitchcock, Bette Davis, Orson Welles, James Cagney and John Ford.

The Stella Adler Studio of Acting will host its 4th annual Stella by Starlight gala benefit on March 17, 2008 at Cipriani 23rd Street. This event will be a memorable evening with an extraordinary line-up of honorees. Martin Sheen will accept the Marlon Brando Award for a life committed to social activism and excellence in film art

It was recently announced that stage/screen actress Ruby Dee will receive the Chairman's Award at the 39th Annual NAACP Image Awards, which will be bestowed on Thursday, February 14 in Los Angeles and broadcast on FOX Television, according to Variety.

Producers of the 59th Annual American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards announced today that their official website, www.TonyAwards.com, will offer exclusive access via live (streamed) video to the first 9 awards from the stage of Radio City Music Hall.

Michael Riedel, Michael Musto, Robert Simonson and others will opine on Tony winners on Theatre Talk this Friday

Christina Applegate and the cast of Sweet Charity will perform on the Tonys this Sunday

Kate Burton, who will soon star in The Constant Wife for the Roundabout Theatre Company, will present the Regional Theatre Tony Award to Theatre de la Jeune Lune on June 5th

Aretha Franklin, Jesse L. Martin and Bernadette Peters will perform on the 2005 Tony Awards, while numbers from Sweeet Charity, Spamalot, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and other nominated shows will also be presented

On 3 Productions will provide gift bags valued at $20,000 to celebrity presenters at the 2005 Tonys on June 5th

Presenters for the 59th Annual Antoinette Perry 'Tony' Awards were announced today.

NORA, legendary film director Ingmar Bergman's adaptation of Ibsen's classic play, 'A Doll's House,' will be presented at the Century City Playhouse as the inaugural production of the Blue Angel Theatre.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) is proud to announce that Anthony Mackie will star in the world premiere of Stephen Belber's McReele, staged by Tony Award© nominated director Doug Hughes (Doubt). McReele begins previews in January 2005 at the Laura Pels Theatre (Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre; 111 West 46th Street) and officially opens on Thursday, February 17, 2005. This is a limited engagement through Sunday, April 24th.