Mel Brooks Honored at Guild Hall's Life Achievement Awards

On March 3, 2008, Guild Hall will host their 23rd Annual Lifetime Achievement Awards, honoring Mel Brooks, Joe Pintauro, David Salle and Robert F.X. Sillerman. Angela LaGreca will emcee the event.

Guild Hall's Academy of the Arts will present honorees with awards for their work in Performing Arts, Literary Arts, Visual Arts and Leadership and Philanthropic Endeavors at their 23rd Annual Lifetime Achievement Awards.

The event takes place Monday March 3 at 6:15PM (arrivals), 6:30PM (cocktails) at The Rainbow Room (30 Rockefeller Plaza, 65th Floor).

Guild Hall's Academy of the Arts was formed in 1985. The membership has grown to over 200, a truly incredible assemblage of internationally recognized artists emanating from a relatively small community. Award recipients have been selected by ballot by the entire Academy membership. Among the lifetime honorees are Ben Bradlee, Alec Baldwin, April Gornik, Stephen Spielberg, Betty Freidan, Billy Joel, Lauren Bacall, Paul Simon, Wendy Wasserstein and many others in the fields of visual arts, literary arts and performing arts.

Guild Hall, located in East Hampton, NY, is the first center in the United States to provide a museum, theater and community meeting place under one roof. Since 1931, Guild Hall has engaged the community in cultural events that embrace all the arts and has been a home to the artistic community. Guild Hall's intimate galleries showcase emerging and contemporary artists who have lived and worked in the region including some of the world's most celebrated painters, sculptors, photographers and graphic artists.  The John Drew Theater hosts theatrical luminaries on its jewel box proscenium stage, under a blue-and-white-striped tent-like ceiling that sweeps up to a chandelier of glass balloons. Guild Hall's Boots Lamb Education Center provides a learning nexus for schools, cultural groups and individuals through studio courses and workshops, lectures, panels, events, film screenings, play readings, group meetings and art and theater classes of all kinds.