Lily Tomlin To Take Part In 'The D Word' Dog Park Benefit In Provincetown

Celebrated comedienne and actress Lily Tomlin will take part in 'The D Word,' a benefit for the Pilgrim Bark Park of Provincetown, Massachusetts. The event, which will be hosted by Kate Clinton, will be held August 29, 8pm at the MacMillan Wharf.

The benefit is created and produced by Stage One Productions. The evening will also feature a silent auction. For more information, and to purchase tickets, visit www.onlyatthecrown.com, or click here.

Lily Tomlin first shot to fame in 1970 when she joined the cast of the slapstick sketch show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. Her movies include Robert Altman's Nashville and Short Cuts, Nine to Five with Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton, All of Me with Steve Martin, Big Business with Bette Midler, Flirting with Disaster with Ben Stiller, and I Heart Huckabees with Dustin Hoffman. She also narrated and executive produced The Celluloid Closet, the 1995 documentary on how homosexuality has been portrayed in Hollywood films. On TV, Tomlin played Candice Bergen's boss on the last two seasons on Murphy Brown, the voice of Ms. Frizzle on The Magic School Bus, and Martin Sheen's secretary on The West Wing (after Mrs. Landingham died). Tomlin's 1986 one-woman show, The Search for Signs of Inteligent Life in the Universe, was a long-running critical success. It won Tomlin a Tony, and was made into a film in 1991. Tomlin joined ABC's hit television show Desperate Housewives in late 2008 as Mrs. McCluskey's (played Kathryn Joosten) sister, Roberta Simmons.