Angels in America playwright Tony Kushner and virtuoso actor-documentarian Anna Deavere Smith were among a dozen honorees to receive National Humanities medals from U.S. Pres.
"When people are unhappy with one of our honorees, we would hope that they would project their anger in more positive ways then to vandalize a California state landmark".
They've all been honorees at benefit dinners during this social season.
Each school's football alumni association honors one of its own, and the names of some past honorees — Hank Paulson and G.E. chairman and C.E.O.
Customarily, when Dorf, as a courtesy, asks the honorees for permission, he also invites them to attend or even to perform.
The pin-striped honorees, clutching their boxed bling, were lined up along the base path between first and second, but now they spontaneously broke ranks and swarmed around their old teammate with hugs and hand-bumps and head-rubbings, their familiar dark Yankee caps and his scarlet Angels cap providing a sudden focal point for the photo op and 49,293 smiles.
Last week, the Kennedy Center Honors, an annual gala that purports to celebrate "significant contributions to American culture through the performing arts," announced its 2014 honorees: the singers Al Green and Sting, the actor Tom Hanks, the ballerina Patricia McBride, and the comedian Lily Tomlin.
Fred Spiegel and Steve Stephenson, the grant winners, were in town the other night, at the Explorers Club, sipping soda and munching on carrots with the other honorees (specialists in catfish, plant bugs, and nightshades).
dinner, where the honors were handed out; a White House reception during which President Reagan introduced each honoree to the assembled guests; a variety show at the Kennedy Center Opera House, which consisted of filmed biographies of the honorees and tributes from their fellow-artists; and after the show a dinner dance for 1500 people in the great hall of the Center.
If they did, MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY would have likely been high on the list of 2012 honorees — his roles in "Magic Mike," "Killer Joe," and "Bernie" made for a year of thorough artistic self-reinvention.
One event planner says, "There are fewer and fewer people who are willing to be honored, and the honorees who are good are sought after again and again".
