Standing on the soundstage where Fred Astaire once danced and Dorothy skipped down the yellow brick road, Morgan Freeman accepted the American Film Institute’s Life Achievement Award.
Clint Eastwood, Sidney Poitier, Helen Mirren, Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Robbins and Forest Whitaker were among the stars who feted Freeman during a ceremony Thursday at Sony Studios, former home of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Johnny Depp and Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland” took in $34.5 million to remain the No. 1 movie for a third-straight weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.
The White House is enlisting “Sex and The City” star Sarah Jessica Parker, Forest Whitaker and others from Hollywood and beyond to help push President Barack Obama’s arts initiatives.
On Tuesday, Vice President Joe Biden will install 25 new members of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.