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Elton John honored Hillary Rodham Clinton for her work to help those affected by HIV and AIDS at an annual event for his foundation.
Clinton was excited as she accepted the first founders award from the Elton John AIDS Foundation on Tuesday night in New York. The former secretary of state told the crowd at Cipriani’s restaurant that “we still have so far to go” when it comes to helping those affected by HIV and AIDS. “There are so many challenges in front of us,” Clinton said. The former U.S. senator added that she wants to see an “AIDS-free generation” and that accomplishing that must be “our North Star.”
“I thank you, but I know there’s more for us to do,” she said. “Humans may discriminate, but viruses don’t.”
Billy Joel, Alec Baldwin, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Lisa Marie Presley and Courtney Love also attended John’s “An Enduring Vision: A Benefit for the Elton John AIDS Foundation” event, which raised $3.45 million. Recent Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Heart performed a dozen songs, including the hits “What About Love” and “Alone.”
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A new exhibition on caricaturist Al Hirschfeld begins with a video of Whoopi Goldberg talking about his wicked sense of humor.
Goldberg tells how Hirschfeld embedded the word “NINA” 40 times into a poster of her 1984 one-woman Broadway show after she complained of not being able to find the signature trademark he began inserting into his line drawings after the birth of his daughter Nina in 1945.
“The Line King’s Library” opens at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center on Thursday. The exhibition, on the 10th anniversary of Hirschfeld’s death and 110 years since his birth, was compiled from the library’s extensive collection of Hirschfeld material.
Hirschfeld, who died in 2003 at the age of 99, was celebrated for his linear calligraphic caricatures of theater, dance and film personalities. The drawings appeared on album covers, film posters, magazines and in The New York Times for 75 years.
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A play about four people who share the same last name is coming to Broadway with some awfully big names attached.
Michael C. Hall, Toni Collette, Marisa Tomei and Tracy Letts are set to star in Will Eno's play "The Realistic Joneses" early next year. Previews are set to begin in February and an opening scheduled at a theater to be announced later for late March.
In the play, two couples both with the surname Jones discover they have more in common than just their names. Eno, who was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his one-man show “Thom Pain (based on nothing)” also wrote “Middletown,” “Title and Deed” and “Oh, the Humanity and other exclamations,” a collection of five short plays.
Collette has a Golden Globe and Emmy Award for “United States of Tara,” Hall earned a Golden Globe with “Dexter,” Tomei won an Oscar with “My Cousin Vinny” and Letts has won Tony Awards for acting in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and writing “August: Osage County.”
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