Jerry Lewis is getting the television academy’s Governors Award in recognition for his more than half-century of work on behalf of muscular dystrophy.
Lewis, the national chairman of the Muscular Dystrophy Association, was chosen for the honor by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ Board of Governors in recognition of his work for the Muscular Dystrophy Telethon.
The award will be presented to the 79-year-old entertainer and humanitarian during the 2005 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Sept. 10. The 57th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards will be televised Sept. 18 on CBS.
The Rolling Stones celebrated Mick Jagger’s 62nd birthday by announcing the Sept. 6 release of “A Bigger Bang” on Virgin Records, their first studio CD in eight years.
“While in the studio recording the album last year, the band came up with the title, ‘A Bigger Bang,’ reflecting their fascination with the scientific theory about the origin of the universe,” the Stones said in a statement Tuesday.
Following 35 scheduled dates in the United States and Canada, the band will tour Mexico, South America, the Far East, New Zealand, Australia and Europe.
Furniture and decorative arts from the estate of Richard Avedon, the fashion and art photographer who died last year, will be auctioned by Sotheby’s in October.
Highlights of the Oct. 14 sale include a Navajo serape estimated at $20,000-$30,000 and an Egyptian stucco mummy mask of a woman estimated at $7,000-$10,000, the auction house announced Tuesday.
Sotheby’s sold four pieces of fine art from Avedon’s estate as part of its impressionist and modern art sale in May.
Avedon died Oct. 1 in San Antonio, where he was hospitalized after suffering a brain hemorrhage. He was 81.
During his career, he had also worked for Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, where his images became among the most iconic in fashion photography.
Avedon was the inspiration for Dick Avery, the character played by Fred Astaire in the 1957 movie “Funny Face.”
A lawyer for Kate Moss said Wednesday the British supermodel had accepted substantial libel damages from a newspaper that alleged she had collapsed into a coma after taking cocaine.
An article in Britain’s Sunday Mirror and on the newspaper’s website in January alleged that during a visit to Barcelona, Spain, in June 2001, Moss, now 31, collapsed into a drug-induced coma after taking large amounts of cocaine and had to be revived.
“The allegations are untrue,” Moss’ lawyer, Gerard Tyrrell, said Wednesday.
Tyrrell said Mirror Group Newspapers Limited accepted that the allegations were false and should not have been published.
He said the two parties had agreed on a substantial figure in damages, but he did not say what the amount was.
