Sunday 31 August 2008

Movie museum to honor Ben Stiller

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Actor/director Ben Stiller has been selected as this year's honoree for the Museum of the Moving Image's 24th annual black tie salute.





The upshot, which benefit's MOMI's education programs, is scheduled for November 12 at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York. Stiller's colleagues are expected to pay tribute and present clips from his film career.





"Ben Stiller is one of the great talents of American entertainment: a memorable doer, an accomplished director and writer, an Emmy Award winner and an innovational producer," MOMI director Rochelle Slovin said.





Tom Cruise, Stiller's "Tropic Thunder" co-star, was last year's honoree.





/Hollywood Reporter









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