A Great Actor, An Even Better Person For Press Club Visionary Award Recipient Forrest Whitaker, the Humanitarian Work is as Important as the Acting Accolades BY TED JOHNSON Last August, dressed in a blue suit and blue tie, Forest Whitaker stood in the spot at the Lincoln Memorial where Martin Luther King, Jr. stood 50 years earlier to deliver his “I Have a Dream Speech.” Like King, Whitaker spoke to a crowd that had gathered at the base of the memorial. “Today I want to celebrate those nameless individuals…
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Vanity Fair Editor Graydon Carter to Receive Special Centennial Award
Friday, November 15, 2013 12:44 PM Krista Smith, West Coast editor of Vanity Fair, will accept the Special Centennial Award on behalf of Graydon Carter and the magazine at the NEJ gala Nov. 24. Vanity Fair and the Los Angeles Press Club are both celebrating their 100-year anniversaries this year.
See MoreLGBTs in the News: There’s more to our story than discrimination and marriage
Monday, November 11, 2013 12:45 PM A discussion panel featuring some of the foremost LGBT voices in news and entertainment today. Among them Jason Stuart and Alexis Arquette.
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