BRIEFLY : Film: Friars Club Plans to Honor Charlton Heston
The Friars Club plans to bestow its Lifetime Achievement Award on Charlton Heston, it was announced last week.
The award will be made at a Friars Club dinner July 29 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. The event, to be emceed by Steve Allen, will feature Heston’s former co-stars and appearances by comics who will reflect on the veteran actor’s accomplishments.
Heston has starred in more than 50 motion pictures, including “Ben Hur,” for which he won a Best Actor Oscar in 1959.
The Friars Club was founded in New York in 1907 as a nonprofit, charitable organization for performers. In 1947, the Los Angeles area branch was formed.
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