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Sir Howard Stringer, Chair of the American Film Institute's Board of Trustees, announced the Board's decision to honor Steve Martin with the 43rd AFI Life Achievement Award, the highest honor for a career in film, known to be Americas highest honor within the industry. The award will be presented to Martin at a gala tribute in Los Angeles, CA on June 4, 2015. The 43rd AFI Life Achievement Award tribute special will return for its third year on TNT when it airs in June 2015, followed by encore presentations on sister network Turner Classic Movies (TCM). "Steve Martin is an American original," said Stringer. "From a wild and crazy stand-up comic to one who stands tall among the great figures in this American art form, he is a multi-layered creative force bound by neither convention nor caution. His work is defined by him alone, for he is the author – and a national treasure whose work has stuck with us like an arrow in the head. AFI is proud to present...

Kim Novak, iconic actress of the Golden Era of Hollywood's great classic movies, will be a honorary invited guest of this year's 66th Cannes Film Festival ( www.festival-cannes.fr ) which will take place May 15th-26th in Cannes, France. Novak will be attending the screening of Alfred Hitchcock classic film 'Vertigo',  ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052357/ ) which will be shown in its newly restored format as part of the Cannes Classics section of the Festival. Vertigo was considered one of Kim Novak's greatest performances as the disturbed heroine, of which Hitchcock described himself as a 'love story with a strange atmosphere' - On her role in Hitchcock's Vertigo – Novak said - “What was interesting was that the scene reflected what I was going through at the time: it was the story of a woman who was forced to be someone she wasn’t.” Circumstances being that as a result of which Novak was unwilling to accept the iron rule of the s...