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Stephen Colbert and Blake Edwards will be honored at the upcoming U.S. Comedy Arts Festival. Colbert, host of The Colbert Report on Viacom Inc.'s Comedy Central, will receive the inaugural Person of the Year Award.
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"I’m delighted that Blake Edwards is this year’s Screen Laurel recipient," said Victoria Riskin, President of the Writers Guild of America, west. "What could be better, during a time when laughter is so desperately needed, than to honor one of film’s great comic screenwriters? The Guild is proud to present Blake Edwards with this lifetime achievement honor."
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In this Blake Edwards-directed adaptation of Truman Capote's novel, fortune hunter Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) finds herself captivated by aspiring writer Paul Varjak (George Peppard), who's moved into her building on a wealthy woman's (Patricia Neal) dime. Read More
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Edward Blake 1833-1912, Canadian Liberal party leader, b. Upper Canada (Ontario). A prominent constitutional lawyer, he was elected to the House of Commons in 1867. In 1871 he became premier of Ontario, and he later served as minister of justice (1875-77) in Alexander Mackenzie's government and as leader of the Liberal party (1880-87). After withdrawing from Canadian politics (1890), he sat in the British House of Commons (1892-1907) as an Irish nationalist.
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The Liberals were defeated in the 1878 election, and Blake succeeded Mackenzie as party leader in 1880. He failed to defeat Macdonald's Conservatives in the 1882 or 1887 elections. Blake resigned as Liberal leader in 1887, recruiting Wilfrid Laurier as his successor, and left the Canadian House of Commons in 1891, when he moved to Britain.
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The Lifetime Achievement Award program featured tributes to Blake by novelist Gar Anthony Haywood, a past MWA-SoCal president, and TV scripter Paul Guyot. Both described how their life and work was substantially influenced by Blake.
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