Sally Field, Stephen King to be honored with National Medal of Arts
Actress Sally Field and author Stephen King are among luminaries set to receive a National Medal of Arts or a National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama.
Obama will bestow the honors on 18 people and three institutions during a White House ceremony on Thursday.
Field, of Los Angeles, is receiving an arts medal for showing dignity, empathy and fearlessness in performances that have touched audiences worldwide, as well as for showing those same qualities in her off-screen advocacy for women, LGBT rights and public health.
King, of Bangor, Maine, is also receiving an arts medal for combining storytelling with analysis of human nature, and for thrilling readers through decades of work.
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/obama-award-arts-medals-sally-field-stephen-king-article-1.2349995
Both are deserving!
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If Stephen King can be honored, why not Stan Lee? He has been a life-long job creator for those society ignores, just because they're somehow "different" from the rest of us.
Stan Lee should at the very least get a Nobel Peace Prize for being a Guardian of the Galaxy...