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WARREN BEATTY TO RECEIVE AFI HONOR

Tonight, Warren Beatty will step up to the podium at the Kodak Theater to receive the 36th AFI Life Achievement Award, another in a long line of career honors he's been showered with dating back to his honorary Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1998, the year of "Bulworth." No doubt many of his posse will be there: Jack, Dustin, Mike Nichols, Elaine May and others with whom he keeps in constant touch.

There will be jokes about his womanizing (told in the past tense, of course), his terminal indecisiveness and his maddening perfectionism. But the stories will be respectful and affectionate. The 71-year-old icon knows a lot of accomplished people from the worlds of entertainment and politics. And after several conversations with him, one wonders who he doesn't know.

The AFI accolade appears long overdue. After all, past Life Achievement honorees like Tom Hanks and Harrison Ford were feted in midcareer, and without Beatty's multidisciplinary cachet, or his 14 Oscar nominations. Beatty's friend and neighbor Jack Nicholson received the honor in 1994 despite the fact that his stardom blossomed years after Beatty's, and without the tectonic-shifting impact of a "Bonnie and Clyde." (Beatty's other erstwhile neighbor, the late Marlon Brando, never got a dinner.)

And yet the delay might be apropos for a man who seemingly has never been in a rush nor felt the need to continually bathe in the spotlight. Time is clearly on Beatty's side. Or, as Beatty himself has offered: "I always think of what Orson (Welles) said: 'No wine before its time.

DAILY BOX OFFICE RESULTS

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The Strangers
Directed by Bryan Bertino
Starring
Liv Tyler
Scott Speedman
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
Directed by Dennis Dugan
Starring
Adam Sandler
John Turturro

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Starring
Harrison Ford
Shia LaBeouf
Sex and the City
Directed by Michael Patrick King
Starring
Sarah Jessica Parker
Kim Cattrall

Redbelt Redbelt
Directed by David Mamet
Starring
Chiwetel Ejitofor
Alice Braga
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Directed by Andrew Adamson
Starring
Ben Barnes
Sergio Castellitto

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OPRAH MOST POWERFUL CELEBRITY

Oprah Winfrey has landed at the top of the annual Forbes Celebrity 100 Power List for the second consecutive year. She has topped the list in four previous years.

Tiger Woods placed second -- also for the second straight year, while Angelina Jolie placed third.

In a statement, associate editor Matthew Miller, who heads the staff that compiles the Forbes magazine list, said, "It's not surprising that Oprah Winfrey and Tiger Woods remain at the top this year -- they're certainly some of the biggest earners."

Winfrey reportedly earned $275 million during the past year; Woods, $115 million. However, Jolie took home a comparatively modest $14 million. While recognition on the list is weighted heavily on celebrities' earnings, other factors, including magazine covers, news reports, and talk-show appearances also figure in the assessment.

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