Fleisher, Martin, Ross, Scorsese, Wilson to Get Kennedy Center Honors

Actor and playwright Steve Martin is among the recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors of 2007. The other recipients to be honored at the 30th annual national celebration of the arts, to be bestowed on December 1, are pianist Leon Fleisher, singer Diana Ross, film director Martin Scorsese, and songwriter Brian Wilson.

The honorees will be saluted on December 2 in a star-studded celebration on the Kennedy Center Opera House stage, produced by George Stevens Jr. The event will be recorded for broadcast as a two-hour special on CBS on Wednesday, December 26 at 9pm.

Martin’s plays include Picasso at the Lapin Agile and The Underpants. He appeared Off-Broadway in Waiting for Godot. Martin first gained fame on Saturday Night Live and has appeared in such films as Pennies from Heaven, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Little Shop of Horrors, and The Spanish Prisoner.