Composer Marc Shaiman, right, gets a hug from director Rob Reiner after winning the Henry Mancini Award for Career Achievement during ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards at the Kodak theatre in Los Angeles, Tuesday, April 17, 2007. This is the 22nd annual awards show for the American Society of Composer, Authors and Publishers.
Actor and comedian Billy Crystal speaks at the ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards at the Kodak theatre in Hollywood section of Los Angeles, Tuesday, April 17, 2007.
Composer Marc Shaiman holds the Henry Mancini Award for Career Achievement he recived during the ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards at the Kodak theatre in Los Angeles, Tuesday, April 17, 2007.
Marissa Jaret Winokar performs at the ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards at the Kodak theatre in Hollywood section of Los Angeles, Tuesday, April 17, 2007.
Billy Crystal and his wife, Janice, walk the red carpet at the ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards at the Kodak theatre in Los Angeles, Tuesday, April 17, 2007.
Billy Crystal, right, composer Marc Shaiman, and actor-director Rob Reiner joke together at the ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards at the Kodak theatre in Los Angeles, Tuesday, April 17, 2007.
On TV
Musician Avril Lavigne appears onstage with MTV VJ Damien Fahey during MTV's Total Request Live at the MTV Times Square Studios on April 16, 2007, in New York.
True Grit
Larry King, left, who is also celebrating his 50 years on the air this week, poses with Jamie Lee Curtis and Patrick Wayne, son of the late John Wayne, at the 22nd annual Odyssey Ball benefiting the The John Wayne Cancer Institute, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif, on April 14, 2007. King was honored with the group's True Grit Award.
One Visit
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and Bono, left, lead singer of Irish rock band U2, talk during Bono's visit to the Berlin Chancellery on Tuesday, April 17, 2007.
"Fracture" in New York
Oscar-nominated actor Ryan Gosling and his mother, Donna, attend the party after a special screening of his new movie "Fracture," hosted by The Cinema Society and Hugo Boss, on April 17, 2007, in New York.
"The Sopranos" star Jamie-Lynn Sigler attends a special screening of "Fracture," hosted by The Cinema Society and Hugo Boss, at the Tribeca Grand on April 17, 2007, in New York.
"The Sopranos" star Edie Falco attends a special screening of "Fracture," hosted by The Cinema Society and Hugo Boss, at the Tribeca Grand on April 17, 2007, in New York.
Reading Poetry
Actress Glenn Close and author David Halberstam chat together at the 5th annual "Poetry & The Creative Mind" celebrity poetry reading, benefiting The Academy of American Poets, on April 11, 2007, in New York.
Actress Alfre Woodard, left, and ballerina Wendy Whelan attend the 5th annual "Poetry & The Creative Mind" celebrity poetry reading to mark national poetry month April 11, 2007, in New York.
Actors Ethan Hawke and Lauren Bacall pose together at the 5th annual "Poetry & The Creative Mind" celebrity poetry reading on April 11, 2007, in New York.
Benefit Concert
The Pussycat Dolls pose at the Cipriani Wall Street Concert Series benefiting UNICEF and the Sarah Ferguson Foundation at Cipriani Wall Street April 17, 2007, in New York. The group performed at the event with Snoop Dogg.
Soap opera actress Susan Lucci poses at the Cipriani Wall Street Concert Series benefiting UNICEF and the Sarah Ferguson Foundation at Cipriani Wall Street April 17, 2007, in New York.
Sarah Ferguson poses at the Cipriani Wall Street Concert Series benefiting UNICEF and the Sarah Ferguson Foundation at Cipriani Wall Street April 17, 2007, in New York.
Model Naomi Campbell poses at the Cipriani Wall Street Concert Series benefiting UNICEF and the Sarah Ferguson Foundation at Cipriani Wall Street April 17, 2007, in New York.
Los Angeles Speaker
Former President Bill Clinton speaks April 15, 2007, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and the Music Center Speaker Series in Los Angeles. Other speakers in the series are TV journalists Dan Rather and Bill Moyers, authors Salman Rushdie and Thomas L. Friedman and former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell.