ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-14 October 2008-Clint Eastwood Honored by the Thalians(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com

The award will be presented to Eastwood at The Thalians Ball, an evening which raises funds for the Thalians Mental Health Center at Cedars Sinai Hospital.

Voted the 16th "Greatest Movie Star of All Time" by Entertainment Weekly, Clint Eastwood is a living legend and a true movie star. He was named the No. 1 top money-making star at the box office in Quigley Publications' annual poll of movie exhibitors five times between 1972 and 1993. In 2004, he became the oldest person to win the Best Director Oscar for "Million Dollar Baby. Premiere Magazine has ranked him as No. 43 on a list of the Greatest Movie Stars of All Time in their Stars in Our Constellation feature. Eastwood's performance as "Dirty (Make My Day)Harry" is ranked No. 92 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time. The five-time Oscar winner is cited as "America's Favorite Movie Star" by the Harris Polls conducted in 1993, 1994 and 1997.

The special evening honoring Eastwood will feature surprise guest stars who will honor the legend, along with headline performances by some of Eastwood's favorite jazz artists.

Previous Thalians honorees have included Jack Lemmon, James Stewart, Angela Lansbury, Mary Tyler Moore, Sally Field, Whoopi Goldberg, Carol Burnett, Phyllis Diller and Liza Minnelli, to name a few.

Founded in 1955, The Thalians organization continues to raise over $500,000.00 annually to support The Thalians Mental Health Center at Cedars Sinai, a mental health centers. As the main support group for the Department of Psychiatry at Cedars Sinai, The Thalians has proven to be an outstanding facility performing clinical care for in and out-patients as well as neuroscience research and medical advances in the areas of Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, depression, substance abuse, bi-polar disorders and autism.

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