In April, actor Orlando Bloom received his own Hollywood Walk of Fame, he came to the ceremony with his super cute son Flynn. PHOTO: FILE
Ferrell, who starred in the movie Anchorman, McCarthy, nominated for Best Supporting Actress for the movie Bridesmaids; and Family Guy creator MacFarlane will be joined by Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson, Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe, Oscar-winning actor Christoph Waltz and animated cartoon dog Snoopy.
Actors Paul Rudd, Jennifer Garner, Amy Poehler, The Big Bang Theory television star Jim Parsons, celebrity chef Bobby Flay and The Simpsons long-running producer James L Brooks will also receive the terrazzo-and-brass star plaque.
Crime fiction writer Raymond Chandler, best known for 1953’s The Long Goodbye, and comic-book artist Bob Kane, the co-creator of Batman, will be given posthumous plaques.
R&B artist Pharrell Williams, rapper Pitbull, dance-funk group Kool & the Gang and music producer Dr Luke will get stars in the music category, while veteran radio personality Larry Elder will receive a plaque in the radio category.
The Hollywood Walk of Fame has honoured influential figures in the entertainment industry since 1960.
Rapper Kanye West’s incessant lobbying has added up to nothing, his wife Kim Kardashian was rejected from the Hollywood Walk of Fame yet again. She is still not famous enough for it. In the past, West has often been seen railing against the fact that his girlfriend-now-wife hasn’t gotten her star yet.
The plaques which are cemented into the sidewalk can be purchased for $30,000 by the sponsor of a nominee, who is approved by Hollywood’s Chamber of Commerce. The money goes to the Hollywood Historic Trust.
More than 2,500 plaques line the pavements along a mile-long strip of Hollywood Boulevard. The celebrities are chosen from hundreds of nominations by the Walk of Fame Selection Committee of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and then approved by Hollywood Chamber’s Board of Directors.
Here is the complete list of who got the nod this year. Each person has five years to set their star ceremony, and no dates have been announced just yet, reported ABC News.
MOTION PICTURES
Raymond Chandler (posthumous), Eugenio Derbez, Will Ferrell, Jennifer Garner, Peter Jackson, Bob Kane (posthumous), Daniel Radcliffe, Paul Rudd, Snoopy, Melissa McCarthy and Christoph Waltz
TELEVISION
James L Brooks, Ken Ehrlich, Bobby Flay, Seth MacFarlane, Julianna Margulies, Chris O’Donnell, Jim Parsons, Amy Poehler, Kelly Ripa and Sofia Vergara
RECORDING
Lukasz ‘Dr Luke’ Gottwald, Kool & The Gang, Pitbull, Al Schmitt and Pharrell Williams
RADIOLarry Elder
LIVE THEATRE/LIVE PERFORMANCE
Kristin Chenoweth, Dick Gregory and Ennio Morricone
Published in The Express Tribune, June 23rd, 2014.
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