Into The Wild star Hal Holbrook is to become the first recipient of the Mark Twain Lifetime Achievement Award for his efforts to boost awareness of the literary icon's work.
Veteran actor Hal Holbrook will receive the Julie Harris Award for Lifetime Achievement at The Actors Fund's annual Tony Party in Los Angeles on 12 June (11). The ceremony will serve as a viewing party for the 2011 Broadway honours and benefit the entertainment industry's human services organisation.
Jim Caviezel and Chiwetel Ejiofor are to team up on the big screen to tell the true story of an early 1900s tycoon who went into business with a freed slave.