Bill Clinton is among those saluting Warren Beatty as the Oscar-winning actor-director receives a lifetime achievement award from the American Film Institute.
"Over all these decades, you have shared with us, as moviegoers, this insatiable hunger for life," the former president says during the ceremony at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. The tribute, which was filmed in June, airs tonight on USA. "That's what I think about when I think of you."
Stars such as Jane Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Dustin Hoffman, Diane Keaton and Halle Berry are shown on hand for the celebration marking Beatty's 47-year career as an actor, writer, director and producer, as are politicians George McGovern, Gary Hart and Jerry Brown.
The 3 1/2 -hour event, which has been pared down to 120 minutes for TV, features clips from Beatty's movies and taped tributes from Barbra Streisand, Gene Hackman, Goldie Hawn and John McCain.
Hart calls the 71-year-old filmmaker "as true and loyal a friend as I have ever had in this life." And Berry, who starred with Beatty in "Bulworth," calls him "a true legend ... a man willing to take a risk to say something meaningful to the audience through his film."
Hoffman noted Beatty's numerous awards and calls his friend of 40 years "a very human human being: a political activist of no short order, a proven artist of Herculean proportions, the husband of Annette Bening, the father of Kathlyn, Benjamin, Isabel and Ella, and the best friend of Jack Nicholson."
Beatty, who won a directing Oscar for 1981's "Reds," says his "big sister Shirley MacLaine" led him into movies. His films also include "Heaven Can Wait"and "Bonnie and Clyde." He also thanks the film industry for leading him to Bening, "who has given me the most important thing of all, which is her love."
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