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It has since been certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and was named by several publications as among the finest albums of the 2010s, together with Rolling Stone, who later included it at 269 on its 2020 list of the five hundred Greatest Albums of All Time. Tony Awards. He also acquired the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2005, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2007, and an AFI Life Achievement Award in 2015. In 2004, Comedy Central ranked Martin at sixth place in a list of the 100 biggest stand-up comics. 2 on the Forbes Highest-Paid Celebrities Under 30 record. October 9 - Leonard Bernstein pronounces his retirement from the conducting podium; he dies 5 days later. August 19 - Leonard Bernstein conducts his last efficiency at Tanglewood; he suffers a coughing fit within the middle of one piece which almost brings the concert to a premature end. August 13 - Curtis Mayfield is paralyzed from the neck down in an accident at an outside concert in Flatbush, Brooklyn, after stage lighting tools collapses on top of him. Shelley, Christopher (2 August 2008). Transpeople: repudiation, trauma, healing. |
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