US comedian
Lily Tomlin immortalized with handprint in Hollywood
Immortalized: Actress Lily Tomlin shows off her hands after placing them in cement at a hand and footprint ceremony. Photo: Chris Pizzello/Invision/dpa
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Hundreds of stars have already been honored on the forecourt of the historic TLC cinema. Now the collection has been expanded to include a handprint.
The US comedian Lily Tomlin (82) got on her knees in Hollywood. In front of the TLC Chinese Theater in the Californian film metropolis, she pressed both hands into the wet cement on Friday (local time).
To do this, she knelt down in front of photographers and spectators on the famous cinema forecourt. Her shoeprints were also immortalized. The ceremony was also attended by Tomlin’s colleague Jane Fonda from the joint series “Grace and Frankie”. The honor was given to him as part of the ongoing “Turner Classic Movies” film festival.
Tomlin wrote her name and the name “Edith Ann” with a heart in the cement. This was one of her well-known comedy characters on her first TV show, Laugh-In, in the early 1970s, in which she played the cheeky girl character, among other roles.
Tomlin is known from films such as “Nashville”, “The Player”, “Short Cuts” and “The Pink Panther 2”. The multiple Emmy award winner has also appeared in numerous TV series, including “The West Wing”, “Damages – Im Netz der Kraft” and since 2015 with Fonda in “Grace and Frankie”. In the Netflix comedy series, they play longtime wives whose husbands unexpectedly come out as gay.
Hundreds of stars have been honored on the forecourt of the historic TLC cinema since the late 1920s, including Charlie Chaplin, Frank Sinatra, Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, George Clooney and Robert de Niro. The square on Hollywood Boulevard attracts millions of visitors from all over the world every year.