21.   Disco Classic organizers gave him a lifetime achievement award tonight.

22.   Earlier this year the Mexican Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences awarded her a lifetime achievement award.

23.   Ellen Richmond is a big-city Internet exec who returns to her sleepy hometown to receive an achievement award.

24.   Eudora Welty also will receive a lifetime achievement award at the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville in October.

25.   Foray also received a lifetime achievement award at the World Animation Celebration earlier this month in Los Angeles.

26.   Former University of Texas football coach Darrell K Royal was presented the lifetime achievement award.

27.   Forget the weighty credentials and the achievement awards and the best-seller lists and the movie deals.

28.   Fred Rogers visited the posh neighborhood of the Ritz-Carlton Huntington Hotel in Pasadena Sunday night to accept a career achievement award from the Television Critics Association.

29.   Geoffrey Beene will receive the lifetime achievement award.

30.   George Carlin gets the lifetime achievement award, which is a no-brainer.