NEW YORK: Media and Entertainment honchos from New York and Los Angeles will raise a glass to News Corporation president and COO Peter Chernin when he is honored by the educational media forum Center for Communication at a glittering luncheon 17 November.
 

Chernin, who is also the chairman and CEO of Fox Entertainment Group, will be presented with the Center's 2003 Annual Award for Excellence in Communications for his outstanding achievements on both the creative and corporate sides of the business in all fields of the media industry.

Co-chairs for the event include Rupert Murdoch, Warren Beatty, Jeff Bewkes, Barry Diller, Michael Eisner, David Geffen, Tom Freston, Sandy Grushow, Mel Karmazin, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Les Moonves, Steven Rattner and Sir Howard Stringer.

According to an official release, the luncheon will be a lively toast/roast, featuring filmmaker Peter Farrelly, one half of the Farrelly Brothers, creators of the movies Something About Mary, Dumb and Dumber and Shallow Hal; co-chair of Fox Filmed Entertainment Tom Rothman and chairman and CEO of the Fox News Network Roger Ailes.