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Head of State Bestows Medal of Honor on Liza Minnelli <\/STRONG> D<\/SPAN>ominican President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez conferred the Order of Christopher Columbus on American actress and singer, Liza Minnelli, in a ceremony held at the Ambassador\u2019s Hall of the National Palace.<\/P> Speaking at the ceremony, the well-known actress said the award bestowed upon her by President Fern\u00e1ndez was better than the Oscar she won in 1972 for her part in \u201cCabaret.\u201d<\/P> > With this distinction, as constituted under Decree 647-10, the President recognized the merits of Liza Minnelli in the area of art and film. President Fern\u00e1ndez, accompanied by First Lady Margarita Cede\u00f1o de Fern\u00e1ndez, received Ms. Minnelli in his office. She was accompanied by Omar de la Cruz, General Director of the Dominican Republic Global Film Festival (DRGFF) which took place in the DR last week.<\/P> Speaking at the ceremony, the well-known actress said the award bestowed upon her by President Fern\u00e1ndez was better than the Oscar she won in 1972 for her part in \u201cCabaret.\u201d<\/P> In addition to the President and his wife, others present at the ceremony included Vice President Rafael Alburquerque and Minister of the Presidency, C\u00e9sar Pina Toribio. Accompanying Ms. Minnelli was Pedro Garcia, the entertainment businessman who organized her trip to the Dominican Republic. There were also several musicians on hand. <\/P> Head of State Bestows Medal of Honor on Liza Minnelli Santo Domingo, 24\/11\/2010 Dominican President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez conferred the Order of Christopher Columbus on American actress and singer, Liza Minnelli, in a ceremony held at the Ambassador\u2019s Hall of the National Palace. Speaking at the ceremony, the well-known actress said the award bestowed upon her … Continue reading “Head of State Bestows Medal of Honor on Liza Minnelli”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Dozens of film directors and actors who participated in the DR Global Film Festival which was organized by FUNGLODE and its sister organization in the US, the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD), were also present at the ceremony according to the Presidential Office of Information, Press and Publicity. <\/P>
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