San Antonio-born comedian Carol Burnett — actress, author and spirit guide to several generations of self-deprecating, rubber-limbed, humanely hilarious thesps — will be the Austin Film Society’s first honoree of the 2016 Texas Film Hall of Fame. Burnett, whose quiver of kudos includes Emmy, Golden Globe, Peabody awards and, in 1969, a Special Tony Award, was a Kennedy Center Honoree in 2005 and the…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:59AM on December 15, 2015