Meryl Streep, James Taylor, among honorees at the White House's National Humanities medals of Arts and

Oscar Meryl streep, music producer, Quincy Jones, James Taylor, To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee and winner of National Book Award Joyce Carol Oates are among the 20 recipients of this year's White House 2010 National Humanities Medal and the National Medal of ArtsIt was announced Tuesday.

President Barack Obama is ready to present the medals, which are the highest honors of the American Government, data to scholars and artists, on Wednesday in a ceremony at the White House East room. First Lady Michelle obama will also attend

In addition to Streep, Taylor and Jones, more artists who receive a National Medal of arts include playwright Robert brustein, poet Donald Hall and pianist Van Cliburn, among others.

Oates will accept a National Humanities Medal along with other luminaries such as biographer Arnold Rampersad, historian Jacques Barzun culture and novelist Wendell Berry and, among others.

A complete list of winners is shown below.

2010 NATIONAL MEDAL of ARTS

Robert Brustein

Van Cliburn

Mark di Suvero

Donald Hall

Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival

Quincy Jones

Harper Lee

Sonny Rollins

Meryl Streep

James Taylor

2010 NATIONAL HUMANITIES MEDAL

Daniel Aaron

Bernard Bailyn

Jacques Barzun

Wendell Berry And.

Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria

Stanley Nider Katz

Joyce Carol Oates

Arnold Rampersad

Philip Roth

Gordon wood

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James Franco and Harmony KORINE get involved real gang fighting

You can know Harmony Korine , as the author of the children, which was a shockingly frank and exploitative look at urban youth. Perhaps you know him from his direction of Gummo, a shockingly frank and exploitative look at poor, white culture in Central America. You may remember his Julien donkey boy, which had to do a child Werner Herzog spraying while wearing a gas mask with a tube for five minutes and Tai Chi. Or maybe you can it would as the strange little guy, Matt Damon, asks whether it all his ass in good will hunting wool, even recognize. Regardless, Harmony KORINE is someone who constantly is the weird research, always living on the edge of which the society accepts what; and now he is hanging out with James Franco. Oh, oh.

So have what these two was come with where to spend time together? You have decided that you want to make an art film about street fights that will contain a real gang Brawl. New York post source was quoted, "you two actual street gangs a fight to make movie." The twist is that you fight, want the two gangs with real knives. "The production team is panic that you will be using blood, injuries and potentially corpses at the end." Someone should probably separate these two before something bad happens. Or go to the other way and you work all on something with Charlie Sheen and NIC cage our minds blow.

KORINE had already tried a similar project with street magician David Blaine called the featured KORINE fighting damage, fight against alien in New York City, but he was forced to stop the project, because, as KORINE is quoted, "I a lot of bone gebrochenIch was thrown in prison", and I had really bad court costs. "We could see that Franco add some hospital remains to his long list of things he is doing, that people on talk?" Or perhaps is this recent trend of public celebrity madness highlight all with a real dead body. So or so, stay tuned, because you are sure that more goofy messages come.

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