Bill Cosby’s Kennedy Center Honors and Twain Prize rescinded 3 SHARES Share it! Share Tweet By: APNEW YORK (AP) — The Kennedy Center has voted to rescind two of its biggest honors it awarded Bill Cosby — the Kennedy Center Honors and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. In a statement, the center says the comedian’s recent criminal conviction has “overshadowed the very career accomplishments these distinctions from the Kennedy Center intend to recognize.”Jurors in Pennsylvania late last month convicted Cosby of sexually assaulting former Temple University employee Andrea Constand in 2004. Cosby won the Kennedy Center Honors in 1998 and the Twain prize in 2009. Tags: Andrea Constand, Bill Cosby, Bill Cosby's Kennedy Center Honors and Twain Prize rescinded, Kennedy Center, Kennedy Center Honors, Manila Bulletin, Manila Bulletin Entertainment, Mark Twain, mb.com.ph, Temple University

Source: Manila Bulletin May 07, 2018 21:33 UTC