LOS ANGELES, CA—First Star, a leading national advocacy group dedicated to improving life for child victims of abuse and neglect, will hold its fifth annual Celebration for Children’s Rights event on June 7 at the Wilshire Ebell. Families from the Los Angeles business, entertainment, medical and legal communities, along with many celebrities, will join First Star in honoring this year’s award recipients—Ryan Kavanaugh, CEO of Relativity Media, LLC; Peter Levinsohn, President, Fox Interactive Media; and Stephanie Sperber, Executive Vice President, Universal Studios Partnerships—for their humanitarian efforts on behalf of children. The evening’s theme, “Come Be a Kid Again,” brings us back to the place of joy and wonderment that is childhood. The unique, casual event includes live entertainment, carnival games for people of all ages and catering by Los Angeles’ finest, plus a special performance by members of the Los Angeles cast of the musical Wicked. Award-winning actress and First Star Youth Ambassador Dakota Fanning is scheduled to attend the event.
Fanning made her film debut as Lucy in “I Am Sam,” for which she received a Critics Choice Award for Best Young Actor and became the youngest person ever nominated for a SAG Award. Since then, she has appeared in such films as “Uptown Girls,” “Man on Fire,” “Hide and Seek,” “War of the Worlds” (which earned her a second Critics Choice Award), “Charlotte’s Web” and “Hounddog.” Fanning can next be seen this fall in “The Secret Life of Bees.” Additionally, Fanning does work for charity at the Mattel Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles and recently appeared in the “RED” Gap ads to benefit AIDS in Africa and attended the eighth annual 2008 Lupus LA Orange Ball charity for Lupus disease.
