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7:30 P.M., Attendance: 1065 This digital collection is in progress. Additional content is pending. Items are added to the collection as they are digitized or acquired. Contact the University Archives at the University of Iowa: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/sc/contact 1 Lily Tomlin Saturday, November 16, 2013 Riverside Casino & Golf Resort Event Center Hancher University of Iowa “…one of the funniest and wittiest women in American comedy.” —Kansas City Star 2 Lily Tomlin, one of America’s foremost comediennes, continues to venture across an ever-widening range of media, starring in television, theater, motion pictures, animation, and video. Throughout her extraordinary entertainment career, Tomlin has received numerous awards, including six Emmys; a Tony for her one woman Broadway show, Appearing Nitely; a second Tony as Best Actress, Drama Desk Award, and Outer Critics’ Circle Award for her one woman performance in Jane Wagner’s The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe; a CableAce Award for Executive Producing the film adaptation of The Search; a Grammy for her comedy album This is a Recording as well as nominations for her subsequent albums Modern Scream, And That’s the Truth, and On Stage; and two Peabody Awards — the first for the ABC television special Edith Ann’s Christmas: Just Say Noël and the second for narrating and executive producing the HBO film The Celluloid Closet. Tomlin was born in Detroit, Michigan and grew up in a working-class neighborhood on the outskirts of one of the city’s most affluent areas. Although she claims she wasn’t funny as...