Start Spreading the NewsE Tenth Annual Proudly Pro-Life Dinner to Honor Actors in New York, New York.

National Right to Life will celebrate the 10th annual Proudly Pro-Life Dinner by honoring pro-life celebrities April 29, 2003, at the Waldorf-Astoria's Grand Ballroom. Joining our distinguished honorees from years past as recipients of the Proudly Pro-Life Award will be entertainers Ben Stein, Margaret Colin, and Jennifer O'Neill. The honorary committee will be chaired by two more distinguished stage and screen actresses, Patricia Neal and Celeste Holm.

Honorees have provided exceptional and selfless service to the pro-life cause, and the commitment to the unborn of this year's honorees is all the more laudable because they have been outspoken in a place where their views are not welcome: Hollywood.

Monsignor James P. Lisante will be the Master of Ceremonies this year since Ben Stein, who traditionally emcees, is being honored for his commitment to protecting the unborn.

Stein is probably the most outspoken pro-life figure in Hollywood, and is well known for his character roles in the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off, a long-running part in the series The Wonder Years, and over two dozen movies and dozens of television shows and commercials. Stein also hosted Comedy Central's Emmy Award-winning comedy quiz show, Win Ben Stein's Money, and is currently a regular judge on the new Star Search.

Stein is a graduate of Columbia University and Yale Law School, where he studied constitutional law under Robert Bork. He served as an economist for the Department of Commerce, a trial lawyer for the Federal Trade Commission, a speech writer for two presidents, and a university professor.

He is the author of sixteen books, seven novels, and nine nonfiction books. His most recent book is the bestselling humor self-help book, How To Ruin Your Life. He is also regular diarist for The American Spectator and writes frequently on right-to-life issues in every forum possible.

Born and raised in New York, Margaret Colin has an impressive history of roles in television, Off-Broadway theater, feature and independent films, and Broadway theater. She is best known for her co-starring roles in the feature films Independence Day with Bill Pullman and Jeff Goldblum, and The Devil's Own, opposite Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt. She was also in Three Men and a Baby with Tom Selleck and one of the dinner's Honorary Chairwomen, Celeste Holm.