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The honorees, interviewed by phone and Zoom on Tuesday, are mostly shrugging off the uncertainties.

Instead, tributes to honorees will be performed in multiple, smaller settings on the campus — including outdoors on the front plaza and inside the Grand Foyer and the Reach — and the producers will stitch them together for television.

The sole exception may be birthdays, but even those can be initiated by the honoree if they are in regards to receiving a card or present.

It’s not just the honorees themselves that are pulling advertisers, Sibley said.

Of the list, nearly half of the honorees identify as a person of color, while 40% are women.

“Thank you Hillary, for reminding me to step forward,” said another honoree, Iranian-born socialite Nazee Moinian.

Fruitvale Station is a surprise honoree alongside Gravity, 12 Years a Slave, and Captain Phillips.

Last year, Rivers threw herself to the comedic wolves and allowed herself to be the honoree of a Comedy Central roast.

Dugard accepted the award from fellow honoree Oprah Winfrey.

Another honoree traveled from the South Kivu region of the Democratic of the Congo.

Her brother-in-law saw her one afternoon entering Saint-Honoree d'Eylau.