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Jim, Jodie, Barney Fife Get Starred
by E! Online News Staff
Jun 22 1999  3:35PM
http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0%2C1%2C4945%2C00%2Ehtml

Rejoice! In about six months, you too can stamp out Siegfried and Roy.
Sort of.
The sequined Vegas showmen, known for their annoying brand of animal-based magic, have been tapped as Hollywood Walk of Fame Y2K enshrinees, it was announced today.
That means you'll be able to tread on the tiger-lovin' German twosome--as well as Jim Carrey, Jodie Foster, Cheers alum Ted Danson and 15 others--while strolling along Hollywood Boulevard's star-studded sidewalk next year.
"The year 2000 will herald in many wonderful things including our newest Walk of Fame recipients," Walk committee chair and honorary Hollywood mayor Johnny Grant said in a statement. "I look forward to inducting these luminaries onto the world's most famous sidewalk especially in such an important year in all our lives."
TV icons Carroll O'Connor (All in the Family misanthrope Archie Bunker) and Don Knotts (Barney Fife of Andy Griffith Show fame) are Walk-bound, along with fellow tube types Danson, voiceover star June Foray (Rocky and Natasha on The Bullwinkle Show) and Univision talk-show host Cristina Saragui (the so-called "Latin Oprah"). Phil Silvers--best known as TV's beloved Sgt. Bilko--gets a posthumous plaque.
 
  Celluloid heroes receiving the star treatment are Carrey, Foster, Peter O'Toole (Lawrence of Arabia), actor-director Rob Reiner (who rose to fame as Meathead to O'Connor's Archie Bunker before going on to helm films like Stand by Me and When Harry Met Sally) and Oscar-winning producer Irwin Winkler (Rocky).
 
  Boston bad boys Aerosmith ("Walk This Way"), monster rockers ("Rock 'n' Roll All Nite"), ex-Police-man Sting ("We'll Be Together"),  '70s balladeer Roberta Flack ("Killing Me Softly") and singer-songwriter Carole Bayer Sager ("Nobody Does It Better") are the musical initiates.
 
  Kevin Spacey, currently wowing Broadway audiences in The Iceman Cometh revival, and Siegfried and Roy will get sidewalk props for live performance. Longtime deejay Johnny Hayes (a veteran of L.A.'s K-EARTH) will be honored for his radio work.
 
  The Walk of Fame Committee waded through hundreds of nominees before settling on Siegfried, Roy and Co. two weeks ago. Sponsors pay $15,000 per star and (with the exception of posthumous stars, natch) promise that the celebrity will make the curbside ceremony photo op.
 
 
  The first batch of 1,558 stars were installed February 9, 1960. Today, there are 2,138 of the marble-and-bronze plaques saluting film, TV, recording, radio and theater personalities.
 
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