Coen, Streep join U.S.-China Forum

BEIJING -- Filmmaker Joel Coen, thesp Meryl Streep and music artist Years of age-Years of age Ma are the large names going to Beijing for your inaugural U.S.-China Forum on Arts and Culture. Some-day event starts Wednesday evening getting an evening meal for 240 site visitors within the U.S. embassy, overseen with the organic food guru Alice Waters, proprietor in the Chez Panisse bistro in Berkeley. Waters will prepare the meal within the embassy, that is offered with the celebrity site visitors, which include artist Eric Fischl, scribes Amy Tan and Mark Danner, and ballet dancer and director Damian Woetzel. Coen will apparently meet "Capital of scotland - Existence and Dying" helmer Lu Chuan throughout his visit, while Streep will host a screening in the Margaret Thatcher biopic, "The Iron Lady." Waters may even attend a screening of Robert Kenner's "Food Corporation." The helmer will attend along with scribes Corby Kummer and Michael Pollan. "Hopefully this really is really the to start many annual occasions from the type, alternating between China as well as the united states . States," mentioned the united states . States' freshly minted ambassador to China, Gary Locke. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com