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Eli Broad, founding chairman of Kaufman & Broad Home Corp. and SunAmerica Inc., has been chosen to receive the first KCET Visionary Award.

The West Coast flagship PBS station’s award recognizes those who have made outstanding contributions to culture, art and education in the community.

Broad, who revived the struggling Walt Disney Concert Hall project by raising $205 million, also headed the campaign to bring the Democratic National Convention to Los Angeles in 2000. He is the founding chairman of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, created the Broad Art Foundation to fund scholarships and exhibitions of contemporary art, and endowed the Broad Center for the Biological Sciences at Caltech.

“Eli Broad has initiated some of the most important cultural and civic projects in Los Angeles history,” said Barry Munitz, president and chief executive of the J. Paul Getty Trust.

“He is a true Angeleno hero, and we are proud to pay tribute to him. What is even more remarkable, compared to most events like this, is that the two chairs are genuinely and joyfully two of his closest friends.”

Munitz and his wife, Anne, and Mayor Richard Riordan and his wife, Nancy, are chairing the Sept. 13 awards and fund-raising dinner at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills.

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You will have to hit the beach early--7:15 a.m., to be exact--for the 13th annual Nautica Malibu Triathlon.

More than 1,500 celebrities and athletes are expected in Malibu Sept. 19 to support the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.

“It’s a really fun family day everyone can get involved in, and we hope parents will bring their kids to enter the Tot Trot,” said Susie Zeegen, the event’s co-founder.

The triathlon is a half-mile swim, 18-mile bike ride along Pacific Coast Highway and 4-mile round-trip run between Zuma Beach and Point Dume. The Tot Trot is a 50- to 100-yard beach run for kids 12 and younger.

And for those who are better dreamers than runners, there’s a sandcastle-building contest.

The last two triathlons raised $100,000 for the nonprofit foundation, which supports pediatric AIDS research and education programs.

Run, swim or bike to the phone, and call (818) 707-8867 for details.

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