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Washington's Oscars: Kennedy Center Honors for Five Cultural Icons
By Annie Groer - Politics DailyThey've been called Washington's answer to the Oscars. And for the 33rd straight year, the Kennedy Center Honors brought a jolt of glitz and glam to the capital city as five of the nation's top performing artists received rainbow ribbons and effusive praise for their life's work this weekend at the State Department, the White House and, of course, the Kennedy Center. Seated front row, first balcony with the Obamas and the Bidens on Sunday night, the latest quintet of American idols alternately looked thrilled and humbled as their peers paid effusive tribute and performed some of their ...
Winfrey, McCartney Get Kennedy Center Honors
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WASHINGTON (Dec. 6) -- Oprah Winfrey has come a long way since her childhood years in a Mississippi shack and in public housing with a poster of The Beatles on her bedroom wall. Sunday, she was honored with Paul McCartney, one of the Beatles she so loved. Stars from Hollywood, Nashville and Broadway gathered in the nation's capital to salute Winfrey, McCartney and three others - country singer Merle Haggard, Broadway composer Jerry Herman and dancer Bill T. Jones - with the Kennedy Center Honors. The president and first lady Michelle Obama sat with the honorees and former Secretary of State ...
Winfrey, McCartney Among Kennedy Center Honorees
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Sept. 7) -- TV host and actress Oprah Winfrey has been chosen as a Kennedy Center honoree right before the start of the 25th and final season of "The Oprah Winfrey Show." Winfrey was one of five honorees revealed Tuesday. The 56-year-old TV host and actress will be honored at the 33rd annual event in Washington on Dec. 5, along with former Beatles member Paul McCartney; dancer, choreographer and director Bill T. Jones; country singer-songwriter Merle Haggard; and Broadway composer and lyricist Jerry Herman. "I love surprising people, I don't like being surprised," Winfrey said. ...
Obama Appoints Ted Kennedy's Widow to Performing Arts Center's Board
By David Sessions - Politics DailyPresident Obama has appointed Victoria Reggie Kennedy, the widow of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, to the board of the Kennedy Center in Washington. The Kennedy Center's board of trustees currently includes all of the living first ladies and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, among others. The president and Michelle Obama held a reception on Sunday ahead of the 32nd Kennedy Center Honors, at which Robert De Niro, Bruce Springsteen, Mel Brooks, Dave Brubeck and opera singer Grace Bumbry received awards. Vicki Kennedy has recently talked about her husband's death in August, revealing that ...
Love Story: Barbra Streisand and George W. Bush Trade Kisses
By David Knowles - Politics DailyVia FOX News:Barbra Streisand got an awkward kiss on the cheek from the president, and yes, she gave him a smooch back. Streisand, a vocal critic of President George W. Bush, was a guest at the White House just before one of Washington's few A-list events: the Kennedy Center Honors. Babs was being praised in DC along with country music legend George Jones, modern dance legend Twyla Tharp, rock opera legends Roger Daltry and Pete Townsend, and fictional black president legend Morgan Freeman. But the Bush/Babs kisses, were they not the biggest story of all for a nation so desperately in need of ...
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