I watched the Kennedy Center Honors last night.
You are rarely selected for an honor until you are well into "aging"
Last night was no exception.
The Kennedy Center Honors ceremony, broadcast on CBS on Wednesday
night, is the annual event in which celebrities in various fields get
all gussied up, travel to Washington, D.C., rub shoulders with the
President, and hear exalting speeches about themselves. This year, the
testimonials were laced with traces that don’t often make it into a
taped TV awards-show final cut: frankness, near-brutal honesty, and
almost tearful love.
Last night was no exception.
Most of the honorees are still actively performing; or teaching.
I found all the faces to be far more interesting and even beautiful for having lived a full and accomplished life
than they were in their youth.
Caroline Kennedy was born on November 27, 1957.
Looks at those arms!
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The Kennedy Center Honors, with their formal rigor and mix of artists, can yield some surprising reactions. The three members of Zeppelin present — Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, and John Paul Jones — sat in the audience looking like delighted, if aging, schoolboys let into a grown-ups’ party; they were all smiles, as much during salutes to Hoffman and Letterman as when an array of musicians, including Lenny Kravtiz and Kid Rock, performed Zeppelin music.
and here they are now....
Tributes
Music doesn't recognize age
Worn, but what a story that face tells.
President Obama is on that Stairway to Heaven and apparently enjoying the memory
The recipients this year were David
Letterman, Dustin Hoffman, Buddy Guy, Led Zeppelin, and Natalia
Makarova.
And later on Letterman
Jimmy: 9 January 1944
Jonesy: 3 January 1946
Robert: 20 August 1948
"Every legend was way-back a crying baby."
I found all the faces to be far more interesting and even beautiful for having lived a full and accomplished life
than they were in their youth.
Looks at those arms!
The Kennedy Center Honors, with their formal rigor and mix of artists, can yield some surprising reactions. The three members of Zeppelin present — Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, and John Paul Jones — sat in the audience looking like delighted, if aging, schoolboys let into a grown-ups’ party; they were all smiles, as much during salutes to Hoffman and Letterman as when an array of musicians, including Lenny Kravtiz and Kid Rock, performed Zeppelin music.
and here they are now....
Tributes
The recipients this year were David
Letterman, Dustin Hoffman, Buddy Guy, Led Zeppelin, and Natalia
Makarova. And later on Letterman
Jonesy: 3 January 1946
Robert: 20 August 1948
"Every legend was way-back a crying baby."
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