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	Kennedy Center Honors 5 Americans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced the recipients of its annual honors for outstanding American performers today, and for the first time since the awards were established 22 years ago, most of the recipients are foreign-born.
		The winners are to be honored on Dec. 3 at the Kennedy Center Opera House in a gala performance that is the center's principal fund-raising event of the year.
		Though the Kennedy Center has been questioned for giving people a legendary status when their careers were brief or obscure, or saluting artists with highbrow appeal but little in the way of broad popular impact, this year's honorees have had long, influential careers.
	www.tenorissimo.com /domingo/Articles/wp082300.htm (2806 words)

	The Kennedy Center Honors
		Recipients to be honored at the 28th annual national celebration of the arts are: singer Tony Bennett; dancer and teacher Suzanne Farrell; actress Julie Harris; actor, director and producer Robert Redford; and singer Tina Turner.
		The Kennedy Center Honors will be bestowed the night before the gala on Saturday, December 3, at a State Department dinner, hosted by the Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice.
		The Honors recipients are recognized for their lifetime contributions to American culture through the performing arts: whether in dance, music, theater, opera, motion pictures or television.
	www.kennedy-center.org /programs/specialevents/honors (526 words)

	John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The idea for the center, however, dates to 1958, when a National Cultural Center was proposed for Washington, DC.
		The center, designed by architect Edward Durrell Stone, is located on the Potomac River and is adjacent to the Watergate Hotel.
		The Center has three main theaters: A Concert Hall on the south side, an Opera House in the middle, and the Eisenhower Theater on the north side, named for Dwight Eisenhower.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kennedy_Center (292 words)

	Encyclopedia: Kennedy Center Honors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Harry Belafonte (center) on the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C with Sidney Poitier and Charlton Heston Harry Belafonte (born Harold George Belafonte on March 1, 1927 in Harlem, New York, United States) is a Jamaican-American calypso musician, actor, and campaigner for human rights.
		The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced the selection, by its board of trustees, of the individuals who will receive the Kennedy Center Honors of 2004.
		The Kennedy Center Honors will be bestowed the night before the gala on Saturday, December 4, at a State Department dinner, hosted by the Secretary of State Colin Powell.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kennedy-Center-Honors (5186 words)

	Kennedy Center Honors Reception
		Kennedy, the performing arts have increasingly found a home in this, the nation's house.
		President Kennedy could easily have been talking about Bob Dylan when he said that, "if sometimes are great artists have been most critical of our society, it is because their concern for justice makes them aware that our nation falls short of its highest potential."
		From a church choir in Georgia to center stage at the Met, Jessye Norman has brought joy to music lovers and critics to their feet.
	clinton4.nara.gov /WH/New/html/19971208-2814.html (1426 words)

	Kennedy Center Honors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Kennedy Center Honors have been awarded annually, since 1978 by the Board of Trustees (A governing board elected or appointed to direct the policies of an educational institution) of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (additional info and facts about John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts).
		The awards are given at a United States Department of State (additional info and facts about United States Department of State) dinner held the night before the annual Honors Gala at the Kennedy Center Opera House.
		A White House (The government building that serves as the residence and office of the President of the United States) reception is also given in their honor.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/k/ke/kennedy_center_honors.htm (860 words)

	PlaybillArts: News: CBS to Broadcast Kennedy Center Honors Tonight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The 2004 Kennedy Center Honors gala, which included tributes to soprano Joan Sutherland and composer-conductor John Williams, will be broadcast tonight on CBS at 9 p.m.
		The performance was taped on December 4 at the Kennedy Center Opera House, part of a weekend of celebrations in honor of Sutherland, Williams, pop star Elton John, and actors Warren Beatty, Ruby Dee, and Ossie Davis.
		Kennedy Center Honors recipients are recognized for lifetime achievement in American performing arts.
	www.playbillarts.com /news/article/1006.html (373 words)

	Powell Hails Recipients of Kennedy Center Honors
		The Honors, in the course of their 25-year-history, have become the most prestigious arts award in the United States for overall achievement in culture.
		Last year, the Kennedy Center Honors Dinner came in the aftermath of September 11th and only a week after, many of you will recall, the US-led coalition of forces drove the Taliban from power in Afghanistan.
		Taylor, on behalf of the grateful nation to whom you have given enormous joy and upon whom you have bestowed the treasure of your excellence and the blessings of your humanity, I thank you and we all salute you.
	usinfo.state.gov /usa/s120702.htm (2154 words)

	Kennedy in TutorGig Encyclopedia
		Michael LeMoyne Kennedy, born February 27, 1958 died December 31, 1997 was the sixth of eleven children of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy.
		Clan Kennedy is a Scottish clan and a Irish clan.
		Rory Elizabeth Katherine Kennedy born December 12, 1968 is the youngest of the eleven children of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy.
	www.tutorgig.com /es/Kennedy (866 words)

	Playbill News: "Kennedy Center Honors" Broadcast on CBS Dec. 21
		Caroline Kennedy hosts the 27th annual "Kennedy Center Honors," which will be broadcast on CBS-TV Dec. 21 at 9 PM ET.
		The honorees were saluted Dec. 5 at the Kennedy Center's Opera House.
		About this year's inductees, Kennedy Center Chairman Stephen A. Schwarzman said in a statement, "This year the Kennedy Center honors not the usual five but six extraordinary individuals whose unique and abundant artistry has contributed significantly to the cultural life of our nation and the world.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/90216.html (355 words)

	FilmStew.com • Kennedy Toasts Redford & Turner
		Robert Redford and Tina Turner are among those being recognized with Kennedy Center Honors.
		Kennedy Center chairman Stephen Schwarzman calls the honorees "extraordinary American artists" whose unique contributions to our culture have transformed our lives.
		The 28-year-old awards program is a major revenue generator for the Kennedy Center.
	www.filmstew.com /Content/Article.asp?ContentID=12304 (260 words)

	Darth Vader, Liz Taylor Feted - Dec 09, 2002 - E! Online News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The fab five were feted at the Kennedy Center Opera House in Washington, D.C., in a ceremony attended by the ultimate Capitol Hill power couple, President Bush and first lady Laura, and Hollywood luminaries including Sidney Poitier, John Travolta and Steve Martin.
		The Kennedy Center Honors is a lifetime achievement award for the best of the best in film, television, theater, dance and other arts.
		Taylor was honored for her nearly 60 years in film (from 1943's Lassie Come Home to 2001's These Old Broads), and her AIDS activism.
	movies.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,10947,00.html (647 words)

	NASA - Kennedy Space Center Honors Fallen Astronaut Heroes
		On Feb. 1 of last year, Kennedy Space Center and the surrounding Central Florida community -- along with the rest of the nation -- were stunned by the loss of seven astronaut heroes and Space Shuttle Columbia.
		Located at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, the polished-granite mirror honors all NASA astronauts who died in the line of duty.
		Kennedy and Whitlow together placed a wreath in front of the mirror.
	www.nasa.gov /missions/shuttle/f_kscmemorials.html (607 words)

	Kennedy Center honors Lansbury and others
		The honorees were toasted by their peers at a gala performance, taped Dec. 3 at the Kennedy Center Opera House and attended by President and Mrs.
		The recipients, selected by the board of trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, are recognized for their lifetime contributions to American culture through the performing arts.
		As Lansbury, as gracious and dignified on the telephone as you might hope, winds up the interview, she says of the Kennedy Center award, "Believe me, I'm very proud and happy, and it's like a warm affirmation for a life well spent." The writers couldn't have said it any better.
	www.post-gazette.com /TV/20001224vancheritv2.asp (1002 words)

	Kennedy Center Honors
		Tonight CBS is broadcasting its crisply edited account of the 22nd annual Kennedy Center Honors.
		An announcer hails it as "television's most honored program," shameless naked hype lacking the dignity and class that the "Honors" are supposed to embody.
		This year's "Honors" may be the toughest test that talent has ever been put to.
	www.christopher-plummer.com /kennedycenterhonors/kennedycenterhonors.html (1356 words)

	Politicians and Celebrities, Making Sweet Music Together (washingtonpost.com)
		It's the magic, though, of the annual Kennedy Center Honors that a two-hour tribute to a handful of spectacularly gifted performing artists always draws a marvelous cross-section of talent from all walks of (super-famous) life.
		And so it was that the opera diva and he of the explicit lyrics and self-created bad-boy persona both took their turns onstage at the Kennedy Center Opera House last night.
		Also being honored were acting (and activist) legends Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, famed soprano Joan Sutherland and award-winning composer John Williams of "Star Wars" and "E.T." fame.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A38539-2004Dec6.html (1325 words)

	TimesDispatch.com \| Kennedy Center Honors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The six recipients of the 27th annual Kennedy Center Honors were being saluted for their lifetime contributions to American culture through the performing arts.
		Bush were honored guests at the gala event.
		Winning the honor "is about the icing on the cake," John said as he walked into the White House reception.
	www.timesdispatch.com /servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031779526265 (369 words)

	Kennedy Center To Honor Five High-Wattage Cultural Lights
		A photo caption with a Sept. 7 Style article about the 2005 Kennedy Center Honors suggested that the dancer pictured was Suzanne Farrell.
		The Honors, in their 28th year, are among the country's highest tributes to performing artists.
		This year the Honors will be presented Dec. 3 at the State Department, followed the next evening with an all-star show for the honorees at the center.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/06/AR2005090600861.html (706 words)

	Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents: Remarks at the Kennedy Center Honors Reception
		Among his numerous honors, he's earned an Academy Award, a British Academy Fellowship, the French Legion of Honor, Edinburgh's prestigious Freedom of the City Award, and very important to me, a fairly low handicap on the golf course.
		To this distinguished list, tonight we add Kennedy Center Honors, and we thank him for four decades of unforgettable, masterful contributions to the world of film.
		He went on to earn the highest honors on the world's great stages, including, of course, the Kennedy Center, where he presided at the groundbreaking and shined in the very first play the center produced.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2889/is_49_35/ai_59136454 (1554 words)

	Remarks at the Kennedy Center Honors
		You might be amused to know that when I greet people here and talk to them, I always say that the Kennedy Center Honors is one of the most prestigious and fascinating events that we have here.
		In the course of the move he suffered a variety of breakdowns, a nervous breakdown, he turned suicidal, all kinds of strange things happened, and in the course of this breakdown he started to tell the truth in a manner that no politician ever should.
		Senator Edward Kennedy embodies the same spirit of commitment to the advancement of the arts that animated his brother, President Kennedy, and continues to define the entire Kennedy family.
	www.state.gov /secretary/former/powell/remarks/39459.htm (2993 words)

	Kennedy Center Taps Redford, Turner - Sep 06, 2005 - E! Online News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sep 6, 2005, 3:20 PM PT Thirteen years after his old outlaw buddy lassoed the prize, the Sundance Kid is ready to ride off with a Kennedy Center Honor.
		Recognized for their lifetime contributions to American culture through the performing arts, the recipients are voted on by a committee of fellow artists and previous honorees.
		This year's crop of winners will be honored at both a State Department dinner hosted by Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice Sept. 3, and at a star-studded gala performance attended by President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush the following night.
	www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,17302,00.html?rssceleb (658 words)

	Six creative and performing artists win 2004 Kennedy Center honors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The honors will be awarded at a dinner Dec. 4 given at the State Department by Secretary of State Colin Powell.
		President Michael M. Kaiser, whose job of running the Kennedy Center was extended earlier this week until 2011, took this occasion to point out that in addition to honoring artists, the gala performance promotes many initiatives to make the center's presentations widely accessible, such as free performances for students.
		The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on the bank of the Potomac River calls itself the country's busiest arts facility, with more than 3,300 performances a year, including films, stage plays, musicals, ballet, jazz, the Washington National Opera, the National Symphony Orchestra, classical soloists and smaller ensembles.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/09/15/entertainment1445EDT0648.DTL (336 words)

	Review: Kennedy Center Honors Julie Andrews
		So I cheered when she was announced as one of this year's Kennedy Center honorees, and I am delighted to report that her segment of the annual broadcast was "practically perfect" in every department.
		Longtime "chum" Carol Burnett – who is long overdue a Kennedy Center medal of her own – set the tone with some warm recollections of their 40 year relationship.
		The Kennedy Center Honors usually do a fine job with their Broadway segments (remember their sensational tribute to Kander and Ebb?), but I felt they really outdid themselves this time around.
	www.musicals101.com /julie2001.htm (811 words)

	TV Preview: 'Kennedy Center Honors' airs early this year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The first thing to know about this year's "27th Annual Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts" is that it airs a week earlier than usual, and because of that, it won't be seen on KDKA-TV.
		Taped Dec. 5 in Washington, this year's program honors actor, producer, writer and director Warren Beatty; husband-and-wife actors, writers and producers Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee; singer and composer Elton John; soprano Joan Sutherland and composer and conductor John Williams.
		Two days later during the taping of "The Kennedy Center Honors," Combs walked on stage as one of the presenters.
	www.postgazette.com /pg/04354/428319.stm (802 words)

	Recipients of Kennedy Center Honors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., created its Honors awards in 1978 to recognize the lifetime achievements of selected American performing artists.
		B.B. King, Poitier among recipients of Kennedy Center Honors.
		Jazzman Benny Carter is among 1996 Kennedy Center Honorees.(recipient of Kennedy Center Honors of 1996)(Brief Article) (Jet)
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0002289.html (726 words)

	John Williams, Elton John to Receive Kennedy Center Honors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sir Elton John are among the six recipients of the 2004 Kennedy Center Honors.
		The Kennedy Center Honors will be given out the night before on December 4 at a State Department dinner, to be hosted by Secretary of State Colin Powell.
		The Kennedy Center Honors are awarded to artists for their contribution to American culture in the fields of dance, music, theater, opera, film or television.
	www.bmi.com /news/200409/20040917b.asp (284 words)

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