Showing 1 - 15 of 19 articles tagged "Kennedy Center Honors"

• Posted Monday 12/06/21 at 3:10PM EST

  Steve Martin to President Biden: Do you want me to play you on SNL?

  "Steve, I'm afraid you understand me too well," the president responded to Martin at a White House reception for this...

• Posted Monday 12/06/21 at 9:23AM EST

  President Biden receives a standing ovation at the Kennedy Center Honors after David Letterman joked about Trump not showing up during his presidency

  "It is quite nice, very nice, to see the presidential box once again being occupied," Letterman said at the beginning...

• Posted Wednesday 8/25/21 at 4:45PM EDT

  Audra McDonald to host Kennedy Center's 50th anniversary celebration concert on PBS

  The Oct.

• Posted Wednesday 7/21/21 at 5:16PM EDT

  Lorne Michaels and Bette Midler are among this year's Kennedy Center honorees

  The Saturday Night Live creator, Emmy-winning singer, songwriter, comedian and actress Bette Midler, singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, Motown founder Berry Gordy...

• Posted Wednesday 1/13/21 at 2:15PM EST

  Dick Van Dyke and Debbie Allen are among this year's Kennedy Center honorees

  Singers Joan Baez and Garth Brooks and violinist Midori will also be celebrated as part of a six-day virtual event...

• Posted Tuesday 6/23/20 at 1:25PM EDT

  Kennedy Center Honors and Mark Twain Prize postponed until 2021 due to the coronavirus

  The 43rd annual Kennedy Center Honors on CBS and the 23rd Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on PBS will...

• Posted Tuesday 12/17/19 at 1:11PM EST

  Linda Ronstadt identified as a "Rollerskate Hooker" in CBS' Kennedy Center Honors broadcast

  The image of Ronstadt standing in a hallway in rollerskates for her 1978 album "Living in the USA" with the...

• Posted Monday 12/09/19 at 4:24PM EST

  Caroll Spinney's death didn't cast a pall over Kennedy Center Honors' tribute to Sesame Street

  Big Bird, who's now portrayed by Spinney's successor Matt Vogel, didn't talk to reporters at last night's red carpet for...

• Posted Sunday 12/08/19 at 9:03PM EST

  Caroll Spinney honored by Jim Henson's family and his Sesame Street colleagues

  The Henson family wrote of the Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch puppeteer, whom Jim Henson personally recruited to Sesame...

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  Posted Sunday 12/08/19 at 1:18PM EST

  Caroll Spinney, who played Sesame Street's Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, dies at 85

  Spinney, the puppeteer who operated and voiced Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch starting with Sesame Street's launch in 1969...

• Posted Thursday 7/18/19 at 1:01PM EDT

  Sesame Street and Sally Field are among this year's Kennedy Center honorees

  They'll be honored in December along with Linda Ronstadt, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas and Earth, Wind and Fire.

• Posted Monday 12/03/18 at 1:18PM EST

  Kennedy Center Honors featured multiple tributes to former President George H.W. Bush

  The taping of last night's ceremony, which airs on CBS on Dec.

• Posted Monday 11/26/18 at 3:10PM EST

  Gloria Estefan to host Kennedy Center Honors on CBS

  Estefan herself was honored at last year's Kennedy Center Honors.

• Posted Wednesday 11/14/18 at 1:20PM EST

  President Trump to skip the Kennedy Center Honors for the second straight year

  Neither Trump nor First Lady Melania Trump will be in attendance at the Dec.

• Posted Wednesday 7/25/18 at 1:49PM EDT

  Kennedy Center Honors will salute Lin-Manuel-Miranda, Cher and Reba McEntire

  The 41st Kennedy Center Honors will also honor composer Philip Glass and jazz saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter this fall.