Kennedy Center Honors
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The Kennedy Center Honors is an annual tribute recognizing performing arts contributions to American culture. Presented annually since 1978, a December gala celebrates five honorees at the Kennedy Cen
Honorees at the Kennedy Center on December 6, 2006, from left: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Steven Spielberg, Dolly Parton, Zubin Mehta, and Smokey Robinson, with First Lady Laura Bush, President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and Lynne Cheney.
The Kennedy Center lights up in rainbow colors every year in the weeks preceding the ceremony.
2005 Kennedy Center honorees: Julie Harris, Robert Redford, Tina Turner, Suzanne Farrell and Tony Bennett with President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush, in the Blue Room at the White House, December 4, 2005.
2006 Kennedy Center honorees: Smokey Robinson, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Dolly Parton, Steven Spielberg, and Zubin Mehta with President George W. Bush and the First Lady Laura Bush.
Mel Brooks
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Melvin James Brooks is an American actor, comedian, film director, songwriter and playwright. With a career spanning nine decades, he is known for a variety of successful farces and parodies. A recipi
Kennedy Center Honors
…would be postponed until the following year, the Kennedy Center did not give the award to McCartney in 2003. However, McCartney became a 2010 honoree. Mel Brooks said he refused the Honor when George W. Bush was in office, due to his distaste for Bush's Iraq policy. He was honored in 2009, the first year Barack…
Brooks in 2010
Brooks, then Melvin Kaminsky, in the 1944 Eastern District High yearbook
Brooks during World War II in Europe
Brooks wrote for Your Show of Shows starring Imogene Coca and Sid Caesar