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Showing posts with label jerry herman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jerry herman. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
The Kennedy Center Honors was telecast last night and Hank Steuver was less than impressed:
But even bookended with star-studded tributes to super-famous Oprah Winfrey and Paul McCartney, this year's show feels too perfunctory. There is nothing wrong with it, really, save for the sense of duty that makes the Kennedy Center Honors somehow so uninteresting to a larger world. Judging from this sluggish telecast, no one seemed to be one bit more thrilled to be there than the minimum gratitude and glee required by Kennedy Center fiat.
view full post: Merle Haggard, Chita Rivera, Paul McCartney honored
Country music icon Merle Haggard has been given the all-clear after a two-year battle with cancer. The "Okie From Muskogee" singer/songwriter had surgery to remove part of his lung in 2008 and admits it has been a struggle to get his health back.
Haggard, 73, scrapped a series of shows in September, prompting fans to worry his cancer had returned - but he was given a big health boost just before he was feted at the Kennedy Center Honors earlier this month.
view full post: Merle Haggard Is Cancer Free on Christmas
Country legend musician,Merle Haggard, was one of the 2010 Kennedy Center honorees, poses for the formal class photo with his fellow honorees following the formal Artist's Dinner at the United States Department of State in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, December 4, 2010.
The person who led the tribute to Haggard was Vince Gill. Willie Nelson narrated a video tribute said that Haggard's penchant for trouble. In fact Haggard was imprisoned in San Quentin when Johnny Cash came to sing for the inmates. After he saw Cash, he knew that he could find his way in music, which was pretty interesting to learn about Haggard.
Read more: Country Music Legend Merle Haggard Honored
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Tonight the Poet of the Common Man, Merle Haggard will be honored with a Kennedy Center Honors award for his contributions to American music. Well, actually he received the award on December 5th, but the ceremony itself from Washington DC will air tonight on CBS (as they say, check local listings for times).
He will be honored by musical performances from Kris Kristofferson, Vince Gill, Miranda Lambert, Brad Paisley, Jamey Johnson, Sheryl Crow, Kid Rock, wait Kid Rock? (which one of these things is not like the others?) and his long-time friend and fellow Kennedy Center Honoree, Willie Nelson.
Read More: Merle Haggard On Kennedy Center Honors / Willie’s Arrest
Julia RobertsJulia Roberts introduces the first honouree…Oprah Gail Winfrey; which is followed by a video presentation about Oprah’s life from childhood. Oprah is the first woman to own her own television and film studio. In that package Oprah says that she believes the world is a school and our lives the classroom. Nineteen ninety five Kennedy Center Honouree Sidney Portier comes out and begins by saying, “my friend Oprah,”
Read More: 2010 Kennedy Center Honours Ceremony
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