Wednesday, September 10, 2008

PERHAPS HE WILL CELEBRATE WITH AN ICY-COLD BOHEMIAN STYLE BEER: The 2008 Kennedy Center Honors for lifetime achievement in the creative and performing arts (our past coverage here) will be presented to Barbra Streisand, Morgan Freeman, Twyla Tharp, George Jones, and Pete Townshend/Roger Daltrey. The gala will be held on December 7, and, as always, will be broadcast later that month on CBS.

A list of previous honorees is here, suggesting that Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee (2004) were the most recent paired winners. Others include Kander & Ebb, Newman & Woodward, the Nicholas Brothers, Comden & Green, Cronyn & Tandy, and Lerner & Loewe.

Almost four years ago, I suggested that Woody Allen, Robert Altman and Richard Pryor were the most worthy artists yet to be so honored. Altman and Pryor have since passed away without receiving the recognition, and the suckiness of Vicki Cristina Barcelona notwithstanding (STFU, narrator!), he still remains overdue. I'll suggest Meryl Streep and James L. Brooks as two others whose time has surely come.

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