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Kennedy Center Honors Features Salutes To Francis Ford Coppola, The Grateful Dead And Bonnie Raitt — And A Sendoff To Joe Biden
The audience cheered Joe Biden at his final ceremony.
At Sunday’s Kennedy Center Honors, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro each appeared on stage to give special tributes to Francis Ford Coppola, while Al Pacino called him a trailblazer willing to break the first rule of Hollywood: Never put your own money in your movie projects. That was evident in the loud ovation attendees gave to Trump’s successor and now predecessor, Joe Biden, who in the last four years restored the presidential traditions surrounding the ceremony, including annual attendance and the staging of a pre-event White House reception. By contrast, this year’s lineup had a decided touch of the Left Coast — with Coppola, Raitt and the Dead — or as Mickey Hart noted, “a San Francisco takeover of the Kennedy Center.
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