Just catching up on some old threads here...but did anyone else happen to catch the Kennedy Center Honors on CBS a couple weeks ago?
We tuned in midway, but caught the tributes to Jerry Herman* ("Hello, Dolly!", "Mame," and "La Cage aux Folles", etc. Broadway), Merle Haggard, and Sir Paul. Oprah Winfrey was also honored but we didn't catch her tribute. But up in the balcony box for all the honorees, Sir Paul was bracketed by Oprah on hi sright & Michelle Obama to his left (with the Prez on the other side of her...and Colin Powell on the other side of him). Oprah & Michelle were enthusiastic singer-alongers, Macca pretty much (even to the Haggard tunes!) & Barack...less so.
*did anyone besides me start watching the USA Network show "White Collar" last year? This update of "It Takes A Thief" comes highly recommended from the Mshray household for TV escapism. All the major characters are fully 3D, much better than average writing (with some obscure humor if you're paying attention**), compelling ongoing backstory & fun capers to solve each week. The main character, a perfectly updated Robert Wagner, is played by a way-too-good-looking-and-charming metrosexual actor named Matthew Bomer, whom I'd never heard of before. So imagine our collective surprise when he came out to sing a romantic duet in tribute to the guy who wrote the songs for Hello Dolly?
**final plug for "White Collar". One of the nice things about the show is that there's very little violence. But one time when the bad guy escaped by knocking down the very metro-Matthew Bomer, he later told his FBI counterpart, "I swept the leg!" Another time he calls the FBI guy 'Sherlock' in passing, and the next chance he gets the FBI guy says, "After you, Moriarity."
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