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Francis Ford Coppola, The Grateful Dead Among Those Feted at Kennedy Center Honors
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scrn loglineIcons of music, film, and comedy honored at the prestigious Kennedy Center Ceremony, showcasing the enduring legacy of American artistry.beat sheet- Longtime Deadheads including Miles Teller, Chloe Sevigny, and David Letterman paid tribute to the Grateful Dead's blend of musical experimentation, longevity, and community building, with Letterman proclaiming 'Their music fills the universe.'
- Coppola's tribute featured an all-star cast of previous Kennedy Center honorees including Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese, Al Pacino, and George Lucas, who described the director as an iconoclastic and driven auteur who loved to nurture and support younger filmmakers, saying 'What Francis does creatively is jump off cliffs.'
Read the sourcecall sheetFrancis Ford Coppola, Arturo Sandoval, Bonnie Raitt, Miles Teller, Chloe Sevigny, David Letterman, Lauryn Hill, Michael Jackson, Savion Glover, Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell, Dave Chappelle, Emmylou Harris, Dave Matthews, John Prine, Sheryl Crow, Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese, Al Pacino, George Lucas, Trombone Shorty, Chucho Valdez, Timo Nuñez, Andy Garcia, Cyndi Lauper, Cher, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Norman Lear, Donald Trump, Nancy Pelosi, The Grateful Dead, The Apollo, CBS, Kennedy Center Honors, "Not Fade Away", "Poppa's House", "Matlock" - Hollywood ReporterHollywood Reporter4d
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Francis Ford Coppola, The Grateful Dead Among Those Feted at Kennedy Center Honors
The Hollywood ReporterStory by Kimberly Nordyke
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Icons of music, film, and comedy honored at the prestigious Kennedy Center Ceremony, showcasing the enduring legacy of American artistry.
beat sheet
- Longtime Deadheads including Miles Teller, Chloe Sevigny, and David Letterman paid tribute to the Grateful Dead's blend of musical experimentation, longevity, and community building, with Letterman proclaiming 'Their music fills the universe.'
- Coppola's tribute featured an all-star cast of previous Kennedy Center honorees including Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese, Al Pacino, and George Lucas, who described the director as an iconoclastic and driven auteur who loved to nurture and support younger filmmakers, saying 'What Francis does creatively is jump off cliffs.'
call sheet
Francis Ford Coppola, Arturo Sandoval, Bonnie Raitt, Miles Teller, Chloe Sevigny, David Letterman, Lauryn Hill, Michael Jackson, Savion Glover, Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell, Dave Chappelle, Emmylou Harris, Dave Matthews, John Prine, Sheryl Crow, Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese, Al Pacino, George Lucas, Trombone Shorty, Chucho Valdez, Timo Nuñez, Andy Garcia, Cyndi Lauper, Cher, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Norman Lear, Donald Trump, Nancy Pelosi, The Grateful Dead, The Apollo, CBS, Kennedy Center Honors, "Not Fade Away", "Poppa's House", "Matlock"