From a Washington Post story by Travis M. Andrews headlined “Kennedy Center Honors: Off-script moments energize the stately affair”:
The Kennedy Center Honors is always a stately affair, and Sunday evening was no different — with President Biden and first lady Jill Biden, Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, former House speaker Nancy Pelosi and second gentleman Doug Emhoff in attendance.
But this year a chaotic energy pumped though its veins. Being honored in the arts center’s 2,364-seat Opera House: comedian Billy Crystal, opera soprano Renée Fleming, Bee Gees singer-songwriter Barry Gibb, hip-hop pioneer and actress Queen Latifah, and singer Dionne Warwick.