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Kennedy Center honors Streisand, Freeman, Daltrey

Barbra Streisand is visiting the White House on Sunday but says she’ll play nice. “Art,” she says, “transcends politics this weekend.”

Art should always transcend politics.  There are two ways about it.  No matter how you feel, no matter what else is going on, people need to put aside their feelings for things like this.  Without the arts, there would be no movies, no music, no television, no literature, no entertainment.

Without entertainment, where would be? We would work, eat, sleep, and live a pretty shabby existence.  It’s hard to fathom that anyone could live without the Arts in their life.  Even the Internet wouldn’t exist as it does today.

The singer and actress this year is a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors, along with Morgan Freeman, country singer George Jones, dancer and choreographer Twyla Tharp and musicians Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey of The Who.

I’m surprised by a few of these recipients, but in a way, it’s about time, especially for Morgan Freeman.  Jones, however, shocked me.  I didn’t think that he would ever get honored.  I mean, how many times can someone “No Show” and still have that level of respect garnered upon them by the country?