Kennedy Center Honors: You Didn’t Miss Much
I was interested in two of the honorees: Al Pacino and Mavis Staples. But the show itself has fallen far from its glory days under producer George Stevens, Jr. The carefully crafted tributes of years past, ones that had a thoughtfully designed emotional and informational arc, have been replaced with horribly choppy segments quick-cutting from bio film excerpts, to individual speeches, and to performances. Class is in scant supply.
