{"id":1899,"date":"2009-12-11T11:18:37","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T19:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1899"},"modified":"2009-12-11T11:18:37","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T19:18:37","slug":"president_and_friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2009\/12\/president_and_friends\/","title":{"rendered":"President And Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kennedy Center Honors ceremony held last Sunday will be televised on CBS December 29. In the meantime, the White House has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/photos-and-video\/video\/president-obama-celebrates-kennedy-center-honorees\"target=\"_blank\">released a clip<\/a> of President Obama&#8217;s informal talk at the reception before the event. It runs about 18 minutes, with the camera on the President the whole time. The following video, nicely edited and produced, incorporates a shortened version of his remarks and interaction with the honorees, Dave Brubeck, Mel Brooks, Grace Bumbry, Robert De Niro and Bruce Springsteen. I thought you would find it interesting.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"440\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/all\/modules\/swftools\/shared\/flash_media_player\/player.swf\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"282828\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"path_to_player=http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/all\/modules\/swftools\/shared\/flash_media_player&amp;path_to_plugins=http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/\/sites\/default\/modules\/wh_multimedia\/wh_jwplayer&amp;path_to_captions=&amp;file=http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/videos\/2009\/December\/120909_KennedyCtrHonors.m4v&amp;image=http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/audio-video\/video_thumbnail\/KennedyCtr_Honors_MW_E.jpg&amp;controlbar=bottom&amp;frontcolor=AAAAAA&amp;plugins=http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/\/sites\/default\/modules\/wh_multimedia\/wh_jwplayer\/captions,http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/\/sites\/default\/modules\/wh_multimedia\/wh_jwplayer\/hat&amp;captions.file=&amp;stretching=fill&amp;menu=false\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/all\/modules\/swftools\/shared\/flash_media_player\/player.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\" flashvars=\"path_to_player=http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/all\/modules\/swftools\/shared\/flash_media_player&amp;path_to_plugins=http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/\/sites\/default\/modules\/wh_multimedia\/wh_jwplayer&amp;path_to_captions=&amp;file=http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/videos\/2009\/December\/120909_KennedyCtrHonors.m4v&amp;image=http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/audio-video\/video_thumbnail\/KennedyCtr_Honors_MW_E.jpg&amp;controlbar=bottom&amp;frontcolor=AAAAAA&amp;plugins=http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/\/sites\/default\/modules\/wh_multimedia\/wh_jwplayer\/captions,http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/\/sites\/default\/modules\/wh_multimedia\/wh_jwplayer\/hat&amp;captions.file=&amp;stretching=fill&amp;menu=false\"><\/object><\/div>\n<p><strong><em>(When the video ends, it goes to black and hangs there, evidently forever. That&#8217;s how the White House provided it. If you click on your &#8220;reload&#8221; symbol in the address bar at the top of your screen, it goes back to normal.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kennedy Center Honors ceremony held last Sunday will be televised on CBS December 29. In the meantime, the White House has released a clip of President Obama&#8217;s informal talk at the reception before the event. It runs about 18 minutes, with the camera on the President the whole time. 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