The 30th annual Kennedy Center Honors were held here this past weekend in The District of Columbia. How meaningful can these actually be? I like Steve Martin and Brian Wilson well enough, sure. They're both quite talented, but anytime people pay attention long enough to acknowledge Martin Scorsese's greatness is especially fine with me. I think it's cool he received his long overdue Oscar the same year I was married.
Here's a sequence from Scorsese's 1978 concert film The Last Waltz. The Band and The Staples Singers, ladies and gentlemen, plus an impromptu Basement Tapes moment backstage with Richard, Rick, and Robbie. It doesn't get much better than this, folks:
Across the Potomac River at the Kennedy Center, in front of those fuddy duddy DC power elite who fill up the expensive seats at these things, I hope they screened some footage from Scorsese's brutal, infamous 1990 classic. One of the greatest films of all time:
Monday, December 3, 2007
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As Ronnie Hawkins said, that movie would have been better if it had a few more shots of Robbie...
This was the first time I had been conscious of The Staple Singers. I must have heard Respect Yourself and I'll Take You There growing up, but it wasn't until I saw The Last Waltz that it really sunk in. Mavis' swoop on "I said 'Hey Carmen" and Pops' understated coolness are perfection.
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