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Linda Ronstadt, Jeffrey Katzenberg among those honored by Obama



By ASSOCIATED PRESS | 7/28/14 10:25 AM EDT



WASHINGTON — Singer Linda Ronstadt, DreamWorks Animation chief Jeffrey Katzenberg and public radio host Diane Rehm are among those being honored at the White House Monday for their contributions to arts and humanities.

President Barack Obama was awarding the 2013 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal to 22 recipients in an East Room ceremony also being attended with first lady Michelle Obama.

The National Medal of Arts was established by Congress in 1984 as the nation’s highest award given to artists and their patrons. The National Humanities Medal was created in in 1997 to honor those who have deepened the nation’s understanding of the humanities in fields including history, literature, languages and philosophy. Other honorees include:

— Dominican-American writer Julia Alvarez of Weybridge, Vermont

— Brooklyn Academy of Music

— arts patron Joan Harris of Chicago

— dancer and choreographer Bill T. Jones of Valley Cottage, New York

— composer John Kander of New York

— writer Maxine Hong Kingston of Oakland, California

—******* documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles of New York**************

— architects Billie Tsien and Tod Williams of New York

— artist James Turrell of Flagstaff, Arizona

— literary critic M.H. Abrams of Ithaca, New York

— historian David Brion Davis of Orange, Connecticut

— historian Darlene Clark Hine of Chicago

— historian Anne Firor Scott of Chapel Hill, North Carolina

— East Asian scholar William Theodore De Bary of Tappan, New York

— architect Johnpaul Jones of Bainbridge, Washington

— filmmaker Stanley Nelson of New York

— radio host Krista Tippett of St. Paul, Minnesota

— American Antiquarian Society of Worcester, Massachusetts


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Obama admits boyhood crush on Linda Ronstadt

...who didn't


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Obama admits boyhood crush on Linda Ronstadt

...who didn't


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Definitely responsible for one of the first boners. Her voice alone on Different Drum did it.

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Obama admits boyhood crush on Linda Ronstadt

...who didn't


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Definitely responsible for one of the first boners. Her voice alone on Different Drum did it.

hahahahahahahahahaha

aww. I just read something really sad:


Linda Ronstadt, who can no longer sing because of Parkinson's disease....


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Along the way Ronstadt earned 11 Grammy Awards, appeared on the covers of Time, Newsweek and Rolling Stone (the latter six times), and collaborated with Neil Young, Jackson Browne, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Nelson Riddle, Kevin Kline and many others.

Disease's toll

As her career retrospective arrives in bookstores, Ronstadt at 67 is peering forward into a life dramatically altered by the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease she received nine months ago and made public in an interview last month. "I can't sing a note," she said.

The announcement, though not a surprise to friends, stunned the large and devoted legion of fans for whom "Different Drum," "Heart Like a Wheel," "Blue Bayou," "When Will I Be Loved," "Cry Like a Rainstorm" and numerous other hits cut a treasured groove in their memories. The singer's lustrous and brilliantly controlled tone, which married vibrant power and open-hearted vulnerability, remains, for many, a signal voice of their generation.

Ronstadt began noticing problems with her voice almost a decade ago. Doctors told her there was nothing wrong with her physically. One specialist said she had "the healthiest larynx of any singer who had the kind of career I did." But Ronstadt, a self-scrutinizing perfectionist, knew better.

"My voice cracked," she said matter-of-factly, "at the height of my ability. I couldn't make it do what it had always done." Ronstadt sensed it was more than age or normal wear on her vocal cords. She sang her last concert in November 2009 in San Antonio. "Toward the end I was just shouting." She was devastated but not entirely surprised by the Parkinson's diagnosis. Her vocal difficulties, she now believes, were the early signs of the muscle failures associated with the onset of the disease.

"Holy s- ," she recalled thinking, when her fears were confirmed, "this is not the disease I want to have." Her dark eyes widened for a moment at the memory, and then she moved on.

Friends think Ronstadt will ride out whatever lies ahead with her characteristic high spirits, fierce attention to detail and inner calm. "I've never seen her in a state of despair about anything, including this," said John Rockwell, the former New York Times music critic who has been a friend for close to 40 years. "I know she misses singing. It's been the center of her life. But there is a certain kind of personality that has a cheerful attitude no matter what. That's Linda."



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that article is old from Sept 2013

tumbled - thanks for posting - I hadn't seen this - trhilled with this news re: Maysles!

Great man. Met him in Harlem at private screening of GS footage not included in original movie.

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Great man. Met him in Harlem at private screening of GS footage not included in original movie.

When was that??

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Great man. Met him in Harlem at private screening of GS footage not included in original movie.

Yes, what year was that?


Yay, Albert!!!

~"Love is Strong"~



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I recall it being circa 2003. It was with a group of people from another forum. Mr. Maysles was raising money for one of his foundations and it was a good cause. He was a very kind man and signed a limited edition DVD of GS for my sons.

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I recall it being circa 2003. It was with a group of people from another forum. Mr. Maysles was raising money for one of his foundations and it was a good cause. He was a very kind man and signed a limited edition DVD of GS for my sons.

You're fortunate! The outtakes of Gimme Shelter are now no longer in NYC -- but in Los Angeles in the hands of the Academy [of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences] being preserved.

David and Albert were concerned that they would be known for Gimme Shelter instead Salesman. They wanted to be acknowledged for their message instead of being commercial. They got their wish!!

Wonderful film-makers whose work will stand the test of time as definitive.