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34th Annual Kennedy Center Honors

Former Speaker of the House and Republican Presidential contender Newt Gingrich and Callista Gingrich

Terese Heinz and Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.)

The glamour and glitz of Hollywood take over the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for Washington, DC's and mixes with the city's political and social elite at hottest seasonal fete, the annual Kennedy Center Honors Gala, on Sunday, December 4, 2011. This year's honorees were singer Barbara Cook, saxophonist Sonny Rollins, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, singer Neil Diamond, and actress Meryl Streep.

— Report and photographs by James R. Brantley

Stewart Boxer and Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.)

Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Paul Pelosi

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine)

Amy Rule and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel

Former Congresswoman Jane Harman (D-Calif.)

Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.)

Buffy Caftriz, Vernon Jordan and Ann Jordan

Former Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd (D)

Don Gummer and Meryl Streep

Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker

Former Secretary of Transportation Norm Mineta and Deni Mineta

Tricia Saul, former Secretary of Defense Bill Cohen, Janet Langhart Cohen and B. F. Saul

Yoriko Fujisaki and Japanese Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki

Honoree Neil Diamond and Katie McNeil

Actress Lynda Carter

Felicity Blunt and Stanley Tucci

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell

Victoria Reggie Kennedy and Jean Kennedy Smith

Heather Podesta and Tony Podesta

Honoree Sonny Rollins

Stephen Schwarzman and Christine Schwarzman

Former honoree Itzhak Perlman, Toby Perlman, Alice Rogoff Rubenstein and Kennedy Center Board Chair David M. Rubenstein

George Stevens, Jr. and Liz Stevens

David Shaw and actress Glenn Close

Actor Robert De Niro and Grace Hightower

Stephen Colbert and Evelyn McGee Colbert

Honoree Barbara Cook

Dwight Bush and Toni Bush

It's Elmo! with handler Kevin Clash

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