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Gallery: Kennedy Center Honors

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama leaves a reception in honor of the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors recipients, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012. At the back left is Caroline Kennedy. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

December 03, 2012 @ 04:53 PM

WASHINGTON -- Stars from Hollywood and the music came out Sunday night to salute Kennedy Center honorees, including comedian David Letterman, actor Dustin Hoffman, Chicago bluesman Buddy Guy and ballerina Natalia Makarova.

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President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama leaves a reception in honor of the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors recipients, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012. At the back left is Caroline Kennedy. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Rock guitarist Jeff Beck, arrives at a reception hosted by President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama in honor of the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors recipients, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

2012 Kennedy Center Honoree Blues guitarist Buddy Guy, center, arrives at the State Department with his family for the Kennedy Center Honors Gala Dinner on Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012 in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

2012 Kennedy Center Honoree comedian David Letterman and his wife, Regina, arrive at the State Department for the Kennedy Center Honors Gala Dinner on Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012 in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

2012 Kennedy Center Honoree comedian David Letterman shakes hands with his wife Regina as they arrive at the State Department for the Kennedy Center Honors Gala Dinner on Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012 in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

From left, 2012 Kennedy Center Honorees and members of Led Zepplin Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, Robert Plant arrive at the State Department for the Kennedy Center Honors Gala Dinner on Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012 in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

2012 Kennedy Center Honoree Blues guitarist Buddy Guy, center, arrives at the State Department with his family for the Kennedy Center Honors Gala Dinner on Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012 in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Joshua Bell and Larisa Martinez arrive at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors Performance and Gala Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012 at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Singer Aretha Franklin arrives at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors Performance and Gala Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012 at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Former Kennedy Center Honoree Actor Morgan Freeman walks off the red carpet after arriving at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors Performance and Gala Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012 at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Actress Laura Osnes arrives at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors Performance and Gala Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012 at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Denyce Graves and husband, Robert Montgomery, arrive at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors Performance and Gala Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012 at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber arrive at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors Performance and Gala Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012 at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

President and Chief Executive Officer of CBS Corporation Leslie Moonves and wife Julie Chen arrive at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors Performances and Gala Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012 at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Actress Tina Fey arrives at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors Performance and Gala Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012 at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Recipients of the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors, from left, rock band Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page, and keyboardist/bassist John Paul Jones, ballerina Natalia Makarova, comedian and television host David Letterman, actor and director Dustin Hoffman and bluesman Buddy Guy, listen to President Barack Obama, not in picture, speaks, during a reception for the honorees in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Recipient of the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors ballerina Natalia Makarova, right, arrives at a reception hosted by President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama in honor of the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors recipients, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Television host Jimmy Kimmel, left, and Molly McNearney, attend a reception hosted by President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama honoring the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors recipients, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Singer Aretha Franklin, center, arrives at a reception hosted by President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama in honor of the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors recipients, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Caroline Kennedy leaves at the conclusion of a reception hosted by President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama in honor of the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors recipients, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

President Barack Obama, shakes hands with the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors recipients, from left, rock band Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page, and keyboardist/bassist John Paul Jones, during a reception in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012. While Led Zeppelin is being honored as a band, surviving members John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page, and Robert Plant, each received the Kennedy Center Honors. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Bonnie Raitt arrives at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors Performance and Gala Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012 at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Former Kennedy Center Honoree Yo-Yo Ma, his wife, Jill Horner, left, and daughter, Emily Ma, arrive at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors Performance and Gala Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012 at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Actor Jack Black and wife, Tanya Haden, arrive at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors Performance and Gala Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012 at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Singer Tracy Chapman arrives at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors Performance and Gala Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012 at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Actress Meryl Streep uses her iPhone to get a photo of her and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton following the State Department Dinner for the Kennedy Center Honors gala Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012 at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

President and Chief Executive Officer of CBS Corporation Leslie Moonves and wife Julie Chen arrive at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors Performances and Gala Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012 at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Kennedy Center Honoree Buddy Guy arrives at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors Performance and Gala Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012 at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Kennedy Center Honoree Dustin Hoffman arrives with his wife, Lisa, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors Performance and Gala Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012 at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Kennedy Center Honoree Natalia Makarova arrives with her son, Andrei Karkar, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors Performance and Gala Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012 at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

2012 Kennedy Center Honoree Robert Plant comforts fellow honoree Natalia Makarova after she tires of having her photo taken at the end of the State Department Dinner for the Kennedy Center Honors gala Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012 at the State Department in Washington. In photo, from left, are John Paul Jones, Buddy Guy, Jimmy Page, and Dustin Hoffman. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

2012 Kennedy Center Honoree Natalia Makarova, front row, second right, reacts to all the photos being taken during a group photo after the State Department Dinner for the Kennedy Center Honors gala Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012 at the State Department in Washington. From left are former President Bill Clinton, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, John Paul Johns, Buddy Guy, Jimmy Page, Makarova, Robert Plant, Dustin Hoffman and David Letterman. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, hugs 2012 Kennedy Center Honoree Natalia Makarova at the end of the State Department Dinner for the Kennedy Center Honors gala Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012 at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton pose for a photo after the State Department Dinner for the Kennedy Center Honors gala Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012 at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Actor Morgan Freeman attends a reception hosted by President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama for the 2112 Kennedy Center Honors recipients in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Actor Jack Black and wife, Tanya Haden, arrive at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors Performance and Gala Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012 at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Cal Ripken and his wife, Kelly, arrive at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors Performance and Gala Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012 at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Comedian Stephen Colbert and wife, Evelyn Colbert, arrive at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors Performance and Gala Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012 at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Former Kennedy Center Honoree Robert DeNiro arrives with his wife, Grace Hightower at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors Performance and Gala Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012 at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Actor Alec Baldwin and wife, Hilaria, arrive at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors Performance and Gala, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012 at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

President Barack Obama, right, and first lady Michelle Obama, second from right, is applauded by the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors recipients, from left, comedian and television host David Letterman, bluesman Buddy Guy, ballerina Natalia Makarova and actor and director Dustin Hoffman, during the Kennedy Center Honors Gala at the Kennedy Center in Washington, Sunday, December 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

First lady Michelle Obama, center, accompanying her husband President Barack Obama, right, greets, 2012 Kennedy Center Honors recipients, ballerina Natalia Makarova and actor and director Dustin Hoffman, during the Kennedy Center Honors Gala at the Kennedy Center in Washington, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Actor and director Dustin Hoffman, 2012 Kennedy Center Honors recipient, center, leaves a reception hosted by President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama for the honorees in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

The 2012 Kennedy Center Honors recipients, rock band Led Zeppelin, guitarist Jimmy Page, right, and singer Robert Plant, leave a reception hosted by President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama for the honorees in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

From left, 2012 Kennedy Center Honorees and members of Led Zepplin Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, Robert Plant arrive at the State Department for the Kennedy Center Honors Gala Dinner on Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012 in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)