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No Kennedy at Kennedy Center Honors: RFK Jr and Cheryl Hines in Hiding, Event Posts 150 Fewer Photos, Charlie Kirk Cited

By Roger Friedman

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The Kennedy Center Honors are the expected disaster we thought they’d be.

Online, at wireimage.com, there are only 205 photos from the red carpet. Last year there were 379.

Noticeably absent: Robert Kennedy Jr and wife Cheryl Hines. They are hiding, certainly, after the Olivia Nuzzi aka Nutsy week of publicity. Nutsy’s book is DOA and Cheryl’s book has been dead since its publication a month ago. Cheryl’s “Unscripted” is number 56,548 on amazon.

So there are no Kennedys at the Kennedy Center Honors. Donald Trump got what he wanted.

According to Twitter accounts, Trump gave some kind of toast to the late Charlie Kirk.

Otherwise there are no real celebrities. And seat fillers are taking up a huge number of spots in the room.

The picture below is of Trump with the honorees. What’s weird about this shot, emblematic of all of them from the Oval Office? Gloria Gayner, who is Black, is cut from most pictures. In this one, she’s sitting off to the side not looking like part of the group.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedmanhttps://www.showbiz411.com
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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