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Question: âThe Honors are the greatest weekend of the year  and it is also the bane of our existence  â Deborah Rutter  said with a laugh. For the president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts  the annual Kennedy Center Honors  airing on CBS on Dec. 26 and honoring dancer Carmen de Lavallade  rapper LL Cool J  television producer and writer Norman Lear and singers Gloria Estefan and Lionel Richie  is a welcome national spotlight on the memorial to the late president. But thatâs all anyone seems to know about the the white jewel box on the Potomac.
âWe really like to think about the other 364 days of the year  and all of the programming that happens on those days â  Rutter  told me in the latest episode of âCape Up.â âWhat I love about being here at the nationâs cultural center is that we have really a mandate to welcome all of the performing arts. It is not just a performing arts center for one assumed art form or another.â
I bet you didnât know that hip hop was one of those art forms at the Kennedy Center and that Q-Tip is its artistic director. âThis is a first â  Rutter  said. âAnd as far as I know  there is no other artistic director for hip-hop â¦ anywhere in probably the world. And weâre very proud to have Q-Tip here leading  guiding and inspiring us.â
While she didnât need much convincing   Rutter  allowed that there could be others who might â for fear of what it could mean for the other arts. âJust because we are bringing in more programming that includes hip-hop artists  it does not mean that weâre doing less dance or less international programming or less of the National Symphony Orchestra â she said. âIt just means that weâre doing more  that we have thrown open the doors of the Kennedy Center  and we are ensuring that all are welcome here.â
 Deborah Rutter   president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts  talks with The Postâs Jonathan Capehart on the âCape Upâ podcast on Nov. 28 in her office at the Kennedy Center. (Jonathan Capehart/The Washington Post)
There are nine performance spaces at the Kennedy Center that are in use all year. In addition to the orchestra and  the Washington National Opera  Rutter  noted the 46-year-old institution has âa magnificent  world-recognized ballet season. We have contemporary dance  we have jazz  we have a huge jazz series  chamber music  recitals  comedy  international programming.â
Listen to the podcast to hear  Rutter  talk further about the work of the Kennedy Center and how it fits into the cultural life of Washington.  She  goes into what it is like to be the local performing arts center for members of Congress  foreign diplomats and âquite a number of justices from the Supreme Court.â But  Rutter  insists none of those constituencies tries to exert influence over programming.
âHere at the center we have no limits on what we could present â  Rutter  told me. âThe problems I always describe is how to say no  when to say no  and how to not be really  truly overwhelmed by the extraordinary limitless richness of what happens here.â

Answer: Deborah Rutter


Question: Quincy Jones  in New York on Jan. 26  2018. (Photo: Brian Ach  Getty Images)
 Quincy Jones   the music maestro whose recent interviews have sparked furious rows among friends and admirers  apologized on Twitter Thursday for "silly" things he has said.
In a tweet   Jones  said  his  six daughters took  him  aside for a "family intervention" after two recent interviews led to public discussion of  for example  whether  his  late pals  comedian Richard Pryor and actor Marlon Brando  slept together.
Jones blamed age   his  giving up drinking three years ago and memory problems for  his  garrulous interviews in Vulture and GQ recently. Among other topics in the profanity-pocked Q&As   he  said  he  didn't care for Taylor Swift's music  once dated Ivanka Trump and once thought the Beatles were bad musicians.
"Even at 85  it's apparent that 'wordvomit' and bad-mouthing is inexcusable "  he  continued.  He  said  his  "bad-mouthing" contradicted messages  he  wanted to convey  about racism  inequality  homophobia and poverty.  He  said  he  had already reached out to  his  friends to apologize privately.
"But when you live a public life you have a responsibility to be an example & since I do live a public life I wanted to make a public apology "  he  wrote.
"I am sorry to anyone to whom my words offended & I'm especially sorry to my friends who are still here with me & to those who aren't "  he  wrote.  He  thanks  his  friends and family for their "grace."
"Thank you for calling me out when I've clearly made a mistake...many mistakes "  he  said. "I hear ALL of you & I thank you."
 He  signed it: "Love an 85-year-old bow-legged man who is still learning from  his  mistakes."
 He  did not explicitly retract  his  claim about Pryor and Brando.
Two weeks ago  after the Vulture interview began attracting a lot of baffled attention  Pryor's daughter  Rain Pryor  furiously denied her father and Brando ever slept together and poured scorn on everyone gleefully gossiping about it  including her father's widow  Jennifer Lee Pryor  who confirmed  Jones ' claim.
In two lengthy online diatribes  Rain Pryor denounced  Jones  and  her  stepmother.

Answer: Quincy Jones


Question: A woman says  Al Franken  pulled her in tightly and put  his  hand on her buttocks in 2010 while posing for a picture at the Minnesota State Fair  the second allegation of improper conduct against the Democrat and first involving  his  time as a senator.
Menz's story comes days after a Los Angeles broadcaster  Leeann Tweeden  accused  Franken  of forcibly kissing her during a 2006 USO tour.  Franken  already faced a Senate ethics investigation over Tweeden's allegation  but the Menz allegation is potentially more damaging for  Franken  because it would be behavior that occurred while  he  was in office.
 Franken   a Democrat  told CNN  he  didn't remember taking the photo with Menz  but said in a statement to the network that  he  feels badly that she felt disrespected.
"I take thousands of photos at the state fair surrounded by hundreds of people  and I certainly don't remember taking this picture "  Franken  told CNN. "I feel badly that Ms. Menz came away from our interaction feeling disrespected."
 Franken 's office did not respond to repeated Associated Press messages seeking comment on the latest allegations.
With the Capitol empty due to Thanksgiving break  reaction to the latest allegations against  Franken  were muted compared to an outcry last week â and Democrats nationally and in Minnesota were silent.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell  a Republican  repeated a statement from Thursday calling for an ethics investigation of  Franken . After publicly denouncing  Franken 's conduct and supporting that investigation last week  no powerful Democrats had spoken out by Monday afternoon about Menz's allegations.
Menz said she told her husband  Jeremy Menz  and father Mark Brown about it right away. Both men affirmed that to CNN. Menz also said she posted the photo with Franken on Facebook on Aug. 27  2010  and when her sister commented on the photo  she replied: "Dude -- Al Franken TOTALLY molested me! Creeper!"
Franken canceled a sold-out book festival appearance scheduled for Monday in Atlanta to speak and promote his book  "Al Franken  Giant of the Senate." He hasn't appeared in public since Tweeden's allegation.

Answer:
Al Franken