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A well-deserved honor for Diana Ross...
For Diana Ross, being one of the five Kennedy Center Honorees on Sunday was a bit bittersweet because her dad wasn't there.
The Motown legend, honored along with Steve Martin, Brian Wilson, Martin Scorsese and pianist Leon Fleisher, traveled to Washington, D.C., from Detroit where funeral services for Fred Ross, were held.
"This has been a hard week for me," Diana told "Entertainment Tonight." "I lost my father just before coming here and this just brings things to another level. He could have been here."
Diana has been criminally passed over by the Grammys for her entire 45-year career - both as a member of The Supremes and as a solo artist - so it's great to see her get one of the most prestigious honors any artist can receive. She was the first female artist to achieve six number one singles as a solo performer ("Ain't No Mountain High Enough," "Touch Me in the Morning," "Love Hangover," "Upside Down" "Endless Love" and "Do You Know Where You're Going To." Ross had another 10 number one hits as the lead singer of the all-time great girl group, The Supremes...
The Kennedy Center Honors is a two-day event that included a Saturday night State Department Dinner where Wasnhington's movers and shakers mingled with the honorees and other celebrities on hand including the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, who participated in the Ross tribute and is herself a previous Kennedy Center Honoree. Then on Sunday, prior to the actual show, the honorees attended a White House reception with President Bush.
The Washington Post had some fly-on-the-wall anecdotes from the post-show dinner:
Ross left her table to greet Scorsese, and a million flashes exploded around them. Then she swept through the room, drawing waves of applause from the tables she passed.
"I have five children, and this is the actor," she told an elderly man as her teenaged son Evan (co-star of "ATL") leaned in to shake hands. Daughter Tracee Ellis Ross, star of the long-running sitcom "Girlfriends," looked eerily supreme in a retro bob and an elegant white sheath worthy of a girl group. After her turn in the Ross tribute, young Jordin Sparks caught Tracee's eye: "Was it okay?" Tracee: "Oh, please ! You were fantastic."
Moments into the salad course, Ross was heading for the door, those five gorgeous children in tow,