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Via The Hill:

President Obama on Sunday welcomed the 2014 Kennedy Center Honorees to the White House, ahead of a gala performance.

Obama told the crowd that he watched actor and filmmaker Tom Hanks’s classic “Big” on Saturday night.
“That’s a great movie,” Obama said. “I got kind of choked up.”

Singer Al Green, comedienne Lilly Tomlin, ballerina Patricia McBride and singer-songwriter Sting were also honored.

“POTUS is a pretty good nickname, but let’s face it, it’s not as cool as Sting,” Obama said. “I kind of wish I was called Sting. But I’m stuck with POTUS.”

Sam Waterston, Stephen Spielberg, Whoopi Goldberg, Stephen Colbert, former Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Secretary of State John Kerry were among those in the crowd in the East Room, according to a pool report.