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Alec Baldwin offered a Top 10 reasons Letterman was winning the award, including the fact that he didn't leave late night for a six-month stint in primetime
-- a not-so-subtle dig at rival Jay Leno. Jimmy Kimmel, who will soon compete head-to-head with Letterman on ABC, said he fell in love with Letterman early in life and even had a "Late Night" cake on his 16th birthday. "To me it wasn't just a TV show," Kimmel said. "It was the reason I would fail to make love to a live woman for many, many years." For Buddy Guy, singers Bonnie Raitt, Tracy Chapman and others got most of the crowd on its feet singing Guy's signature "Sweet Home Chicago." Morgan Freeman hailed Guy as a pioneer who helped bridge soul and rock and roll. "When you hear the blues, you really don't think of it as black or white or yellow or purple or blue," Freeman said. "Buddy Guy, your blue brought us together." Robert De Niro saluted Hoffman, saying he had changed acting, never took
any shortcuts and was brave enough to be a perfectionist. "Before Dustin burst on the scene, it was pretty much OK for movie stars
to show up, read their lines and, if the director insisted, act a little,"
De Niro said. "But then Dustin came along -- and he just had to get
everything right." By the end of the night, the Foo Fighters, Kid Rock and Lenny Kravitz got
the crowd moving to some of Zeppelin's hits at the Kennedy Center. Jack Black declared Zeppelin the "greatest rock and roll band of all
time."
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