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Shot of Ciara on red carpet2. SOUNDBITE (English) Ciara, Recording Artist talks about what it's like to honor Diana Ross, upcoming projects: \"to be here, there are so many reasons. She's...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eAP Entertainment \u003cbr/\u003eLos Angeles, 3rd December 2007\u003cbr/\u003e1. Shot of Ciara on red carpet\u003cbr/\u003e2. SOUNDBITE (English) Ciara, Recording Artist talks about what it's like to honor Diana Ross, upcoming projects: \u003cbr/\u003e\"to be here, there are so many reasons. She's one of the original Divas in what we do and she has contributed so much to music and it's right to honour here, it's only right to pay homage, it's only right to also research and do your homework because she has done a lot for music so it's a blessing to be here and I am happy the have asked me to be here. Diana Ross the boss, so why not.\"\u003cbr/\u003e3. Shot of Brian Wilson on red carpet\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE (English) Brian Wilson, Recording Artist, talks about going to the White House, what he'll do with award: \u003cbr/\u003e\"I was in awe, he said it was an honour to be with me. I couldn't believe that.\"\u003cbr/\u003e(Q: \"And what do you plan to do with you honour, do you have a special place you can keep it?\") \u003cbr/\u003e\"We'll keep it in my music room.\"\u003cbr/\u003e5. Shot of Aretha Franklin on red carpet\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE (English) Aretha Franklin, Recording Artist, talks about growing up with Diana Ross: \u003cbr/\u003e\"well let see, what can I tell you about Diana that most people wouldn't know. Well that we lived about one block apart as young girls at the age of 12, 13. And our birthdays are one day apart, I'm 25, she's 26 or 24 I not quite sure.\"\u003cbr/\u003e(Q: \"And did you know each other?\") \u003cbr/\u003e\"not as well as we knew each other as young women. But we knew of each other.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Shot of Diana Ross on carpet\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE (English) Diana Ross, Recording Arists, talks about going to the White House: \u003cbr/\u003e\"it was really quite wonderful, someone had told him about when I was a little girl in elementarily school one of the teachers had said 'Diana your voice is ok but maybe you should do something else.' How ever he did the research it was true because I went on to ... I think to have a career you have to have ambition. You have to believe in yourself, you have to have the confidence to continue to move forward and I had a lot of mentors in my life and career.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. Smokey Robinson on carpet\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE (English) Smokey Robinson, recording artist, says he's happy Ross got award: \u003cbr/\u003e\"I'm very happy for her, I've known her since we were kids and when I got mine last year they gave me a piece of paper that says name five people you think should have this award. So she was on the top of my five people list and she got it this year and I am presenting it to her so I am very happy.\"\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE (English) Steve Martin, Actor, on what it means to win award: \u003cbr/\u003e\"It is so thrilling and you really can't believe it and it's called an award for contribution to the arts for the United States you just feel great and of course you feel like you don't deserve it but what the heck I got it.\"\u003cbr/\u003e\"Q: \"What was it like at the White House?\")\u003cbr/\u003e\"It was fabulous, it was thrilling to be there, there is so much history in the room, there's a portrait of Licoln over the fireplace painted contemporaneously and it's a beautiful experience, a real thrill.\"\u003cbr/\u003e12. B-roll of Martin Scorsese on red carpet\u003cbr/\u003e13. Cameron Diaz on carpet\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE (English) Cameron Diaz, Actress: \u003cbr/\u003e(Q: \"What brings you here are you here for a specific person?\")\u003cbr/\u003e\"Yes, I'm here for Martin Scorsese.\"\u003cbr/\u003e(Q: \"Can you tell us something about him that we don't know?\")\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE (English) Diaz: \u003cbr/\u003e\"He's hilarious, he's a funny man. I know it's not something you associate with Martin Scorsese but he's hilarious, full of laughter.\" \u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE (English) Leon Fleisher, Pianist, on what it means to win award: \u003cbr/\u003e\"I think the most important thing for an American which I am thank heavens is that it is an American honour. I've received honours from other countries and there is nothing like being recognised in your own homeland, in your own nest as it were.\"\u003cbr/\u003e16. Jordin Sparks on red carpet\u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE (English) Jordin Sparks, Recording Artist, on what it's like to be at awards: \u003cbr/\u003e\"I think it's really great because it gives the people that are honoured the recognition they deserve. Diana Ross and Steve Martin and the others that are here are icons in American culture and just the fact that I get to be here and get to be around them. I got to meet all of them last night and I was like oh my god.\"\u003cbr/\u003e18. SOUNDBITE (English) Steve Carell:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I have to say I am overwhelmed. I've just come from the Whitehouse and it really fills you with pride. then coming here to acknowledge and celebrate these great artists it's a big deal for me and a great honour.\"\u003cbr/\u003e(How was it as the Whitehouse?\")\u003cbr/\u003e\"It was great I got in and had to call my wife and say I'm in the red room and she said yeah I'm in the playroom, she's back in Los Angeles. It's a very unique and surreal experience.\"\u003cbr/\u003e(Q: \"Did you have any temptation to do anything in the Whitehouse?\")\u003cbr/\u003e\"I took some napkins. I took paper napkins with me to prove that I had been there.\"\u003cbr/\u003e(Q: \"Did they say something on them?\")\u003cbr/\u003e\"They say the Whitehouse, so where else can you get those?\"\u003cbr/\u003eFrom \"Good Vibrations\" to \"GoodFellas,\" Brian Wilson and Martin Scorsese scored. \u003cbr/\u003eSteve Martin strutted as one of the \"wild and crazy guys.\" Diana Ross sang to Motown stardom. Pianist Leon Fleisher\u003cbr/\u003esurmounted a debilitating injury.\u003cbr/\u003eTheir contributions to American culture won them a visit Sunday to the White House and recognition by President George W. Bush, followed by an evening of celebration at the John F. 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