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Before his final bow, a Kennedy Center veteran hands out one last backstage pass by Peggy McGlone

Mickey Berra tells of drinking Scotch with Princess Margaret, smoking a stogy with George Burns, placing a football bet for Elizabeth Taylor, and shooting the breeze with James Brown. He remembers the challenge of getting Willie Nelson's 21-ton touring bus on stage for the Kennedy Center Honors, cutting a trapdoor into the Opera House stage for the tour of "Les Miserables" and flying a helicopter onstage for "Miss Sa…

SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:50PM on May 27, 2016

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