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Chita Rivera Honored by Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center 2002 Honors awards this evening in Washington. Chita Rivera is one of the five recipients, as are James Earl Jones and Elizabeth Taylor. The original Anita in West Side Story, Rivera has spent five decades on the stage and shows no sign of stopping. Kim Kokich reports.

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