Les Moonves, Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of CBS Corporation, and Julie Chen arrive for the formal Artist's Dinner honoring the recipients of the 40th Annual Kennedy Center Honors hosted by United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson at the US Department of State in Washington, D.C., 02 December 2017 (issued 03 December 2017). The 2017 honorees are: US dancer and choreographer Carmen de Lavallade, Cuban-US singer-songwriter and actress Gloria Estefan, US hip hop artist and entertainment icon LL COOL J, US television writer and producer Norman Lear and US musician and record producer Lionel Richie.