Grammy Glory!
Hello, everybody. Last night at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards, not even a denied visa -- well, actually, the decision was reversed, but not in time for her to make it to Los Angeles -- could prevent Amy Winehouse from attending music's biggest night and collecting the most bounty while across the Atlantic in London: Five, including New Artist and Record and Song of the Year for "Rehab." Among the people to thank in her speech included her jailed husband Blake, who's in custody for spousal abuse. But as for Album of the Year? In a shocker, it went to Herbie Hancock for "Herbie: The Joni Letters", a musical tribute to Joni Mitchell.
Kanye West also won big with four including Rap Album ("Graduation"), but not before he once again paid tribute to his mother Donda, who died last fall from plastic surgery. He even forced the cut-the-speech-short music to be stopped so he could finish. And after claiming New Artist last year, Carrie Underwood added Female Country Vocal Peformance ("Before He Cheats") to her mantle this time.
Oh yeah, other winners included Jimmy Shurr and his Orchestra (Polka Album, "Come Share The Wine"), Flight of the Conchords (Comedy Album, "The Distant Future"; they beat out George Lopez and Harry Shearer), and Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama (Spoken Word Album, "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts On Reclaiming the American Dream").
Since this was the Grammys' 50th anniversary, Alicia Keys kicked things off with a duet of "Learnin' The Blues" with the late Frank Sinatra. But it was 68-year-old Tina Turner and 26-year-old Beyonce who literally got the Staples Center -- and 17 million viewers watching -- on their feet with their rendition of "Proud Mary." Even though there was a 42-year age difference between the two, they knew how to burn up the stage their way.
The fashions of course burned up the red carpet, with Alicia Keys in Giorgio Armani Prive, Underwood in a V-neck gown, Fergie in yellow Calvin Klein, and Rihanna in a nice cocktail dress that showed off her legs quite nicely. But it was Beyonce who takes my best-dressed honors in an ice blue gown reminiscent of Cinderella. As for who hit the sour note (aka worst dressed)? Well, bombard me with complaints all you want, but I'll have to say it was Cher.
Now that the Grammy Awards are set for the next 50 years, the attention will shift to the 80th Annual Academy Awards on February 24. And all next week, the AllenBlog will be previewing this year's Oscars with the main acting nominees, Foreign Language and Animated Feature Films, Director, and Best Picture.
It is something I've been doing since 2000 when this was the Allen Report...which was launched on August 24, 1998, almost ten years ago! And there'll be lots of digging through the archives as we celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Allen Report/AllenBlog this year; I'll tell you much more about all this in the months to come. Till next time...so long and stay strong.
Hello, everybody. Last night at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards, not even a denied visa -- well, actually, the decision was reversed, but not in time for her to make it to Los Angeles -- could prevent Amy Winehouse from attending music's biggest night and collecting the most bounty while across the Atlantic in London: Five, including New Artist and Record and Song of the Year for "Rehab." Among the people to thank in her speech included her jailed husband Blake, who's in custody for spousal abuse. But as for Album of the Year? In a shocker, it went to Herbie Hancock for "Herbie: The Joni Letters", a musical tribute to Joni Mitchell.
Kanye West also won big with four including Rap Album ("Graduation"), but not before he once again paid tribute to his mother Donda, who died last fall from plastic surgery. He even forced the cut-the-speech-short music to be stopped so he could finish. And after claiming New Artist last year, Carrie Underwood added Female Country Vocal Peformance ("Before He Cheats") to her mantle this time.
Oh yeah, other winners included Jimmy Shurr and his Orchestra (Polka Album, "Come Share The Wine"), Flight of the Conchords (Comedy Album, "The Distant Future"; they beat out George Lopez and Harry Shearer), and Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama (Spoken Word Album, "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts On Reclaiming the American Dream").
Since this was the Grammys' 50th anniversary, Alicia Keys kicked things off with a duet of "Learnin' The Blues" with the late Frank Sinatra. But it was 68-year-old Tina Turner and 26-year-old Beyonce who literally got the Staples Center -- and 17 million viewers watching -- on their feet with their rendition of "Proud Mary." Even though there was a 42-year age difference between the two, they knew how to burn up the stage their way.
The fashions of course burned up the red carpet, with Alicia Keys in Giorgio Armani Prive, Underwood in a V-neck gown, Fergie in yellow Calvin Klein, and Rihanna in a nice cocktail dress that showed off her legs quite nicely. But it was Beyonce who takes my best-dressed honors in an ice blue gown reminiscent of Cinderella. As for who hit the sour note (aka worst dressed)? Well, bombard me with complaints all you want, but I'll have to say it was Cher.
Now that the Grammy Awards are set for the next 50 years, the attention will shift to the 80th Annual Academy Awards on February 24. And all next week, the AllenBlog will be previewing this year's Oscars with the main acting nominees, Foreign Language and Animated Feature Films, Director, and Best Picture.
It is something I've been doing since 2000 when this was the Allen Report...which was launched on August 24, 1998, almost ten years ago! And there'll be lots of digging through the archives as we celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Allen Report/AllenBlog this year; I'll tell you much more about all this in the months to come. Till next time...so long and stay strong.
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