Something Extra: A Special Awards Ceremony
MIAMI (CBS4) - It's easy to ridicule Hollywood award ceremonies as bloated, self-congratulatory, overly-long and deadly boring, because they often are.
But, every once in a while, they can be exactly what the country needs.
That happened ten years ago with the Emmys, uniquely unifying in the aftermath of Nine-Eleven and, to a lesser extent, with the Grammys last night.
They were a marvelous celebration of the old... Paul McCartney rocked it… the Beach Boys reunited...and
Springsteen looked like a spring chicken... even though they're all in their sixties and seventies!
The Grammys celebrated the young, as well... Adele's star is burning so brightly she could, as her song says, set fire to the rain.
But they also gave us time to mourn, with a bittersweet good-bye to the Rhinestone Cowboy as Glenn Campbell begins the long good-bye of Alzheimer's.
And they allowed a stunned country to bid a tearful farewell to the talent and beauty of Whitney Houston. Maybe she had too much of both for one person to handle.
"Didn't We Almost Have It All," Whitney once sang. She almost did, but now she's gone, too soon.
