Posted on 12/07/2004 4:48:09 PM PST by Libloather
Former US president Bill Clinton wins another Grammy nod
2 hours, 9 minutes ago
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Former US president Bill Clinton, movie star Steve Martin, actor John Lithgow and comedienne Ellen DeGeneres won places alongside the world's top musicians as Grammy Award nominees.
An unlikely nominee, Clinton won his second consecutive nod for music's top awards in the best spoken word album category for the recording of his best-selling autobiography "My Life."
Earlier this year, the former leader of the free world won a golden gramophone statuette for lending his voice to the spoken word recording of Russian folk tale of "Peter and the Wolf."
Other unlikely Grammy nominees unveiled Tuesday in Hollywood included funnyman Steve Martin who also won a nod for best spoken word album for the recording of his novel "The Pleasure of My Company."
Lithgow, who starred in the hit television sitcom "Third Rock from the Sun," won two Grammy nods, including one for best spoken word album for "The World According To Mr. Rogers" which he shares with former "Cagney and Lacey" star Tyne Daley and comic Lily Tomlin.
Lithgow also won a nod for best spoken word album for children for "Carnival Of The Animals."
US comics DeGeneres and Jon Stewart won nominations for best comedy album, De Generes for "The Funny Thing Is..." and Stewart for his satirical "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Presents...America: A Citizen's Guide To Democracy Inaction."
Pithy US author David Sedaris also won two nominations for the music's highest honours, a best comedy album nod for his album "Live At Carnegie Hall" and best spoken word album for "Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim."
But while the news for Clinton was good, former US first lady, Senator Hillary Clinton (news - web sites), did not repeat her Grammy nominations success of 2004, when she won a nod for best spoken word album for the reading of her autobiography "Living History."
The 47th annual Grammy Awards will be held in Los Angeles on February 13 next year.
/sarcasm
How many ways can Hollywood find to kiss Clintons butt?
How bleepin' pathetic.
Doesn't the entertainment industry get tired of fellating this man???
Major, witty, LOL kudos!
ahh gee, cut clinton some slack -- he's just looking for a legacy.
LOL!! Likewise.
Keeping the myth alive. Hollywood can't let go, although the main of America has, mostly with wonderment at being fooled and regrets. The left is losing and they know it, hate it and don't know what to do. The good thing: it is only going to get worse for them...
I'm surpised he didn't win a Emmy for 'I did not have sex with that woman'.
"An unlikely nominee..."
BS, they LOVE the Clintons and gave both Bill and his wife one already.
Al Franken and Jon Stewart are also up for Grammys this year.
I'm pulling for Triumph. Big time!
Field 20 - Comedy
Category 77 - Best Comedy Album
(For comedy recordings, spoken or musical)
• Come Poop With Me
Triumph The Insult Comic Dog
[Warner Bros.]
• The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Presents...America: A Citizen's Guide To Democracy Inaction
Jon Stewart And The Cast Of The Daily Show
[Time Warner Audiobooks]
• The Funny Thing Is...
Ellen DeGeneres
[Simon & Schuster Audio]
• Live At Carnegie Hall
David Sedaris
[Time Warner Audiobooks]
• The O'Franken Factor Factor - The Very Best Of The O'Franken Factor
Al Franken
[Artemis Records]
Every time Klinton opens his mouth the DemRats nominate him for something.
They are totally adrift now that their beloved Clintoon is gone.
High school history books are going to HAVE to cover the Zogbyism that Hollywood and the Infotainment Media Establishment (is there ANY difference between news and PR in Big Media?) engaged in for decades.
he didn't win an EMMY but even in Canada we know that bubba won a LEWINSKY...point out to the TEXAS YAHOO that I'm now using my shift key[i think,maybe]
I knew that he was looking for SOMETHING on legs.
I was just wondering the same thing.
I wouldn't place too much faith in school texts. Their indoctrination of the youth is what is keeping the left alive, in large part. Thankfully, the youth are too busy being young to vote. And of those that do, many more are coming over to our side....
Wait until they try to spend a week on his funeral as they endured with Ronald Reagan's death.
Just as we study the dangers of communism, the dangers of political correctness (especially in news room "style guides") needs to be taught to young students.
Not to over throw the media (they are long in decline) but to make sure it never happens again ("The most trusted man in America..." my ass).
Hear, hear...
His thing's gonna fall off with all the fellating that Hollywood gives him.
Good question. It's apparent at this point they haven't run out of "Chapstick".
What part did he play? The wolf?
Denise Rich is under the podium...Whore-Monica-style.
He wanted a Nobel Peace Prize, but will settle for a Grammy, I suppose. (What's the *prize* given by the adult film industry? I bet he could win one of those.)
Yeah, I'd like to see Clinton lose to a nomination entitled "Come Poop With Me."
Why doesn't he just shut up and go away. Maybe garlic would do the trick.
Yes, the first time I heard clinton's voice I said "Wait a minute, is that James Earl Jones or Bill Clinton? Someone really needs to record that melodious sound." Or maybe I said "odious". It was so long ago..
What the heck for?
No doubt.
No Doubt? They are up for up for a grammy again this year. I didn't know Bubba was a member.
Who's on first?
What a week. Just what a week.
If we all show up in blue dresses - would that make the evening news?
Bwaahahahaha!
This took me a moment to figure out. I'm not always on the cutting edge of modern musical culture.
It would if Bill rises from the grave and....I think I'll leave it at that.
pop culture as we know it has JUMPED THE SHARK !!
the funny thing is that young people love to question and ridicule their parents and their older siblings.
with access to more information than ever before the TRUTH WILL SURVIVE.
the left is in the process of eating itself alive !!
they are guilty of all they hate ... and are actually...hopefully, beginning the process of reason, something we have already done.
The future is now !!!
Well said...President of the US pop culture -- an inconsequential president for an inconsequential demographic.
ROFL...Post of the day.
sex
lies and
audiotape
this guy keeps coming back like a herpes sore.
We are at a time that is unprecedented, the act of seeking information, finding the facts, has never been easier.
The process of digesting information and reaching conclusions has become a solitary one.
Conclusions that are reasoned, questioned ?, examined again and again until the truth rises to the top (the internet model of anarchy so embraced).
In the end, human nature takes hold.
The biggest problem the left has, is that the U.S. Constitution and our Bill of Rights are based on Christian values.
The other major problem the left has, is that, Christian values are based on human nature.
This is the most exciting and entertaining opportunity to observe history that there ever has been.
Anybody who doesn't keep his chops up by playing his axe at least once weekly can't be properly called "a musician." This had better be hoax-story.
But thanks for posting the article. I went to iTunes and checked out Gretchen Wilson's "Redneck Woman" and downloaded it. Great tune! Should be called "Red State Woman." I like her in-your-face attitude toward elitist snobs.
Kind of like North Korea giving Kim Jong Il a Pulitzer for a book of poetry that he made sure everyone bought on pain of death.
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