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By NEKESA MUMBI MOODY
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Kanye or Green
Day? Usher or Ray? The Grammys are
back Sunday with a number of exciting
contests, led by Kanye West against ...
himself.
The producer-turned-rapper leads
all nominees with 10 nods. He has two
nominations in the best rap-sung
collaboration: “Slow Jamz” with Twista
and actor-singer Jamie Foxx, and “All
Falls Down” with Syleena Johnson.
West’s debut album, “The College
Dropout,” also was nominated for
album of the year. He’ll face off
against Alicia Keys and Usher — who
have eight nominations each - as well
as Green Day and the late Ray
Charles.
Charles, whose posthumous duets
album “Genius Loves Company”
became the biggest seller of his long
career, has seven nominations.
Critical darlings like Usher, Green
Day, The Killers and Gketchen Wilson
being nominated shows that the
Grammies continue to move away from
the much-derided “Grannies” image.
“The Grammys sometimes tends to
skip over (acts). It takes them a couple
of years sometimes to really get with the
program,” says Carson Daly, the late
night talk show host and former MTV
personality, who also owns a record
label.
The last time Green Day won a
Grammy was 11 years ago, when their
breakout record “Dookie” netted them
a trophy for best alternative music
performance. But Sunday, they could
win six trophies, including the
heavyweight album of the year for their
politically aware rock opera, “American
Idiot."
Still, some critics only see the
Grammys as the show that honored
schmaltzy songs like “Don’t Worry, Be
Happy” and “Wind Beneath My
Wings” as records of the year, and
inexplicably gave Jethro Tull the best
hard rock/metal performance in 1989.
“The people who are the voters
represent music professionals,” said
Michael Caplan, co-founder of Or
Music, a small record label that’s home
to acts such as the Los Lonely Boys,
which is up for four Grammys this year.
“Not all music professionals
understand the
mainstream or the
cutting edge of what’s
going on,” he says.
“Sometimes they need
a gentle nudge to go in
the right direction.”
In many ways, that
nudge has come from
hip-hop. Once rap was
considered a fringe
category not even
worthy of inclusion on
the telecast. But in
recent years it has
dominated major
nominations, along
with R&B acts with a
hip-hop feel.
Grammy-winning
producer Rich
Harrison, who has
created hits for acts
including Destiny’s
Child says the
Grammys have had no
choice but to recognize
those contributions
more, making them
more relevant.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kanye West’s album "The College Dropout”
was nominated for the Grammy for album of
the year, along with nine other nominations.
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from the pageantry of Charles’ 1981
wedding to Lady Diana Spencer at St.
Paul’s Cathedral. Divorce is a delicate
issue for the man who would be head of
the Church of England.
The news of the nuptials was
received with warmth in Britain, where
public opinion was once so hostile to
Parker Bowles that shoppers pelted her
with rolls in a supermarket.
The House of Commons burst into
cheers at the news, and ordinary
Britons offered their congratulations.
Charles and Diana’s sons said they
welcomed the announcement.
“We are both very happy for our
father and Camilla, and we wish them
all the luck in the future,” Prince
William, 22, and Prince Harry, 20, said
in a statement.
One Very Important Person also
gave her blessing: Queen Elizabeth II
granted the necessary formal
permission for the union. And as
mother of the bridegroom, she said she
and Prince Philip, who is Charles’
father, “are very happy that the Prince
of Wales and Mrs. Parker Bowles are to
marry.”
To mark the engagement, the queen
decided that the Round Tower at
Windsor Castle should be illuminated
Thursday night.
The civil marriage will be followed
by a service of prayer and dedication at
St. George’s Chapel within the castle
walls. Archbishop of Canterbury
Rowan Williams, spiritual head of the
Church of England, will preside.
Williams said the wedding service
plans “have my strong support and are
consistent with Church of England
guidelines concerning remarriage.”
The archbishop’s approval and
participation could help allay concerns
of those with questions about the
fitness of the divorced Charles to be
supreme governor of the church when
he becomes king. In general, the
Church of England, the established
faith of the nation, disapproves of
remarriage of divorced people in
church.
There is no Act of Parliament saying
the wife of a king should be queen, but
it is a historical convention. The
prince’s office at Clarence House said
there was no legal reason Charles’
second wife could not be queen, and
that the couple had decided otherwise.
After Charles accedes to the throne
upon Elizabeth’s death, his wife will be
known as the HRH — Her Royal
Highness — Princess Consort.
Charles, in addition to being Prince
of Wales, is Duke of Cornwall and
Rothesay. After her marriage, Parker
Bowles will not use the title Princess of
Wales, but would like people to call her
the HRH Duchess of Cornwall,
Clarence House said.
Prime Minister Tony Blair said he
was delighted at the impending
marriage. At his regular meeting with
the queen Wednesday night, the two
discussed the wedding plans, and Blair
gave her legal advice before she went on
to grant her royal consent, officials said.
Perhaps the most important vote of
approval is pending.
The British public who took Diana
into their hearts have been divided
about the Camilla-Charles romance.
The nation’s tabloid press dubbed
Parker Bowles “the other woman” as
details of their relationship became
public.
But in the years since Diana’s 1997
death in a Paris car crash, much of the
ill will against Charles has eased, with
the public noting the evident warmth
of his relationship with William and
Harry.
Parker Bowles, who stays well out of
the limelight, has won a degree of
respect for her discretion. Many people
simply wish them well as a couple
whose love has withstood the test of
years of anguish and vilification.
“They are clearly very much in love.
It must be the end of a series of
nightmare years for Camilla. ... They
are entitled to have their own happiness
the same as everyone else,” Winston
Churchill, grandson of the wartime
prime minister, told Sky News.
On the streets of London, many
Britons welcomed the announcement
but said they may never love Parker
Bowles as they had Diana.
“Diana is still in so many people’s
hearts,” said Chris Morris, 54, a
building engineer. “Queen Camilla
wouldn’t be so popular.”
Charles, the queen’s eldest son, first
met Camilla Shand in the early 1970s
and they had a brief romance that
ended in late 1972.
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PHOTO SPECIAL TO THE GAMECOCK
Sweet Honey in the Rock is a Grammy-winning, five member a
cappella ensemble that is documented in a film by Stanley Nelson.
■ FILM
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four girls flee to the home of Colle Ardo
Gallo Sy to escape the ritual
“purification.” Coll^ protects the girls,
like she has her own daughter, by
invoking the time-honored custom of
moolaade, or sanctuary. Coll^ has to face
the village traditionalists, both male and
female, and put her daughter’s marriage
to the heir of the tribal throne in danger
to keep the girls safe.
“Moolaade” won the Un Certain
Regard prize at the 2004 Cannes Film
Festival and is in Bambara and French
with English subtitles.
Included in the film festival, but not
sponsored by the Nickelodeon, the USC
African-American Studies Program will
show a free screening of “The Murder of
Emmett Till,” followed by a discussion
with Nelson on Wednesday at 7 p.m. in
the Belk Auditorium.
Most films will be shown at the
Nickelodeon Theatre at 937 Main St., - *
unless otherwise mentioned. Tickets * •
are $6.50 for general admission, $5.50 *
for seniors/students/ active military 1 .
and $4.50 for Columbia Film Society
members. All matinees are 50 cents *
less.
All film information and show times .*
can be found at www.nickelodeon.org. ' ,
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