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Grammys Going Back to Los Angeles
After a much-publicized public feud with New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, Grammy organizers announced Tuesday that their 41st annual ceremony would be returning to Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium next year.
It was just two years ago that National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences officials were wooed away from the Shrine to New York's Madison Square Garden, with Giuliani sniping, "This is the difference between a city that's for real and a city that's on tape."
And the New York awards shows were big successes, with the 40th edition ranking as the second-highest awards show of the season (behind the Oscars, of course) for CBS last February.
But a nasty exchange between NARAS President and CEO Michael Greene and a Giuliani aide earlier this year killed any good feelings between the Academy and New York, with the mayor telling Grammy organizers to get out--and to take the $40 million in revenue their ceremony brings each year with them.
"If they want to go back to L.A., they can," Giuliani pronounced at a City Hall news conference in February. "We could replace the Grammys in about a day. You say we're going to lose $40 million? We'll replace that with three other things." (No word yet on what exactly these "other things" are.)
As for Giuliani's West Coast counterpart, Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, there was no sign that he was forcing Academy officials to eat crow for their defection two years ago. "Welcome home, Grammys!" the mayor proclaimed at Tuesday's Beverly Hills press conference.
Heck, even Giuliani doesn't seem bitter anymore, pointing out that the Grammys have jumped between New York and Los Angeles several times since 1978.
A spokeswoman for the Gotham mayor, Cristyne Lategano, told Associated Press, "We are not surprised at all [by the announcement]. Los Angeles and New York have shared the Grammys before. We know they'll be back, because New York is the capital of the world."
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