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Several country artists took home awards at last night’s Grammy Awards. Little Big Town won their first ever Grammy for Best Country/Duo Group Performance for the #1 hit “Pontoon”.
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Carrie Underwood’s “Blown Away” picked up two Grammys. But it was the video projection dress she wore during her performance that had everyone talking. Here are some more pics during her performance...
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Taylor Swift opened the Grammys with her performance of "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together". It had an 'Alice in Wonderland meets a circus' vibe!
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Taylor always ROCKS the red carpet. He looked really pretty...
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Dierks and Miranda performed "Over You" and "Home" together. It was AWESOME!!!
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Oh...and in case you were wondering...YES, Faith has braces!!!
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COUNTRY GRAMMY CATEGORIES (WINNERS IN BOLD)
Best Country Solo Performance
“Home” – Dierks Bentley
“Springsteen” – Eric Church
“Cost of Livin’” – Ronnie Dunn
“Wanted” – Hunter Hayes
“Over” – Blake Shelton
“Blown Away” – Carrie Underwood
Best Country Duo/Group Performance
“Even If It Breaks Your Heart” – Eli Young Band
“Pontoon” – Little Big Town
“Safe & Sound” – Taylor Swift & The Civil Wars
“On The Outskirts of Town” – The Time Jumpers
“I Just Came Here For The Music” – Don Williams feat. Alison Krauss
Best Country Song
“Blown Away” – Josh Kear & Chris Tompkins, songwriters (Carrie Underwood)
“Cost of Livin’” – Phillip Coleman & Ronnie Dunn, songwriters (Ronnie Dunn)
“Even If It Breaks Your Heart” – Will Hoge & Eric Paslay, songwriters (Eli Young Band)
“So You Don’t Have to Love Me Anymore” – Jay Knowles & Adam Wright, songwriters (Alan Jackson)
“Springsteen” – Eric Church, Jeff Hyde & Ryan Tyndell, songwriters (Eric Church)
Best Country Album
Uncaged – Zac Brown Band
Hunter Hayes – Hunter Hayes
Living for a Song: A Tribute to Hank Cochran – Jamey Johnson
Four the Record – Miranda Lambert
The Time Jumpers – The Time Jumpers
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Tim McGraw appears on TLC’s Cake Boss tonight. During the episode, he’ll surprise a military family with a mortgage-free home…something he’s been doing with Operation Homefront since last summer. Watch Cake Boss tonight at 9:30 PM on TLC.
CELEBRITY SCOOP...
KATE UPTON: Lands Second Straight SI Swimsuit Cover
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Kate Upton has done it again. She's landed on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition.
She was the 2012 cover girl too. It's the first time since Tyra Banks did it in the mid-'90s that a model has gotten the honor back to back years.
After the photo was revealed Friday, Kate tweeted, "I look...cold lol." No doubt. The photo shoot took place in Antarctica. "Took us two months to thaw out," she said in another tweet.
The issue hits newsstands Tuesday, and Kate and nine other models will be appear Monday on Letterman to promote it.
THIS WEEKEND'S TOP TEN MOVIES
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1. Identity Thief, $36.6 million
2. Warm Bodies, $11.5 million
3. Side Effects, $10 million
4. Silver Linings Playbook, $6.9 million
5. Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, $5.8 million
6. Mama, $4.3 million
7. Zero Dark Thirty, $4 million
8. Argo, $2.5 million
9. Django Unchained, $2.3 million
10. Bullet to the Head, $2 million
WEIRD NEWS...
Fortune cookies lose their romance after complaints from parents
Romance is dead — in your fortune cookie!
The world’s largest fortune-cookie manufacturer has cut the heart out of its confections, removing romantic messages in response to complaints from parents of young children.
“Some parents sent us e-mails. They said they didn’t want their kids reading them,” said Derrick Wong, a VP at Brooklyn-based Wonton Food. “Different people have a different perspective.”
Gone are suggestive fortunes such as, “One who admires you greatly is hidden before your eyes,” “Romance and travel go together,” “The evening promises romantic interest,” and “A romantic mystery will soon add interest to your life.”
Company officials said they understood why parents said some of their cookies were too hot to handle.
“Romance and travel, for example. Suppose you’re on a business trip with a colleague, that doesn’t mean you want to have a romantic affair,” said Danny Zeng, another VP at Wonton.
Zeng said that if he gets more than two or three complaints about a fortune, he’ll screen it out.
“We want to put messages inside our cookies that don’t upset a single person. We don’t want customers to have negative feelings,” he said.
Wong added, “Messages have to be rated G. They can’t be offensive.”
Saucy messages have been replaced by milder fare, such as, “You make every day special,” “No one on Earth is as beautiful as you,” and “Only love makes us see ordinary things in an extraordinary way.”
Fortune-cookie experts agree it’s best to keep messages bland.
“This makes sense because romance is tricky. There’s no one size fits all,” said Jennifer 8. Lee, author of “The Fortune Cookie Chronicles.”
“You never know who will get the cookie,” she said. “ ‘You will meet a tall, dark stranger,’ means one thing to a 20-year-old fashionista — and another to a 6-year-old kid. Romantic messages aren’t one size fits all.”
The company churns out five million cookies every day from manufacturing plants in Long Island City
And it routinely tweaks its fortunes. For example, “You will inherit a great fortune soon,” was recently amended to “You will take over a great fortune soon.”
“People said, ‘I love my relatives and don’t want them to die soon,’ ” Zeng explained.
BOSSES WITH A BIG SIGNATURE LIKELY TO HAVE A BIG EGO:
A new study claims the larger a C-E-O's signature, the more likely they are to be a narcissist. The researchers from the
A NEW WAY TO TREAT BROKEN BONES?
The days of having friends and family sign your cast on your broken arm may soon be over. Scientists say broken limbs might soon be mended using artifical bone created from stem cells and a new, lightweight plastic. The plastic is a special shape that allows blood flow though it, and it is said to slowly degrade as new bone grows.
