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Show PAGE A7 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2005 Courtesy photo Black Eyed Peas performed at the 47th annual Grammy Awards last Sunday night. 47th Grammy Awards leave viewers musically unfulfilled John Garlock Life Writer While struggling through the 47th annual Grammy Awards, trying to pull as much optimism from the charade as possible, it became clearly obvious that the ceremony is good for two things. First, it produces an infinitive amount of UCS (Unintentional Comedy Scale) moments. Second, it causes one's appreciation of good music to increase exponentially. For those of you who aren't aware and/or familiar with the UCS, I shall explain. Unintentional comedy is exactly that, unintentional. It's those moments when your Biology 1010 teacher talks about bears for the first full day of class, complete with the viewing of a musically backed home video full of bear loving antics; and you can't help but laugh out loud in disbelief, enjoying every bear-filled minute. An 8.6 on the UCS. Fergie of Black Eyed Peas, shrilling an opening flat first note, a 7.6, set the stage for an encore of classic moments to follow. Mark Mcgrath, front man of Sugar Ray, made a mouth dropping appearance (who knew he was even alive), wearing a white wife beater underneath his cheap suit coat, earning him an 8.8, which had the potential of being a high 9 had he spontaneously sang out, "I just wannafly,put your arms around me baby, put your arms around me baby," instead of announcing the win- ner of Best R&B female vocal performance. Queen Latifah emceed the whole 'fhang' and even graced the viewer with an awkwardly boring vocal performance. While watching her take up 7/8's of the screen space, I started to wonder how one goes from a canceled self-titled UPN sitcom to hosting a music awards show. One can only conclude that they are equivalents. The artist formerly known as Prince brought home an 8.1 by winning an award and not even caring enough to show up. J-lo raked in an 8.9 with her spastic Spanish soapopera-like duet with male friend Mark Anthony. "Los Lonely Boys" was unexpectedly announced as Best Pop Performance for their song Heaven, which asks, "How far is heaven?" and had me thinking, "probably pretty far because this song is hell." Throughout the awards, the cameras would cut to the audience, showing your typical pop stars politely smiling, but when the lenses fell upon the Los Lonely Boys they looked like wide-eyed teens who had won tickets by being caller number nine at 97.1 ZHT. They almost stole the show with an accumulative score of 9.4. The charitable screeching of "Across the Universe" by the "all-star" team of musicians looked like a bad SNL skit depicting a 15 year-old karaoke-themed birthday party. Constantine takes you to heaven and hell Jared Leming The story mixes John with a real detective, Angels DodAfter attending an early son (played by Rachel Weisz) screening, I'd have to say that who is investigating the mysit brings the goods and deliv- terious suicide of her twin sisers as expected. Based on ter. Both end up getting pulled the hit cult comic Hellblazer, into a dark struggle between "Constantine" brings to life God and Satan over control the eternal struggle between of the world. I'd love to tell good and evil. Keanu Reeves you more, but I'm not one to plays John Constantine, a su- spoil a real good thing. pernatural detective trying to Highlights of the movie are "buy" his way into heaven by definitely cinematography/ acting as a sort of immigra- color and special effects. The tions officer between earth camera work is downright and hell. Constantine him- spectacular. Most of the shots self cannot enter the halls of are close to the action, so it heaven due to a bad decision gives you a sense of anticipahe made many years ago. tion and makes you feel like Life Writer ^ . • _ you're right there. The pace of the movie is pretty quick, and the camera helps with keeping you up to speed. The color, or lack thereof at times, is great too. You are really able to catch the mood that is trying to be established because of the way things look. Special effects are perfect. They're not overdone, and really help you to actually see the horror that Constantine faces everyday. There are a few downsides to the film, such as feeling a bit lost at times. There isn't a lot of back-story on Constantine's ties to specific -•-'•-••-';V±1_ • • • • • • : • . • • characters. They seem like they're just kind of there and you don't know why. Also, if you are a hardcore fan of the comic, you will see the, stereotypical turn of the antihero, created by Hollywood at the end. 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