The music industry is too diverse and far-reaching — from salsa idols to “American Idol,” from a Miami recording studio to your neighbor’s garage — to see the Grammy Awards as anything other than a popularity contest among the most commercial artists of the year.
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God bless the Academy Awards. Just when you’re ready to write them off as predictable panderers to public expectation, they go and drop a bombshell on you. On Jan. 23, that bombshell was dropped by another bombshell, namely Salma Hayek, when she and Academy President Sid Ganis announced to the nation that “Dreamgirls” had not been nominated for Best Picture.
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