The magazine said that some agents of celebrities have already been informed of the investigation. In Friday's edition we inadvertently spelled the American director Spike Jonze 's name like the name of the American bandleader of the '40s and '50s who intentionally mangled pop tunes. It wasn't that funny. Ratings for Saturday night's XFL game on NBC between the Los Angeles Xtreme and the Las Vegas Outlaws plummeted for the second week in a row, falling well below the 4.5 rating that advertisers were promised. The head of the Grammy Awards organization has expressed doubt that the controversial pairing of gay-baiting rapper Eminem and acknowledged gay singer Elton John will draw new viewers to Wednesday night's telecast.
Some people are very curious.
As a result of a lot of the debate and hoopla over the addition of Elton John , the same kind of people who tune in to watch miscreants eat rats on desert islands may tune in to see what this guy's all about. But in the last eight years we haven't seen any act create any kind of spike in terms of viewership. The Grammys are the Grammys, and the show is bigger than any of the acts. On TV Fox indicated Friday that instead of holding another expensive affiliates meeting in the spring, it will instead set up a video conference with its stations in June. Fox's announcement comes a week after NBC announced that it, too, had canceled its affiliate meeting this spring.