YEARS from now, nobody will remember who won the Grammy for Best Pop Album — let alone Best Polka Album — but Jennifer Lopez’s barely there, one-button wonder of a dress will live forever.
Her strategically stuck frock was the undisputed highlight of last night’s broadcast, adding zip to an otherwise tame — some would say lame — show.
While there were no catfights, kamikaze stage-crashers or embarrassing speech gaffes, there were some entertaining moments. Here are a few of them:
Before the show, Ellen DeGeneres carried a cup and asked for sperm donations from Ricky Martin and Sting. Sheryl Crow suggested Sting offer her a deposit instead — without the cup.
Hip-hop metal head Kid Rock strutted among the pre-show crowd in a full fur, sweating cats and dogs.
David Duchovny responded to co-presenter Lopez’s stupor-inducing dress with: “This is the first time in five years I am sure nobody is looking at me.”
Emcee Rosie O’Donnell gave her own catty appraisal: “It’s nice to see Jennifer in a classy little understated number like that. She wonders why people make fun of her body.”
Sean “Puffy” Combs looked none too happy sitting in the audience next to his show-stopping date Lopez, as Channel 2 used commercial breaks to air promotions for local news including Puffy’s indictment on bribery charges. After Puffy lost the award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group, he bolted the Staples auditorium. “I feel safer now,” Rosie sighed.
The space-age puppets serving as Britney Spears’ back-up dancers put her own clod-footed moves to shame in an all-around humiliating medley. Moments later, her archrival, Christina Aguilera, beat her for Best New Artist.
When Garbage’s Shirley Manson announced Best Rap Duo, it sounded like “Best Rap Jew.”

