Black ties and gowns filled a ballroom Saturday in a big-bucks salute to Detroit-style royalty — the King of Motown, the Queen of Soul and the Kid of Rock.
For starters, NBC's weekend staple can raise its game by not using hot young hosts who are there mainly to plug failed movies, booking hipper musical guests and easing back on Kristin Wiig overload.
Pope Benedict met artists from around the world in the Sistine Chapel and urged them to inject spirituality into their work, saying contemporary beauty was often "illusory and deceitful."