Tattle: Grammy gig's big for LL cool J

January 19, 2012|By Howard Gensler

HE'S BETTER KNOWN now as a star of "NCIS: Los Angeles" than as a rapper, but LL Cool J's affiliation with music and CBS pays off big time Feb. 12.

He's going to host the Grammy Awards.

"I'm thrilled to be a part of music's biggest night," the two-time Grammy winner said.

"I will always have fond memories of my first Grammy Awards and to now be hosting the Grammy show, in the company of so many other incredible artists, is a dream come true."

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Really? With all the things you can dream about as a music, TV and film celebrity, you dream about hosting an awards show? That would be way down Tattle's list.

Tattle book watch

Eight years after dying of prostate cancer, Johnny Ramone's Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone is set for release April 2 by Abrams Image. His widow, Linda, described the book as "kind of his last word that he knew would be out.

"It is a really powerful book because his whole life has gone before him and he knows it's going to come to an end, and he really needs to tell everybody what he's feeling inside, so that's what makes it so amazing," she added. "That is the biggest, most powerful thing, writing a book when you know you're dying."

* Howard Stern's longtime sidekick Robin Quivers is working on a memoir about her struggles with weight and health and her decision to eat vegan.

Avery announced yesterday that the The Vegucation of Robin will be out at the end of the year.

* Songwriter Burt Bacharach has a deal for a memoir due this fall. HarperCollins announced yesterday that his book will be called Anyone Who Had a Heart, named after one of many songs Bacharach and Hal David wrote for Dionne Warwick.

TATTBITS

* Emily Maynard has been

chosen the new "Bachelorette."

Note: She's not going to find true love.

* Smooth-singing Bruno Mars

(a/k/a Peter Gene Hernandez) was cleared yesterday of a felony cocaine- possession case in Las Vegas, after his attorneys told a judge that Mars had met the conditions of his plea deal.

Mars pleaded guilty Feb. 16 to possessing 2.6 grams of cocaine, but the judge postponed accepting the plea. Instead, he fined Mars $2,000 and ordered him to perform 200 hours of community service and get eight hours of drug counseling. * New

mom Jessica Alba

has

launched Honest.

com

(named after her 3-year-old

daughter, Honor) to sell eco-friendly and toxic-free baby products and household items for a monthly sub-

scription.

(Shouldn't pur-

chases be on the Honor system?)

"I came up with the idea,"