Emmys, Grammys, Rose Parade To Go On

By Stephen M. Silverman

Thursday October 18, 2001 02:44 PM EDT

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It's official: The 53rd annual Emmys are on. The TV awards ceremony, delayed twice by last month's terrorist attacks, has been rescheduled for Nov. 4 at the Shubert Theatre in Los Angeles, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and CBS said Wednesday. Ellen DeGeneres will remain as host. The Emmys won't have a satellite studio in New York City, as was planned for earlier this month. "Broadway is going on, the World Series is going on, football is going on," said CBS President Leslie Moonves. "So we are going on." (Speaking of baseball, the Emmy broadcast, scheduled for 8 p.m. to 11 p.m., would conflict with a possible seventh and deciding game of the World Series. But Moonves noted that series go the duration only about 20 percent of the time.) Dress will be business attire, instead of black tie. A special unity dinner will be held at the Century Plaza Hotel. "This show will not be downbeat," insisted academy chairman Bryce Zabel. In related news, the 44th annual Grammy Awards, the top honors in the music industry, will take place in Los Angeles next year, the city's mayor, Jim Hahn, said on Wednesday, even as organizers wonder how to announce the winners of the Latin Grammys, which were canceled following the Sept. 11 attacks. The ceremony is expected to be held Feb. 27 at the Staples Center. And, finally, Pasadena's Rose Parade -- which has carried on for more than a century, through the Great Depression and two World Wars -- will go forward again on Jan. 1, 2002 with its long-planned theme of "Good Times," Tournament of Roses president Ronald Okum said. Red, white and blue will be the theme.