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Beastly Honors: Top guns in the music industry will march off to the coveted Grammy Awards tonight in New York, but in Santa Monica Tuesday the nation’s rock critics presented awards to the year’s musical underachievers. Vanilla Ice and Madonna were the main “winners” in what was called the First Annual Rhino Awards. Vanilla Ice bagged the most Rhinos--three--for worst artist, least creative artist and most inane new hit artist. Madonna’s single “Justify My Love” won the Imelda Marcos Award for video that wasted the most money, and the Carl “Kung Fu Fighting” Douglas Award for most inferior single. Rhino Records says the idea is to let leading pop critics pick the year’s most overhyped, undercreative records.