September 17, 2007
59th Emmy Award: Mob Scene Wrap-up
Last night the 59th Annual Emmy Awards took place on the left coast, but New Yorkers made out very well. New York productions/creative types that took home the gold: Late Night with Conan O'Brien (writing), The Daily Show (variety-comedy show series), 30 Rock (best comedy), and Dick Wolf (for producing Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee). In the would-have-been arena, America Ferrera won best actress in a comedy, Ugly Betty, which was originally supposed to shoot in the Big Apple but shoots in L.A. because it's cheaper. We'll also count Rob Marshall, who won for directing the Best Variety-Musical Special, Tony Bennett: An American Classic, since he has Broadway roots.
And of course, The Sopranos (who since its first season in 1999 has racked up 111 nominations and 21 Emmys) won for writing (for the season finale), directing and best TV drama. There were a number of references to the show during the evening, from the monologue to the long, drawn-out "Jersey Boys" medley with Sopranos clips, which made the mob drama's win at the end of the night feel anti-climactic. Creator David Chase ended his Best Drama speech with, “In essence, this is a story about a gangster, and gangsters are out there taking their kids to college and taking their kids to school and outing food on the table, and, hell, let’s face it, if this world and this nation were run by gangsters — maybe it is.” Uh, maybe, maybe not.
In the best acceptance speech of the night, Sally Field (after winning for best actress in a drama) was amidst an anti-war statement when the cameras turned off...a la The Sopranos finale! Actually, that was at least the third time that there was a cutaway to a bizarre overhead shot during the show, which touted its special "theater-in-the-round" set-up that left some stars grousing. Host Ryan Seacrest's minimal monologue and audience interactions were painful - we really wanted Simon Cowell to appear and take control of the show.
The other highlights: Lewis Black's rant against TV executives; Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and Steve Carell had a Daily Show reunion when Stewart and Colbert decided to give the Emmy for Best Actor in a Comedy Series to Steve Carrell when actual winner Ricky Gervais was not present; numerous references to Charlie Sheen's bad boy persona; Rainn Wilson asking Kanye West to stand closer; the cast of Roots appearing; and Tina Fey's Best Comedy acceptance speech.
The other lowlights: The Emmys producers stacking the most famous deaths towards the end of the Reaper Reel; Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's bit before making Steve Carell coming onstage; making Masi Oka use a laptop to chat with MySpace's Tom Anderson, who presented the interactive Emmy; and lots of other moments.
Here's a list of all the winners.
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I love how its so easy to spot Tony Sirico (Paulie Walnuts) in that first shot. It's like "Where's Walnuts?"
so true, you can tell who the Italians are,
they're the Black guys.
Is Tina Fey a pig or what.
I disagree with your assessment of Sally Field's speech as the best speech of the night. In addition to the fact that she couldn't collect herself to properly deliver the speech, I feel that her chosen venue was improper. I disagree with the war, too, but I don't need to hear about it from some actress. Further, I take issue with her comment that "if the mothers ruled the world, there would be no goddamned wars in the first place." Historically, plenty of queens (that were mothers) have sent people to war. I am positive that there are some mothers in the Middle East who are hopeful that their sons will have the opportunity to become "martyrs".
yep, there are the Jew mothers and the AQ mothers.
If we hasn't invaded Iraq I have to wonder if the Hollywood crowd would give a damn about the soldiers dying in Afghanistan. Presumably we would have sent roughly the same number there that we have in Iraq and one can assume the death toll would be higher than it is in Afghanistan now. Would there be an outcry? Would it still be considered the "good" war?
Yay! RIcky gervais win. Hooray!
will the repubs please go to your celeb forum,
your hollywood repubs in the closet who's afraid to out themselves for fear of losing work?
go to your bruce willis, drew carey, bo derek, and whomever you got.
God Bless You Sally Field.
YOu are all avoiding the real discussion: Who does Tina Fey have dirt on to not only win an award, but to keep that gawdawful show on tv? It is a given that she's not funny, but to be recognized as high comedy...
If you're convinced Tina Fey must be doing something to keep her show on the air look no further than her co-producer Lorne Michaels. They love him at NBC.
I happen to think the show is funny and that's probably why it is on the air. Plus what else has NBC got anyway?
On what planet does James Spader win awards over Jim Gandolfini?
There must be a huge block of Boston Legal fans in the Academy. How times did Shatner win?
30 Rock is hilarious.
thankfully, sarah silverman wasn't around to totally screw this one up.
Tina Fey is awesome, you're the pig
"On what planet does James Spader win awards over Jim Gandolfini?"
earth.
Alec Baldwin, put your real name when you post!