Award Season has finally kicked off! The Emmy Awards were
this weekend and they were quite different from years before. Check it out.
Neil Patrick Harris was the host this year so expectations
were high, not only because he has quite the experience with hosting big award
shows like the Tonys, but also because he is the main character of the funny
sit-com How I Met Your Mother. However, perhaps my expectations were too
high. The grand entrance of an original musical
number, specially choreographed to the Emmys for our excitement and to keep us
wanting to watch more was none other than disappointing. Mostly because there wasn’t one. Instead it was like most previous openings
where other celebrities are in some way trying to tell him how to host a show
and what he is doing wrong, as well as him taking a few jabs at other
celebrities in the audience. The opening
of the show was quite sad, much like the rest of the show.
This year the show seemed more to me as a funeral reception
more than anything. Like Ken Levine, a
hollywood comedic writer, put it, “it was one long funeral interspersed with
production numbers.” There were individual tributes, musical tributes,
presidential tributes, and they even felt it necessary to show Lee Harvey
Oswald get shot again. I was very confused by all of this. Especially by Elton
Johns tribute to Liberace. Its been over
25 years, I didn’t get it but maybe im just missing something, I don’t know. Regardless, I did not see the relevance most
of that had to do with the actual Emmy awards.
To kick off one of the big shocks of the night. Merrit
Wever, from Nurse Jackie, won the Emmy
for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She out-won Anna
Chlumsky from Veep, Jane Krakowski
from 30 Rock, Jane Lynch from Glee, Mayim Bialik from The Big Bang Theory, Sofia Vergara in Modern Family, and two-time consecutive
Emmy winner, Julie Bowen, from Modern
Family. I definitely didn’t see that one coming. And perhaps what was even more
unexpected was her speech. A short and
humorous “ Thank you so much. I gotta go. Bye” was all she said in response to
her new piece of gold. Maybe she was
afraid of the getting cut off by the music cue in the middle of an important
acknowledgment like every other winning actor and actress of the night. Either
way it was actually pretty fun to watch since it was not at all what I was
expecting to happen.
The other major shock of the night was when Jeff Daniels, as
Will McAvoy, in the show The Newsroom,
was the winner for Outstanding Lead Actor in Drama Series. He beat out John Hamm as Don Draper in Mad Men,
Hugh Bonneville for Downton Abbey, Damian Lewis for Homeland, Kevin Spacey for House of Cards, and Bryan Cranston as the infamous Walter White of Breaking Bad. My mouth dropped to say the
least. I definitely would have lost a bet on this one. All of these actors do tremendous work,
however I firmly believe Breaking Bad
would not be the show it is without Bryan Cranston. His performances are incredible and very much
worth of the acknowledgement.
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Linda Ronstadt’s attitude about industry awards clearly demonstrates what is really important for an artist as great as her. When she was asked about her 10 Grammy Awards by a Los Angeles Times reporter she answered:
“I don’t know where they are,” she said. “The first one I left in the back seat of a rental car. I’d rented a car to go to the show, and tossed it in the back when I left. I forgot about it and left it there in the back seat.”
Music, she said, is about something else for her.
Her two children — 22-year-old Mary and 19-year-old Carlos — “they use music the way all people should use music: to help you process your feelings and to help you get on with your life.”
That’s why she pays no attention to “American Idol,” “The Voice” and other reality singing competitions.
“I’ve never seen ‘American Idol,’” she said with more than a hint of pride. “When I go to heaven, I will be able to say I never watched it. Someone described the premise to me of pitting people against each other. That has nothing to do with art. It’s so counterproductive to put everybody in some kind of category. That’s got nothing to do with anything. I just don’t like it. I think competition is really good for horse races.”
I totally agree...
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