The funeral and the Emmys.
HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY, ROBERT!
I hope you got plenty of cake, ice cream, and presents all around! Any birthday wishes? If so please post here! I miss you on LJ ;(!
I'm SO far behind because of the funeral, and I will probably not catch up until tomorrow or Wednesday --;. The funeral was okay I guess, but there were several bad awkward moments which I'm not at liberty to discuss publicly. Now I feel even sadder for his mom though ;_;.
I watched both the Creative Arts and Primetime Emmys on Saturday and Sunday. As usual, the Creative Arts ceremony had to be drastically edited for time by editing out the nominee list announcements and all the acceptance speeches except for the ones for outstanding guest actors and actresses, which I myself felt was completely unfair. They should have gotten the editing cuts as well >;b! I was pleasantly surprised to see the made special mentions for recently departed animator Bill Melendez and voice-over legend Don LaFontaine during the presentation. As Kristy/cornrelish already mentioned on the Voicechasers forums, Gargoyles fans should be happy and proud to know that Keith David won the Emmy for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for his narration work in PBS' The War miniseries! I was wondering if that was Keith I saw in one of the audience shots I had seen earlier, and it really was him 8D! Sadly, his acceptance speech, like all the others, were cut to a bare minimum though. For some reason, I can't find him listed on the Academy's website among the winners =/. I also couldn't believe some of the categories the Academy bestows awards onto like the one for Best Commercial o~O? WHY?! Also, E! interrupted the broadcast a couple of times for news about a plane crash involving the drummer for Blink 182 and then resumed the show IN PROGRESS instead of replaying what was missed during the interruption. It was already an edited program, so why cut it even further with the 'breaking' news?
The big Primtime broadcast was quite entertaining despite the length. I loved Josh Grobin's TV theme song montage tribute. He even nailed the voices used in some of the theme songs perfectly like the one used for South Park. Probably THE best moment of the evening though was when Ricky Gervais demanded Steve Carell give him the Emmy he had 'accepted' in his place last year XD! Supposedly, according to Gervais in the segment, Carell 'kept' the Emmy instead of giving it to him because Carell has yet to earn an Emmy of his own. Carell's deadpan face looked priceless during the whole thing while Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert were giggling after seeing the replay of their 'celebration' with Carell last year for Gervais' Emmy. While it looked like an impromptu skit, it really wasn't since in the end, Carell reached under his seat to pull out the Emmy he had supposedly 'kept' from Gervais. Later, when Stewart and Colbert went up to present an Emmy, I was a bit sad Gervais, who was nominated in one of the categories they were presenting, didn't win that Emmy. I would have LOVED to have seen what would have happened if Stewart and Colbert really did have to present another award to Gervais while Gervais was actually there X}!
I was happy to see Colbert FINALLY win an Emmy for his show for Outstanding Writing for a Variety or Music Program or Series, but The Colbert Report lost to The Daily Show once again for Best Variety or Music Program or Series. Also, sadly, Colbert correctly predicted that he would lose Best Performance for a Variety or Music Series to Don Rickles. I guess the phrase, "RICKLES!" will be echoed along with, "MANILOW! BENNETT!" and "RAIN!" I can't wait to see The Colbert Report tonight or whenever they start taping it again after last night's Emmys.