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September 21, 2008
the censored emmy's
The Emmy Awards are not interesting. It pisses me off that they tape delay the broadcast and force West Coast viewers to stay up until 11 to see the whole thing. I don't understand why I'm watching it, since I haven't watched the third ep of True Love. (Seriously addicted to that show.)
And then, they go and ruin the acceptance speech of the John Adam's writer by cutting to a clip for the reality series award. Buzz Sugar has Kirk Ellis' reaction backstage to being cut off.
"As soon as I got up there and opened my mouth, they were already flashing the 'wrap it up'," he said. "I find it really interesting that we can have 30 minutes of the show devoted to reality show hosts, when the people who actually create the work don't get enough time to talk." (He got a lot of applause in the press room for that line.)And so shocking that they wouldn't have the huevos to cut off Tom Hanks when he made the same damn point.As for what he was going to say? Ellis wanted to talk about how in the time of John Adams, the word was primary. "We have to listen to a lot of bloviating from pundits in this silly election season about whether words matter and rhetoric matters," he said. "Of course words matter. They always matter. We have to listen to what they have to say."
Here's a 10 minute interview with Ellis about Adams:
Posted by cj at September 21, 2008 09:55 PM