really.
However, I found that someone else had written it.
<b><a
href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/22/DD1L132BP5
.DTL">I direct your attention to the piece by Tim Goodman of the
SanFrancisco Chronicle on SFGate.com</a></b>, as he got it absolutely right
(save for the fact that there were a couple of things I had not seen as yet
- but give me time).
<lj-cut text="A few excerpts (may contain slight spoilers):">A few excerpts
<i>"Hey, if you can't fix it after all these years, somebody ought to start
a recall. The opening flopped, the middle sagged and the end was rushed. Not
even Oprah could save it (nor could anyone explain why she was even there).
The [US] nation was treated to five reality show hosts hammering home the
same old reality we get every year - that apparently nobody in television
can make a decent awards show about brilliant TV series, actors, writers and
directors."
"Conan O'Brien said he was going to do more material but Katherine Heigl
didn't think his stuff was Emmy worthy (the 'Grey's Anatomy' star didn't put
herself in contention because she thought what the writers of the show gave
her to work with was weak - forgetting, of course, that the entire show is
weak.) See, that's why you have comedians on the Emmys - they can think on
their feet, improvise and go off course in a way that takes the phoniness
and paralyzing boredom out of the proceedings. Producers take note for next
year."
""Let's read these funny lines they wrote for us." - Don Rickles mocking how
bad the show was. Then he cut up "The Amazing Race" after it won best
reality competition series. Then he won his own Emmy, of course, and proved
once again that the Emmys need to loosen the hell up and have some
spontaneous fun."
"Do you think the fact that HBO's political movie 'Recount' won a couple of
awards and there was a joke at Fox News' expense and Jon Stewart was there
and Martin Sheen had a few things to say and the guy from 'John Adams'
dissed President Bush (and got played off) might, you know, lead people to
think these Emmys had a political slant?"</i>
To top it off - the only one of the five hosts to be gracious enough to look
embarressed to be there, was Mr Probst (from Survivor), and for that alone
he deserves his statuette.</lj-cut>
I will admit that after last night, I want to see "Tin Man", "John Adams",
and "Recount". I shall buy them... Oh yes, I shall.
That being said, I still quite enjoyed the night, the champagne, the
company, and am hoping that the next Awards Show will be a step upwards...
Please?
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