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Last year in order to watch the Emmy Awards, I came up with the DVR Shortcut viewing technique. What you do is you set your DVR to start recording the show and then half an hour before the scheduled end of the show, in this case 9:30 PM, you start watching the show on the DVR. Your goal is to watch the whole show in thirty minutes or less. It's a television viewing technique whose time has come and it's perfect for award shows. Trust me, it will save you many hours of bad TV viewing time.
All those bad jokes? Zip, zip...whiz right by. All those ridiculous show fillers? Click, click...on to the next award. That's what I did with the SAG Awards last night and I can't tell you what a satisfying experience it was. Well, actually, yes I can.
First some quick hits from E's red carpet coverage:
It seems we will be spared Ryan Seacrest on the red carpet because he's home with a virus. The man must be nearly comatose for him to miss what may be the only big red carpet event of the award season because of the writers strike. On to the fashions:
*Cate Blanchett is all pregnant and pretty in a black and grey number.
*Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt just arrived. Is she pregnant? I can't remember. I hope so, otherwise there's no reason for her to be wearing that strapless, brown, tie-dye tent.
*Kate Beckinsale is wearing a strapless, creamy dark yellow confection. It has layers of ruffles around the bust and down the skirt and even though I don't know what she's doing at the show, the dress is great.
Here come the "Desperate Housewives." Marcia Cross is wearing a spaghetti strap halter dress that's kind of a turquoise color with a flower stuck between her boobs. She blames the dress on her stylist, saying she "literally wears what her stylist puts in front of her." I'm not feeling the dress, but with that flaming red hair she somehow always looks great.
America Ferrera is in a wonderful gray chiffon form fitting gown that flares out at the bottom. Her "Ugly Betty" co-star Rebecca Romijn is in a strapless cocktail length dress that's black and gray with fringe on the bottom. It's very chic, and strapless seems to be the thing this year. Eva Longoria Parker is in a bejeweled white dress with a down to there back.
Michelle Pfieffer is pulling off a cute little cocktail length, bronze colored dress with matching shoes. Who says fifty can't look good?
Now, on to the show:
The opening gives us a glimpse of red carpet hoopla and then they whisk us to actors in the audience to give
their "how I go started" spiel. All the stars are seated at dinner tables and I can't help but wondering what they had to eat.
Sally Field starts. She began acting at twelve, she was very shy...blah, blah, flung herself off a cliff..."I'm Sally Field and I'm an actor."
Doug Savant says he was a pain in his parents' fannies, and that gave him great joy. Heh. "I'm Doug Savant...Mom, Dad, I'm an actor."
I can't pay attention to what Ellen Burstyn's saying because she's wearing an orange and gold number from the Arabian Nights. She's Ellen Burstyn and she's an actor.
Sandra Oh says her sister told her to play the "Wizard of Woe" when she was ten and she's never forgiven her. She's Sandra Oh and she's wearing a strapless dress with a huge red bow across her bust. I mean, really huge and really red. And by the way, she's an actor.
Rebecca Romijn used to walk on runways in her underpants as a child, was dipped in blue paint for four movies and now she plays a transgender. She's a model turned actor.
Jane Krakowski can be anybody she wants, so she's "Johnny Depp and I'm an actor." Good one Jane.
Kyle Mclachlan was in that God awful "Dune" movie and "Twin Peaks,"---would you like some cherry pie?---and he too, is an actor.
Heh. Those were good. Maybe the writers were so happy to get back to work on something, they gave it their all.
First presenters, Steve Carell and Tina Fey. Don't like 'em. Time to move on.
Click...click.
Best Male Actor in a Drama series. I pause two minutes to check Hugh Laurie's clip and James Gandolfini wins for "Sopranos." His speech is short and sweet. He's honored, been ten years, see ya.
John Travolta is presenting with Nikki Blonski from "Hairspray" That blue
