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NorthernLite
09/21/09

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Belated pronouncements:
Tina Fey presenting = good.
Tina not getting to announce a tie-win for Amy & Jane = bad.
Me booing but later hearing about Chennie’s cancer-survivor mom = guilty.

But I still wish Palin Rapper or Janet Jimplin had gotten it.

At least I perked up again when I got to yell WTFJonCryer?IsntThisaComedyAward?

Also: Weiner and McFarlane seem like d-bags. Gervais,Timberlake, Fallon - not as funny as they think they are.

[OK, maybe I’m a little burned out 'cos I’m a geek fanwoman who actually watched most of the red carpet and show.]
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whoneedslight
09/21/09

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Did anyone else think Patricia Arquette was kind of a jackass to Jennifer Love Hewitt?
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DahlELama
09/21/09

@whoneedslight: Actually, yes. I thought JLH was being cute and Patricia Arquette came off as a humorless icicle. Wonder why that was.
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Thomas Stampfli
09/21/09

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Richard -- enough with bashing anything that is television. Why is everything you write about have to entail the tags "old media" and something negative about the television industry.

Tongue-in-cheek is one thing, but you're making yourself irrelevant.
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Richard Rushfield
09/21/09

@Thomas Stampfli: Not quite sure how not liking awards shows equals not liking television or irrelevance..
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snugbug
09/21/09

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You guys better not be so stoked about old media kicking the bucket. Ninety-five percent of all Gawker posts are commentariat on shit said dying old media reports on. Just sayin'.
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Richard Rushfield
09/21/09

@snugbug: I think u better check that count again.
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snugbug
09/21/09

@Richard Rushfield: OK, I might have exaggerated to make a point, but c'mon. You know it's true.

BTW, who was your line editor at the LAT? Betsy? Rich N.? Awesome Bret? Former LAT-er here, and I swore to Gods in heaven--if they get rid of Bret I will never, ever pick up that paper again. Or visit their website.
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Richard Rushfield
09/21/09

@snugbug: Within entertainment, my sector...i think you'll find the numbers of times we link to the major papers because of some news they've broken is somewhere in the neighborhood of maybe once a month each.. The news is being broken in all sorts of ways by all sorts of other places, but in entertainment, they really arent in the game. If they went away we'd be out someone to recap yesterday's nikki finke stories, to do warmed-over profiles of low budged film directors giving warmed over quotes that go unchallenged, more profiles of cate blanchet and endless chronicling about the marketing of independent film. Really in this space, the world would get by just fine without all the above.
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NigelAstydameia
09/21/09

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Compared to any awards show on MTV it was "Citizen Kane."
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Vanilla_Ninja
09/21/09

@NigelAstydameia: I think you mean Citizen Kanye
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Matt Cherette
09/21/09

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Also, Sarah Silverman with the mustache was probably my favorite part of the entire three hours.
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TedSez
09/21/09

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Yes, NPH was good, but the presenters' patter was terrible. Also, the whole thing seemed strangely produced -- they didn't even bother introducing Sarah McLachlan before the memorial segment. (And how much must she need publicity to have trotted out that old song once again?)
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flythedelorean
09/21/09

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I think it's safe to say NPH is officially a demigod.
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bytememehard
09/21/09

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That violent Family Guy cartoon bit was very off-putting.
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Matt Cherette
09/21/09

@bytememehard: That bit really disturbed me. It was just one of those *headdesk* moments where you wonder what the hell they were thinking when they planned/wrote/drew/animated/edited/approved/etc. it.
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ethylic
09/21/09

@mattchew03: That bit was written three years ago.
And there was more:
[www.hulu.com]
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mostlymartian
09/21/09

@mattchew03: They didn't plan it for the ceremony, the emmy people just asked them if they could use it. The Family Guy folks put out a few of those clips online the Stewie attacks on Brian when he said he'd vote for another show. Fans understood the clips referenced a classic Family Guy scene from an episode where Stewie turns into a loan shark. The emmys would have been better off not using it, though, since who aren't fans wouldn't get the reference and could be put off by the violence.

I guess they wanted a way to bring some Family Guy into the show since there had been excitement and press around the nomination and it was clear the show would never win.
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Matt Cherette
09/21/09

@mostlymartian: Thanks for the explanation! Yeah, I'd tend to think they could've come up with a clip that didn't need as much contextual understanding to appreciate it.
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Matt Cherette
09/21/09

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I'm not sure what's worse: the fact that -- until last night -- I had no idea who "Dr. Horrible" was, or the fact that my Twitter feed was literally filled up with "OMG DR. HORRIBLE!!!!!!!" tweets within 30 seconds of his cameo appearance.
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DahlELama
09/21/09

@mattchew03: Er, I still have no idea. Please to explain?
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flythedelorean
09/21/09

@mattchew03: How can you call yourself a pop culture buff and NOT have know who Dr. Horrible was? Where were you during the strike? Enjoying the nice weather outside? FOR SHAME.
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Matt Cherette
09/21/09

@DahlELama: I think this is one of the times when Wikipedia is our friend:

[en.wikipedia.org]

I'm still sort of confused, alas.
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Matt Cherette
09/21/09

@flythedelorean: Gurl, oh no you di'int.
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DahlELama
09/21/09

@mattchew03: So that explains the presence of Nathan Fillion, who I think I'm starting to fall in love with. Thanks!

and @flythedelorean: Some of us were using that time to watch shows we hadn't previously had time for on DVD, so, ya know--still keepin' it real.
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RhymePhile
09/21/09

@mattchew03:
First, take geek writer Joss Whedon, fan-loved by the masses. Add some of his family, who also know how to write and choreograph and play music.

Then add an amazing singing talent of Neil Patrick Harris, playing a guy called Dr. Horrible who wants to get into the Evil League of Evil. He must do something truly terrible to get into the League. Doc has a blog in which he reports (in song) his various triumphs and failures, along with the fact that he pines for Penny (see below)

Throw in Firefly's Nathan Fillion as the stereotypical handsome hero, as well as Felicia Day as a homeless outreach worker who both men love.

Then broadcast it free online for three consecutive weeks; overload the site's bandwidth; get it talked about and spread all over; and win an Emmy.
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kimsama
09/21/09

@mattchew03: Just watch it here. It's only about 45 mins long, and it's more fun than reading about it on wiki.
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that charlie sedarka
09/21/09

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You missed this one: "After this evening's turn as the show's host, we're pretty sure Harris should master the ceremonies of every Hollywood event ever." [gawker.com]
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