SAG Awards 4

[cleolinda]

I can't decide whether I like my green avatar dress or my brown avatar dress better. Thoughts?

Blair Underwood is back with clips representing pension plans and racial equality. ~ The More You Know! ~

The President of the Screen Actors Snack Break Guild! He gives up props to the WGA. UNION! UNION! And this is why they were allowed to do their show. SUCK IT, GLOBES.

Denis Leary is here to "honor my colleague Charles Durning." They have special awards at the SAGs? I guess so--they gotta fill two hours, I guess. (I say this like I've never watched the show before. I'm maudlin and I'm senile.) Welcome to the only awards show in the history of ever that has to think of things to pad out their running time. I love it. "He plays my father on a show I do called Rescue Me... And believe me, there is nothing more humiliating than an 80-year-old actor who knows his lines and your lines when you don't." Hey, is that Trailer Guy doing the montage voiceover? Charles Durning once showed up too drunk to go onstage. (ETA: Someone else was too drunk, and that's how he got his break. TYPING IS HARD.) The visuals lead me to believe "onstage" was "vaudeville." This is the downside of typing: not being able to look over my shoulder at the TV frequently enough. Did they say he was a dancer? Am I smoking crack or did I hear that. Also, Durning was the lone survivor of his unit during WWII and won the Silver Star and the Purple Heart, the latter three times. While trying to get theater parts, he taught at Fred Astaire Studios (I'm not smoking crack!). While auditioning for Hamlet, he was told he "didn't have it." Something had a sold-out season and then he was in The Sting and then Dog Day Afternoon and Tootsie and... The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. My mom used to love that movie. Why am I recapping this blow-for-blow? Charles Durning is awesome, the end. "Charles Durning played some villains and some heroes." Thank you, Captain Obvious Trailer Guy.

Please welcome! Burt Reynolds! Wait, are we not done here yet? "Since Audie Murphy passed away, Charles Durning is the most decorated actor who was ever, ever in World War II." Also, the first time he met Durning, he wanted to take a bite ("Hrfffmph!") "right out of his cheek." I'm... not sure I needed to know that. Standing ovation! Durning looks both ruddy and very, very fragile. Out in the audience, Kevin Bacon has massive bedhead, I can't even tell you. Durning fumbles. "I know you're new to the business," says Reynolds, "but this is the mike." "Hello, Mike," says Durning. Hee! It's a very sweet, touching, funny speech and I was too busy listening to transcribe.

(Note: Jenna Fischer's dress was actually blue [thanks, incogra!] in daylight. I really like it now. Also, I told you I always get the colors wrong under stage lights.)

Next up, "a special In Memoriam tribute." Oh, dammit, where's my Kleenex?

Comments

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Green dress.

[lamorathefallen.livejournal.com]

Green is better.

[xblackrose666x.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure the memoriam is gonna make me sniffle.

[elbiesee.livejournal.com]

I like the style of the brown one better. Maybe if your brown dress was green...?

And I need a good cry tonight. Bring on the memoriam.

[rorqual.livejournal.com]

I like the brown; it has a little texture and I'm a fan of gloves. Both are nice, though. And yes, I do think it is Trailer Guy...I wanted to know what would happen, "IN A WORLD....WITH CHARLES DURNING...", but that was not to be.

Also, when I saw Burt Reynolds, I thought "Man, he looks really old!" Then when I looked him up (he's 71), I was like, "Wow, he looks fabulous!" It's all a matter of perspective.

[elbiesee.livejournal.com]

Burt Reynolds is 71?!? Holy cats, now I feel old. He was one of my first crushes. (Hush, I was about five years old...)

[rorqual.livejournal.com]

Oh, I hear you sister...I feel old too, and somewhat dirty, for thinking he's still sort of hot...for a very, very old guy. Very old. (but somewhat hot!)

[elbiesee.livejournal.com]

Him and Sean Connery are on my list of Hot Old Men. I relish the dirty feeling.

[ter369.livejournal.com]

I was like, "Wow, he looks fabulous!" It's all a matter of perspective.

This is like the references to Sam Elliott as grandpa-like during The Golden Compass release. Sam's still got it, and he was considered hot when I was in college.

::is older than most of LJ::

It is perspective. And I'm going to The Dark Knight because Michael Caine's still got it.

[rorqual.livejournal.com]

Exactly...I am also older than most of LJ, and I totally agree with you on Sam Elliott...I had such a crush on him when I was like, 13, and he was....40? Man, I was a sucker for older men even then.....:)

(also Tommy Lee Jones, since we're on the subject...Hi, Tommy Lee!)

[ter369.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, mmmm, hiya Tommy Lee.

Sometimes it's just the look in their eye, and I wonder what they know .....

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Well, I said "grandpa" in the 15M thing because that's the function his character plays in the story, but... yeah. I'm a little in love with him now.

[ter369.livejournal.com]

Yours wasn't the first grandpa analogy I read for Sam in that context.


.....because that's the function his character plays in the story

From only seeing the film, he seemed more like Possessor of Mighty Convenient Transportation (first it's not available, which is why he's sitting around available to chat with our heroine, then he's toting the in-pieces-airship as they flee and assembling it and .... mighty convenient).

[quenbolyn.livejournal.com]

Brown dress, but that might just be because I'm completely in love with the style of it.

[firei.livejournal.com]

I like the brown better. And OMG my roommate watched ZOEY 101 INSTEAD OF THE SAG AWARDS! While I'm sitting there, saying, hey, um, I want to watch the sag awards, because, well, no golden globes. the dresses! the bad speeches! the looooove.

and she was all, it's jaimie lynn, bitch.

:(

[pygmymetal.livejournal.com]

I like the black one further down.

[ambiguousreason.livejournal.com]

green dress.

[meredithsg.livejournal.com]

is it wrong that I turned it on during the memory part came on and I thought "hey, it's my favorite part"

[maggiesox.livejournal.com]

Durning wasn't too drunk, he got his break when someone else showed up too drunk.

...Er.

[ter369.livejournal.com]

I can't decide whether I like my green avatar dress or my brown avatar dress better. Thoughts?

The brown! More for the design than the particular color. You look mahvelus in both.


Jenna Fischer's dress was actually blue.....

Um, wow, has she ever trained to stand like that and hold her smile just so. ::has no idea who this woman is::

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

She's on The Office--I get the feeling that she's a very down-to-earth person who has tried to learn to be a celebrity as quickly and decently as she could.

[sucrelefey.livejournal.com]

The red one makes you eyebrow raising vixen and the brown is quiet elegance and the green is a little playful and the white is belle of the ball.
Love the hair darling.

[elisa0984.livejournal.com]

Jenna Fischer's dress seems a little too late 90s prom for my taste. No offense Cleo.

Definitely the green dress.

[wirrrn.livejournal.com]

The brown- sets off your hair and has keen gloves

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

Green dress!