Emmys Salute "Sopranos" (Telecast Takes Emotionally-Charged Political Turn w/ Sally Field)

[Hissyspit]

Source: Reuters

Emmys salute "Sopranos" with best drama win
By Steve Gorman

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The U.S. television industry paid a final Emmy tribute on Sunday to "The Sopranos" and sent America's favorite mob family off with the prestigious award for best drama in a night otherwise filled with upsets.

The telecast took an emotionally charged political turn when veteran Sally Field took the stage for her surprise Emmy win as best actress in a drama in ABC's "Brothers & Sisters," playing a mom whose son ships off to serve in the Iraq war.

"I'm proud to be one of those women, and let's face it, if mothers ruled the world, there would be no goddamned wars in the first place," Field said to applause in a comment partially bleeped from the live Fox network telecast.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070917/en_nm/emmys1_dc

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Also REVIEW:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070917/ap_en_re/tv_emmys_review

Emmys get the silent treatment
By FRAZIER MOORE, AP Television Writer

NEW YORK - The Emmys went round and round, but Fox tried hard to flatten it out.

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Not so great was Fox's clunky, overeager "live" editing. In this era of FCC pressure and network timidity, viewers were reminded at least three times that the show was on a few seconds' tape delay, with a trigger-happy censor sanitizing the dialogue by awkwardly inserting an eerily quiet wide shot of the Shrine interior.

Getting the silent treatment: a crack by presenter Ray Romano about his former co-star Patricia Heaton sleeping with new co-star Kelsey Grammer; winner Sally Field taking the Lord's name in vain; and "Grey's Anatomy" star Katherine Heigl, who mouthed a certain four-letter s-word when she heard her name announced as a winner.

Maybe the Emmys should just move over to cable.

[Lucinda]

1. They censor the news

Guess they are just branching out...
Fox needs to be Dixie Chicked

[truthisfreedom]

4. They INVENT the news.

Where no news was there before.

[Lucinda]

8. Yep. You're right! n/t

[Bozita]

2. "... if there were no" -- That's where my broadcast quit. ... I call CENSORSHIP

When the broadcast returned, Sally Field was not there.

Scary!

[Vidar]

3. Kudos to Sally Field.

[thecrow]

5. "goddamned wars"

Yes, Sally, I believe he did.
Thank you for saying so on national tv.
This in no way "took the Lord's name in vain".

[MaineDem]

6. That comment in the article was silly.

If that was actually the case they would have continued with the ..."war in the first place."

I was appalled at the censorship. But, it was Fox afterall. I hate being spoonfed what someone else thinks I should be seeing.

[gratuitous]

7. What emotional charge are the reviewers talking about?

A good two-thirds of the American people are against the war in Iraq. It's hardly "emotional" to say what 200 million people think. Unless, of course, you're a mouth-breathing Fox fan who still thinks that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, and was planning a follow-up to his 9/11 attack.

I'm not familiar with the work of Steve Gorman or Frazier Moore, but maybe they're so plugged in to their television sets that they don't realize what direction the country would like to move in.

[Seabiscuit]

9. AL GORE WINS AN EMMY

Source: Boston Globe

Al Gore received a standing ovation as his Current TV channel, which features viewer-created videos, was honored for achievement in interactive television.
"We are trying to open up the television medium so that viewers can help to make television, and join the conversation of democracy, and reclaim American democracy by talking about the choices we have to make," said Gore, whose global-warming documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" received an Oscar earlier this year.

Read more: http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2007/09/16/sopranos_targets_its_last_emmys/?page=2

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On to the Nobel Peace Prize awards.

[heliarc]

10. Watch Current... And submit content

www.current.tv sponsors a growing number of short form documentaries which have a lot to say about our world and the communities that keep civilization strong. It is the sponsor of the Vanguard family of pods which perform excellent investigative journalism into difficult parts of the world like Pakistan, the Gaza Strip and Mainland China... Cartoons like Supernews treat pop culture, news, and world events with a satiric wit that calls youth to question their surroundings.

But most importantly, these "franchises" of current's were grabbed up by Al Gore and Joel Hyatt when they were independent artists looking for a conduit and audience when there wasn't a place for them on mainstream television. Now viewers can produce their own video content about politics, sociology, science, and community and see it aired for millions to see. Check it out at http://www.current.tv , soon to be http://www.current.com

[Seabiscuit]

11. Thanks for that informative post and links.

[lonestarnot]

33. Cooooool! Thanks for the links.

[Pastiche423]

12. Yep!

An Oscar, an Emmy and on October 12, hopefully and deservedly the Nobel Peace Prize.

[Vidar]

13. Kudos to Al Gore.

[xchrom]

14. ...

:applause:

[JTFrog]

15. Excellent! K&R! n/t

[ClintonTyree]

16. That's our Al.....

getting more positive things done for the world while NOT being President than our current dictator is while actually BEING pResident.

:applause: :party: :woohoo: :applause: :party: :woohoo:

YOU GO, AL!

[0007]

17. Hooray hooray for a real hero!

[Vinca]

18. Al - please, please, please, please, please.

:patriot:

[mod mom]

19. The real trophy will be the WH-where he will be able to accomplish the hard

tasks that face the nation!

[Ian David]

20. Oh yeah? George W. Bush once won a 4-H ribbon for brush clearing. n/t

[Seabiscuit]

30. LOL! The Shrub couldn't get on Craigslist -- unless it was Senator Craig's list.

[Bake]

21. The Big Man is a juggernaut!

I can think of at least ONE other race he should enter ...

PLEASE PLEASE OH PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZE!

Bake

[Seabiscuit]

22. What a week for Al Gore. An Emmy this Sunday, and just last Wednesday:

Al Gore was awarded Spain's prestigious Principe de Asturias prize on Wednesday for his role in raising awareness of climate change. The award for International Cooperation comes alongside a nomination for a Nobel prize for his environmental work and the success of his global warming documentary "An Inconvenient Truth", which won two Oscars.

http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/42463/story.htm

[Seabiscuit]

23. Imagine that:

In 2007:

Gore gets a standing ovation at the Academy Awards for starring in a movie which wins two Oscars.

Gore writes a book which makes the New York Times best seller list.

Gore sponsors a record-setting global rock concert to raise awareness of global warming.

Gore wins Spain's most prestigious Principe de Asturias prize for his role in raising awareness of climate change.

Gore gets a standing ovation at the Emmy Awards for winning an Emmy for his cable channel, "Current".

Gore wins the Nobel Peace Prize.

After Gore declares his candidacy for President on All Saints Day, the rest of the field of hopefuls collapses at the feet of this colossus as their campaign donations disappear.

Then, in 2008:

Gore doesn't win the general election in a landslide, he wins it in a tidal wave that washes across all 50 states.

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Impossible you say? Consider the score: it's 5 down, 3 to go, and the last three simply haven't had time to happen yet.

[zonkers]

24. Video of acceptance speech here.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lvG0RaWcyo&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fthinkprogress%2Eorg%2F2007%2F09%2F16%2Fal%2Dgore%2Dwins%2Demmy%2Dfor%2Dcurrent%2Dtv%2F

[lonestarnot]

25. What's an emmy?

[heliarc]

29. If you watch some of Current's investigative pieces...

or appreciated how anyone worldwide can create their own documentaries and have them aired on current, maybe you'd care what an emmy is, and be glad that he was awarded rather than VH1 or microsoft in this category.

And in case you really don't know what an emmy is, its the highest award in American Television. Television is that thing that influences millions of people every day to purchase things, pay attention to one thing or another, or not pay attention at all, so I think the Emmy is kind of important.

[tomreedtoon]

26. But Sally Field showed the real political courage.

Gore won't run. But Field was willing to be bitch-slapped by Fox's censor for speaking truth to power.

This is why Gore lost in 2000, and why the chosen "polite" Democratic candidate will lose in 2008. We should have nominated Field, or the guys at MoveOn.org, who aren't afraid like nearly all Democrats.

[Seabiscuit]

27. Sally Field was great, and children wear Superman pajamas. But Superman wears Al Gore pajamas.

[mvd]

28. A big congrats!

:bounce:

[allisonthegreat]

31. Al Gore Bravo!

I could swear he was going to announce his candidacy last night...I was disappointed.

[Pawel K]

32. Wow, I just saw current tv as a new digital channel on my TV, didn't know what it was

I know now, pretty damn cool. For anyone in the new mexico area to get this channel you will need a tv with a digital turner. If you have comcast cable simply hook up the tv directly to the cable outlet. Its around channel 81.

[rainbow4321]

34. Soprano's had no business winning

The last season was lame compared to previous seasons. Every week my co-workers and I would be saying "ummm, maybe they will pick up the pace next week?". By the middle of the shortened season it started to look like someone with the show was thinking "fuck it, what are they going to do, CANCEL us?".......the last episode was the final slap in the audience's collective faces.

The Emmy's "tribute" to the show sucked, also...who the hell could see the show's clips up on the screen when the cameras were focusing on the singers on the stage?? Except for 2 nanoseconds of showing the screen close up, you couldn't even tell WHAT show the clips were from.

[cascadiance]

35. I don't know about an Emmy, but the Sopranos' David chase did deserve an award for...

... the following quote! At least he got this by the censors. Might be cool to find a Youtube of it!

"In essence, this is a story about a gangster. And gangsters are out there taking their kids to college, and taking their kids to school, and putting food on their table. And, hell, let's face it, if the world and this nation was run by gangsters - maybe it is." - David Chase, creator of "The Sopranos," accepting the Emmy for drama series.

[JeanGrey]

36. Hello

Long time lurker, new poster. I thought they beeped Sally for the use of the GD word, and not the anti-war message, at least that is what I am reading? And what a wonderful message it was, bad word or not!