Anyway, here are my observations during the telecast:<\/p>\n
I just realized that I’m only one degree from Chris Plummer<\/strong>!!! His first wife was the eccentric Broadway actress Tammy Grimes<\/strong>, with whom Mr. X starred in a play in Toronto several years ago. She became one of my favorite afternoon tea partners; it was fun to hang with someone who was even kookier than I<\/em>!!!<\/p>\n Was gorgeous Mexican actor Demian Bichir<\/strong>, who was nominated for his work in the excruciatingly painful A Better Life<\/em>, a gardener before he became an actor, like we actors from the United States are waiters first? I always think it’s funny when we wind-up playing waiters, and he wound-up playing a gardener!<\/p>\n Remember when black women could play only maids in movies, and it took decades for them to be able to play other roles? Well, Octavia Spencer<\/strong> won for doing just that! How come no one else mentions this irony???<\/p>\n My fellow actors who voted for creepy Alec Baldwin<\/strong> are idiots! He’s rude and thinks he’s more important than everyone else. (I know from experience.) The winner should have been any one of the other guys, but I really thought the union would reward Steve Carrell<\/strong> for this being the last time he could win for The Office<\/em>. And because he’s a good guy! And how was Jim Parsons<\/strong> not nominated for male in a TV comedy???<\/p>\n Betty White<\/strong> looked great! Her outfit was cool and perfect. And she’s so funny without pushing it or even planning anything.<\/p>\n I love that the Bacons presented together! Award shows never have people who even know each other present together, for some strange reason; it’s like seating strangers together at dinner parties, which drives me crazy. [Note: Kevin Bacon <\/strong>and Kyra Sedgwick<\/strong> are married, for those of you who read about only the couples who don’t<\/em> make it.]<\/p>\n I’m so glad that the deserving Modern Family<\/em> won, but they shouldn’t have let the kids do that really unfunny bit as their acceptance speech. Especially since all the grown-ups on the show are<\/em> funny, and we really wanted to hear them<\/em>.<\/p>\n I have never before noticed that the SAG Award statuette has a tiny semblance of a male unit!!! Gross. He also has no face!!! I know that’s so he can wear a mask of comedy or tragedy, but it’s just creepy. I guess I should be glad that I’ll never win one! My Marvy Award (don’t ask) is weird enough.<\/p>\n I didn’t see the other ladies’ performances in the TV movie category, but Kate Winslet<\/strong>, as Mildred Pierce<\/em>, did not deserve the win. Perhaps she agreed with me because she didn’t show up.<\/p>\n Paul Giamatti<\/strong> just does nothing for me. I never understand how he wins anything. Maybe at the beginning, when perhaps the voters felt sorry for him and figured it’s his one chance at it, because actors who look like him usually don’t get the main roles, but they just keep on coming. The roles and <\/em>the awards! That one’s a head-scratcher for me.<\/p>\n Ken Howard<\/strong>‘s rant about the merger of SAG and AFTRA was out of place on a nationally-televised basic entertainment show. Nobody who watches it gives a rat’s ass about the merger! It was a very inappropriate venue for that announcement. And it’s not even a done deal! Or even one that all the members of both unions want! Save it for a union meeting, not national television. Don’t waste the public’s time.<\/p>\n I love that Dick Van Dyke<\/strong> proudly mentioned that Mary Tyler Moore<\/strong> came to our attention on his show when she \u201cwas just twenty-three!\u201d; nowadays, a gal can’t get a job as a sitcom wife unless she’s been on series TV since she was twelve<\/em>!!<\/p>\n The tribute to MTM reminded me of this: when I started out in show biz, I thought of changing my name to Karen Tyler Moore. (Looks good, right?) Then, when people would ask me if I was related to Mary, I’d just look humble and say, \u201cI’m trying to make it on my own.\u201d That way, I wasn’t lying (which I abhor,) and hopefully, the powers-that-be would assume I was<\/em>, and try to help me! Clever. But I wanted my parents to get credit for any success I had, so I kept Salkin. Perhaps not the best move, especially since, because of my show, Karen’s Restaurant Revue<\/em>, everyone just called me \u201cKaren\u201d and never even knew my last name! Kind-of like \u201cCher,\u201d though not by my design.<\/p>\n Jessica Lange<\/strong>‘s dress was awful. It was the color of warm dog poop, the top didn’t fit over her boobs correctly, and it was so low-cut that it featured her crepe-y chest. Even though she’s aged perhaps the worst of any female in show biz today, she really can do better with her attire.<\/p>\n Steve Buscemi<\/strong>‘s uttering, \u201cTo my fellow nominees um, congratulations\u201d was the most insincere, obligatory reading of any winner ever! It was best left un-said.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/imagesi.jpg\" "\\"imagesi\\"")
<\/a>I was happy for Christopher Plummer <\/strong>to win for his supporting role in Beginners<\/em>, but I voted for Nick Nolte <\/strong>in Warrior<\/em>, the most under-rated movie perhaps ever! I don’t know anyone else who even heard of it, maybe because the topic was Mixed Martial Arts. But if you want to see acting how it’s supposed<\/em> to be done, run out and see it. Not only was Nick <\/em>brilliant, but so was the rest of the cast. [My long overdue review should be published here next week, so please check it out.] Jonah Hill<\/strong>, in Moneyball<\/em>, and Armie Hammer<\/strong>, in the dreadful, waste-of-time J. Edgar<\/em>, didn’t deserve to be in this category with the other three. (Kenneth Branagh <\/strong>as Laurence Oliver in My Week With Marilyn <\/em>was the other deserving nominee, whom I was planning to vote for until I saw Warrior<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<\/a>Shailene Woodley’<\/strong>s hair looked like she just came from the gym.<\/p>\n<\/a>Jessica Chastain<\/strong>‘s basic creamy teal dress was simple, pretty, and perfect.<\/p>\n<\/a>Zoe Saldana<\/strong> did look great, even though she always seems like she thinks she’s all that.<\/p>\n<\/a>Mary looked great, especially for what she’s been through health-wise for the past couple of years. But I have a horrible feeling that she can’t walk because this was the second show recently where they had her positioned at the podium so we didn’t have to see her walking out.<\/p>\n