Who doesn't love Sally Fields (aka Tom Hank's mom as my mom calls her)? Well she just won an Emmy - yay! that's the good part. She looked fabulous all night in a magenta strapless gown and perfect skin even at 61!?!
This year, Fox aired the Emmy's for the first time, hired insipid Ryan Seacrest as host, used a stupid round stage making it all the polish of a bad reality show.
Sally Fields starts giving an emotional acceptance speech for her Best Actress Emmy and totally gets bleeped out (at least the 3rd instance that night)
See from 1:55-2:10:
http://www.youtube.com/v/m0Ftq9N4fzo
Here's what Fields was trying to say:
"Surely this belongs to all the mothers of the world. May they be seen, may their work be valued and raised. Especially to the mothers who stand with an open heart and wait..wait for their children to come home from danger, from harm’s way, and from war. I am proud to be one of those women..let's face it, if mothers ruled the world" [silence, cameras dramatically pan away]...if they only let her finish, she was trying to say: "there'd be no goddamned wars in the first place."
Is that so earth shattering? Isn't the complete screw up of the "war" common knowledge by now...hence troop withdrawals finally? eugh
Note to Facebook: Please don't go the way of Myspace and get bought out by Rupert Murdoch* ...EVER!
*Did you know Murdoch married some golddigging Chinese woman half his age who convinced some nice unassuming English teacher to sponsor her back in the 80s, only to run off with the nice teacher's husband whom she divorced promptly after the 2 year wait for her visa. Now onto her second geriatric marriage, she's part of a huge media conglomerate and quite buddy buddy with the Chinese govy which Fox is desperate to mollify - shameful really. Right you probably didn't know all that - Murdoch has very successfully surpressed profiles of his wife from being published.
Ironically I'm citing a China-based blog for info censored elsewhere: http://www.danwei.org/media_business/murdochs_wife_censored_profile.php
Right so this post was about Sally Field. I'm pissed!
Thankfully I'm not the only one: http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/16/fox-censors-sally-fields-anti-war-speech-at-emmys/
