Person of the Week
With the coming of the new year, it's time to start the 'awards season'. You know, the Golden Globes, the Oscars, Grammy's, Emmy's, Tony's, People's Choice, you name it, they have an award for it. Best music, best TV show, who do the people like, who does the kids like, who has the best music video, (which leads me to the question, do they even make music video's any more?), who has the best country video, and it goes on and on. The rich and famous love to pat themselves on the back.
Actually some of the awards shows are fun to watch. The Grammy's, which the music industry honors itself, loves to bring out the industry's best, with their 'A' material. Two years ago, Fergie and the Black Eyes Peas absolutely killed it, and last year Lady Gaga was top notch. Plus she arrived at the arena in a giant egg, which was a hoot.
The Academy Awards are also a favorite, as that is the night that the Hollywood takes it self way to seriously. It is fun watching them get all high and mighty, giving out Oscars to movies that you really never heard of, or didn't like all that much, though, I did see last year's winner, The King's Speech, and loved it.. Also, I now have an affinity for the Tony awards. While in New York last fall, I saw the 2010 winner for top musical, Memphis, and enjoyed it a great deal.
But not everyone wins and award. The great comic, Red Buttons, always used to say, "I never got a dinner. Everyone else gets one, but not me." I'm with him on that. Red and I have something in common. Our friends never came to an awards dinner in our honor. My new goal is to change that. I need to get honored at a big awards banquet. I'll think of a reason why.
Shirley Dinsdale got a dinner, are you kidding me? For years, she was a ventriloquist had a TV show in Los Angeles. Her character Judy Splinters won the first Emmy every awarded, in 1949, for Outstanding Television Personality. You can bet she got a dinner for that. Shortly thereafter, she retired from show business, and became a Cardiopulmonary therapist. She passed away in 1999.
But she got her award, and her friends got to eat cold chicken and green beans in her honor. This week, she's our Person of the Week.
See you Sunday with another Top Ten List
We will talk soon
Jeff
Actually some of the awards shows are fun to watch. The Grammy's, which the music industry honors itself, loves to bring out the industry's best, with their 'A' material. Two years ago, Fergie and the Black Eyes Peas absolutely killed it, and last year Lady Gaga was top notch. Plus she arrived at the arena in a giant egg, which was a hoot.
The Academy Awards are also a favorite, as that is the night that the Hollywood takes it self way to seriously. It is fun watching them get all high and mighty, giving out Oscars to movies that you really never heard of, or didn't like all that much, though, I did see last year's winner, The King's Speech, and loved it.. Also, I now have an affinity for the Tony awards. While in New York last fall, I saw the 2010 winner for top musical, Memphis, and enjoyed it a great deal.
But not everyone wins and award. The great comic, Red Buttons, always used to say, "I never got a dinner. Everyone else gets one, but not me." I'm with him on that. Red and I have something in common. Our friends never came to an awards dinner in our honor. My new goal is to change that. I need to get honored at a big awards banquet. I'll think of a reason why.
Shirley Dinsdale got a dinner, are you kidding me? For years, she was a ventriloquist had a TV show in Los Angeles. Her character Judy Splinters won the first Emmy every awarded, in 1949, for Outstanding Television Personality. You can bet she got a dinner for that. Shortly thereafter, she retired from show business, and became a Cardiopulmonary therapist. She passed away in 1999.
But she got her award, and her friends got to eat cold chicken and green beans in her honor. This week, she's our Person of the Week.
See you Sunday with another Top Ten List
We will talk soon
Jeff
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