I’d Like to Thank…

My friend Tom Henkenius took this pic of me while I was on stage Saturday night. Thank you Tom!

The Change

It’s only been about three days since I won my Emmy and I already have noticed a change in my life.

Soon the daily congratulations will eventually fade away, the tours my parents are taking her on will end and the station press releases and promos will stop playing.

But I will remain changed.

How?

Mentally. I now feel like I really am someone in this world. Like I’m finally important. And with that, I want to take more control of my life by cleaning and throwing away/donating unwanted items from my apartment.

I just feel like I want to start over… and change.  

AFTRA Talks With Producers Continue

From the Associated Press:

LOS ANGELES (AP) — It’s been awfully quiet on the negotiation front between producers and one of the actors unions.

Talks began a week ago between the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists or AFTRA, and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.

Variety predicts they could reach an agreement as early as the end of this week.

The other union, the Screen Actors Guild or SAG, had been negotiating for a few weeks but never reached an agreement before stepping aside to let AFTRA start its talks.

There’s fear SAG could strike if that union doesn’t reach an agreement with producers by June 30th.

 

It’s Official: Fallon Named New Host

Monday May 12, 2008

MSNBC Covers Fallon News

MSNBC carried this afternoon’s non-so breaking news conference at which Jimmy Fallon was named the new host of Late Night. Shockingly, FNC & CNN, did not. Next year, date TBD, Fallon takes over for Conan O’Brien who is taking over for Jay Leno, whose future with the network is being worked out.

Steve K. talked with Fallon’s SNL pal Seth Meyers for this week’s “So What Do You Do?” interview (we’ll remind you about it Wednesday.) The current Weekend Update co-anchor tells TVNewser, “I think Jimmy’s going to be fantastic. I think it’s a great choice. Obviously people know how funny he was on the show, but he was one of the funniest guys in the hallway at SNL.”

Meyers also talked about his “fellow anchor” Anderson Cooper. That’s after the jump…

“Now I consider myself competition with Anderson Cooper. He’s a fellow anchor. I know he might think I’m some fake news guy but I do consider us now competing for market share.”

Meyers, who also plays Cooper on SNL, says being head writer of the show and co-anchor of Update leaves little time these days for sketches.

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From TV Newser

SZZLNG in San Francisco

It turned into a girl’s weekend getaway.

But the three of us were really there on a mission – to presumably pick up our regional Emmys in San Francisco. We were the only ones nominated in our respective news show categories, but none of us would accept or believe it until we actually held one.

My Saturday morning started early. I couldn’t sleep from the night before and I didn’t want to miss our agreed 8:30am start time.

I soon stopped for gas ($3.79). Some random woman spotted my Mustang and screamed, ‘oh my god, that is the most beautiful car I have ever seen!’ I did not prompt her reaction and it totally took me by surprise. ‘When my kids grow up, I keep telling myself I’m getting one.’

The drive over I-80 wasn’t bad; I freaked out when we hit the Bay Bridge. I still have memories of that car falling off the ledge during the ’89 quake.

We arrived at our hotel 3.5 hours later after some traffic and bad directions from my co-worker. “Take a left up here. It should be on this road. Ok, take a right up here. I know its close around here.” Sweet.

About an hour later we had obliterated our motel room with cosmetics, toiletries, extra clothes choices and alcohol.  

No time to screw around – we had to look pretty ourselves. I chose a black and white bustier thing with black pants. I was one of three women who wore pants, so I stood out inside the Palace of Fine Arts.

The show itself was horribly long – as usual and this year, there were many multiple winners in categories which meant more speeches and thank yous from people I don’t know.  

Basically Reno people see the San Francisco Emmys as one big inside joke, and we’re on the outside.

“Last year was a good year….except for some people at Channel 5.”

“Oooooooooh.!”

What does that even mean?

One third of the audience was from Univision, one third from the San Jose NBC station and the last third consisted of like random people like us and Hawaii.

Anyway, when we got to my station’s first show category, a giant screen showed the single nomination with my co-workers’ names. “I wonder who could win this. Come on down Channel 2.”

The group’s spokesman hovered over the mic to say, “We didn’t think we would win.”

And the auditorium laughed. No, we really didn’t think we would even though we all read in a newsletter the day before we were guaranteed. Rules state there could be one, more than one or no winners in one’s category.

Time passed on and many winners thanked their mothers, many of whom attended the ceremony.

And then it was my turn. I practiced my speech endlessly in my head for about a month. I knew what was I was going to do.

And then I walked up to the podium and started to shake and got nervous and could hear my heart pumping through my ears. “Hi. (Really?) I’d like to thank the academy voters, my wonderful co-workers, my family for their support and yeah…. I think that’s it. Thank you.” And I walked off.

Lord. I rehearsed – I’d like to thank the academy voters, my wonderful co-workers, my family for their undying support. I also think it’s important to recognize the journalists who came before me – the Edward R. Murrows’, Walter Cronkites, the Peter Jennings’… and lastly I’d like to thank the service men and women overseas because without them I would not have the freedom to do what I would want to do.

I could hear my co-workers and (some former one who moved onto bigger stations) cheer for me from within the audience. That was nice.  

I called my parents afterwards. “It’s real and it has my name on it.” They immediately called other family members.

The academy actually spelled one of my co-workers’ name wrong; they are making a new band and sending it to her complete with a screwdriver for her to use.

We ended up placing our Emmys around our motel room so when we’d wake up, we’d see one everywhere we’d look. Don’t have that many chances in life to do that so you have to take advantage when you can.

My Emmy is currently on tour to family members’ homes and places of work. My parents will keep it; I’m afraid my kitties will impale themselves on the wingtips.

I’ll pick up the rest of my adventure tomorrow.

How to Properly Bling Out Your Workspace

I’m off to San Francisco tomorrow morning to attend the regional Emmy award ceremony.

I’m nominated for Newscast – Evening – Smaller Market – and I’m the only one in my category.

So that means I get the gold hardware!

And when I get back the next day, it’s going straight to my mother for Mother’s Day. What else could she ask for huh?!

Anyway, I’ll post my adventures next week – hopefully I’ll have some!

 

Greatest CSI Promo Ever Made

¾ is the New Full

‘Bitch is the New Black’ is now so five minutes ago.

If you drive a car anywhere in this country, you know what I mean by this phrase.

With fuel prices rising every second, three-fourths is the New Full.

How many people can afford a full tank of gas nowadays? I sure can’t especially with two cars – yeah, wha I know! But I can only drive one at a time.

But my point still stands: most of us just pump enough gas to get by for a few days.

I haven’t seen a full tank for about a year now. And I only drive about 10 miles roundtrip between work and home everyday!

God only knows what the future holds.

But for right now I only know three-fourths is the New Full.

 

Snag Talks: SAG Negotiations Hit a Brick Wall

Here we go again…?The Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers on Tuesday walked away from the bargaining table, with the AMPTP claiming (in a statement) that “significant differences remain on DVD residuals, streaming, made for new media, and new media use of clips and library material” — discrepancies the AMPTP posits should have been avoided seeing as how brand-new deals with the WGA and DGA would seem to have laid the groundwork. “Under these circumstances, with SAG’s continued adherence to unreasonable demands in both new and traditional media, continuing negotiations at this time does not make sense,” says the AMPTP. SAG’s current pact with the producers runs out June 30. Until those two sides decided to resume talks, the AMPTP will commence negotiations with AFTRA on May 7, as scheduled. — MWM

From TV Guide

Littering the Earth with Letters

First off I just want to say that everyday should Earth Day. Duh! We need to save Mother Earth before she kills us.

That goes without saying.

But I also have noticed that humans like to litter their immediate environment with rules on metal signs, billboards, chalkboards, post-its, napkins, whatever.

For instance, while I was in my physical therapist’s office the other day I was assaulted with 

·        Don’t use our plant as a trashcan

·        Do not put your feet up on our furniture

·        Please put the pen back in its holder

·        Do not change the channel on the TV. It will not change

All four of those signs exist just in the waiting room! More signs awaited me behind the gym door.

When you think about it, how many signs do you see a day?

• Left turn only on green
• No yield
• Wrong way
• No food or drinks allowed
• Clean up the microwave when you’re done
• No parking between 9pm-6am
• Project financed by X
• Open for business
• Violators will be towed
• Public notice signs

And then there are your personal handwritten post-its you clutter your workspace with.

Why can’t we just leave the world alone in its au natural clean state? No, we have to pander to the somewhat forgetful and/or advertisers/dumb people on this planet.

So wait…could that mean that stupid forgetful advertisers are behind this littering campaign?

Yes! Maybe.

We need to gather people! And we make signs to protest the stupid people! Who’s behind me?!

Wait… let me make a note of it on my post-it for tomorrow.