Emmy Fashion Thoughts

[smofbabe]

* Why would you wear a gown with a full skirt to an awards ceremony at which you're planning to spend most of
your time sitting down?

* If you are hosting a pre-show that concentrates largely on fashion, I don't think wearing velvet while it's still summer is the most inspired choice.

* Why do women with small tits wear strapless dresses that are unflattering and emphasize that part of their anatomy?

* See-through skirts - bad idea. I don't care how good your legs are.

[As for the show, hard to criticize a show that in the first half-hour has featured a duet of the theme from GREEN ACRES sung by Donald Trump and Megan Mullally as her rich-bitch character Karen from WILL AND GRACE.]

Comments

[querldox.livejournal.com]

Well, they did wimp out on the Star Trek theme by only having Shatner recite "These are the voyages..." and then having an opera singer vocally do the music. I was perversely looking forward to Shatner singing the ridiculously cheesy lyrics that exist for the song.

[orangemike.livejournal.com]

The sad part is this (borrowed from Snopes.com) http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/trek1.htm:

Once the Star Trek pilot was sold to NBC, [theme music author Alexander] Courage was in an enviable position: he would receive royalties every time an episode of Star Trek was run (or re-run), and even more royalties if the show lasted long enough to be sold into syndication after its network run was finished. Courage's windfall lasted only a year, until Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry suddenly laid claim to half the royalties. How? Pressured by Roddenberry, Courage had made a "handshake deal" a couple of years earlier that gave Roddenberry the option of composing lyrics for Courage's Star Trek music (and Courage signed a contract — unknowingly, he later claimed — to that effect). Roddenberry exercised that option, writing lyrics for the main theme and then asserting his right to half the performance royalties as a co-composer. It made no difference that the lyrics were not intended to be used in the show itself and had not been recorded or released. As the lyricist, Roddenberry was entitled to an equal share of the royalties, whether or not the lyrics were ever used.

Courage protested in vain that although the arrangement may have been legal, it was unethical: Roddenberry's lyrics added nothing to the value of the music and were created for no reason other than to usurp half the composer's performance royalties. An unsympathetic Roddenberry proclaimed, "Hey, I have to get some money somewhere. I'm sure not going to get it out of the profits of Star Trek."

Roddenberry's financial gain was Star Trek's creative loss. After scoring a couple of first-season episodes, Courage declined to perform any further musical work for the series.

It is one of the many reasons I never succumbed to Roddenberry worship.

[smofbabe.livejournal.com]

Actually, I got some giggles out of having someone standing there producing the ST theme vocally but I agree that having Shatner sing the Roddenberry faux-lyrics would have upped the cheese quotient.