So ...
I'm watching the Emmys, and Seacrest was good, Ray Romano was embarrassing, and frankly, I may have listened to my lifetime quota of Tony Bennett at this point. And I'm thinking, You know, what I really want to watch is Roots. Seeing those members of the cast all together reminded me of how incredible and inspiring that was.
And Robert Duvall. Correct me if I'm wrong, but is he not quite with it? Can he still act? Certainly. But should probably not be permitted to speak on his own, because he sounds old and not clear and that is sad.
Yes, I watch the Emmys. As I had to point out to the cable guys three times, for some reason, yes, we watch a lot of TV in this house. Why I had to justify that to the cable people, I don't know, but one of the repairmen seemed to think we had an unnatural number of cable boxes in the house. Ah well, nice to know where all my money goes.
Now I see that after the current commercial, there's going to be a musical number featuring "the Jersey boys" and a tribute to The Sopranos. The Jersey Boys, you may not know, is a musical currently on Broadway that chronicles the rise and success of the 1960s singing group Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, who were, obviously, from New Jersey. Which reminds me that it's about time for my periodic disclaimer about the Sopranos:
No. I don't know any mobsters. I am familiar with some of the locations used in The Sopranos, because they're all relatively close to where I live, but we are not all gangsters here, not even if you're of Italian descent, which is actually a big chunk of the population of northern New Jersey, and half of my husband and therefore one-quarter of my children, including, for all four of us, the Italian last name.
When each of my girls studied overseas, and people meeting them realized they were American, they would ask where in America they were from. When they answered "New Jersey", the response, almost uniformly, was "Like the Sopranos? Is your family like that?"
It was fiction, folks, set in New Jersey. Are their real people like that? Oh, I'm sure. They're just not quite as everywhere as the show made it seem. And for the record, the Hubs comes from artisans and teachers.
The Jersey Boys -- the cast of the musical -- are singing now. Man, I love that music. But I think performing in the round like they are is confusing them.
Yawning, finally! Am I tired enough to fall asleep? I'm certainly bored enough. Let's give it a try.
WATCHING THE EMMYS :: ENTRY #1582
I'm watching the Emmys too! I agree with the too much Tony Bennett. Never really was that big a fan of him in the first place. Only when Alec Baldwin is impersonating him! And poor Robert Duvall. How I love him. He reminds me of my dad!
ReplyDeletePoor Robert Duvall indeed. He got played off every time. But God bless her, that Helen Mirren just gets better looking and classier with age.
ReplyDeleteWrong generation, I guess... my grandma's brother and his family, and later my grandma, lived in New Jersey. I think of it as a place for old Jewish relatives, who are as far from the mob as anyone could be (though they had the jewels and could kvetch you to death, come to think of it)
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