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TSG & The Grammys
24 Feb 2003 by Matthew Linderman
ESPN’s The Sports Guy (Bill Simmons) tackles the Grammy awards.
8:39 — Speaking of ads, we’re up to two CBS promos for “My Big Fat Greek Life” — and aren’t we all rooting against this show — as well as an ad for Chris Rock’s new movie, “Head of State.” Poor Chris. If this movie doesn’t work out, he passes Katie Holmes and grabs pole position in the “Least Successful Film Career In Hollywood” race. You’d hate to see that happen.
8:52 — Eminem wins another Grammy (best rap album). Man, he’s so serious and miserable, isn’t he? Is his life really that bad? What would he look like if he hadn’t made a ton of money, a hit movie, some great albums, and won a bunch of awards. He and Allen Iverson really need to get into a support group together.
9:50 — Our first anti-war comment of the night — as well as the quote of the night, and possibly the year — from the immortal Fred Durst: “I think we’re all in agreeance that this war should go away as soon as possible.” (Right on, Fred. We’re all in agreeance. And if things fall apart, I guess we’re all headed to Bolivian.)
10:06 — Highlight of the night: Erykah Badu (with a giant afro) trying to read cue cards, screwing up, saying, “I knew I should have gone to rehearsal,” as a horrified B.B. King looks on, inexplicably waving to the crowd, then finishing her cue card reading, but going one line too far and reading the word “APPLAUSE.” Words can’t possibly do that sequence justice. A solid 98 on the Unintentional Comedy Scale. I’m really enjoying myself tonight. Can you tell?
By the way, a fun game is to watch Jimmy Kimmel’s new show and try to spot TSG’s influence (he’s a writer there now). Last week, Kimmel had Quentin Richardson showing off the cars of various L.A. Clippers players — definitely a bit inspired by TSG.
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24 Feb 2003 | Jay said...
I've always enjoyed Simmons on ESPN's Page 2, but I'm concerned his association with Kimmel's show (which, so far as I understand, isn't even surpassing its predecessor's ratings) will dilute his standing with his public.
That, and all this time spend on Kimmel's show is taking away from his NBA columns, dammit!
24 Feb 2003 | Darrel said...
commentary on sports pundits commenting on the grammies. Hmm...
24 Feb 2003 | ~bc said...
It's interesting to read a Grammy's thing from a non-entertainment writer. I read Bill's sports stuff often, but this time, althought entertaining, he didn't exactly have a fact checker on this one. There were several big "oops" in his recounts, but the one I'm thinking of as the biggest is mentioning "Eminem's drummer." First of all, it's not MnM's drummer, he's the drummer for "The Roots" a critcally acclaimed hip-hop group who is backing MnM (yes, there's at least one hip-hop group besides the Beasties who play their own instruments). It was even announced. Second, the drummer wasn't the one with the RC jersey on, it was the keyboard player. There were a couple other things, but i'm not going to bother getting into it... still funny though.
24 Feb 2003 | Drew said...
Financial/Fame status has no bearing on happiness.
Hence Em still being miserable.
25 Feb 2003 | Don Schenck said...
I don't know ... I'm happier with more money. Seriously.
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