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notBastet:
I happened to have the Emmy's on in the background tonight.  Seemed like she got cut off as she went to say something about mothers ruling the world, and perhaps, the war?

Anyone know what she said?  Was she censored intentionally?

injest:

--- Quote from: notBastet on September 16, 2007, 10:46:44 pm ---I happened to have the Emmy's on in the background tonight.  Seemed like she got cut off as she went to say something about mothers ruling the world, and perhaps, the war?

Anyone know what she said?  Was she censored intentionally?

--- End quote ---

I noticed that too....They had already started the music urging her off when she yelled and they went back to her and she uhed and uhed ...said she had forgotten what she was fixing to say...then started talking about moms and then was cut off.

so was she cut off because of what she said or because she was going too long?

notBastet:
I thought it was because of what she said, because there was a long pause before any sound returned and they showed her walking off the stage....

I thought she may have been about to say "if mothers ruled the world there would be no g*d d**n war...."

But I am only guessing.

Brown Eyes:
Here's the way I saw the incident... It was sort of confusing so it's hard to tell exactly what went on.

But, it seemed to me that she concluded the main part of her speech by talking about honoring mothers who are waiting for their children to come home from "harm's way and from war."  Then the music started to play.  She then said please stop and that she had more that she wanted to say.  But the music kept playing (of course) and she got flustered and said she forgot what she wanted to say.  And then she did seem to get angry and I really did think they cut away from her deliberately perhaps because she was either making too much of a political statement for the taste of the producers or because she was swearing (or maybe both).

The end result was that it was awkward and odd.
 :-\

serious crayons:
Poor Sally Field just doesn't have good luck with prize acceptance speeches.

Somewhere recently I was reading that her infamous "You like me! You really like me!" was actually a reference to something said by her character, Norma Rae, the role for which she won the Oscar. But it went down in history as just her sounding silly.

She probably wishes she'll never win another prize!  :-\

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