How gorgeous was Sara Bareilles’ moving rendition of “Smile” during the In Memoriam section of the Emmy Awards last night? For the first time ever, I believed the words.
But breathe easy, Kanye West, because what had been the dumbest move of all time at an awards show, i.e. your seizing the mike from Taylor Swift during her acceptance speech to genuflect at the altar of Queen Beyonce, was trumped last night by the intrusive bombardment of audio clips of the recently departed being repeatedly shoehorned into the quieter moments of the song. (My personal favorite? A whoosh of audience applause as comic David Brenner departs a stage which swung in like Tarzan on a vine.) All in all, a classic lesson in “more is less.”
BILL
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