These are supposedly professional actors who, stepping on stage to accept an award, babble and hyperventilate and act like they just won a high school contest. Cynthia Nixon “umm’d” between every other word in her acceptance speech. Sarah Jessica Parker went from her egregious giggly bit into near hysterics.<\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n
The West Wing’s Alison Janney was “truly thoughtless.” The “appalling” Elaine Stritch “howled like a screech monkey,” a prime example of “no-class.” Meantime, Meryl Streep was “so steeped in ‘class,’ she’s metamorphosing into Greer Garson.”<\/p>\n
Which took the words right out of my mouth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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