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Mayor Fletcher Bowron of Los Angeles welcomed people to the first Emmy Awards ceremony, which was held Jan. 25, 1949, at the Hollywood Athletic Club. Before there was a Peak TV era, before there were performances from Mary Tyler Moore, Cloris Leachman or Julia Louis-Dreyfus, there was Judy Splinters. “Judy Splinters,” a children’s television show hosted by a 20-year-old ventriloquist named Shirley Dinsdale and her puppet — wait for it — Judy Splinters, was nominated for the so-called most popular program at the very first Emmy Awards. All nominated shows had to have been filmed in Los Angeles, and the award show itself was only broadcast on a local station in Los Angeles. “It was so brand-new,” Dinsdale told The Los Angeles Times in 1998.

Persons: Fletcher Bowron, Mary Tyler Moore, Cloris Leachman, Julia Louis, Dreyfus, Judy, Shirley Dinsdale, Dinsdale, John Leverence, —, ” Dinsdale, “, ” Leverence, ”, That’s Organizations: Hollywood Athletic Club, Television Academy, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, KTLA, Times, Lucky Locations: Los Angeles, Los

☆ Could Matthew Perry’s Chandler-Speak Be Any More Memorable?
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Jennifer Vineyard | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

2194,” Perry initially settled for coaching other actor friends on how to play Chandler for their auditions. But even with Perry’s assistance, Chandler’s delivery did not land the same. But much of the character’s personality, like his discomfort with silence and need to fill it with quips, came directly from Perry. “If I had to put the emphasis in the wrong place one more time, I thought I’d explode,” he wrote. But it was too late: Chandler-speak had permeated the culture in America and beyond.

Persons: “ L.A.X, ” Perry, Chandler, ”, ” Crane, Perry, Chandler Bing, —, Jeff Greenstein, Jeff Strauss, “ Chandler, ” Kauffman, Ana de Armas, ” de Armas, Matthew Perry —, Julia Roberts Organizations: BTS, Cuban Locations: Perry, America, Spanish

☆ ‘Silo’ Creator on the Show’s ‘Cautionary Tale’ About Tech
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( Jennifer Vineyard | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Then, sitting in her cell, before her banishment into the mysterious outside world — a supposed death sentence — Bernard tries to convince Juliette (and himself) that his authoritarian actions were for the good of all. “To me, that was a really important scene,” said the series creator and showrunner, Graham Yost (“Justified”). You get the sense that this guy who we’ve come to believe is stone evil is someone who has his own burden. You realize he has the worst job in the Silo.”That word, “Silo,” refers both to the enormous subterranean city that shelters 10,000 people and to the practice of information siloing: filtering data through narrow, manipulative networks. Those living in the Silo — this one, at least — believe themselves to be the last people on Earth, having been convinced that life is impossible in the wasteland outside.

Persons: Bernard, Tim Robbins, Juliette, Rebecca Ferguson, — Bernard, ”, Graham Yost, “, You Organizations: ”, Apple

☆ ‘And Just Like That …’ Is Back. Here’s What to Remember.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Jennifer Vineyard | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

“Sex and the City” presented Aidan as Mr. Nice Guy, and Carrie might still blame herself for their breakup. And then Aidan punished her with passive aggression, even letting her know he was contemplating cheating on her in retaliation. Carrie was quick to tell Big about this, but did Aidan do the same with his wife? Carrie’s careerCarrie Bradshaw, sexual anthropologist, has written a long-running newspaper column, a number of pieces for Vogue and several books. None of these things will give Carrie what she still needs, which is time to reboot more fully after Big’s death.

Persons: ”, Aidan, Mr, Nice Guy, Carrie, Carrie freaked, Aidan wasn’t, Carrie’s, Carrie Bradshaw, “, Amanda, Ashlie Atkinson, Peter, Jon Tenney, —, Franklyn, Ivan Hernandez, prepping Organizations: Vogue Locations: Abu Dhabi

☆ ‘Succession’ Clears the Air: Here’s What to Read
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-29 | by ( Jennifer Vineyard | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

None of his children could manage to put a sticker on that.) Below, we put stickers on some of the noteworthy recent features on the series coming to its end. ‘“Succession” Is Over. Why Did We Care?’ [NY Times]The “billon-dollar question,” as Alexis Soloski puts it, has been answered — none of the Roys won the prize. “Writers have argued that we love ‘Succession’ because of what it says about America, what it says about class, what it says about money, family, trauma and abuse,” Soloski writes.

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