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 The 13th Annual MVPA Award Show | Type: Internet Article |
| | The 13th Annual MVPA Award Show | Jun 01, 2004 | by Andréa Clark
Summary:
An article about MVPA 2004.
Christina Aguilera presented Director of the Year, and it was the only envelope I actually sealed because I didn’t want her to give it away at the beginning… bonus of that being the squeal she emitted when she called David LaChapelle’s name.
Read on for the whole article. |
 After all the ticketing and seating assignments and producing minutiae, my on-site job for the MVPA Awards is writer/director. Which essentially means that I select the nominee clips, choose the order of the show, and decide where to put presenters or performances, and assign who should present what. And then I tell them what to say, which is excruciating because it always looks so dorky written down.
The presenters all check in with me in the green room before the show starts; Hoobastank are the first people I talk to and they’re affable and goofy, which is comforting. Lacey Chabert (Mean Girls) is really tiny, and Emily VanCamp (Everwood) is really tall. I want to be BFF with Juliette Lewis, who’s surprisingly grounded but definitely fun. Jeremy Piven (The Entourage) meets Joe Hahn (Linkin Park; director) and I worry that their pairing won’t be as smoothly funny guy/straight man as I envisioned.
Start of the show, I’m backstage on the mic, yelling at the audience to sit the hell down. (It seems to be scientifically impossible for us to start on time.) Wade Robson tells me how to pronounce his last name and I become convinced that I’ll say it incorrectly, which will be especially dreadful as he’ll be right next to me as I’m saying it. But it goes fine and he goes onstage and then everything is underway.
Highlights from the backstage view:
All of the Groovaloos performances – they are insane, like hip-hop Cirque de Soleil.
Patton Oswalt, the host, musing onstage if it’s worrying that he refers to his drink as “troubles-go-bye-bye juice”, and about a gazillion other hilarious things that I can’t remember now.
Bai Ling (Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow) and Shane Brolly (Underworld): unexpectedly comedic pairing. Seriously, so absurd and funny together.
Best Stylist co-winner Trish Summerville (Christina Aguilera “Fighter”) came off stage and told me that she didn’t get to say any thanks because they started the music up after the other co-winner spoke, so we had her run back onstage in the middle of the next category so she could say what she wanted.
Jeremy Piven really wanted to come up with his own thing to say, and ran several hilarious options by me before he and Joe Hahn went on. (Joe ended up making an excellent straight man, by the way.)
Hal Sparks (Queer as Folk) came up from the green room early and just watched the show from the backstage area, which the presenters never do. He then suggests that we send the trophy girls from the other side of the stage so that people can get a look at their really amazing costumes (designed by Oneita Parker). So we sent them stage right and I told Hal he could have an executive credit on the show.
Mark Romanek, who introduced David Fincher’s lifetime achievement award, was such a tremendous highlight. He was wonderfully charismatic onstage, and had one of the best speeches of the night…
… the best being Fincher’s speech, which was raw and hilarious and unapologetic (although ironically, full of apologies). Getting these two heroes on stage was the best part of my five years at the MVPA.
Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry, both accepting honorary awards, were the other top moments in my career so far. Spike Jonze! Michel Gondry! Michel tied them together in his speech with an aside about how he and Spike were united as they were both “men who had been done wrong by women”.
Nearing this end of the show, many of the nominees (seemingly those who didn’t win) and audience members just left their seats and headed for the lobby, which got me all twitchy and annoyed. Is it so hard to sit still for two hours? It’s so rude and it happens every year, so I fumed inwardly but steamrolled onward.
Before they went on to present, Juliette Lewis and Hal Sparks were in the wings while the Groovaloos performed one last time, and watching the two of them watch the Groovaloos in total amazement was really freaking cool.
Christina Aguilera presented Director of the Year, and it was the only envelope I actually sealed because I didn’t want her to give it away at the beginning… bonus of that being the squeal she emitted when she called David LaChapelle’s name.
Dwight Yoakam walked onto stage saying he was coming from a pick-up shot for “Panic Room”, and then tipped his hat at David Fincher. So cool.
Patricia Arquette was also very small and very sweet and so excited to present to Michel that she left another benefit that she was co-hosting in order to be able to do it.
Video of the Year, which went to Bryan Barber, who was a total rockstar and really appreciative, was presented by Macy Gray, who is really tall. (Am I obsessed with women’s heights?) Macy was sick and came directly from the studio, but said she really wanted to be there because she’s grateful and aware of all the work behind the scenes.
All in all, a great evening. I’m just glad now that it’s finished. And that I got to vent about how very annoying it is that so many people leave their seats early. Oh, well… |
 Source: MVWire | |
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