I certainly mean no disrespect to Taylor if her difficulties were the result of ill-health, but the wicked side of me thought that moment was the best I've seen on an awards show since Bette Davis came to the podium at an Academy Awards broadcast to give a special award to Robert Wise. She slapped both hands down loudly on the podium surely startling the sound engineers, looked the entire audience in the eye simultaneously (ONLY she could do this) and bellowed her instant, ad-libbed summation of the man's career, "THE SOUND OF MEWWW-SICKK!" The silence that followed her pronouncement was deafening. The tribute was painful to watch as she fumbled through teleprompter fed malaprops and mis-cued film clips. I think that Wise actually had to come to the stage so that she'd stop, without having been introduced for an ovation. CC "The masking tape tangles, it's sticky and black and the copper, proud headed Queen Lizzy conducts little charges that don't get charged back." -- JM _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
