I've seen similar arguments favoring other late celebs over Monteith. I suspect the decision came down to which tributes would make for better television. I'm given to understand that the featured five will be heralded with fanfare in the form of other celebs (MJFox, Rob Reiner, Robin Williams). What attention-getting big name could they have gotten to talk about Klugman?
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 3:06 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > Adam Klugman, one of Jack Klugman's sons, is irritated that the Academy > has decided to bump his dad from the new highlighted memorial in the > broadcast, in favor of Corey Monteith. The Emmy's decided to lift out 5 of > the recently departed for special attention this year - the other four > VIPs, whose credentials are hard to argue, are: Gary David Goldberg, > Jonathan Winters, James Gandolfini and Jean Stapleton. > > > http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/tv/la-et-st-emmys-2013-jack-klugman-cory-monteith-20130920,0,7412808.story > > I knew Adam Klugman tangentially when we were kids, and always loved his > father, and I never saw Monteith's work, so I am a little biased. I don't > think the issue is that Monteith's tragic death was "self-inflicted", but > that Klugman's body of work was just, objectively, so much larger. > > The larger point of course is that it was inevitable when they decided to > do this that they would be offending someone who got bumped down to the > coach-class death reel. In fact, Adam's point that the Emmy's chose > Monteith in a raw grab to attract young viewers is probably not cynical > enough; the whole plan might be a crude attempt to generate controversy and > interest every year in seeing who gets the ultimate Emmy snub. > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
