The Saggies: The One In Rehab Makes Acceptance Speech Cameo
In the unlikely event that the demands of living a healthy and productive life somehow kept you from watching last night's SAGgies—The Award Show Where Only Actors Vote for Actors; also: The Only Awards Show Simulcast LIVE on TBS and TNT On Sunday, January 28th!—know that things unfolded pretty much as expected, so the misplaced priorities that caused you to miss the show probably won't have any deleterious effect on your Oscar-tracking, as front-runners Helen Mirren, Forest Whitaker, Jennifer Hudson, and Eddie Murphy took the individual film acting honors. (Little Miss Sunshine, however, won the ensemble acting award, either plunging the Best Picture race into absolute chaos or having no impact on it whatsoever, depending on how much you trust the predictive skills of the Screen Actors Guild.)
Perhaps the ceremony's only true highlight was Grey's Anatomy's star Chandra Wilson's acceptance speech for her Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series win (above, also presented with Spanish voiceover here), in which the actress, moments after a clip played featuring her admonishing co-star T.R. Knight for looking at her "vajayjay", thanked "those 10 cast members sitting over there, and the other one in rehab." Apparently, the requirements of Isaiah Washington's recovery program prevented him from attending the event with his colleagues, allowing him to avoid an uncomfortable moment backstage after the Grey's cast's TV ensemble award, when he might have attempted to demonstrate his speedy progress through Gayhab by repeatedly inviting Knight to join in an open-mouth display of healing.