Emmy for racy Timberlake video
2007-09-09 16:22
Los Angeles - The Emmys got edgy as an off-colour Saturday Night Live video featuring Justin Timberlake and strategically placed gift boxes was honoured at the creative arts ceremony.
(Blank) in a Box, last December's fake music video performed by Timberlake and SNL cast member Andy Samberg, is about wrapping a certain part of the male anatomy and presenting it to a loved one as a holiday present.
"I think it's safe to say that when we first set out to make this song, we were all thinking 'Emmy!"' Samberg said in accepting the award on Saturday for best original music and lyrics.
"The other thing we were thinking was, 'Hey! Here's this young up and comer, Justin Timberlake, who is clearly very talented and could clearly use a break,"' Samberg said. "So, Justin, if you're out there, congrats to you, kid."'
The video, which beat out competition that included two songs from a musical edition of Scrubs, became an internet sensation. It garnered millions of views on YouTube and NBC's website, which posted an un-bleeped version.
Technical and other achievements
The Creative Arts Emmys, which recognise technical and other achievements for the 2006-07 season, will air on September 15 on E!, the night before the Primetime Emmy Awards on Fox.
Timberlake was elsewhere on Saturday: He had a concert scheduled in Tacoma, Washington. But his tour takes him to Los Angeles on Primetime Emmys night, raising the possibility he could perform Box at the ceremony.
The ceremony got more censor-worthy jolts from veteran actress Elaine Stritch, 82, who won for a guest shot on the comedy series 30 Rock, and said that, even after a lifetime in show business, winning felt "un-(blanking)-believable".
Besides Stritch, three other actors received awards for series guest roles: Leslie Caron for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, John Goodman for Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and Stanley Tucci for Monk.
Spike Lee won directing trophy
Spike Lee's New Orleans documentary, When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, received three awards, including a directing trophy.
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee won a leading five awards. The film, which chronicles events leading up to the assassination of Sitting Bull and the Sioux massacre at Wounded Knee Creek in 1890, is up for more Emmy honours, including best TV movie, next weekend.
Entertainment industry executive Rich Frank, former president of Television Academy, received the Syd Cassyd Founders Award.
HBO collected the most trophies, 15, followed by NBC with 12, CBS with nine and Cartoon Network with eight. Fox earned seven awards, PBS six and ABC four.
- AP