Rushfield Babylon
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Outstanding Stunt Coordination For A Comedy Series Or A Variety Program
It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia • FX Networks • Sunny TV Productions
Marc Scizak, Stunt Coordinator
Modern Family • ABC • Picador Productions & Steve Levitan Productions in association with 20th Century Fox Television
Jim Sharp, Stunt Coordinator
Supah Ninjas • Nickelodeon • Varsity Pictures
Hiro Koda, Stunt Coordinator
Workaholics • Comedy Central • Avalon Television
Jim Vickers, Stunt Coordinator
Congratulations to all the nominees!
The sign at the edge of town greets you: Welcome to Wilmington. Home of the Azalea Festival. In fact, this weekend, while the magenta blooms are at their spring peak, the festival is under way — dozens of makeshift funnel cake booths lining the city’s riverfront.
For the crew of Under the Dome, however, April in Wilmington has meant mostly misery. Across the set you can hear the sounds of wheezes and coughs from the dozen or so sufferers of an intense allergic reaction to the city’s prize fleur. For actress Samantha Mathis — who plays Alice, a psychiatrist who is passing through town driving her daughter to camp when the dome falls — the azalea blight was especially acute, and she spent much of her time between takes irrigating her sinuses with Xylitol nasal spray.
"While every generation thinks they live in the most dangerous times," Mathis says, "things are really tenuous right now. People have drawn such distinct lines in the sand politically, and that can bring out really unpleasant aspects in each other. That’s something Stephen King is interested in. What politics mean. Lack of compassion, inability to listen, the desire to just be right and stay true to one’s ideology."
”—I have been under “Under the Dome“‘s dome. Please read the report of my hero’s journey over at Grantland.I have finally figured out what the internet is for. Since it’s invention, the World Wide Web has disrupted ancient economies, laid waste to tyrants and delivered pornography more efficiently than our forefathers ever dreamed possible.
But all these are really side effects. The real purpose of the internet and how it has really changed civilization is in its ability to give dumb people enough rope to humiliate themselves so we can all mock them and demand their executions.
This has been . The internet and Twitter in particular have been laying waste to the careers and reputations of the moronic practically since its inception. This work has of course happened in tandem with the rise of reality television, which created an entire industry based on chronicling (“celebrating”) the words and lives of our most aggressively stupid citizens. The Reality Show villain (stupid + angry people) has practically become our national icon. And via tweets, blogs, gifs, memes, blingees, grams, vines, what have you, ever American was given the tools to mock these stupid people and put them in their place.
What has changed I believe is that there used to be a media that also did other things - reported on wars, or bad weather, or bears caught in pools. But now we don’t have that any more. There is only giving stupid people room to be really stupid, and then mocking them. The olde timey media in its death throes has given up covering other things so now just writes about that. Go ahead - pick up any newspaper; open the politics section, the sports section, the gardening section, all you’ll read is stories about how people have risen up against someone who said something stupid and gotten them fired from their job.
All of which would be well and good if it added up to something. I can live with a media that completely ignores the reality of the world in exchange for covering a facsimile of reality made up of people’s responses to people’s dumb comments if it resulted in a net gain of less stupid things being said. As America’s leading crusader against free speech, I am all for getting people to shut up, wheveever and whenever we can do it. And if you’ve been hurt or offended by any of these comments, well that sucks and I don’t deny, that’s not fun.