There won't be a lot of blogging here today. Tonight, I'm taking the wonderful June Foray — the best damn voice actress in the history of cartoons! — to the 39th Annual Daytime Creative Arts & Entertainment Emmy Awards ceremony. This is one of two Daytime Emmy ceremonies and before you rush to set your TiVo, you should know it is not televised. The second one will be…on June 23 on HLN, which is the most basic of basic cable channels. They may or may not show excerpts of tonight's ceremony on that one, which will feature more of the performing awards. (They give so many of those statuettes out that they have to serialize their presentation.)
Most or all of the animation-related categories will be handed-out in the non-televised one tonight…which, by the way, is being hosted by Byron Allen. So the category in which she's nominated is tonight, plus they've asked her to present some of the other animation awards first. We have to be there early for a briefing/rehearsal for the presenters. I'm listed as one but actually June is the presenter and I'm escorting her onto the stage and off. I believe we're following Elmo.
We should make an interesting couple. I'm 6'3" and June is under 4'10". Speaking of puppets, when we get up there on stage, it's going to look like Ed Sullivan talking to Topo Gigio.
About the time we return to our seats, some actors from One Life to Live will be presenting her category and I sure hope there's a reason to escort her onto that stage again. But however it goes, I'm just plain thrilled she's finally, at age 94, received her first-ever Emmy nomination. In case you missed where I said it a few weeks ago here, I believe she's the oldest Emmy nominee ever, beating out the previous "oldest Emmy nominee" (Betty White) by five years.
Notice that I said "I believe she's the oldest." So far, the folks at the Academy don't seem to be totally certain…but I sure can't think of a performer who's got her beat. June, by the way, will be 95 in September. Somebody is going to have to start thinking about a helluva party.
I may be Tweeting from inside the event tonight. And then again, I may not. While I'm there, I'll decide based on decorum and signal strength…and signal strength will be by far the more important consideration. If you don't follow me on Twitter, follow me on Twitter. I'll try to post a full report here later tonight but it may have to wait 'til sometime tomorrow. Whenever I write it, I'll try to still be wearing my tux so it'll be a formal report.