{"id":2241,"date":"2005-09-19T02:42:58","date_gmt":"2005-09-19T07:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=2241"},"modified":"2005-09-19T08:57:56","modified_gmt":"2005-09-19T13:57:56","slug":"peter_sellers_o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/19\/peter_sellers_o\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Sellers still outsells actual desis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/09\/19\/arts\/television\/19emmy.html?ex=1284782400&#038;en=18ea91236646edbd&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\"><img alt=\"\" hspace=20 src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/NaveenAndrewsAtEmmys.jpg\" align=right vspace=10 border=0><\/a>Peter Sellers outsold actual desis at the Emmy Awards last night. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/000766.html\">The Life and Death of Peter Sellers<\/a>,<\/em>&nbsp;an HBO biopic of&nbsp;the guy who made a career of mocking the desi accent, won three awards. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/000588.html\">Naveen Andrews<\/a> was nominated but <em>Lost.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<blockquote style=\"margin-right: 0px\">\n<p>&#8220;The Life and Death of Peter Sellers,&#8221; an HBO movie, won three awards early in the ceremony, including one for Geoffrey Rush as best actor&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lost,&#8221; which helped vault ABC&#8217;s prime-time ratings by fusing elements of the film &#8220;Cast Away,&#8221; &#8220;Survivor,&#8221; &#8220;The Twilight Zone&#8221; and even a dash of &#8220;Gilligan&#8217;s Island,&#8221; had received 12 nominations, including two for supporting actors &#8211; Naveen Andrews and Terry O&#8217;Quinn. (They lost to [William Shatner, for <em>Boston Legal]<\/em>.)&nbsp;[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/09\/19\/arts\/television\/19emmy.html?ex=1284782400&#038;en=18ea91236646edbd&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">Link<\/a>]<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Geoffrey Rush is a fine, fine actor, but it&#8217;s an interesting contrast. By the way, check out the chunni Barbara Hershey&#8217;s sporting. Stand by your man indeed.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previous posts: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vij.com\/archive\/the_party_remake.html\">one<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/000766.html\">two<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/001030.html\">three<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/001551.html\">four<\/a><\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Sellers outsold actual desis at the Emmy Awards last night. The Life and Death of Peter Sellers,&nbsp;an HBO biopic of&nbsp;the guy who made a career of mocking the desi accent, won three awards. Naveen Andrews was nominated but Lost. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/19\/peter_sellers_o\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}