Falling Angel: Eminem gets bum wrap at MTV awards
June 1, 2009
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The MTV Movie Awards were a blood bath on Sunday night with Twilight taking five trophies, including best movie. But it was Sacha Baron Cohen who gave the show it’s trademark bizarro moment when he landed on Eminem – who may or may not have been deeply offended.
The popular vampire drama starring Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart sucked up the golden popcorn trophies for best movie, fight, kiss, breakthrough male performance and female performance during Sunday’s over-the-top ceremony at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California, which honours the best in film from the past year as voted on by viewers.
Stewart said while accepting her best female performance trophy (which she promptly dropped on the floor, breaking off a chunk of the golden popcorn):
“The fans are the ultimate driving force,”
Other winners included High School Musical 3: Senior Year star Zac Efron for male performance and his co-star Ashley Tisdale for female breakthrough performance.
Miley Cyrus accepted the best song from a movie prize for The Climb from Hannah Montana: The Movie, preventing Twilight from winning all six categories in which it was nominated.
Amy Poehler’s urinating in a sink in Baby Mama won an award that was new to this year: The WTF moment.
Presenter Hayden Panettiere, the teen star of TV show Heroes said :
“For those of you still living in a cave, the WTF award means, What the (bleep),”
But even that was upstaged by Baron Cohen, who flew in above the audience as his flamboyant character Bruno. Dressed in a pair of feathery white wings with his rear end mostly exposed, the comedian crashed into an overhead obstacle and was lowered directly into in Eminem’s lap in the audience, his bare hindquarters in the rapper’s face.
Baron Cohen chirped:
“Is the real Slim Shady about to stand up?”
Members of Eminem’s entourage roughly removed Baron Cohen as the rapper struggled to get out. But had Baron Cohen and MTV punked the self-styled homophobic rapper, or was he in on the elaborate joke?
Eminem acted visibly upset at the mishap, saying “Get this (expletive) off me” and turning his face away in disgust. He then stormed out with his entourage in tow – and cameras rolling – and beat a path for the exits.
Baron Cohen’s descent to the audience was included in earlier rehearsals, but Eminem – who performed on Sunday night – didn’t take part in that piece of the run-through.
As the rapper stormed off it sounded as though he was wearing a microphone, and cameras were in position to record his fast exit, but he was not seen or heard from again.
Host Andy Samberg ad-libbed :
“This is very exciting TV,”
Actor Ben Stiller told reporters backstage :
“I enjoyed his (Cohen’s) precision landing,”
“I did not see that coming.”
It wasn’t the first tantrum for Slim Shady at an MTV ceremony:
Sparks flew when the rapper was interviewed by Triumph the Insult Comic Dog at the 2002 show.
The MTV awards are nominated and voted on by fans through online polls, producing a more populist selection than the Oscars or the Golden Globes. Winners get a golden popcorn statuette.
Slumdog Millionaire, which won a leading eight Oscars in February, went into the MTV Movie awards with six nominations but came away empty-handed.
Twilight won none of the mainstream movie awards earlier this year but has taken more than $382 million at the box office worldwide and has turned its star Robert Pattinson from an unknown into an international heartthrob.
Viewers also got brief previews of other popular blockbusters due for release later in 2009, including Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
Oscar-winner Forest Whitaker sang a classical arrangement of the Dick in a Box parody sketch made famous by Justin Timberlake on Saturday Night Live.
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