The Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony opened with a group of random actors – whose names must’ve on balls pulled out of a Lotto machine (Randy Quaid, Anne Hathaway, James Denton) – telling their little stories of aspiration, followed by success, making it all seem so easy. They each end their spiel with “My name is . . . and I’m an actor.� Which’d be more impressive if they had really interesting tales and be saying “I’m a fireman� or “I’m a teacher.�
Winner are announced with the declaration, ‘‘The Actor goes to …’’ Which sounds like something a sleazy producer with a casting couch and equally seedy friends would say.
Sandra Oh won Best Actress/Drama, after winning a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress. She’s still overly excited, thanking, among others, her stand-in; you’d think she’d get used to this sort of thing.
Kiefer Sutherland won his second SAG Award for Best Actor/Drama for “24.� He showed much restraint, refraining from shooting anyone in the thigh or stabbing anyone in the eye with some scissors.