Okay, I didn't, but that test I took earlier today did.
I'm watching 1 vs 100 and I just learned something. Something so obvious, I can't believe I never made the connection.
The "Grammy" Awards are so named because they used to be called the Gramophone Awards. Hence why the award is shaped like a...wait for it...gramophone!
It got me to thinking. It crossed my mind that "movies" are probably called that because it's short for "moving pictures."
Now, I know the "OBies" are for Off Broadway plays.
But I have no idea why the "Oscar's", "Emmy's", or "Tony's" are referred to as such. I could look it up, but I'll ask The Mob in the spirit of 1 vs 100.
Readers?
[And y'all get why Charmin Bathroom Tissue commercials use bears out in the woods, don't ya?]
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Friday, January 25, 2008
Did I Say I Was A Genius?
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The Tony awards are named for Antoinette Perry (although C often says thinks they are named for the drama queen he lives with). I'd have to look up the other two and that's no fun.
Here I thought the TONY awards were Theater of New York.
The Tony Award is called the Antoinette Perry Award; Perry was a cofounder of the American Theatre Wing, which awards them each June.
The Oscar is a nickname for what is properly known as the Academy Award of Merit. Some say it was given by Bette Davis, who thought the ass on the statue looked like the ass on her first husband, band leader Harmon Oscar Nelson; others claim that it was famed longtime Academy Librarian Margaret Herrick who named the statue after her uncle. This is the first reported use of the name, by gossip columnist Sidney Skolsky, in 1931. The model for the statue was Emilio "El Indio" Fernandez.
The Emmy was originally an Immy, for image orthicon camera, and the name stuck because the statue is female (actually the wife of the statuette's designer Louis McManus).
Ask and ye shall receive, courtesy of the crack research team (rather than the research team on crack) at the Pop Culture Institute - with a little help from Google and Wikipedia.
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