Brock Posted September 8, 2011 Report Share Posted September 8, 2011 And the winner is... Mary Tyler Moore! SAG announced today they are honouring Mary Tyler Moore with their annual Lifetime Achievement Award this January! Congratulations, Mare!! Mary Tyler Moore will receive the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award at January’s SAG Awards ceremony. “Mary Tyler Moore won our hearts as Laura Petrie and Mary Richards, our respect as her production company became synonymous with quality television, our awe as she tackled difficult subject matter in film and on Broadway, and our admiration she turned her public recognition into a catalyst to draw attention to critical and deeply personal health and social issues,” said SAG president Ken Howard, in a statement. “She truly embodies the spirit behind SAG’s Life Achievement Award, and we are honored to proclaim her as its 48th recipient.” Moore, he helped redefine the image of the American woman on shows like The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Mary Tyler Moore Show, has won seven Emmys, a Tony, and she was nominated for an Academy Award. The 18th annual SAG Awards will air live on TNT and TBS on Jan. 29. http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/09/08/mary-tyler-moore-sag-award/ With Ed, Betty, and now Mare walking away with SAG Lifetime Achievement awards, poor Gavin must be feeling left out. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Posted September 8, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2011 Official announcement from SAG: LOS ANGELES (September 8, 2011) – Renowned actress, producer and humanitarian Mary Tyler Moore will receive Screen Actors Guild (SAG)’s most prestigious accolade – the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. Moore created a new paradigm for female leads in television, won top honors for her courageous performances in film, television and on stage, produced some of the most lauded television programs of all time, and for thirty years, has served as a tireless advocate giving hope to all those afflicted with Type 1 diabetes. Moore will be presented the Award, given annually to an actor who fosters the “finest ideals of the acting profession,” at the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®, which premieres live on TNT and TBS on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012, at 8 p.m. ET, 7 p.m. CT, 6 p.m. MT and 5 p.m. PT. In making today’s announcement, Screen Actors Guild National President Ken Howard said, “Mary Tyler Moore won our hearts as Laura Petrie and Mary Richards, our respect as her production company became synonymous with quality television, our awe as she tackled difficult subject matter in film and on Broadway, and our admiration she turned her public recognition into a catalyst to draw attention to critical and deeply personal health and social issues. She truly embodies the spirit behind SAG’s Life Achievement Award, and we are honored to proclaim her as its 48th recipient.” Holder of seven Emmys®, a Tony® and an Academy Award® nomination, among numerous industry and philanthropic accolades, Mary Tyler Moore first rose to prominence when she was cast at 23 as Dick Van Dyke’s wife in his eponymous sitcom, based loosely on the experiences of comedy writer Carl Reiner. Smart, feisty and down-to-earth in capri pants and fashionable tops, Moore’s Laura Petrie was new kind of television wife and mother. The audiences loved her and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences awarded her two Emmys and a nomination during the show’s five-year run. Following “The Dick Van Dyke Show’s” successful run, Moore combined her acting, singing and dancing talents in 1967 as Julie Andrew’s co-star in the 1920’s film musical “Thoroughly Modern Millie.” She was Elvis Presley’s final leading lady in 1969’s “Change of Habit” and the same year made her television movie debut in the drama “Run A Crooked Mile.” When CBS beckoned with the offer to develop her own television series, Moore formed a production company, MTM, with her then husband Grant Tinker. Their groundbreaking comedy “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” premiered on September 19, 1970. While other comedies had been set in the workplace, Moore’s chronicled the career, friendships and dating life of a single, thirtyish, spunky, independent, career woman, in the unseen world of local TV news. With a brilliant cast, the character-driven series redefined the meaning of ensemble comedy and of family. In its seven-year run garnered 29 Emmys, including four for its star. Nearly 25 years later Moore was present as TV Land dedicated a statue in downtown Minneapolis depicting the iconic moment in the show’s opening credit’s when a hopeful Mary Richards tosses her hat in the air. Moore and Tinker’s MTM Enterprises continued to produce an impressive list of landmark comedies and dramas including “The Bob Newhart Show”, “Newhart, “WKRP in Cincinnati,” “Hill Street Blues” “The White Shadow” (starring current SAG president Ken Howard) and “St. Elsewhere,” Characters from “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” became the focus for several successful spin-offs in the 1970s: “Rhoda,” starring Valerie Harper; “Phyllis,” starring Cloris Leachman; and “Lou Grant,” starring Ed Asner (SAG’s 38th Life Achievement recipient), which significantly took Asner’s gruff but soft-hearted journalist from TV newsroom comedy into a hard-hitting newspaper-set drama. Moore showcased her dramatic talent in her Emmy-nominated depiction of TV correspondent Betty Rollin’s battle with breast cancer in the 1978 CBS telefilm “First You Cry.” In 1980 Moore was nominated for an Oscar® for her riveting portrayal of Beth Jarrett, a bitter mother coping with the death of one son and the attempted suicide of another in the Robert Redford-directed drama “Ordinary People.” The same year she continued to explore painful subject matter onstage in the hit Broadway play "Whose Life Is It, Anyway?" which earned her a Tony for playing a quadriplegic sculptor fighting to determine her own destiny, a role originated by Tom Conti and rewritten for its female star in her Broadway debut. Other feature films include: “Six Weeks,” opposite Dudley Moore; David O, Russell’s “Flirting with Disaster”; and Peter Calahan's dark comedy Against The Current, opposite Joseph Fiennes and Justin Kirk, which premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. Moore’s success in telefilms has continued across decades: In 1984, she delivered an Emmy-nominated performance in the ABC television movie "Heartsounds" opposite James Garner (SAG’s 41st Life Achievement recipient),; received a Cable Ace nomination for HBO’s “Finnegan Begin Again” opposite Robert Preston and Sam Waterson; delivered a stunning portrayal of disturbed first lady Mary Todd Lincoln in the 1988 NBC miniseries “Gore Vidal’s Lincoln;” and won her seventh Emmy in 1993 for her performance as a spinster trafficking in illegal adoption in Lifetime’s “Stolen Babies.” Other telefilm credits include TNT’s "Miss Lettie and Me" and the CBS television films "Like Mother, Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kimes"; “Snow Wonder”; and "Blessings" based on the Anna Quindlan novel. She and Dick Van Dyke showcased their old spark in a PBS version of D. L. Coburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning nursing home-set stage play "The Gin Game," then reunited with a large number of their former cast mates in TV Land’s nostalgic “The Dick Van Dyke Show Revisited.” Moore’s television guest roles include: a recurring run as Tea Leoni's mother "The Naked Truth,” an appearance as Ellen DeGeneres’s Aunt Mary in a Christmas episode of “Ellen,” a recurring stint as a high-strung TV host on “That 70’s Show” and a multi-episode arc in NBC’s “Lipstick Jungle.” This year, on the season premiere of “Hot in Cleveland,” Moore reunited onscreen with Betty White for the first time since “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” sharing a jail cell with White’s character, Elka, who was arrested in the season one cliffhanger. . Moore returned to the stage in 1987 to star opposite Lynn Redgrave in A. R. Gurney Jr.’s “Sweet Sue” and has performed numerous benefit readings of Gurney’s two-person “Love Letters,” starring opposite James Earl Jones to benefit, the Poughkeepsie Day School, Patrick Stewart to benefit the Ethical Culture School and Gene Wilder for the North Shore Child and Family Guidance Center Association, as well as opposite Gurney himself. Moore’s first autobiography, “After All,” published in 1995, was a frank exploration of her childhood, personal challenges and career. Her second book, “Growing Up Again: Life, Loves, and Oh Yeah, Diabetes” is a candid, humorous and illuminating detailing of her battles with the disease since she was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes (then called “juvenile diabetes” for its prevalence among children) in 1970 at age 33. The book includes conversations with remarkable people who live with the disease and those who work on the frontiers of medical research. Moore donated all her profits from “Growing Up Again” to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), the world’s leading funder and advocate for Type 1 diabetes science. Moore has been JDRF’s International Chairman since 1984. She has also chaired JDRF’s biennial Children’s Congress since its inception in 1999, leading up to 200 children with Type 1 diabetes to Washington, D.C. to meet face-to-face with congressional representatives. Moore has been at the vanguard of JDRF’s visit on Capitol Hill, testifying before the House and Senate on behalf of increased National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding for Type 1 diabetes, which affects as many as 3 million children and adults. Moore and her husband, Dr. S Robert Levine, have been generous supporters of JDRF’s research programs and in 2003 established JDRF’s “Excellence in Clinical Research Award” in recognition of outstanding diabetes researchers. She herself was honored by JDRF in 2007 with its Humanitarian of the Year Award. Among many other accolades, Moore received the 1984 Women in Film Crystal Award, was immortalized in 1992 with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, was presented with the American Screenwriters Association first David Angell Humanitarian Award in 2002 and in 2009 was honored with the National Association of Broadcasters Distinguished Service Award. Moore co-founded Broadway Barks with Bernadette Peters in 1999. The annual event held in Broadway’s Shubert Alley promotes the adoption of shelter animals, seeks to end euthanasia of dogs and cats in New York City and fosters a spirit of community among the number shelters and rescue groups working throughout the city. New York Major Michael Bloomberg proclaimed this year’s July 9, 2011, event as “Broadway Barks Day.” The Brooklyn-born daughter of George Tyler Moore and Marjorie Hackett, Moore, Moore had moved with her family to California at 8 and aspired to be a dancer. After graduating Immaculate Heart High School, she broke into commercials, then gained acting credentials in television, first as the only partially-glimpsed switchboard operator on “Richard Diamond, Private Eye” and in guest roles in more than a dozen popular series, such as ““Hawaiian Eye,” “77 Sunset Strip,” and “Wanted: Dead or Alive.” http://www.sag.org/mary-tyler-moore-honored-2011-screen-actors-guild-life-achievement-award Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryCarter Posted September 8, 2011 Report Share Posted September 8, 2011 They couldn't have picked a better person! They need to have the MTM gang and Dick Van Dyke present her the award. Mary should present the award to Dick Van Dyke next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeySanJoaquin Posted September 8, 2011 Report Share Posted September 8, 2011 AhhhCHEW! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MONALISAISMONALUCY Posted September 8, 2011 Report Share Posted September 8, 2011 Congratulations, Mary Tyler Moore for receiving the Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeySanJoaquin Posted September 8, 2011 Report Share Posted September 8, 2011 Congratulations, Mary Tyler Moore for receiving the Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award!!! I agree! Despite early fame, beauty, bounteous awards and several personal tragedies, this is one class act and IMHO most deserivng. Hear, hear Miss MTM!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted September 9, 2011 Report Share Posted September 9, 2011 With Ed, Betty, and now Mare walking away with SAG Lifetime Achievement awards, poor Gavin must be feeling left out. lol Murray was the one weak link on MTM, but he did have the last laugh, at least for a while, sailing the inane (and for me the unwatchable-despite old time guests) Love Boat during which time Mary, Betty, Valerie, Ted, and Ed all had shows canceled...In fact during the run of Love Boat, Mary had 3 series fail (Annie Maguire had not yet aired). I think Mary (the sitcom not the variety show) was well done and should have had more of a run. Mary has SEVEN Emmys? 2 for DVD, how many for MTM? 2 or 3. What were the others for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Posted September 9, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2011 Four for The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and one Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryCarter Posted September 9, 2011 Report Share Posted September 9, 2011 Mary has SEVEN Emmys? 2 for DVD, how many for MTM? 2 or 3. What were the others for? Mary has two Emmys for The Dick Van Dyke Show (1964, 1966), four for Mary Tyler Moore (1973, 1974, 1976), and one for the Lifetime TV movie "Stolen Babies." Mary won two Emmys in 1974 for "Mary Tyler Moore" - one was the controversial Super Emmy that was only presented that year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeySanJoaquin Posted September 9, 2011 Report Share Posted September 9, 2011 Mary has two Emmys for The Dick Van Dyke Show (1964, 1966), four for Mary Tyler Moore (1973, 1974, 1976), and one for the Lifetime TV movie "Stolen Babies." Mary won two Emmys in 1974 for "Mary Tyler Moore" - one was the controversial Super Emmy that was only presented that year. I thought she'd also won one for her riveting portrayal of Mary Todd Lincoln in a well-done TVM. Hmmm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryCarter Posted September 9, 2011 Report Share Posted September 9, 2011 I thought she'd also won one for her riveting portrayal of Mary Todd Lincoln in a well-done TVM. Hmmm. She was nominated, but didn't win. Almost any time she and Ed Asner are interviewed together, Ed brings up "Lincoln" and says she should have won the Emmy. She lost to Jessica Tandy for a Hallmark Hall of Fame. Mary's other two TV movie nominations were for "First You Cry" and "Heartsounds." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryCarter Posted January 27, 2012 Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 Here's a great interview with Mary about the SAG honor from the New York Times: Boy, Did She Make ItBy NEIL GENZLINGERGREENWICH, Conn. — In her office at her home here Mary Tyler Moore has one case that holds her Emmy statuettes (she has won seven) and Golden Globe awards (three). A second case has, among other honors, her People’s Choice awards (four). She’ll have another piece of hardware after this weekend. She will receive the Screen Actors Guild’s lifetime achievement award on Sunday during that organization’s annual ceremony in Los Angeles, which will be broadcast at 8 p.m. on TNT and TBS. When asked if there was a souvenir from her long career that she was particularly proud of, she pointed not to the trophy cases, but to the wall. “I think the M,” she said. It was the large letter familiar from the apartment of Mary Richards, her character on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” the popular and pivotal 1970s series. Ms. Moore had agreed to watch an episode of the show with me to see what memories it stirred, an apt exercise in a television season notable for new female-centered sitcoms and stars like Zooey Deschanel (“New Girl”) who have cited the earlier show as a touchstone. The M is goldish in color but apparently not solid gold. “We did a retrospective, and they wondered whether or not they could have the M,” Ms. Moore recalled. “And I said, ‘Sure.’ I couldn’t imagine what could go wrong.” What could go wrong, it turned out, was the exchange between a prop handler and a truck driver. “They dropped it, and it shattered into about four different pieces,” Ms. Moore said. “This is the original, glued back together.” The M was given a shout-out in one of Ms. Moore’s most recent television appearances, a funny cameo last year on her friend Betty White’s sitcom, “Hot in Cleveland.” Ms. White’s character has landed in jail, and her cellmate turns out to be Ms. Moore. “What’s with the big M” on the wall over her bunk, Ms. White asks. And jailbird Mary replies, “Stands for murder.” That M was merely painted; Ms. Moore admitted she’ll be reluctant to let the original leave the safety of her office again. Its fragility seemed fitting somehow, earlier in my visit Ms. Moore, who is 75, had talked about her own fragility, a consequence of Type 1 diabetes. “I’ve been a diabetic for about 35 years now, and I’m one of the very lucky few who has managed to live that long without having major problems,” she said. But, she added, “I do have problems with my eyes, one eye in particular, and if I fall, I generally break a bone.” About the falling: It’s made a bit more likely by the presence here of four dogs. With her vision problems, she tends to trip over them. But they’re not going anywhere; animals have been right up there with diabetes on the list of Ms. Moore’s causes. (She and Bernadette Peters organize Broadway Barks, the annual pet-adoption event in Shubert Alley.) One dog in particular, a friendly, face-licking pit bull named Spanky, is earning his keep. “He has, as with some dogs that have been written about, the ability to sense when things are off in their owners, their masters, whatever we’re calling them in this day and age,” she said. “He can tell when my blood sugar is dipping low.” Ms. Moore also had a run-in with a brain tumor last year, but one that she says was exaggerated in some quarters. “Any time you mention the brain, it terrifies people,” she said. “There were those who delighted in spreading the rumor that I have brain disease, or some other really gripping, nonpleasant situation. But I was very fortunate.” What she had, she said, was a meningioma, a small tumor on the lining of the brain, removed without incident. We also talked about a side of her career — her film work — that few people think of because of her tremendous television success, first with “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and then with her own series. One film she is particularly proud of that might not spring immediately to mind, she said, is “Miss Lettie and Me,” a 2002 television movie about a bitter spinster surprised by a visit from a young relative. “That really gave me a lot of joy and a sense of juiciness in that when she comes on the screen she’s a woman in her 80s,” she said of her character. “And with the help of a rather inspired makeup artist, we were able to pull that off.” The film that stands out, of course, is “Ordinary People,” the Oscar-winning 1980 drama directed by Robert Redford. Ms. Moore said that Mr. Redford had reservations about casting her as the icy mother Beth Jarrett because she was so thoroughly identified with her comic TV roles. But, she said, he had also wondered “what the dark side of Mary Tyler Moore was, and could she pull this off.” “And I did all but jump up and down and scream: ‘Yes, I can. I know this woman. I grew up with her.’ ” “I was thinking of my own family history and how we missed the mark of being everything that I’m sure people thought I was,” she continued. “Because I had, though nothing that would raise your eyebrows. I had problems with my father, in that he expected more from me than I was able to give. I did not do well in school, and that was a big disappointment to him.” But, she said, her father, George Tyler Moore, who died in 2006, eventually got over that. “We did our shows, both the Van Dyke show and mine, in front of audiences, and he and my mother would come to every show,” she said. “And I could recognize my father’s laugh.” Just before we sat down to watch TV, Ms. Moore apologized, not for the first time that day, about a watery eye that was giving her trouble. “Forgive my teardrop,” she said. “You’re not making me sad.” She had wanted to watch the episode titled “Chuckles Bites the Dust,” a daffy high point of Season 6 that involves the death of a television clown. But here’s a secret: Mary Tyler Moore does not own all of the “Mary Tyler Moore” DVDs. So instead we watched the series finale, broadcast the next season, in March 1977. I had to ask about the signature moment in the opening collage in which Ms. Moore joyously tosses her hat into the Minneapolis sky. “It was a hat that my aunt had given me for Christmas,” she said, “and I brought it with me because they said: ‘Be sure and dress warm. It’s going to be freezing in Minneapolis.’ So — I forget which writer it was — but we were all outside, and he said: ‘You know what would be good? If you take that hat, the beret, and throw it in the air.’ ” Ted Knight dominates the finale, in which the entire staff of the TV station where Mary works is fired except for his loopy newscaster character. “He was a real actor,” Ms. Moore said during a particularly hilarious turn by Knight, who died in 1986. “He took every moment seriously.” Knight was cracking up the audience. “That was my father’s ‘Hu,’ ” Ms. Moore said, recognizing his laugh. Another scene also stirred her emotions: when Valerie Harper and Cloris Leachman, whose “Mary Tyler Moore” characters had been spun off into their own sitcoms, return. “This was hard,” Ms. Moore said as their scene played out, “doing this hello again, then goodbye.” At the episode’s end Ms. Moore introduces her co-stars to the studio audience one by one. “The best cast ever,” she calls them. Time may have proved her right: two — Ms. White and Ed Asner — already have the lifetime achievement award that Mr. Van Dyke is to present to Ms. Moore this weekend. Then the camera pans the audience as it applauds the final bow. “There’s my dad,” she said, pointing him out. “With the white hair. Tall.” He’s in the front row. As we finished, Ms. Moore reached for the tissue box. “Now I am crying,” she said. “It’s not just a bad eye.” My link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C L A U D E Posted January 27, 2012 Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 Four for The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and one Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries. Oh yeah, slave owner on Roots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MONALISAISMONALUCY Posted January 27, 2012 Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 Even if television after "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and "The Mary Tyler Moore" was less successful for Mary Tyler Moore, it was the film "Ordinary People" that brought us a new dimension to Mary's talent. How I "hated" and "pitied" her character she portrayed in this film. Luckily for myself, she made us love her "character" again in the film "Six Weeks". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucyImHome Posted January 28, 2012 Report Share Posted January 28, 2012 And the winner is... Mary Tyler Moore! SAG announced today they are honouring Mary Tyler Moore with their annual Lifetime Achievement Award this January! Congratulations, Mare!! http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/09/08/mary-tyler-moore-sag-award/ With Ed, Betty, and now Mare walking away with SAG Lifetime Achievement awards, poor Gavin must be feeling left out. lol Yeah, that's been an on going joke about Gavin for years!!! Murray never got a "Teddy Award", but Mare, Lou, Ted and SueAnn did!; Gavin never won an Emmy, but Mare, Ed, Val, Betty and Ted did!; Gavin/Murray never got a spin-off!, but Val, Cloris, Ed and Betty (sort-of), did! Poor Gavin! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucyImHome Posted January 28, 2012 Report Share Posted January 28, 2012 They couldn't have picked a better person! They need to have the MTM gang and Dick Van Dyke present her the award. Mary should present the award to Dick Van Dyke next year. I believe Dick Van Dyke IS presenting the award to her! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeySanJoaquin Posted January 28, 2012 Report Share Posted January 28, 2012 Yeah, that's been an on going joke about Gavin for years!!! Murray never got a "Teddy Award", but Mare, Lou, Ted and SueAnn did!; Gavin never won an Emmy, but Mare, Ed, Val, Betty and Ted did!; Gavin/Murray never got a spin-off!, but Val, Cloris, Ed and Betty (sort-of), did! Poor Gavin! As the "has ran" of the group, I wouldn't feel too bad for "poor Gavin", after all he went on to head his own long-running (10 seasons!) series -- remember a little show called "The Love Boat"?? -- which spawned TVM sequels and even a series remake...probably did okay money-wise, too. Poor Gavin indeed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucyImHome Posted January 29, 2012 Report Share Posted January 29, 2012 As the "has ran" of the group, I wouldn't feel too bad for "poor Gavin", after all he went on to head his own long-running (10 seasons!) series -- remember a little show called "The Love Boat"?? -- which spawned TVM sequels and even a series remake...probably did okay money-wise, too. Poor Gavin indeed! Yeah! The "Poor Gavin" bit is just a joke. Its great he landed the role of The Love Boat Captain! And The Love Boat lasted longer than The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda, Phyllis, Lou Grant, Too Close For Comfort/The Ted Knight Show, The Betty White Show, Valerie(even after Valerie was fired), Mary, The Mary Tyler Moore Hour, even The Golden Girls. Gavin got the last laugh!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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