AP Photo/Mark J. TerrillI'm backstage in the press room, and I gotta tell ya, there's some stinky biz going on.
First off, the Sopranos cast was not happy when I spoiled their party and asked Best Actor nabber James Gandolfini, as an actor who's played gay, how he felt about the protests, both here just outside the Shrine Auditorium and in pockets around the country, against Heath Ledger for his role in Brokeback Mountain. Too ridiculous, he bitched, before the rest of his colleagues pounced. Jeez, haven't they won enough of those friggin' awards to give the fab Heath a decent word?
Then along comes Tina Fey, and if that gal wasn't coverin' up for costar Alec Baldwin's awkward absence, I'm not naturally highlighted. Wasn't quite sure where he was...Doesn't she know since his "dirty little pig" episode with his daughter, he'll be eaten alive by a bunch of reporters? Yes.
More in the Awful Truth later, babes.
—Filed by Ted Casablanca