SAG Awards: Most Glamorous Assemblage of "Homosexuals and Prostitutes" Ever

-- Brian Juergens from AfterElton.com

Again, since we are through the WGA/AMPTP-forged looking glass this season, our beloved awards shows have traded bodies like one of those movies where Judge Reinhold switches bodied with his precocious 10-year-old son. While the Golden Globes and People's Choice - generally the bellweather events for drunken celebrity pratfalls and bad fashion - were hobbled at the knees by the strike, dark-horse events like the Critics' Choice, the DGA Awards (from which even Sean Young can still get kicked out), and last night's SAG Awards have become the hotness of the season. Go figure!

Last night's SAG Awards ceremony was a perfectly charming affair, with a few points of queer interest. First and foremost, Best Actor in a Moustache winner Daniel Day-Lewis (for There Will Be Blood) unexpectedly dedicated his award to Heath Ledger, noting that his performance in Brokeback Mountain was "perfect". Day-Lewis later noted that while he had never actually met Ledger, his death was all that he could think about for the past few days.

The show actually kicked off with some gay-fave goofiness, with  (who played gay on Melrose and still looks adorable), Rebecca Romijn (who made a crack about playing a transgender character on Ugly Betty being no more odd than walking runways in underwear or being painted blue) and Jane Krakowski (introducing herself as Johnny Depp) among the stars who introduced the evening.

Another interesting moment came when Javier Bardem, who won Best Supporting Prince Valiant Bob (for No Country for Old Men), noted that not too long ago actors were not allowed to be buried on sacred ground because they were all "homosexuals and prostitutes". This would have been the perfect opportunity to single out some hustlers in the crowd, but apparently that was too squirmy for even the producers. I get what Bardem was saying, but it did come across a little differently than he'd intended, I think. Oh, and the first two people in the These are the People Who Died This Year montage were Merv Griffin and Charles Nelson Reilly.

Though Grey's Anatomy was up for Best Ensemble, neither T.R. Knight nor BFF Katie Heigl were present. And although a classic Marc St. James (Michael Urie) was used in the clip for Ugly Betty's ensemble nom, it and Brothers & Sisters took home no awards, with The Sopranos and 30 Rock sweeping pretty much everything. The clip for Extras' nomination also had mention of the "queer bench" where Ricky Gervais would meet George Michael cruising the park, and the clip for The Office had a rare appearance of Gay Oscar, who I thought had been lost in the supply closet this season.