The reality is that an Emmy stunt likely to become one of the awards' golden moments came about entirely by serendipity. When Emmy host Garry Shandling brought two blindfolded "real people" onstage at the Shrine Auditorium to announce the winner in the reality TV category Sunday night, it was no joke -- these really were "real people." They had no clue that when the blindfolds came off they would be standing before 6,000 of television's best, brightest and most glamorous people. The dazed and dazzled duo were Amy Scholsohn from Orlando and Bruce Milam Jr. from Joliet, Ill. -- and up to the moment the blindfolds came off, they thought they were competing on a "new reality show," according to reality show casting director Marla Brodsky. The pair's surprise and awe was patent. On spying Jennifer Aniston in the audience, Scholsohn gasped, "Oh my God, Jennifer Aniston -- they say I look like you." Brodsky, casting director on the reality show Extreme Makeover, found the pair. But the back story of how that came about emerged only after the curtain went down on Sunday night's Emmys.
- 9/20/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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