Grace Under Pressure

This morning on the Today Show, I saw a story about S. Epatha Merkerson's receiving an Emmy Award. I didn't see the TV movie she won it for, but clearly she must have been quite good. Anyway, she apparently provided one of the more genuine and amusing moments of the show. Ms. Merkerson is, shall we say, a black woman who might be described as "full-figured."

The upshot of the story is that Ms. Merkerson (well, I can't really call her "S" and am not sure if she goes by Epatha) had tucked her acceptance speech into the top of her dress. As the evening wore on, she needed to get up several times to allow people to pass. Unbeknownst to her, the speech migrated, and when she arrived on stage to accept her award, reached into her top to remove it from where it was pressed between her breast and the dress, and it was nowhere to be found.

Today invited her on under the pretext of allowing her to give the speech she couldn't give at the Emmy's. I don't believe she actually gave the speech, but they all seemed to enjoy the story and showing the clip of it. Ms. Merkerson said that Geena Davis said that she tried to interpose herself between the her and the camera in order to allow retrieval of the missing speech from between her breasts.

Here's a link to Ms. Merkerson in the TV movie she won for: http://www.hbo.com/films/lackawannablues/cast/s_epatha_merkerson.html. I commend Ms. Merkerson for showing grace under pressure and congratulate her on her Emmy.