Sally Field: Emmy Speech Bleep 'Surreal'

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Sally Field: Emmy Speech Bleep 'Surreal'
After Controversial Emmy Acceptance Speech Cut Short, Field Continues to Defend Her Words

Sept. 28, 2007


She's considered one of the great actors in any medium, be it movies, television or the stage. She has two Oscars and three Emmys — she won her third Emmy Sunday night for her role in the ABC show "Brothers & Sisters."

An actress as lauded by critics as she is loved by fans, Sally Field, one critic said, "has specialized in playing women whose demure exteriors have a way of cracking open to unleash torrents of outsized emotion at times of crisis."

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Immediately after the speech, the censoring was a surprise to Field. "No, I didn't know I had been bleeped. You know, the whole thing was sort of a surreal experience," she told ABC's Diane Sawyer on "Good Morning America."

It was just as she began to say "godd--ed" that her speech was cut off by Fox executives.

"I made the mistake of putting a God in front of the damned," Field told Sawyer. "But basically, I feel if anything on Earth God would damn, it would be war. But I guess for whatever reason, they decided that God and damned together was not acceptable," she said.

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