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Not even award shows are safe from ridicule at the MTV Movie Awards.
Known for its light-hearted celebration and skewering of films and actors, the ceremony turned on itself on Saturday night, jabbing at everything from acceptance-speech advocacy to booming TV announcers.
Ben Stiller won best villain for his role as a menacing gym owner in Dodgeball and raised an egg in his hand to demonstrate the evils of high cholesterol.
“Take a look at this little fella. He’s killed more people than all the Hollywood bad guys combined,” Stiller said. “Crush cholesterol now!”
Host Jimmy Fallon got into a heated verbal argument with the disembodied show announcer, who said he would fight Fallon in person. But when a masked man ran out on stage and Fallon knocked him down some steps, the announcer revealed: “You just killed Frankie Muniz.”
In another segment, Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn coached a young man on how to get into parties, but their pupil was stopped and beaten by a bouncer at the MTV Awards red carpet.
Eminem referred to his run-in with Triumph the Insult Comic Dog at a past award show by mimicking the puppet to tease Lindsay Lohan.
“You like to remake movies,” he said, in reference to Freaky Friday and Herbie: Fully Loaded. “What are you going to remake next, Glitter?”
There was also a rare hint of nostalgia in evidence as the youth-focused cable network gave out its first lifetime achievement award to Tom Cruise and honoured the 1985 film The Breakfast Club.
Cruise accepted the award from girlfriend Katie Holmes, who poked fun at his Oprah appearance by dropping down on one knee in celebration and asking the crowd, “Should I go get him?”
Laughing, Cruise moved slowly through his remarks and told yelling audience members, “Let me speak.
“If I’ve been able to entertain you at all, then I thank you for allowing me to do so,” he said.
Hilary Swank introduced a reunion of four members of The Breakfast Club cast, saying the film about students brought together in high-school detention reflected “the good, the bad and the ugly of teenage wasteland”.
Star Molly Ringwald said the movie was made “for the MTV generation. We made it for you!
“I had no idea that we’d be here 20 years later and it would still mean so much.” she said.
Dustin Hoffman, in accepting his award for comedic performance for Meet the Fockers, said he was making an effort to keep in touch with the younger generation by copying Eminem. He stepped away from the podium and grabbed his crotch between each thank-you.
Rachel McAdams took home three awards, including breakthrough female performance for her role as the meanest of Mean Girls and best kiss for her rain-soaked smooch with Ryan Gosling in The Notebook. The two recreated the kiss on-stage and Gosling gushed, “Look, it was my pleasure.”
McAdams’ third award, for on-screen team, was shared with Mean Girls co-star Lohan, who also received the award for best female performance.
“Watch out for the paparazzi,” said Lohan, who hosted last year’s show and was slightly injured when a celebrity photographer crashed into her Mercedes-Benz last week.
Napoleon Dynamite was named best movie and star Jon Heder received two awards: breakthrough male performance and best musical performance for his awkward talent-show dance moves set to a Jamiroquai song.
“I want to thank Michael Jackson, John Travolta, Justin Timberlake,” Heder said, referring to the inspirations for his dance moves.
Other winners included Leonardo DiCaprio for male performance in The Aviator and Daryl Hannah and Uma Thurman for best fight in Kill Bill Vol. 2.
Child actress Dakota Fanning won best frightened performance in Hide and Seek, saying of her Golden Popcorn trophy, “This is the best popcorn I’ve ever had.”
Cruise carried Fanning, his War of the Worlds co-star, on-stage as they later presented an award together. “It’s part of her contract. I have to carry her everywhere,” he said.
The awards handed out at the Shrine Auditorium were based on fan votes. The show will be broadcast on Thursday. AP
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convention
a traditional method or style in literature, art or the theatre
ridicule
to make something look silly by laughing at it in an unkind way
skewer (metaphor)
making fun of in a hurtful way
jab
throwing strong insults
cholesterol
a substance found in blood, fat and most tissues of the body
heated
full of anger and excitement
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segment
a part of something that is separate from the other parts or can be considered separately
coached
to train somebody to improve a skill
mimic
to copy the way somebody speaks, moves, behaves, etc., especially in order to make other people laugh
nostalgia
a feeling of sadness mixed with pleasure and affection when you think of happy times in the past
poke fun
to say unkind things about somebody in order to make other people laugh at them
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reunion
a social occasion or party attended by a group of people who have not seen each other for a long time
detention
the punishment of being kept at school for a time after other students have gone home
MTV generation
young and trendy people
comedic
funny
smooch
to kiss and hold somebody closely, especially when you are dancing slowly
paparazzi
newspaper celebrity photographers
inspiration
the process that takes place when somebody sees or hears something that causes them to have exciting new ideas or makes them want to create something, especially in art, music or literature
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