"Santana Fontano" ??

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"Santana Fontano" ??#1

Posted: 6/13/13 at 2:45pm

Just rewatched Sally Field's shredding of Santino Fontana's name during the Lead Actor in a Musical category on the Tony Awards. Always bugs me when an award presenter doesn't take the time to learn the whopping FOUR NAMES they are about to announce to millions of people. Shame, Sally, shame.

(Not to mention she was clearly only there to present Tom Hanks with his expected Tony. The obvious disappointment in her voice when she reads "Tracy Letts" is hilarious.)

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Updated On: 6/13/13 at 02:45 PM

[Wynbish]

Santana Fontano#2

Posted: 6/13/13 at 3:02pm

I love Santino, but I wonder if it's karma after his joke about how Wendy Williams' mispronounced Osnes at the Broadway.com awards.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Santana Fontano#2

Posted: 6/13/13 at 3:05pm

I hope Sally Field's bones shatter to pieces because of this. How dare she.

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Santana Fontano#3

Posted: 6/13/13 at 3:30pm

I love me some Phyllis Rogers Stone. That made me cackle.

[Mister Matt]

Santana Fontano#4

Posted: 6/13/13 at 3:46pm

I just get this inkling of a feeling Santino is probably used to having his name butchered.

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

[JudyDenmark]

Santana Fontano#5

Posted: 6/13/13 at 3:58pm

What's interesting is that Sally Field was one of the few celebs who showed up at the rehearsal that morning! I can't remember if she botched his name then too, but... yeah. I love me some Sally, but if you only have FOUR NAMES to say, and you're going to say them on national TV, you really ought to practice them. Not to mention that Santino Fontana's name is perfectly phonetic. He's not Samir Nagheenanajar.

[Playbilly]

Santana Fontano#6

Posted: 6/13/13 at 4:14pm

Let's call her "Sally Fields" from now on.

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[Ed_Mottershead]

Santana Fontano#7

Posted: 6/13/13 at 4:40pm

Remember back in 1981 when Elizabeth Taylor pronounced Nederlander as Needleheimer?

BroadwayEd

Updated On: 6/13/13 at 04:40 PM

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Santana Fontano#8

Posted: 6/13/13 at 4:45pm

I DO! I DO! I DO!

[mamaleh]

Santana Fontano#9

Posted: 6/13/13 at 5:11pm

I remember Sally Field's stumbling over Fontana's first name at rehearsal, but she certainly didn't say "Santana" then. At least she showed up; many others didn't.

[SweetLips]

Santana Fontano#10

Posted: 6/13/13 at 6:27pm

Oh Judy--I laughed--and laughed over your post--thanks..x

[millie_dillmount]

Santana Fontano#11

Posted: 6/13/13 at 6:29pm

"I just get this inkling of a feeling Santino is probably used to having his name butchered."

Really? I think someone over there just misspelled the name. Either way...

"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611

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Santana Fontano#12

Posted: 6/14/13 at 9:46am

Dreamfingers!

[Dollypop]

Santana Fontano#13

Posted: 6/14/13 at 10:00am

Mrs. Fields is "of a certain age". Perhaps her eyesight isn't what it once was.

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