"Santana Fontano" ??

[followspot]

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]

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]

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

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

[logan2]

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

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

[Mister Matt]

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

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

[JudyDenmark]

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]

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

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

[Ed_Mottershead]

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

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

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

[egghumor]

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

I DO! I DO! I DO!

[mamaleh]

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]

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

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

[millie_dillmount]

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...

[sparrman]

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

Dreamfingers!

[Dollypop]

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

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