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the formation of the Screen Actors Guild Awards Committee.
"We put the whole show together in just 15 months," says
founding committee member Kathy Connell, who was joined
on the committee by Daryl Anderson, Toey Caldwell, Paul
Napier and Yale Summers.
"I was fairly terrified a month before that first show, when
we started to send out invitations and didn't get RSVPs
immediately," remembers Connell, who is now the show's
executive producer.
Connell's concern, however, was unfounded. Accomplished
actors and union supporters showed up for the festivities,
including Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, John Travolta, Jessica
Lange, Tim Robbins, Edward James Olmos, Helen Hunt and
hundreds more. That first ceremony kicked off with Lansbury
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The cast members of Friends
at the second SAG Awards
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