MTV News welcomes Shelly Morrison as our official Movie Awards Insider for the 2009 MTV Movie Awards. From now until the big show on Sunday, Shelly will be mixing it up with the hottest celebrities and taking you behind closed doors for one of Hollywood's biggest events.
Hey everyone! I'm Shelly Morrison, and I am going to be your insider for the MTV Movie Awards. I'm 22 years old and from O'Fallon, Illinois, about 30 minutes from St. Louis, Missouri. I graduated from college about a year ago with a degree in Business Administration/International Management, and spent last summer working in the marketing communications department of a bank in Germany.
I entered the Movie Awards Insider competition on a whim, really. I wrote my 250 words, crossed my fingers and sent it off hoping for the best. I was shocked that I actually made it as a finalist, and I still can't believe that I am here in L.A. hanging out with MTV News. Read More...
Mark Sidlow and Rick Merrill are not only the Senior Production Manager and General Manager of Universal Studio’s Gibson Amphitheatre respectively, but they are also two of the vital vertebrae in the spine of the MTV Movie Awards. Every year, the duo are among the many who work tirelessly behind-the-scenes to make everything look so spontaneous on your TV screen. And with Sunday night’s live broadcast getting closer every minute, they are once again hard at work.
It's not every day that you get to watch a film about betrayal, carnal desire and the supposed intrinsic nature of men to think below the waist -- all at 8:30 in the morning. But on Tuesday, as the rest of the world tuned in to see a new president take the oath, myself and a half-asleep Sundance crowd shuffled into the Racquet Club theater to see John Krasinski's "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men."
Normally, at this part in a Sundance review, I'm supposed to tell you what the buzz was like as I waited in line.