But now, a nervous Frank Carroll was fixed in front of a television backstage, waiting to see how the judges would mark the aggressive but sloppy performance of Kwan's Russian rival, Irina Slutskaya.
While on the Web site the likes of Aaron Sorkin and Christian Bale sprinted out of the theater to talk to reporters and chat with presenters and other winners at a backstage bar, the television screen was filled with losers stuck in their seats, smiling tightly through their rancor and disappointment.
Earlier this year he described a backstage encounter after a television debate in which he had been arguing against the credibility of earthquake forecasting, a practice that enjoys support from parts of the Chinese science establishment.
Mr. Bull said he had not met Mr. Woodward and Mr. Bernstein until Monday, when he was backstage at a cable-television show.
Mr Farage had been milling around backstage at last night's television election leaders' debates at Sky News when he was spotted and confronted by Barbara Ntumy, a student.
It was business as usual after Louis Vuitton's spring show: Marc Jacobs took his bow and was followed backstage by packs of fawning television crews, all clamoring for a prime-time sound bite.
He speaks fondly of most of the people he knew working onstage ("Bye Bye Birdie," "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," "Hello, Dolly"), backstage (directing Julie Harris and Ruby Dee) and on television (from "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" to "The X-Files," with a long list of game shows in between).
His whip-smart, mile-a-minute dialogue made The West Wing deeply addictive on TV, and after uncertain works such as Charlie Wilson's War and the strange, small-screen drama Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip – in which Sorkin's distinctive, faintly martyred seriousness was bafflingly applied to the backstage shenanigans of a fictional television comedy – this writer is triumphantly back on form.
Video: Backstage with the Roots.
The creation of the championship was announced on August 20 , 2009during a backstage segment on TNA's primary television program TNA Impact!
