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Universal Studios Fire Destroys Back To The Future Set; MTV Movie Awards Tragically Unaffected

Posted by Andrew Osborne



I was living in Los Angeles in 1990 when a disgruntled security guard set fire to Universal Studios, causing $25 million dollars in damage and choking much of the San Fernando Valley in smoke.

History repeated itself on Sunday with another disastrous blaze on the famous back lot, only this time the destruction included a Gen-X touchstone: the Hill Valley clock tower set from the Back to the Future trilogy, where Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) tried to catch lightning in a flux capacitor in the first movie and raced around on a futuristic hover-skateboard in the sequel. The supercool animatronic King Kong that “attacked” passengers during the Universal tram ride was also destroyed.

Aside from Kong, nobody was injured in the conflagration, the cause of which is still under investigation.

The MTV Movie Awards were broadcast live from the adjacent Gibson (formerly Universal) Amphitheater less than 24 hours after the fire broke out (sometime around 4:30 A.M. Sunday morning). Fire footage and the full list of fake awards show winners are included after the jump:



2008 MTV MOVIE AWARDS

Best Movie

Transformers

Best Male Performance

Will Smith - I Am Legend

Best Female Performance

Ellen Page - Juno

Breakthrough Performance

Zac Efron - Hairspray

Best Comedic Performance

Johnny Depp - Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Best Kiss

Briana Evigan & Robert Hoffman - Step Up 2 the Streets

Best Villain

Johnny Depp - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Best Fight

Sean Faris vs. Cam Gigandet - Never Back Down

Best Summer Movie So Far

Iron Man


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Phil Nugent said:

I don't understand what you guys have against the MTV Movie Awards. They happen once in a year, you hear about them for the first time maybe a week in advance, some great-looking women and professional smartasses show up and look hot and crack wise for a couple of hours, and a couple of days later nobody remembers anything about it. It's not like they're the Oscars or some shit like that.

June 2, 2008 8:16 AM

Andrew Osborne said:

Actually, the cranky old coot in the back of my head just suggested the headline 'cuz it seemed funny in a fish-in-the-barrel way...but it's not like I'm not gonna watch the Movie Awards(especially since my TiVo keeps recording it every two hours)!  Plus, to be fair, it's been a while since the Oscars have provided a moment as memorable as Pee-Wee Herman's appearance on the MTVMA after his masturbation bust!

June 2, 2008 9:43 AM

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