It's hard to say which opener was worse: the MTV Video Music Awards with Michael Jackson's and Lisa Marie Presley's painful-to-watch kiss (right), or the Emmy Awards featuring Bette Midler's screechy tune from Gypsy. And the comparisons didn't end there. Television's biggest night and the music industry's most outlandish extravaganza had more in common than a rare prime- time appearance by David Letterman. ...multiple costume changes by the EACH HAD... ...multiple costume changes by the host(s)
MTV Roseanne 4) EMMYS Patricia Richardson and Ellen DeGeneres (2 each)
...THE UNLIKELY ATTENDEE MTV John F. Kennedy Jr. EMMYS Michelle Pfeiffer
...GUESTS THEY NEEDED TO PROOF AT THE PARTY MTV three of Roseanne's four kids, ages 19, 17, 15 EMMYS Jerry Seinfeld's date, Shoshanna Lonstein, 19
MULTIPLE PROMOS BY THE HOST NETWORD MTV 25 EMMYS 17
...A PEDANTIC SPEECH MTV by Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner EMMMYS by ABC News' Jeff Greenfield
...A DOGGY ACKNOWLEDGEMENT MTV Flavor Flav to fellow rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg EMMYS Frasier's Kelsey Grammer to Moose (a.k.a. Eddie)
...REALLY OLD MEN MTV The Rolling Stone EMMYS Picket Fences' Fyvush Finkel
...A MORBID FIXATION WITH DEATH MTV Kurt Cobain EMMYS Jessica Tandy
