Tonight I could have written the great American novel, learned to play Chopin's
Etudes, brought peace to the Middle East, or painted my house. Oh, the ennui of such pedestrian avocations. Let somebody else do all that (especially the house painting). I spent my time camped in front of the Emmys, snapping screen shots of the rollicking festivities. Nine galleries (click the headers below); over 500 pics.
The Acceptance Speeches. That's Thomas Haden Church to the right, praising God for his good fortune or taking a much-needed leak, I can't tell which.
Tony Bennett and Christina Aguilera. It was Tony's night (Bennett and Soprano, actually), and it was Aguilera's good fortune to be his co-crooner.
In Memoriam. Dead people, sadly. Some well known; others who actually do the hard work.
Jon Stewart and Steve Colbert. They solve global warming, then steal Ricky Gervais' Emmy.
Presentations. Possibly more glamorous than winning.
Ryan Seacrest. America's host, for better or worse.
The Audience. The camera loves Julia ... and dozens of others.
Lewis Black. And his many pissed-off faces.
The Sopranos. They mobbed the stage for no reason, then later they won the big award.
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9-17-2007 @ 6:28AM
jo said...
It is ashame these stars can't go on TV and use language the whole world can hear! Including children and Christians of the world. I think less of these people who swear and curse on TV. It tells me their "good words" vocabulary is limited and the use of everyday "bad words" take over their brain. It belittles a person who uses this kind of language in my opinion.
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9-17-2007 @ 7:57AM
Willy said...
Cool galleries, Brad. Thanks for your work.
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9-17-2007 @ 8:33AM
Bash said...
Jo, get a life.
I'd rather they speak the language the everyday joe does instead of some polished up pretend-language nobody speaks but the FCC.
You should rent the movie "F*CK" and find out that the word is so old nobody even knows where it came from.
Or watch Real Time with Bill Maher from last friday where everybody but a Congresswoman (Janice D. Schakowsky) on the panel can say "Shit" while wanting to because it expresses what she thinks best. Instead she says "They don't give a hoot". Who talks like that?
Ned Flanders. Nobody else.
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9-17-2007 @ 9:26AM
Debra said...
Can Sally Field ever get away from SYBIL????? She went right into her "SYBIL" mode just like she did in the funeral scene in Steel Magnolias. I cannot BELIEVE she beat Edie Falco!!!! Who the hell is voting anyway??? Did NOT like the Emmy Award show "in the round", don't think the "star" did either! I think James Spader is magnificant in his role on Boston Legal and toward the end of Sopranos James Gandolfini's accent became "odd"!! Sally Fied should NOT have won!!! OUCH!
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9-17-2007 @ 12:33PM
bakerchica said...
I don't know who AOL hired to comment on the "Best and Worst Fashion" stills, but they need to be fired. Of the 14 stills they chose(14? Did E! steal the rest?) he/she was wrong 50% of the time over who they loved and hated. If AOL can't find someone with some taste or knows fashion hire me. I can use the part time job and I actually like clothes!
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9-17-2007 @ 4:53PM
DeMaris said...
I thought this was the worst show ever. I usually stay up for it but I even went to bed and I love Ryan Seacrest but the round state, repetitious winners - Tony Bennett, are you kidding me? And, the language that they have become so used to using on their shows that they don't know how to behave in public. It was too much for me and my husband and we are usually TV fans. I also hated the state in the round. Whose idea was that? Wow, what a disappointment!
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9-17-2007 @ 9:00PM
spinegirl said...
I agree with bakerchica. Whomever AOL hired to judge the best and worst dressed is a very limited, inconsistent idiot.
The "Best's" Eva Longoria looked like a 12 year boy in sparkles, a wig, and heels.
And I thought Kate Walsh's dress was beautiful!. AOL's reviewer called it "skimpy" and then criticized someone else's dress for being too conservative by saying that "skin is in."
And yes, where were the rest of the pictures?
AOL definitely dropped the ball on this one, and they need to get their money back! What a disappointment!
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9-17-2007 @ 9:01PM
spinegirl said...
I just want to say that I feel sorry for Bash. He obviously thinks its cool to constantly use foul language, and has yet to learn how to speak English without cursing.
I hate to be around people like him. Its so depressing. They seem so classless and uneducated! Yuck!
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9-17-2007 @ 10:41PM
gimme a break said...
Spader over Leary & Gandofini is akin to 30 Rock winning anything let alone getting a nomination; when the show should be cancelled. Meanwhile Studio 60 hangs in the balance of whether to be picked up as a realistic alternative to the comic strip 30 Rock. As is the case with the Senate & Congress the Academy has long been bought by the networks; otherwise Rescue Me, Deadwood, Rome, Big Love, Project Runway and just about every non-network show would have won or been nominated. Only sheer outrage and rebellion over best Series Soprano's and The Daily Show not winning prevented the Network from giving us more 2 &1/2 men and The Evening News with Katie Couric which should've been nominated for best comedy talk show. And the flying nun over Carmella................
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9-18-2007 @ 3:37AM
Irene said...
I love Sally Field but she should have stopped her speech when she said, this is for all the moms waiting for their children to come home from the war. That was class! But then she went too far. I am so tired of actors using that platform for their own opinion. That is not why you are there and that is not what we want to see. You're an actor, we pay for your preformance, not your opinion. Didn't any one learn any thing from the Dixie Chick? Shut up and sing or Shut up and act. Put it in a song or in a script and we will listen. I think that will be the last Emmy for Sally!!!! But I love "Brothers and Sisters", great writters!!!! Watch Catherine Heigl and learn! What a class act she was last night!!!!!
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