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The good news is the Kristen Chenoweth won an Emmy Sunday night. But the bad news is the she was so ill backstage she needed to be checked out by paramedics. Here's what happened.

Early during the Primetime Emmys, when Kristin's name was announced for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy, I don't know about you, but I let out a whoop! She won for Pushing Daisies, a show – as she pointed out in her tear-filled speech – was no longer on the air. At least one of the fine actors on that wonderful, fanciful show was recognized!

The list of Emmy nominations have become the Hummer limo of the awards show world. They get longer and even more uncool, even though they are attempting to show just how cool they are with each passing year.

The whole system is in serious need of revamping. For the most part, the category structure hasn't changed in the last 50 years when then Academy President Rod Serling chose to eliminate favoritism by widening the playing field and the judging, a move so disastrous that no one has dared to even touch the system since then.

So if you're not going to revamp the process, at least add some categories that we wouldn't mind giving up four hours of sleep, exercise and our lives to wait for the winner.

Tina Fey is on a roll right now. She just won another Emmy for 30 Rock (and the show won for Best Comedy), she's getting rave reviews for her impersonation of Governor Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live, and she might even get a great deal on a new Florida condo from acclaimed director Martin Scorcese. She really has to learn how to hide her awards though.

On Tuesday's Late Night with Conan O'Brien, New Adventures of Old Christine star Julia Louis-Dreyfus was talking about losing out to Fey for the Best Comedy Actress Emmy and came up with the idea (with Conan's pushing) to go up to Fey's dressing room to steal the award (and this after Fey said some nice things about her at the Emmy ceremony!). It's clearly pre-staged, but still funny, and we get cameos from not one but two stars from 30 Rock.

Oh, and the Emmy isn't the only thing Conan takes from Fey's dressing room...video after the jump! How do women run in heels anyway?

BroadwayWorld.com is reporting that stage, film, and television star Robert Goulet has been in the hospital for over three weeks and is in critical condition. The star was experiencing shortness of breath a couple of months ago and found out that he has Interstitial Pulmonary Fibrosis, which is fatal.

Goulet had been in a Las Vegas hosptial when it was determined that he would not survive without a lung transplant. They don't do that in Las Vegas so he was moved to Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles on October 12. He's waiting for a transplant.

We learned on Monday about the passing of actress Maureen Stapleton from chronic pulmonary disease. She was 80.

While Ms. Stapleton was known foremost for her award-winning career in both film (Reds) and theater (The Rose Tattoo, The Gingerbread Lady), she also gained critical acclaim for a number of projects on the small-screen. During the 1950s and early 1960s, she appeared in a number of television plays on such shows as Playhouse 90 and Studio One. In 1968, she won an Emmy for her role in the drama Among the Paths to Eden, where she portrayed a spinster who strikes up a conversation with a widower at a graveyard. She followed with another Emmy in 1975 for the television movie Queen of the Stardust Ballroom, where she portrayed a middle-aged widow who learns how to live again at the Stardust Ballroom.

Ms. Stapleton's last television role was in 1995 on the show, Road to Avonlea.

More information on Ms. Stapleton's career in both television and film can be found at IMDb.