Seriously? OMG! WTF?

LEX 18 News ended an evening recap of yesterday’s coverage of the Comair Flight 5191 crash for the live broadcast of the prime-time Emmy Awards. The annual TV awards show opened with shots of host Conan O’Brien bouncing inside a plane before it crashed on an island in a spoof of ABC’s hit show Lost.WLEX’s president and general manager, Tim Gilbert, who was home watching the telecast with his family, was “stunned” by the intro; if station managers had known about the intro before the broadcast, Lexington viewers wouldn’t have seen it, he said.“It was a live telecast — we were completely helpless,” Gilbert said of the Emmys. “By the time we began to react, it was over. At the station, we were as horrified as they were at home.”Gilbert said he’ll complain to NBC, but he said an apology won’t make up for insensitivity.“They could have killed the opening and it wouldn’t have hurt the show at all,” Gilbert said. “We wish somebody had thought this through. It’s somewhere between ignorance and incompetence.”

Lexington Herald 

I do not think it was in bad taste because they were doing a parody on Lost. My sympathies goes out to families who lost people in today’s crash, but this skit was not insensetive.

Emmy voters feted Fox’s "24" and NBC’s "The Office" as the best drama and comedy series on televison, respectively.Kiefer Sutherland ("24")and Mariska Hargitay ("Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," NBC) won tonight’s dramatic lead acting kudos, with Tony Shalhoub (USA’s "Monk") and Julia Louis-Dreyfus ("The New Adventures Of Old Christine," CBS) winning for comedic thesping.HBO slides ahead of the pack with nine wins, including three for made for television movie "The Girl In The Café." Telepic won best made for television movie, writing for a miniseries and thesp Kelly Macdonald won for supporting actress in a miniseries or movie.Miniseries kudos went to HBO’s "Elizabeth I," which also saw actress Helen Mirren, supporting actor Jeremy Irons and helmer Tom Hooper win in their erspective categories.Pay cabler also scored with "Entourage’s" Jeremy Piven for supporting actor. Terence Winter won drama writing for his "Sopranos" episode ‘Members Only.’Tony Shalhoub was voted comedy actor for his role in USA’s "Monk," and Andre Braugher won as actor in a miniseries or movie for FX’s "Thief."NBC’s Emmys include two for its sitcom "My Name is Earl." Greg Garcia won for writing "Earl’s" pilot, and Marc Buckland for directing.Peacock also took evening’s first two awards, with Alan Alda and Megan Mullally winning for suporting roles.Mullally won the first Emmy of the night, for supporting actress in a comedy. Alda took supporting actor in a drama for his role in "The West Wing.""The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" has snagged two Emmys for best variety, music or comedy series and writing for a variety, music or comedy series .Showtime’s Blythe Danner won supporting actress, drama, for her role in "Huff."After missing out in the supporting thesp categories, Fox’s "24" took drama directing for Jon Cassar

Variety 

They suck. The only one I like is Tony Shaloub, the rest I do not care to watch. I really wish that Shatner would’ve won because that would’ve saved Boston Legal.

Access Hollywood has learned that Dick Clark will appear onthe Emmysbroadcast later this month.The former host of "American Bandstand" has not been seen on television since he made an appearance on the ABC New Year’s Eve program, which he had hosted for many years. The icon had suffered a stroke in December

Access Hollywood

Dick Clark would never let anyone accept his award. Even if he was on life support, he would still show up. 

Four DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES stars – TERI HATCHER, EVA LONGORIA, MARCIA CROSS and NICOLLETTE SHERIDAN – are reportedly refusing to attend the Emmy ceremony next month (AUG06), because they weren’t nominated for any awards. The show won 15 Emmys in 2005, but received only one acting nomination this year – for ALFRE WOODARD as Best Supporting Actress In A Comedy. A source close to the actresses tells the Los Angeles Times, "None of them are going. "FELICITY (HUFFMAN) may go as a presenter because she won the lead actress Emmy last year and they usually have last year’s winner present this year’s award. "But the rest of them are definitely not going. If you’re not nominated, you really don’t have a reason to go. "It’s a lot of prep work to get in shape, all made-up, pick gowns and dressed up to these things. "It’s exhausting. And if you’re not up for an award and it’s just going to be embarrassing why go?"

Contact Music  

Bitches need to get over themselves because if DH is anything like last year it might have two more years at most and then they will be looking for work.

I am posting one of my favorite Vanity Cards from this year’s Two and a Half Men!

CHUCK LORRE PRODUCTIONS, #153
Fifteen years ago I bumped into Donald Trump. Literally. I wasn’t looking where I was going and, I suppose, neither was he. Our collision caused his very large bodyguard to charge toward me in order to neutralize any possible threat to his boss. Now what happened next is why I’ve never forgotten the incident. Trump quickly looked me up and down and correctly assessed that I posed no danger. With a small, smirking frown and a dismissive little wave, he instantly communicated to his hulking assistant that I should be ignored. The entire incident couldn’t have lasted more than ten seconds. No one said, "sorry," or "excuse me," and we all went our separate ways. After all these years, the memory that lingers, the image that haunts, is of his smug pout and condescending hand gesture that somehow caused me to feel utterly insignificant. I was reminded of all this when I looked at the ratings of Two and a Half Men versus the ratings of The Apprentice. Hey, Donald, I just bumped into you again!

Go Chuck Lorre! In fact Chuck can take pleasure in the fact that he got 7 nominations today while Donald Trump’s The Apprentice got only one!

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