July 14, 2005 |
WISTERIA ROUT
Nominations for the 57th Emmy Awards were announced this morning and, as expected, ABC's Desperate Housewives cleaned up with 15 nods, including best comedy series and bids for leading ladies Marcia Cross, Teri Hatcher and Felicity Huffman. Housewives tied NBC's terminally ill Will & Grace for most nominated series. (No, that wasn't a typo.) ABC's other freshman smash, Lost, scored 12 nods, including best drama series and supporting actors for both Naveen Andrews and Terry O'Quinn. Among the pleasant surprises: long-overdue nominations for NBC's Scrubs and star Zach Braff; supporting nods for The Shield's CCH Pounder and Grey's Anatomy's Sandra Oh; and best-actor nods for Deadwood's [bleepin'] brilliant Ian McShane and House's crabby doc Hugh Laurie. Of course, there were also plenty of glaring omissions, most notably WB's perpetually ignored Gilmore Girls and its star, Lauren Graham. (Note to Emmy voters: Wake the hell up!) Rescue Me's Denis Leary also was denied a nod, as was Lost's Matthew Fox, Veronica Mars' Kristen Bell, the entire supporting cast of Scrubs, 24 scene-stealers Shohreh Aghdashloo and Mary Lynn Rajskub and two of Housewives' best comic assets, Eva Longoria and Nicollette Sheridan. To see who else Emmy shafted, compare the complete list of nominees with our Dream Emmy Ballot. Suffice it to say, there's much work to be done. |
SITH SENSE
Donald Trump has hired Star Wars mastermind George Lucas to appear in the upcoming fourth season of The Apprentice. According to Advertising Age, Lucas will decide which team comes up with the better concept to promote the DVD for Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith. A lightsabre duel between Omarosa and Ereka Vitrini, perhaps? |
CANCEL HIS PRE-ORDER, THEN
Apparently Pope Benedict is not a Harry Potter fan. In Gabriele Kuby's new book, Harry Potter — Good or Evil, she publishes excerpts from letters to her from the future pontiff in which he blasts J.K. Rowling's spellbinding best-sellers for "subtle seductions" that "distort Christianity in the soul." Hmm. The guy's entitled to his opinion. However... |
THE DEVIL MADE HIM DO IT?
A 9-year-old New Yorker who bought a copy of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince that was accidentally put on sale before its July 16 publication date agreed to give it back. Now I ask you: What could be more Christian than that? By doing so, the kid missed out on a rare opportunity to fund his entire college education with a single eBay sale. |
PITT UPDATE
An ailing Brad Pitt was released from a Los Angeles Hospital Wednesday after being diagnosed with a mild case of viral meningitis. Angelina's "close friend" checked himself into Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Monday night complaining of flulike symptoms. Pitt's rep says, "The actor is at home and doing well." |
PUT UP YOUR DUKES
Original Dukes of Hazzard cast member Ben Jones — he played wisecracking mechanic "Crazy Cooter" — is urging fans of the classic TV series to steer clear of the forthcoming movie version. "Basically, they trashed our show," he wrote on his personal website. Jones claims the film is rife with sexual innuendo and profanity — although he hasn't actually seen it for himself. "From all I have heard, [it's] a sleazy insult to all of us who have cared about The Dukes of Hazzard for so long." You think that's bad, you should see what they did to Bewitched. |
SHORT CUTS
PBS is producing six new Monty Python specials, each one focusing on a member of the British comedy troupe, to air next spring... R. Kelly's TP.3 Reloaded debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's album chart with 490,500 copies sold... The live-action Transformers flick will open on July 4, 2007, Paramount and DreamWorks announced Wednesday... Hilary Duff and Rob Schneider have been tapped to host the 2005 Teen Choice Awards, airing Aug. 16 on Fox. |
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