Watched the Emmy's yesterday, but didn't think it was exciting enough for a minute-by-minute review. But here's my highlights:

- Oh Ellen! She did a so-so job. Most of the jokes were ok, but she wasn't half as funny as she was the last time she hosted.

- Yes, that WAS Barbara Hershey who accompanied LOST's Naveen Andrews to the award show. Me and Claudine kept on going, "Is that Barbara Hershey? No way! She looks too young!" I guess it is!

- Sandra Oh has the smallest waist ever.

- Dave hates it when I watch Law and Order, he just doesn't like dramas. However, when he saw Mariska Hargitay on the red carpet, he said, "Wow, if she looked like that on Law and Order all the time, I'd watch the show, too!"

- Donald Trump singing "Green Acres" was possibly the oddest thing ever, but I gotta give him props for having the balls to go out there and sing it in front of the nation. Actually, the whole Emmy Idol thing was stupid, though Macy Gray looked AWESOME with her "Courtney Love" makeover. Still looks like she's high, though.

- I am sick and tired of the Desperate Housewives hype, from how good the show is to people prodding the actresses for gossip on how they don't get along. It's annoying and it's getting old. It's a great, clever show, but I'm glad they didn't win.

- I must watch this "The Life and Times of Peter Sellers" movie. It feels like it won just about everything it was nominated for.

- With that said, remember the good ol' days of the Emmy's, when the winners were shows you've heard of before, shows that were on the big 3 networks? I think HBO is a GREAT network, but I don't think it's fair that there are people out there that don't have access to it - it's a channel that's on cable AND that you have to pay extra for. What percentage of the viewing community actually has it? It's not like the Oscars where a good percentage of the movies people have access to (I would have said 'all', but Redpac reminded me that some communities don't get the arthouse movies). I dunno. When I didn't have HBO I'd always get pissed when HBO programming won.

- Marcia Cross wins the fashion battle. I said I'm sick of the battle of the "Housewives", but still, she looked spectacular. Her dress was gorgeous, the color was perfect for her. Honorable mentions: Jennifer Garner for being the best looking knocked up lady since Cat Zeta Jones, LOST's Evangeline Lilly, who Redpac remarked "cleans up real good" and looked beautiful in her dress, and Adrien Grenier, who is just a cutie pie.

- The opening musical sequence was really cute - I love the song "September". Well, it was cute for the first 2 minutes. Then we got really bored. Having the Black Eyed Peas come out didn't save it. Oh wait, having BEP's Taboo dance with Everybody Loves Raymond's Doris Roberts was worth it. A little bit.

- Best Speech - S. Epatha Merkerson - who the hell is she? The boss from Law and Order. Anyway, she started off her speech with saying that she lost her speech down the front of her dress, and proceeded to hunt for it while she was on stage. When she realized they were going to start the music, she looked like a deer in headlights at the camera and said, "Thanks". hilarious. Runner-up: Felicity Huffman, for telling us her first kiss with husband William H. Macy was in a cowfield.

- Jon Stewart needs to host this show. His little film about who to blame for Hurricane Katrina was comedy gold. "George Bush hates Black....Sabbath."

- I really wanted Terry O'Quinn to win Best Supporting actor, but I believe that having fellow LOST castmember Naveen Andrews in the running split the vote. Sorry Shatner. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

- Everybody Loves Raymond has the same hold on the Emmy's that Frasier did years ago. I'm glad it's ending. Now other people can win!

- Patricia Arquette wins for Best Actress in a drama? I've seen Medium, and I dunno about that. She's no Mariska Hargitay. Grr....

- I really wanted Hugh Laurie from "House" to win for Best Actor in a Drama. Hmph.

- I'm going to watch "Everybody Hates Chris" when it comes out, just because I was so impressed by the young star of the show, Tyler Williams, during his speech. He has a precense that was so calm, collected and professional. He acted like a kid, yet still acted mature. It's hard to explain. But he did a great job.

- I adore the cast of LOST. I've been watching my DVD all week. I'm in love with them, and I'm so happy that they won Best Drama. Hopefully they'll get the same amount of attention now as the Desperate Housewives, and that they get a raise, too. It's hard filming a show out in Hawaii, you know? But really they deserve their award. Seeing the whole cast out there, so happy, with everyone getting along, it was good to see. I love this show! Season premiere on Wednesday!

All in all, it was on OK Emmy awards. Nothing amazingly exciting happened and it wasn't memorable. Maybe next year...

Posted by Yano at September 19, 2005 09:54 AM

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