OY WITH THE POODLES ALREADY
The Emmys: Yeah, I predicted horribly, but so did the best experts; that's the way the Emmys work. They're always biased, you just have to guess in which direction they're going this year. The answer was "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue," and I'm still trying to figure out how Allison Janney, a perfectly wonderful supporting actress, deserves a lead actress award. I guess they wanted an equally insane counterpart to the male winner, Michael Chiklis, of FX's "The Shield." This was the toughest category: of the five nominees, there were four that could win to the surprise of no one. Chiklis was the other one; this was the biggest upset in perhaps all of Emmy's 54 years, and I don't mean that in a good way. It was just plain wrong. We're talking "Gladiator as Best Picture"-level wrong, and that's not a level I toss out lightly.
Aniston for Best Actress? That's alright, and I won't argue with Romano's Actor victory. Giving both Supporting nods to his co-stars is a bit much, though; just give the show Best Comedy already and get it out of your system.
Speaking of Best Comedy, the correct choice, of course, was "Gilmore Girls," but of the nominees "Friends" was rightfully rewarded. I'm starting to sour on "Six Feet Under", but it was the best drama on television last year, and that's sort of the qualification for the award called "Best Drama." ATAS really needs to get over the whole sophomore season thing, where a drama won't be rewarded in its first year (NYPD Blue, ER, The Practice.) Actually, SFU was nominated for both its first AND second season, thanks to HBO's wacky scheduling (that also knocked The Sopranos out of contention.) That bias for "The West Wing" was just too much, though.
The awards show itself was great, although I was sorry to see it run long: the Emmys haven't gone past three hours for at least six years, maybe longer. Twenty minutes wasn't the end of the world, though. Conan owned the Shrine Auditorium; his opening skit was Classic Conan (I think I saw several of his writers in the credits, in fact,) as was his "fight" with Andy Richter in the aisle halfway through the show. No Triumph, though. :(
A radio commercial for NBC tonight: "Rudy from 'The Cosby Show' gets runover by a steamroller!" Sorry, Jeff, I'll stick with 7th Heaven myself.
The ScreenSavers' new set is nice, but too bare. The Boot Camp area looks to be in the middle of an empty high school gym.
Standing in line at Wal-Mart to purchase my weekly eight-pack of orange Gatorade, the girl in front of me turned around and said, "I saw you at school today." Oh-kay. What am I supposed to say to that? I think a grunted "OK" is what resulted. I mean, it's not exactly an amazing occurrence to run into one of your some 12,000 schoolmates in the very town the college is in, and she didn't sound anymore interested than merely relaying this information. Congratulations to her.