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August 28, 2006

Carla steeps herself in liberal Hollywood excess and gets all pruney

I watched last night's Emmy telecast in a rather half assed manner. Usually for an event such as the Oscars or Golden Globes or Emmys, I'll have mixed a pitcher of an adult beverage and demand that my household keep things down to a dull roar.

But I was still doing dishes and running loads of laundry at 7PM Pacific Time when the damn thing came on. This domestic thing is the pits. And so far I haven't won the lottery so the lifestyle to which I'd like to become accustomed is eluding me.

The first hour wasn't the real Emmys anyway. It was the arrival show. And it was awful.

Nancy O'Dell and Billy Bush are adequate if not annoying suckups to the freeflowing ego mass pouring itself from the line of limos. But that Maria Canudos (or whatever it is) and Tim Gunn of Project Runway were really, really terrible. If I hear "make it work" one more time I'm going to literally reach through my television and throttle that man.

Apparently there's also a tempest in a teapot brewing over host Conan O'Brien's opening skit. The skit included a plane crash segment a la Lost which some folks considered insensitive given the plane crash in Kentucky.

I watched it and didn't find it insensitive at all. It was obviously an homage to Lost and nothing more. Would that this same group get up in arms over being lied to about war or the government's ongoing inept response to Hurricane Katrina. But I digress.

Other than that..it was a pretty standard show, as awards shows go. Calista Flockhart is still way too thin. Ellen Pompeo is right there with her. Jeremy Piven looks ridiculous in an ascot..as does everyone who wasn't born before 1782. Purple shouldn't be the new black even if a stylist says it is. And there is such a thing as too much bling and somebody needs to tell that to Cheryl Hines.

Posted by Carla at August 28, 2006 08:25 AM