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Emmy Nominations Announced

Posted in Uncategorized by Meg on July 17, 2008

At the peak of my television obsession (high school when I would record and keep episodes of various shows on VHS), I remember when I would wake up at 5 in the morning to watch the live feed on E! of the announcement of the Emmy nominations. Sadly, time passed and since premium cable never existed in my life and the popularity of TV shows on DVD was still something of the future, watching nominee after nominee from The Sopranos or Six Feet Under didn’t mean anything to me.

However, in most recent years, proven with today’s nomination list for the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards, major network and basic cable television shows are making their marks as places to find good television. HBO-style gratuitous sex, bloody murder, and f-bombs are out, cute piemakers are in. Well, perhaps the sex and murder aren’t completely out (re: Cagney of Cagney and Lacey’s guest starring role as the obsessed agent/teddy bear maker on Nip/Tuck).

Highlights of This Year’s Nominations

Complete List of This Year’s Nominations

Since all the nominations for Mad Men and 30 Rock are a given, I’d like to congratulate and highlight some of the surprises:

Lee Pace, Kristen Chenoweth, and Costume Designers Mary Vogt and Stephanie Fox-Kramer for Pushing Daisies – Ms. Vogt and Fox-Kramer, you two deserve that Emmy. I have never wanted a television character’s wardrobe more than Anna Friel’s.

Amy Poehler for Saturday Night Live – I don’t even remember when someone was ever nominated for an emmy for their cast role on the sketch show

Sharon Gless on Nip/Tuck – You scared the beejeezus out of me.

Christina Applegate for Samantha Who? - Yay for first season nominees. You made me actually not hate the guy from 7th Heaven and Jennifer Esposito.

The nominees for lead actress in a miniseries or movie - the lineup looks better than the best actress nominees for the Oscars

And the nominees for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics – Flight of the Conchords’ “The Most Beautiful Girl (in the Room)” and “Inner City Pressure” plus Jimmy Kimmel Live’s “I’m Fucking Matt Damon”

Flight of the Conchords – Inner City Pressure

Flight of the Conchords – The Most Beautiful Girl (in the room)

Sarah Silverman – I’m Fucking Matt Damon

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For my Paparazzo

Posted in Uncategorized by Joie on July 17, 2008

La Dolce Vita is always two things at once: It’s a wallow in decadence disguised as a moral saga, and it’s a moral saga disguised as a wallow in decadence. It’s always both, and that tension is always there, within the film and the filmmaker.

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

A series of nights and dawns, descents and ascents. Once again everything collapses in an exhausted dawn.

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Nino Rota – Patricia

For a film that is episodic (and lengthy) by nature, it might be wise to poach a single frame from memory and arrange a special menagerie for a future me to decipher. I pity the totality of analysis, I champion my Rorschach in flux.

Don’t look for the Trevi Fountain here.