9:07-Tracy Morgan presenting the Best Reality Competition award. 'The Amazing Race'. Has any reality show beaten 'The Amazing Race'? They seem to win every time. When an acceptance speech begins with "I don't know what to say anymore" you know you have won enough. Of course, quality reality programming is difficult to come by so, from that stand-point, it is well-deserved.
9:10-It did not take long to exhaust the Reality category. It is on to Movies and Mini-Series.
9:12-Aw, happily marrieds Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick are presenting Outstanding Supporting Actress in a MoM. And the Emmy goes to...Iranian actress Shohreh Aghdashloo for 'House of Saddam'. Other than everyone's favourite stand-by, black, blue is definitely the colour of the evening. She is wearing a beautiful classic Hollywood dress in gorgeous dark blue. She had a lovely moment when, upon taking the stage, she paused and gazed out at the audience. Genuine, unscripted moments are so rare on these shows.
9:15-Outstanding Supporting Actor in a MOM is Ken Howard for 'Grey Gardens'. Surprisingly, this was his first nomination.
9:23-Outstanding Lead Actor in a MOM goes to-Brendan Gleeson for 'Into the Storm'. He's basically an unheard of Irishman. Maybe this award will change that.
9:26-Oh, those Arquettes and their wacky fashion choices. Patricia has jumped on the whole poufy, one-shouldered dress trend. However, her pouf is just too damn large. The shiny, scaly black fabric is just unfortunate. It really does not matter what award you are handing out when you are dressed like that. This sucks for the recipient.
9:34-Outstanding Lead Actress in a MOM (presented by Alec Baldwin)-Jessica Lange for 'Grey Gardens'. I'm happy with this but I was really hoping that Drew would win for playing her daughter. She looks fantastic--she really brought the bombshell with her tonight. She is one of the few actresses rocking green--rather surprising as it is one of the hottest colours for autumn.
9:43-Outstanding Made for Television Movie-Co-presenter Anna Torv's dress is stunning--pinkish-red, sparkly, with short-sleeves and a classic plunging neck-line. It is entirely different than any other dress of the evening. 'Grey Gardens' won. This makes me immensely happy.
9:45-Outstanding Mini-Series-'Little Dorrit'. Anything adapted from Dickens is okay with me. My big question is, however, why have 2 presenters when only the female is allowed to speak? Kiefer Southerland co-presented the last 2 awards with Anna Torv and she got all of the juicy bits...basically everything. Is this akin to opening the door for a woman. It has always somewhat confused me in this context.
9:48-Up now: Variety.
9:50-The cast of the Big Bang Theory. Love them, love their show. Don't care about the category they are presenting...it simply is not worth the time it would take for me to type it out.
9:55-I have always adored the little skits the shows in question come up with for the variety show writing category. It is usually one of the funniest parts of the telecast. No exception this year. ('The Daily Show' won, by the way.)
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