The Weekly Poll
EMMY CONTEST
The First Ever BadtotheboneBob's Emmy Contest!™
Well then, Poll-fans, here are the 21 categories and nominations. I would suggest a cut and paste action and then adding yer predictions... Best of luck be upon ya!
Drama
Drama Series
Breaking Bad AMC
Dexter Showtime
The Good Wife CBS
Lost ABC
Mad Men AMC
True Blood HBO
Lead Actor, Drama
Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad AMC
Michael C. Hall, Dexter Showtime
Kyle Chandler, Friday Night Lights NBC
Hugh Laurie, House FOX
Matthew Fox, Lost ABC
Jon Hamm, Mad Men AMC
Lead Actress, Drama
Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer TNT
Glenn Close, Damages FX Networks
Connie Britton, Friday Night Lights NBC
Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife CBS
Mariska Hargitay, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit NBC
January Jones, Mad Men AMC
Supporting Actor, Drama
Aaron Paul, Breaking Bad AMC
Martin Short, Damages FX Networks
Terry O'Quinn, Lost ABC
Michael Emerson, Lost ABC
John Slattery, Mad Men AMC
Andre Braugher, Men Of A Certain Age TNT
Supporting Actress, Drama
Sharon Gless, Burn Notice USA
Rose Byrne, Damages FX Networks
Archie Panjabi, The Good Wife CBS
Christine Baranski, The Good Wife CBS
Christina Hendricks, Mad Men AMC
Elisabeth Moss, Mad Men AMC
Comedy
Comedy Series
Curb Your Enthusiasm HBO
Glee FOX
Modern Family ABC
Nurse Jackie Showtime
The Office NBC
30 Rock NBC
Lead Actor, Comedy
Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory CBS
Larry David, Curb Your Enthusiasm HBO
Matthew Morrison, Glee FOX
Tony Shalhoub, Monk USA
Steve Carell, The Office NBC
Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock NBC
Lead Actress, Comedy
Lea Michele, Glee FOX
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, The New Adventures Of Old Christine CBS
Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie Showtime
Amy Poehler, Parks And Recreation NBC
Tina Fey, 30 Rock NBC
Toni Collette, United States Of Tara Showtime
Supporting Actor, Comedy
Chris Colfer, Glee FOX
Neil Patrick Harris, How I Met Your Mother CBS
Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Modern Family ABC
Eric Stonestreet, Modern Family ABC
Ty Burrell, Modern Family ABC
Jon Cryer, Two And A Half Men CBS
Supporting Actress, Comedy
Jane Lynch, Glee FOX
Julie Bowen, Modern Family ABC
Sofia Vergara, Modern Family ABC
Kristen Wiig, Saturday Night Live NBC
Jane Krakowski, 30 Rock NBC
Holland Taylor, Two And A Half Men CBS
Miniseries or Movie
Miniseries
The Pacific HBO
Return To Cranford (Masterpiece) PBS
Made-for-TV Movie
Endgame (Masterpiece) PBS
Georgia O'Keeffe Lifetime
Moonshot HISTORY
The Special Relationship HBO
Temple Grandin HBO
You Don't Know Jack HBO
Actor, Miniseries or Movie
Jeff Bridges, A Dog Year HBO
Ian McKellen, The Prisoner AMC
Michael Sheen, The Special Relationship HBO
Dennis Quaid, The Special Relationship HBO
Al Pacino, You Don't Know Jack HBO
Actress, Miniseries or Movie
Maggie Smith, Capturing Mary HBO
Joan Allen, Georgia O'Keeffe Lifetime
Dame Judi Dench, Return To Cranford (Masterpiece) PBS
Hope Davis, The Special Relationship HBO
Claire Danes, Temple Grandin HBO
Supporting Actor, Miniseries or Movie
Michael Gambon, Emma (Masterpiece) PBS
Patrick Stewart, Hamlet (Great Performances) PBS
Jonathan Pryce, Return To Cranford (Masterpiece) PBS
David Strathairn, Temple Grandin HBO
John Goodman, You Don't Know Jack HBO
Supporting Actress, Miniseries or Movie
Kathy Bates, Alice Syfy
Julia Ormond, Temple Grandin HBO
Catherine O'Hara, Temple Grandin HBO
Brenda Vaccaro, You Don't Know Jack HBO
Susan Sarandon, You Don't Know Jack HBO
Reality and Variety, Music or Comedy
Reality Program
Antiques Roadshow PBS
Dirty Jobs Discovery Channel
Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution ABC
Kathy Griffin: My Life On The D-List Bravo
MythBusters Discovery Channel
Undercover Boss CBS
Reality-Competition Program
The Amazing Race CBS
American Idol FOX
Dancing With The Stars ABC
Project Runway Lifetime
Top Chef Bravo
Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program
Phil Keoghan, The Amazing Race CBS
Ryan Seacrest, American Idol FOX
Tom Bergeron, Dancing With The Stars ABC
Heidi Klum, Project Runway Lifetime
Jeff Probst, Survivor CBS
Variety, Music or Comedy Series
The Colbert Report Comedy Central
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Comedy Central
Real Time With Bill Maher HBO
Saturday Night Live NBC
The Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien NBC
Variety, Music or Comedy Special
Bill Maher "...But I'm Not Wrong" HBO
Hope For Haiti Now Tenth Planet Productions and MTV
The Kennedy Center Honors CBS
Robin Williams: Weapons Of Self Destruction HBO
The 25th Anniversary Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Concert HBO
Wanda Sykes: I'ma Be Me HBO
Total correct predictions takes The Prize. Again, that would be a $50 VISA gift card mailed directly to you from 'yours truly'.
Also, again, ties will be resolved in a scientific manner involving the ever fabulous, Maddie Muffin (Future Nobel AND Pulitzer Prize winner, President of the United States AND General Secretary of the UN amongst other notable achievements to numerous to mention)...
"My Grampa is The Best!"
The 21 nominations/categories will run daily until August 28th.
Response cut-off time is 3pm EDT, Saturday, August 28th, and will be posted for all to see August 29th (Emmy Day).
The winner will be the one with the most correct predictions and will be announced Tuesday August 31st.
Oh, and please make it easy on me and don't wait until, like, the last minute and flood me with your predictions, eh? Good luck be on ya, Poll-fans!
Send your predictions to:
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Here's a complete list of all Emmy Nominations - 2010.
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Paul Krugman: Attacking Social Security (nytimes)
Critics of the program claim that its future is in peril. But their math doesn't add up, and underneath their hostility is ignorance of the realities of life for many Americans.
Geoff Boucher: Seth Rogen is a Marvel true believer (latimes.com)
"I've kind of given up on DC at this point," says the star.
Matt Mazur: "Giving Us Something We Can Feel: An Interview with Lonette McKee" (popmatters.com)
Lonette McKee is one of film's greatest underused assets, a character actress who has steadily been working since her 1976 debut in Sparkle. "Underutilized" is how film critic Elvis Mitchell describes her in Film Comment, where he wrote that "Hollywood is guilty of a shameful neglect of an engagingly friendly, but lusty presence. Not girlish and insubstantial, she's dynamic and indestructible."
DAVE KEHR: DOES 3-D represent the future of the movies? (nytimes.com)
After a few months of ambiguous box-office results for stereoscopic movies, that's a question Hollywood executives would love answered in the affirmative, because of the higher ticket prices they can charge. We won't really know the answer for a year or so, when audiences respond - or fail to respond - to the big-budget 3-D films now entering the production pipeline, all chasing the phenomenal figures generated by "Avatar."
Roger Ebert: Review of "ALL THE REAL GIRLS" (R; 4 stars; An Overlooked DVD)
We like to be in love because it allows us to feel idealistic about ourselves. The other person ennobles, inspires, redeems. Our lover deserves the most wonderful person alive, and that person is ourselves. Paul (Paul Schneider), the hero of "All the Real Girls," has spent his young manhood having sex with any girl who would have sex with him and some who were still making up their minds, but when he meets Noel he doesn't want to rush things. He wants to wait, because this time is special.
Rosanna Greenstreet: "Q&A: Anne Robinson" (guardian.co.uk)
'When did I last cry? When I had a Brazilian last Monday.'
Irene Lacher: "The Sunday Conversation: Anne Heche" ( Los Angeles Times)
The actress explores her role on HBO's 'Hung,' her reentry into the entertainment world and her family life.
Matt Mazur: Mommie Dearest: An Interview with Animal Kingdom's Jacki Weaver (popmatters.com)
American audiences might not yet be intimately familiar with the work of Australian acting icon Jacki Weaver despite her presence in such national treasures as Peter Weir's 'Picnic at Hanging Rock,' but after the Sundance-sanctioned success of neophyte director Michτd's blistering family crime drama 'Animal Kingdom,' it is no trouble whatsoever to imagine her name being mentioned in conjunction with any year-end Best Supporting Actress prize worth it's salt.
Body and Soul: Pam Grier Will Still Kick Your Ass 'Graciously' (popmatters.com)
Pam Grier is an icon many times over, and is known as equally for her spirited, strong protagonists in early 1970s Blaxploitation films such as 'Coffy' (1973) and 'Foxy Brown' (1974) as she is for the career-defining film for which she makes our list, Quentin Tarantino's 'Jackie Brown' (1997).
Killian Fox: "Cerys Matthews: 'A 10-year-old could run the country better than politicians'" (guardian.co.uk)
Former Catatonia singer Cerys Matthews tells Killian Fox about her contempt for politicians and not being as successful as Barbra Streisand.
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Underwater Birthday
James Cameron
James Cameron is going from outer space to under water.
The writer and director of "Avatar" says he'll celebrate his 56th birthday Monday deep beneath Russia's Lake Baikal. Cameron will be in a submersible about 5,200 feet (1,600 meters) from the surface of the world's oldest and deepest freshwater lake - "unless it's bad weather, in which case I'll be getting drunk with the Russian crew in the port."
A longtime ocean enthusiast, Cameron has other underwater projects in the works. He says he is building a submarine in Australia that will take him 36,000 feet underwater. He is also developing an upgraded 3-D underwater camera and has plans for an underwater feature film that he said he might make before taking on an "Avatar" sequel.
James Cameron
Aging Faster Than Population
Broadcast Audience
For years, executives at ABC, Fox and NBC essentially stopped caring about television viewers once they had reached 50 years old.
The median age for viewers at those networks and CBS is now 51. The broadcasters' audience has aged at twice the rate of the general population during the past two decades, according to a new report. It's a quiet trend with a real impact on the way they do business.
The risk in having a rapidly aging audience is the networks becoming less relevant to advertisers, the backbone of their business. Increasingly, that's a way of thinking that itself is getting old.
Much of the aging isn't unique to TV: The median age for the American population as a whole increased from 33 in 1990 to 38 last year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
A young audience has always been the holy grail for networks, but that's changing, said Alan Wurtzel, research chief at NBC. Not only are more older viewers available, advertisers are starting to recognize that they spend money and are receptive to their messages.
Broadcast Audience
Unveiling New Paintings In Denmark
Bob Dylan
American music legend Bob Dylan, who has turned to painting in his later years, will unveil a new set of works in Copenhagen next month, the National Gallery of Denmark announced Monday.
Some 40 acrylic paintings and eight drawings from Dylan's "Brazil Series" created especially for Denmark's largest museum, also known as the Statens Museum for Kunst, will go on display from September 4 to January 30.
"I chose Brazil as a subject because I have been there many times and I like the atmosphere," Dylan said in a statement published by the museum.
His new paintings "show the scenes from daily life in the cities, the slums and the countryside in Brazil where Bob Dylan has been several times," the museum's curator and director, Kaspar Monrad told AFP.
Bob Dylan
Hospital News
Michael Douglas
Michael Douglas has a tumor in his throat and will undergo radiation and chemotherapy.
The Academy Award-winning actor's treatment is scheduled to last eight weeks.
The 65-year-old Douglas says he expects to make a full recovery. He told People magazine in a statement Monday he's "very optimistic." His publicist's assistant, Eli Barach, confirmed his condition to The Associated Press.
The actor is outside the United States, publicist Allen Burry said Monday, declining to give his location or where he would be treated.
Michael Douglas
Baby News
Salazar-Vega
Spanish Hollywood actress and model Paz Vega has given birth to her third child, a son, a Madrid hospital announced Monday.
The boy was born Friday by caesarean section and weighed 2.750 kilograms (6.05 pounds), the Ruber International Hospital said.
This is the third child for Vega, 34, and her Venezuelan husband, Orson Salazar. The couple have a three-year-old son, Orson, and a daughter, Ava, born on July 17, 2009.
She appeared with Adam Sandler in "Spanglish" in 2004, with Scarlett Johansson in "The Spirit" in 2008 and opposite Colin Farrell in "Triage" last year.
Salazar-Vega
Malibu Maserati Oopsie
Mel 'Sugar Tits' Gibson
The California Highway Patrol says Mel 'Sugar Tits' Gibson crashed his sportscar into a Malibu hillside but was not injured.
The agency says Gibson crashed his 2008 Maserati into a hillside on southbound Malibu Canyon Road around 8:35 p.m. Sunday. Gibson's spokesman, Alan Nierob, says the actor is doing fine.
Police say Gibson was alone in the car and that alcohol was not suspected in the crash. A news release states that a friend picked up the 54-year-old actor-director from the scene.
No further details were released and it was unclear how much damage Gibson's car sustained.
Mel 'Sugar Tits' Gibson
Pop Singer Tried Over HIV Allegation
Nadja Benaissa
A German singer facing accusations that she infected a man with the virus that causes AIDS acknowledged in court Monday that she had unprotected sex despite knowing she was HIV-positive.
Nadja Benaissa, 28, a member of German girl band No Angels, is charged with grievous bodily harm for allegedly infecting a partner with the virus in 2004 and also faces charges of attempted bodily harm for having unprotected sex with two other men.
The man who claims Benaissa infected him says they had a three-month relationship at the beginning of 2004, and that he got tested after Benaissa's aunt asked him in 2007 whether he was aware that the singer was HIV-positive.
In her statement, Benaissa told the court she became addicted to crack cocaine at 14 and that during her pregnancy at 16, she found out that she was HIV positive, the news agency ddp reported.
After winning a TV talent show, "Popstars," in 2000, she joined No Angels with four other young women and hid her illness from everyone for fear it would damage her career.
Nadja Benaissa
Letter Arrives 34 Years Late
John Lennon
A British folk singer who expressed fears that success and wealth could ruin his songwriting revealed Monday how John Lennon sent him a letter of reassurance -- but it did not reach him for 34 years.
Steve Tilston was just 21 in 1971 when the megastar read an interview he had done with a magazine called ZigZag.
Lennon penned a hand-written letter to the aspiring singer just months after the Beatles split up in 1970, telling him not to worry about becoming wealthy because it would not change what he felt inside.
He sent the letter to Tilston and the reporter who interviewed him at the magazine's offices, but for some reason it never reached the musician.
The first time he saw it was in 2005 when an American collector contacted him to verify whether the letter -- estimated to be worth 7,000 pounds (11,000 dollars, 8,500 euros) -- was genuine.
John Lennon
Breaks Box Office Record
Met Opera
The Metropolitan Opera has set a record for its box office opening day, selling more than $2.6 million worth of single tickets for the new season.
The total, reflecting the sale of more than 24,000 tickets on Sunday, compares to $2.5 million in sales on last year's opening day. Sales included in-person purchases, plus those made by telephone and online.
The company's 33-week season starts Sept. 27 with a new production of Richard Wagner's "Das Rheingold" directed by Robert Lepage.
Sales were strong for the whole season despite the Met's first across-the-board ticket price increase in five years. Individual tickets went up an average of 11 percent, with seats for regular single performances ranging from $25 to $420, up from a range of $20 to $375 last season.
Met Opera
ABC Renews
"Wipeout"
ABC is ordering a fourth season of its summer reality hit "Wipeout." The next round of the series will feature two new obstacle courses, including a fresh "motivator" for the infamously difficult Big Balls, the classic sweeper with a new twist and obstacles such as the Lawn Mower and the Sky Scraper Slide.
"I'm excited that a fourth season will give our team the opportunity to create bigger and funnier ways to wipe out contestants and thrill families across America," creator and executive producer Matt Kunitz said.
Pulling double duty on two nights at 8 p.m., "Wipeout" has the distinction of being the only broadcast reality series launched in recent years to demonstrated staying power.
"Wipeout"
Tug-Of-War Between Florence, Rome
Michelangelo's 'David'
A longstanding dispute over who owns Michelangelo's statue "David" -- a lucrative tourist magnet -- has reopened between the Italian government and the city of Florence, reports said Monday.
Florence Mayor Matteo Renzi said he had "no doubt" that his city is the rightful owner of the sculpture and that Florence deserved to benefit from the eight million euros (10 million dollars) tourists pay each year to see it -- money that currently goes into national coffers.
Renzi said the ownership of the Carrara marble masterpiece had been transferred to his city in 1871, when Florence lost its status as temporary capital of the newly unified Italy and it shifted to Rome.
But two government lawyers said they had concluded once again that the statue belongs to Rome.
Michelangelo's 'David'
Real-Life Inspiration
Quasimodo
A British archivist believes he has uncovered the real-life inspiration for French novelist Victor Hugo's mysterious character Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris.
Adrian Glew, who works on the Tate collection's archives in London, was studying the seven-volume handwritten autobiography of 19th century British sculptor Henry Sibson when he came across a reference to a Frenchman whose nickname was "le bossu," or hunchback.
Sibson had been employed in the 1820s to carve stone as part of the renovation of Notre Dame in Paris which had suffered damage during the French Revolution in the 1790s.
According to Sibson, Trajan was a "most worthy, fatherly and amiable man as ever existed -- he was the carver under the government sculptor whose name I forget as I had no intercourse with him. All that I know is that he was humpbacked and he did not like to mix with carvers."
Quasimodo
In Memory
Herman Leonard
Jazz scene photographer Herman Leonard, famous for his smoky, backlighted black-and-white photos of such greats as Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis and Frank Sinatra, has died. He was 87.
Leonard, who moved to Los Angeles after Hurricane Katrina flooded his New Orleans home and destroyed thousands of his prints, died Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, family spokeswoman Geraldine Baum said on his website. The cause of death wasn't disclosed.
Leonard was considered one of the great mid-century jazz scene photographers. He started in the late 1940s and left a rich chronicle of a musical era with photos taken in New York, Paris and London through the 1960s.
The Smithsonian has more than 130 Leonard photographs in its permanent collection.
He was studying photography at Ohio University when he was called to duty in the U.S. Army during World War II. He returned to college and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1947.
He moved to New York the following year, after an apprenticeship with famed portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh taking pictures of Albert Einstein, Martha Graham and other cultural icons.
He then became immersed in the jazz scene, making deals with club owners to photograph rehearsals and giving them photos for their marquees.
Using a large 4-by-5 Speed Graphic camera, he shot Art Tatum, Dizzy Gillespie, Sarah Vaughan and countless other jazz greats in the smoky haze of jazz clubs. In 1956, he was Marlon Brando's personal photographer on a trip to the Far East.
While his prints were lost in the New Orleans hurricane, his 60,000 negatives were safe, having been sent before Katrina to the Ogden Museum. His return to New Orleans was chronicled in the 2006 BBC/Sundance documentary "Saving Jazz."
In 2008, he was the first photographer to be granted a Grammy Foundation Grant for Preservation and Archiving, enabling him to digitize, catalog and preserve his collection of nearly 60,000 jazz negatives.
Last year, Leonard was the official photographer for the Montreal Jazz Festival, photographing legends such as Tony Bennett and Dave Brubeck.
Leonard is survived by children Valerie, Shana, Michael and David; and six grandchildren.
Herman Leonard
In Memory
Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson, the bassist for the funk and R&B group the Gap Band, has died. He was 53.
His death was confirmed by Karen Lee, publicist for his brother and Gap Band singer Charlie Wilson.
Robert Wilson had been touring over the past few weeks, including a stop in his hometown in Tulsa, Okla. The Tulsa World reported that he died in Los Angeles on Sunday.
Wilson provided the bass backbone for the trio, which also included another brother, Ronnie. They rocketed to stardom in the 1980s with hits like "Outstanding," "You Dropped a Bomb On Me" and "Yearning for Your Love."
Robert Wilson
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