{"id":15423,"date":"2014-08-26T14:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T14:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/?p=15423"},"modified":"2014-08-26T14:48:54","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T14:48:54","slug":"awards-show-emmys-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/awards-show-emmys-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"AWARDS SHOW: EMMYS 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>EMMYS 2014<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My annual review of the Emmys arrivals and telecast will be shorter than usual. (I know\u2014thank the Lord, right?) I live-tweeted many of opinions last night (which you can still read @MajorCelebrity,) so I&#8217;m just repeating them, and then giving you a few updates today.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15444\" style=\"width: 151px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/rs_634x1024-140825145245-634.Sarah-Hyland-Emmy-Awards.jl_.082514.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15444\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15444\" alt=\"Young Sarah Hyland in one of the few good outfits of the evening.\" src=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/rs_634x1024-140825145245-634.Sarah-Hyland-Emmy-Awards.jl_.082514-e1409040886155-141x300.jpg\" width=\"141\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15444\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young Sarah Hyland in one of the few good outfits of the evening.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I had to interrupt my coverage of the Emmys Gifting suites to publish this, so please remember to continue reading about them, starting again tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Okay, here goes with my thoughts on the Emmys:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I actually enjoyed these Emmys.\u00a0 Maybe it was because it must have moved along, since it ended on time, or maybe live-tweeting made the time fly.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever is was, I think that first-time host, <strong>Seth Myers<\/strong>, did an excellent job.\u00a0 He didn&#8217;t try too hard, he didn&#8217;t make it about him, he had lots of funny moments, and he did it all with a twinkle in his eye, which I always appreciate.<\/p>\n<p>As I said, I live-tweeted it, beginning with just some of the arrivals coverage.\u00a0 Not even<em> I<\/em> could watch all three walk-in shows, so I switched around, and just could not get to it all before the live show show began.<\/p>\n<p>Because it was an easy show, and the participants were basically well-behaved without many outside shenanigans, (like Ellen&#8217;s stupid pizza bit at this year&#8217;s Oscars,) there really wasn&#8217;t that much to complain about, so my tweets were not very amusing.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15446\" style=\"width: 133px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/rs_634x1024-140825164606-634.Kerry-Washington-Emmy-Awards.jl_.082514.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15446\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15446\" alt=\"Who wears orange and black when it's not Halloween???  Kerry Washington, apparently. And her make-up is a tad witchy, too. (And who gave her a blue purse?  Fire that stylist!)\" src=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/rs_634x1024-140825164606-634.Kerry-Washington-Emmy-Awards.jl_.082514-e1409041039300-123x300.jpg\" width=\"123\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15446\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Who wears orange and black when it&#8217;s not Halloween??? Kerry Washington, apparently. And her make-up is a tad witchy, too. (And who gave her a blue purse? Fire that stylist!)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sorry about that. But that&#8217;s what <em>bland<\/em> does.<\/p>\n<p>No one&#8217;s outfit was even that bad, or that great, to warrant enough of my attention.\u00a0 Or maybe I&#8217;m just exhausted from all the fabulous Gifting Suites leading up to the telecast.\u00a0 (Speaking of which, reminder that it&#8217;s back to my coverage of those lounges tomorrow.)<\/p>\n<p>And, as the evening went along, I realized that I didn&#8217;t care even one little whit about <em>any<\/em> winner!!! That was very a very strange feeling for uber-passionate, empathic moi.<\/p>\n<p>So, in case you missed them, I&#8217;m going to just share the basic elements of my tweets (@MajorCelebrity) from last night, with a few other thoughts mixed in.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>ARRIVALS TWEETS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>E!&#8217;s arrivals coverage was so nauseating that I had to move over to another channel! (I didn&#8217;t tweet this part, but I almost puked from Giuliani Rancic&#8217;s interview of Taylor Schilling. They just kept telling each how \u201cgorgeous\u201d and \u201cinsane\u201d they looked, over and over. And Taylor said their jewelry should get married, or some stupidity like that. I was embarrassed for them both.)<\/p>\n<p>The inane Sam Rubin (from local LA channel 5) just asked an <em>OITNB<\/em> actress to introduce herself! Shouldn&#8217;t he have studied-up on the people he would be interviewing???<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15435\" style=\"width: 159px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/rs_634x1024-140825155737-634-christine-baranski-emmy.ls_.82514-e1409040372213.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15435\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15435\" alt=\"Christine Baranski in the perfect Emmys dress.\" src=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/rs_634x1024-140825155737-634-christine-baranski-emmy.ls_.82514-e1409040372213-149x300.jpg\" width=\"149\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/rs_634x1024-140825155737-634-christine-baranski-emmy.ls_.82514-e1409040372213-149x300.jpg 149w, https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/rs_634x1024-140825155737-634-christine-baranski-emmy.ls_.82514-e1409040372213.jpg 509w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 149px) 100vw, 149px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15435\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christine Baranski in the perfect Emmys dress.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I <em>love<\/em> <strong>Christine Baranski<\/strong>&#8216;s dress!\u00a0 It&#8217;s just warm enough, and is still classy and elegant.\u00a0 And hip!<\/p>\n<p>Very cute outfit on <strong>Sarah Hyland<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Very classy interview by <strong>Anna Gunn<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Some teen girl who&#8217;s been on <em>Mad Men<\/em> since she was a kid, has the worst dress.\u00a0 It looks like her belt is falling off!!!<\/p>\n<p>If a woman is wearing a peplum, like <strong>Laura Prepon<\/strong>, it means she&#8217;s trying to hide a big stomach.<\/p>\n<p>Are Anna Gunn and\u00a0<strong>Allison Janney<\/strong> the same person?<\/p>\n<p>Can someone please beg <strong>Jon Voight<\/strong>\u00a0 to stop wearing that white schmata already?!<\/p>\n<p>We just saw the beyond-foolish and embarrassing outfit on<strong> Lena Dunham<\/strong>.\u00a0 Mr. X walked in the room, and yelled, &#8220;WTF???,&#8221; but with the real words.<\/p>\n<p>From the back, she looks like the love child of Dame Edna and Bruce Vilanche.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15437\" style=\"width: 223px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_3724.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15437\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15437\" alt=\"Julianna Marguilies looking like she's about to wash her face and get into bed, not present an award!  Photo by Karen Salkin.\" src=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_3724-e1409040479831-213x300.jpg\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_3724-e1409040479831-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_3724-e1409040479831-729x1024.jpg 729w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15437\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julianna Marguilies looking like she&#8217;s about to wash her face and get into bed, not present an award! Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Julianna Margulies<\/strong> looks like she&#8217;s about to wash her face and get into bed!!! Why in the world would she wear her hair like that!?!? And even Mr. X said her dress looked like a nightgown. Where are these people&#8217;s stylists?!<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t believe that Jon Voight actually just explained why he always wears that schmata scarf!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">ACTUAL SHOW<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ty Burrell<\/strong>&#8216;s speech was very well thought-out, and so clever!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jimmy Kimmel<\/strong> was just brilliant!\u00a0 He was the highlight of the show!\u00a0 He should host next year, if it&#8217;s on ABC.\u00a0 [Note: The Emmys rotates channels each year, for fairness, and each network appoints one of their big comedy guys as the host.]<\/p>\n<p>Love<strong> Jim Parsons<\/strong>! He <em>deserved<\/em> the win, and his speech was excellent.<\/p>\n<p>That<strong> Julia Louis-Dreyfus<\/strong> bit of making-out with <strong>Bryan Cranston<\/strong> was hilarious.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15439\" style=\"width: 147px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-26-at-1.01.58-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15439\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15439\" alt=\"It was a cruel joke to dress poor Mindy Kalling in this lumpy mess!\" src=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-26-at-1.01.58-AM-e1409040556886-137x300.png\" width=\"137\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-26-at-1.01.58-AM-e1409040556886-137x300.png 137w, https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-26-at-1.01.58-AM-e1409040556886.png 253w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 137px) 100vw, 137px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15439\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It was a cruel joke to dress poor Mindy Kalling in this lumpy mess!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Who would dress <strong>Mindy Kalling<\/strong> in that monstrosity?!\u00a0 They must hate her!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kerry Washington<\/strong>&#8216;s orange and black dress was like a nice Halloween witch costume!<\/p>\n<p>Mr. X said of\u00a0<strong>Weird Al Yankovic<\/strong>, &#8220;He found a look, and stuck with it!&#8221; And, in seriousness, I&#8217;m adding that he really hasn&#8217;t aged since I met him at least twenty years ago!<\/p>\n<p>That was a great bit <strong>Sophia Vergara<\/strong> did with the guy who had to read the technical stuff. It was a highlight.<\/p>\n<p>What a well-done tribute to Robin Williams tribute his good pal, <strong>Billy Crystal<\/strong>, did.<\/p>\n<p>Good job by <strong>Debra Messing<\/strong> to have lost lots of weight since <em>Smash<\/em>. Big props to her!<\/p>\n<p>Lovely speech by Anna Gunn.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry these tweets aren&#8217;t funny, but I take this other actor critiquing seriously! I have to call them as I see them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>A FEW NON-TWEETED EXTRA THOUGHTS ON THE SHOW<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15448\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_3707.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15448\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15448\" alt=\"Can you see that Matthew and Woody look alike, despite the weird coloring of this pic? Photo by Karen Salkin.\" src=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_3707-e1409041183831-300x205.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_3707-e1409041183831-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_3707-e1409041183831-1024x701.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15448\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Can you see that Matthew and Woody look alike, despite the weird coloring of this pic? Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Seth Myers sure has come a long way.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t believe I forgot to tweet this one, but, did anyone else notice that <strong>Matthew McConaughey <\/strong>and<strong> Woody Harrelson <\/strong>look alike?! Only one is gorgoeus and the other far from it. I&#8217;m not saying which is which, but I&#8217;m just about positive that everyone, except for maybe Woody&#8217;s wife, can figure this one out!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15441\" style=\"width: 163px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_3697.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15441\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15441\" alt=\"Doesn't this Mad Men girl's belt look like it's falling off, rather than being that way on purpose? Photo by Karen Salkin.\" src=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_3697-e1409040730657-153x300.jpg\" width=\"153\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15441\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doesn&#8217;t this Mad Men girl&#8217;s belt look like it&#8217;s falling off, rather than being that way on purpose? Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Seeing <strong>Allison Williams<\/strong> makes me even angrier that she&#8217;s going to play Peter Pan on the live TV version this year. I&#8217;m probably the biggest <em>Peter Pan<\/em> in the world, (remember my birthday cake debacle? Scroll-down on this page for that story:<a href=\"http:\/\/ itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/holiday-happy-birthday-to-me-2013\"> itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/holiday-happy-birthday-to-me-2013<\/a>,) and I&#8217;m telling you, casting her was a travesty. It should be a really cute little boy-looking woman, who has great physicality, singing ability, and vulnerability. I&#8217;m dreading this version, even though I think Christopher Walken may be great.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Julia Roberts<\/strong>&#8216; husband is cute.<\/p>\n<p>Allison Janney&#8217;s speech was good and nice.<\/p>\n<p>Loved the mesh over <strong>Hayden Panettiere<\/strong>&#8216;s chest. I mean it!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ellen Burstyn<\/strong> hasn&#8217;t aged a day in the decade or so since I&#8217;ve heard of her.<\/p>\n<p>Winner of <em>Least Dynamic Duo<\/em>&#8212;<strong>Kate Walsh <\/strong>and<strong> Scott Bakula<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>That&#8217;s it for the Emmys. I hope it&#8217;s enough for this year. Please remember to check back here tomorrow for more great Gifting Suite stories!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EMMYS 2014 &nbsp; My annual review of the Emmys arrivals and telecast will be shorter than usual. (I know\u2014thank the Lord, right?) I live-tweeted many of opinions last night (which you can still read @MajorCelebrity,) so I&#8217;m just repeating them, and then giving you a few updates today. I had to interrupt my coverage of<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/awards-show-emmys-2014\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-awards-shows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15423"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15451,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15423\/revisions\/15451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}