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<\/a>Here are some actresses making believe they’re happy for the winner, (who, by the way, is on the top right.) Photo by Karen Salkin, as is the one above.<\/p><\/div>\n
And neither did most of the pre-show red carper interviewers! It was hilarious. They didn\u2019t give us the people\u2019s names most of the time, so we could tell they have no idea who these working actors are, either! They just did generic greetings and questions, such as, \u201cSo nice to see you,\u201d and \u201cWho are you happy to see here?\u201d They didn\u2019t mention names or shows or colleagues. And it even took the directors several minutes to put-up the banner with the person\u2019s name, sometimes never making it at all. It all validated my lack of knowledge of any of them.<\/p>\n
But there are two things that I must laud the Emmys organization for. The first is that the show was moved from a Sunday to a Monday. I don\u2019t know their reasoning, but it gave us all an extra day for fun pre-Emmys activities, and I\u2019m sure the participants appreciated having that time to wind-down from the weekend and get ready. This is actually the way the Oscars<\/em> used to do it, which somehow made it feel a bit more special.<\/p>\n I hope this woman, Denee Benton, feels embarrassed that no one thought she looks good. I left the interviewers in the pic because they look as horrified as the rest of us! Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n The second is that the show ended exactly<\/em> on time. Good for them!<\/p>\n As far as the two arrivals shows went, I was happy and pretty surprised to see that there were more than two or three honest actors on the red carpet. That was nice. Some were grateful, some told the truth about their shows, some confessed that they, of course, did<\/em> envision winning. But several of them, such as an annoying half-naked attention-seeker named Denee Benton<\/strong>, (who looked like an idiot!,) were still phonies who were full of beans.<\/p>\n As usual, I tweeted a lot during the arrivals and show, so I\u2019m not going to repeat all of those thoughts here. You can always still read them on X, @MajorCelebrity<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Here are the rest of them, which are a bit more brief than in past years because I\u2019m soooo time-constrained this week:<\/p>\n KTLA ARRIVALS<\/strong><\/p>\n I like that Alfonso Ribeiro<\/strong> is so grateful. I\u2019m glad that I\u2019ve always liked him.<\/p>\n I know who actor Jeff Hiller<\/strong> is only from Stumble<\/em>, a sitcom that Mr. X and I loved. (So of course NBC cancelled it! When he was asked about meeting Bryan Cranston recently, he sang his praises and added, \u201cIt turns out, the acclaim was for a reason.\u201d I love that!<\/p>\n Dale Dickey and Sally Field. Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n This was all so bizarre\u2014they were talking to an older, very wrinkled woman who, it turns-out, is on Widow\u2019s Bay<\/em>, which turned-out to be the big winner of the night. We had never heard of it until this show. They, of course, never said her name, and did their aforementioned deflection trick of asking who had been excited to meet. Her answer was Sally Field<\/strong>. And then the hosts excitedly said that Sally was right there. (She was waiting her turn to be interviewed by them.) So they brought Sally up to their stand to say hi to the woman. And then the woman, (who I just researched to find her name–Dale Dickey,) proceeded to stay there for all of Sally\u2019s interview! It was so uncomfortable\u2014she should have stepped down already!<\/p>\n E ARRIVALS<\/strong><\/p>\n I had both channels on my TV screen so I could switch back and forth, and in the box I saw an old man and a very unattractive, old woman, who was totally plastic-surgeried-out and looked like Wayland Flowers\u2019 puppet, Madame. So I switched over to see who they could possibly be, and it was Harry Hamlin <\/strong>and Lisa Rinna<\/strong>! Oysh. She almost had a heart attack when he said he can\u2019t wait to have grandchildren! So when the interviewer asked her if she feels the same, she had to say yes. It\u2019s hard to see an expression on her plastic face, but you could tell she was lying! Hilarious.<\/p>\n Just look at this attention-seeking idiot! Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n I love Abbott Elementary<\/em>, and, of course, recognize the talent of Sheryl Lee Ralph<\/strong>. But I\u2019m not a fan of the almost preacher-like way she talks in interviews. I almost choked when she emphatically declared that something \u201c\u2026bought<\/em> me to this moment!\u201d She, of course, meant \u201cbr<\/em>ought,\u201d and because of the bold way she spoke it, she can\u2019t later pretend that\u2019s what she did<\/em> say. (I hate that stupid mistake so much that I gave the lesson its own column seven years ago! Here\u2019s that link: itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/karens-lessons-the-difference-between-bought-and-brought<\/a>.)<\/p>\n When I saw a very hefty and repulsive-looking woman dressed in underwear and painted all in gold, to look like an Emmy, I didn\u2019t even take a picture to post because I was sure that it was a crasher. I later found-out that it was actually a working actress named Megan Stalter<\/strong>, who obviously thinks she\u2019s funny. And then the idiot had to sit at the table all night looking that. Creepy. That can not have been pleasant for her tablemates. But at least we know she\u2019s one of the few who\u2019s not on Ozempic!<\/p>\n Perhaps my favorite red carpet sighting was Adam Brody<\/strong>, of whom Mr. X and I have always been fans. I did not see his adorbs wife, Leighton Meester, there with him, but we adore them both. He was so charming and grateful in his interview, extolling all that he and she have. He never once even alluded to that their house burned down in the famous fires last year! That made me like him even more.<\/p>\n THE SHOW<\/strong><\/p>\n So there are The Haves, (at tables in the front of the audience,) and The Have Nots, (in regular audience seats behind them,) even among the show biz elites!) Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n Some of the audience was sitting at tables, which is weird and different. And most likely uncomfortable for three hours! Except for that they got to socialize with more people than regular audience seating allows for. I wrote that \u201cI liked it better the normal way,\u201d and then I noticed that\u2026most of the audience was in regular theatre seats! So that made the configuration even worse. It basically told most of the assemblage that they\u2019re not important, and are there sort-of like extras! Ewww.<\/p>\n I think Mariska Hargitay<\/strong> did an excellent job of hosting. I never saw her TV series, and know next to nothing about her, except that Mr. X played the agent of her real-life mother, Jayne Mansfield, in a TV movie before I started seeing him. But she turned me into a fan last night.<\/p>\n Note to all the losers: Please stop making believe you\u2019re soooo happy for the person who beat you! We all know that you are not!<\/p>\n Zendaya. Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n Zendaya<\/strong> was the only one who looked like a true movie star, (even though these awards are for television.) I really don\u2019t care about her one way or another, (which is weird for my uber-opinionated self,) but I seriously got chills from her perfect entrance on stage. I love correct glamour!<\/p>\n Jean Smart<\/strong> is truly beloved, rightfully so. I met her a few times years ago, and she\u2019s exactly what you see in all her lovely speeches. (We perused fancy shirts together at a gifting suite once, and she was so nice that the company reps thought we were good friends! They even contacted me to give me something else to give her!)<\/p>\n I don\u2019t know what Pluribus<\/em> is or who Rhea Seehorn<\/strong> is, but from her acceptance speech, it appears that she thinks she\u2019s funny, but definitely is not. I actually made a note that she\u2019s \u201ccreepy.\u201d<\/p>\n But she did say one thing about another person that I really appreciated. She said that fellow nominee Keri Russell<\/strong>, (one of the few people I knew at the Emmys!,) sent a note to the women in her category that read in part, \u201cWe\u2019re linked, not ranked,\u201d which is a Gloria Steinem quote. I love it!<\/p>\n Alan Cummings weird outfit and Emmy Rossum’s arms. Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n I\u2019ve always been a fan of Alan Cumming<\/strong>, especially when I met him at a previous Emmys event a decade ago! He was so nice and normal. And, as I wrote then, darling. But someone has got to teach him how to dress!!! He changed a few times, each outfit worse than the last!<\/p>\n What is up with Emmy Rossum<\/strong>\u2019s skeleton arms?<\/p>\n This pic is entitled either \u201cWho and Who?,\u201d or \u201cTwo Miskites Desperate For Attention.\u201d When they came out onto the stage, even the usually tolerant Mr. X said, \u201cWho the f**k are you???\u201d They were basically disgusting.<\/p>\n I\u2019m not at all familiar with Matthew Rhys<\/strong>, outside of being Keri Russell\u2019s husband, but it is historic that he won two acting awards at the same Emmys. His second speech was excellent. Except that he did not mention Keri either time! That\u2019s grounds for an immediate divorce in my book!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>