Emmy Nominations 2006: The Yays, Nays and WTFs

So much for BIG changes at the Emmys this year that everyone has been talking about...

The Yays:

• 24 getting 12 nominations (the most). It's about time they noticed how great this show is.
• Grey's Anatomy getting 11. I'm a believer now.
• Arrested Development getting nominated for Best Comedy Series giving it a chance to pull a Ben Stiller ¹
• Desperate Housewives getting shut out of the Best Comedy Series nomination because this season really did suck
• The Girl in the Cafe getting a nominated for TV movie because I really liked it even though it was a little preachy
• Gregory Itzin (President Logan) & Jean Smart (Martha Logan) getting supporting nods for 24.
  
• Will Arnett (G.O.B.) getting a supporting nod for Arrested Development
• The Office and Scrubs getting best comedy series nominations
• Dennis Leary getting a best acting nomination. Never thought I'd see that day come.
• Patrick Stewart getting nominated for his guest stint on Extras. "Make it so!"
• Chandra Wilson (Dr. Bailey) getting a supporting nomination for Grey's Anatomy
• Jaime Pressley getting nominated for My Name Is Earl. Never thought she would get nominated for anything in her life except maybe a Cinemax Lifetime Achievement Award but she deserved it.
  

The Nays:

• The Two And A Half Men Enigma continues. Best Comedy Series? Really? So out of all the shows on television, Two and A Half Men is funnier than Entourage, How I Met Your Mother, Extras, Everybody Hates Chris and My Name Is Earl? Who votes for these things?
• The supposed "Lauren Graham Rule" didn't nab Lauren Graham a nomination. That's just ironic.
• Now I think Kevin James (The King of Queens) is a funny guy. But is he one of the five funniest actors in television?
  
• No acting nominations for Scrubs. C'mon, at least Donald Faison (Turk) deserved some Emmy love.
• I really wanted T.R. Knight (Dr. George O'Malley) from Grey's Anatomy to be nominated
  
• Aside from Steve Carell, no other actors were nominated from The Office.
• How does House get nominated but the actor the show pretty much revolves around and depends on, Hugh Laurie, doesn't?
• Michael Hall (David Fisher) deserved a nomination more than Peter Krause (Nate Fisher) for Six Feet Under
• Still no love for Mary Lynn Rajskub (Chloe) from 24.
• Double ditto for Veronica Mars or Kristin Bell.
• Triple Ditto for Battlestar Galactica and Mary McDonnell and Edward James Olmos. You'd think Lost would have opened up the possibility of a sci-fi show getting some love. Speaking of Lost...

The WTFs:

• No major nominations for Lost?!?! This must be a joke. Please let this be a joke.
• How does Edie Falco NOT get nominated for Best Actress in a Drama? Episodes 2 and 3 should have not only made her a lock to get nominated, I thought her name was already engraved on the statue. I wasn't the only one.
• The Shield? NOTHING?!? At LEAST Forest Whitaker should have been a shoo-in.
  
• I love that the only major acting nomination for Desperate Housewives was for Alfre Woodard who was forgotten about on a number of occasions this season and then chased off at the end of this crap season. She gets the last laugh.
• Still waiting for this Lost joke to be over.
  

¹ The Ben Stiller Show took home the 1993 Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Variety Series after it was cancelled.

It's Pronounced Pla·gia·rism

Just when you thought the Wayans Brothers couldn't go any lower...

THEY ARE REMAKING A BUGS BUNNY CARTOON!!!

And they don't even admit it.

Do you remember the Bugs Bunny cartoon where the midget criminal pretends to be a baby that Bugs takes in and the money he sticks in a baby carriage falls in his rabbit hole? He spends the entire cartoon trying to steal the money back. It was called "Baby Buggy Bunny".

This is from an interview¹ with Shawn Wayans:

" 'Little Man' is a movie about a guy named Darrell and his wife, Vanessa. Darrell really wants to have a baby and his wife doesn't because she's not ready, but that doesn't stop him from trying. At the same time, there's this guy Calvin who is this little dude, this vertically challenged guy, who just got out of prison and robs a jewelry store.

"The cops are chasing him from his botched jewelry-heist attempt, and he runs back into the store and hides the diamond inside of my wife's bag. Then he follows us home to get it back and shows up on our doorstep as a baby. Comedy ensues."

And then Kennan Ivory Wayans says¹, "I kinda had the initial idea, and then we all rewrote it together."

NO, you didn't. Michael Maltese, Chuck Jones and Mel Blanc did.

Hell, this scene was lifted STRAIGHT from the cartoon.

God, I feel bad rooting against black people but I hope someone from one of their estates sues their collective asses off.

¹ http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1533572/06052006/story.jhtml

The "Perfect" Relationship

While talking to Kristy this morning, I came up with the ideal relationship...at least for me...

• I would only see her 6-7 months out of the whole year. Maybe 2-3 weeks at a time.
• The only correspondence when we are apart are handwritten or typed letter (no e-mail, text messaging, instant messaging, phone calls only for birthdays--although I'm up in the air about this because the birthday card serves the same purpose--and emergencies)

Now automatically you are thinking, "That is incredibly stupid." and even as I said, I thought so too. The reasons are equally silly:

• There would be all the "missing" that comes with a long distance relationship without any of the tediousness of talking on the phone everyday just to remain in contact.
• How hard would it be to argue over pen and pad?
• I'll be honest. I'm better on paper than I am on the phone.
• You get to skip all the boring "How was your day?" conversations that eventually you weigh down.
  
• With all the technology making everything about getting whatever it is as soon as possible, I miss handwritten letters-writing, sending, reading and re-reading. E-mail isn't the same.
• A relationship like this is pretty easy to end.
  

Ok, even the reasons are stupid. But that's what fantasies are. Admit it, you like it a little bit.

Year 28 Revisited

It's 2:22 AM in the morning and I can't sleep (whether it be the heat or the sheer boredom of it being my birthday) so I sit here with a glass of Pinot Grigio (what an alcoholic I've become) and decided to look back on Year 28, which should bore me (and you) enough to go to bed proper:

• I came up with a good metaphor for commitment issues
• Spent a full year at the apartment (with rent increase and all)
• Made no career progress whatsoever (Actually, I don't have a career. I have a job.).
  
• I bought my first suit and wore it to two weddings (don't worry, they were like 6 months and 3,000 miles apart)
  
• Decided I was never drinking again (which lasted for eight days)
• Got a new iPod...three days before the video iPods came out
  
• Added the following movies to the all-time favorites list: Brokeback Mountain, The Constant Gardener, Wedding Crashers (despite the chick flick ending), Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, Thank You For Smoking (The Break-Up could make it on the list but I need one more viewing.)
  
• Fell asleep more in front of "friends" with cameras
• Went to my 10 year high school reunion (I still wish I had gotten Aline's e-mail. I forgot how cool she was in high school until I saw her again)
• Thank you Kaiva for putting me on to Battlestar Galatica. I can't believe there was a time I didn't watch this show.
• I fell out of love with hip-hop and fell in love with indie rock and pop (Marry me, Jenny Lewis...or at least leave me voicemails every once and awhile)
  
• Still now championships for the Yankees, Giants or Knicks (Could someone assassinate Isiah Thomas and James Dolan? Please?)
  
• Jack Bauer killed more people
• We still have no clue where the fuck Jack, Kate, Sawyer or Locke are or what it all means.
• Disappointed by X-Men: The Last Stand and Superman Returns (Don't let me down, Spider-Man 3)
  
• Got the "No P For Me" watch (and...I was right)
• Saw Jay-Z and Lewis Taylor in concert.
• Still single (much like all of 27 and 26). Not even a glimmer of hope in the horizon and I don't necessarily know how much I care about that.

Let's see how 29 plays out.

Shit, I'm still not sleepy. Maybe more wine would help.

The Science of Sleep trailer

If this does come out on August 11th, it's on "The List"

Written & Directed by Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)