Archive: September 2009 (141-150 of 437)

Sep 21 2009 12:42 PM ET

Heidi Klum: Hottest red carpet pregnant lady ever?

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Heidi-Klum_lIf Heidi Klum was not the hottest pregnant lady to ever attend an awards show at last night’s Emmys, I will march right over and slap Michael Slezak in the face. I’ll do it! Heidi Klum looked ridiculously good strutting the carpet. From this crazy angle, it’s almost like she’s channeling one of the “Models of the Wunway” from Project Runway‘s maternity wear challenge and has merely wrapped a foam pad around a highly breakable fiberglass model-waist. Those just looked comical; this looks incredible. She always raves about being pregnant (this is her fourth child), so I would like Heidi to continue producing baby Seals at about a yearly pace so that she can one-up herself at every Emmys. Even if Runway ends and she’s not really doing anything on TV. Everyone will be like “Where is pregnant Heidi Klum?” And like an ancient fertility goddess arriving to govern the cycle of the seasons and the growing of grain, Heidi will rise, glowing, from a hitherto unseen pile of schnitzel to chirp, “Hello!” This is her next challenge.

Recent hot-mama runners-up include Cate Blanchett and Jessica Alba at the 2009 Oscars, Catherine Zeta-Jones in 2003, Salma Hayek at the 2007 Alma Awards, and of course, “L. Yeah” in 2000. We say Heidi’s the hottest ever. What about you?

Read more: 2009 Emmy Awards: Best and Worst Fashions

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Sep 21 2009 10:48 AM ET

'Little Dorrit': This year's best Emmys discovery?

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Perhaps, when the words Little Dorrit kept coming up during last night’s Emmy Awards broadcast, you were all, “Little who?” Or maybe you filtered out the unfamiliar phrase altogether and have no idea what I’m talking about. But wait! There’s a reason why the BBC-WGBH Charles Dickens adaptation picked up so many trophies, including Outstanding Miniseries plus the writing and directing awards in that field.

I’m not even a Dickens fan like that, but my 19th-century-British-literature-obsessive girlfriend sure is, so I watched the miniseries when it aired this spring. The cast was one of those sprawling BBC ensembles, featuring memorable performances from actors I’d never seen before (Claire Foy, as debtor’s daughter Amy Dorrit) as well as some familiar faces (Matthew “Mr. Darcy” Macfadyen as earnest hero Arthur Clennam, Andy “Gollum” Serkis as creepy villain Rigaud). And the plot — all about wealth and class and massive finance-industry malfeasance — was shockingly relevant in 2009. If you’d like to see a melodramatic TV movie about the Bernie Madoff scandal, you’d probably be better off seeking out Little Dorrit on DVD. It’ll be just as much fun, you’ll get a long-suffering love story at the same time, and you know the production values will be higher with the BBC in charge.

Did any of you catch Little Dorrit when it first aired? How psyched are you to see it having a well-deserved Emmy moment? Or are you looking forward to discovering Little Dorrit now that the Emmys have brought it to your attention?

Photo credit: Mike Hogan/ BBC

Sep 21 2009 10:43 AM ET

Emmys: Hooray for 'Mad Men' and '30 Rock,' but how many repeat winners is too many?

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30-Rock-Emmys_lWell thank goodness Neil Patrick Harris and John Hodgman were a kick, huh? Because the list of Emmy winners themselves did nothing to shake up the ceremony this year. While the smooth host won praise and the telecast did seem fresher overall — loved the way they broke it into comedy, reality, miniseries/movie, and drama, all the better to clean the kitchen during the miniseries/movie segment — the actual choices were a bit of a yawn. That’s not to say they weren’t absolutely right in most major cases: 30 Rock (cast pictured) and Mad Men are truly worthy of praise, and furthermore, they still don’t get ratings worthy of their greatness. But for the second year in a row, the pair took the top prizes. (It was 30 Rock‘s third consecutive best comedy win, putting it in the rare company of Taxi, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, All in the Family, and Frasier.) READ FULL STORY »

Sep 21 2009 09:57 AM ET

Emmys: Did you love Neil Patrick Harris as much as we did?

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I got a little choked up watching Neil Patrick Harris be awesome at the Emmys — I guess because back in his Doogie Howser days I had a major, and very real-feeling, crush on him, so it was sorta like if my high school boyfriend suddenly found himself making a room full of Tina Feys and John Hamms and Kevin Bacons laugh. Not to mention that he’s a deserving guy whose career has now survived both child stardom and coming out, while his talent has shone through to be recognized by the industry as a whole, even though the show that’s his day job, How I Met Your Mother, is only a modest hit. Sorry, I’m getting gushy, but this is the ardor NPH inspires. And I wasn’t alone, anyway! Famous people agree with me! One of last year’s five disastrous hosts, Jeff Probst (“This is how you host a show”), and none other than Jon Stewart (“You’re doing such a wonderful job”) were among those who praised him right from the stage. Sure, there were some minor missteps; the Harlem Globetrotter gag wasn’t my favorite (though it’s convenient that the regular-girl contest winner was super hot, huh?) and I thought the running bit where he’d use old, silly credits (“you know him as Photographer No. 5 in …”) when introducing stars got a tad old after a while. But the Dr. Horrible sketch (“buffering …”) added a perfect amount of meta-cool factor, his interview with Jon Cryer after losing to him was genuinely funny, and the opening number was all of the above. Extra points for getting so darn many network names in there.

So, PopWatchers, what did you think of NPH? Take the poll below then explain in the comments section.

Sep 21 2009 12:36 AM ET

Emmys: All the backstage action

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Backstage this year at the Emmy awards, the pressroom was privy to American Idol predictions, shout outs to former Beatles, and some seriously stylish lounging by the stars of Mad Men. Here are the highlights.

Live! From the press room!
Two and a Half Men star Jon Cryer’s time backstage after his win for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy was dominated by his bit with Emmy host and category rival Neil Patrick Harris, which required a special lighting rig and some consultation with show production assistants. As he waited for the set-up to finish, Cryer explained to the press, in a high, Jewish-lady voice, “Tawk amongst yourselves.” When the bit was over, Cryer shrugged and said, “OK, that was the bit, I hope it was worth waiting for, folks.” When the actual Q&A commenced, Cryer joked that when he said to co-star Charlie Sheen, “This [Emmy] is for you,” he meant he would give a copy of his Emmy to Sheen, not the actual thing. As for how he finally won after being nominated four times? “They gave up: ‘He’s not going to leave us alone until he gets one of those things!’” READ FULL STORY »

Sep 20 2009 11:28 PM ET

Emmys: EW staffers tweet from the after-parties!

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When the last statuette is handed out, the REAL party begins. EW staffers are on the lists at some of Hollywood’s hottest post-Emmy parties. Scroll down to see what they’re seeing and hearing, and please pardon any typos — we told them they could start drinking after the broadcast.

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@EWMichaelSlezak: Idoloonie, pop-culture obsessive, and EW.com senior writer

More Emmy Awards coverage on EW:
2009 Emmys: Best and worst red carpet fashion
Our 2009 Emmy Awards live blog
2009 Emmys: See what you missed in our backstage report
2009 Emmys: Ken Tucker’s best and worst moments
Video: Red carpet interview with True Blood‘s Stephen Moyer
Video: Emmy-winner Michael Emerson and Jorge Garcia on the next season of Lost
Video: Tina Fey and Jane Krakowski leak 30 Rock spoilers!
Video: The cast of The Office shares spoilers on the red carpet

Sep 20 2009 08:15 PM ET

2009 Emmy Awards: And the winners are...

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The 61st Emmy Awards, hosted by an affable, white-tuxedoed Neil Patrick Harris, delivered a few surprises and plenty of deja vu moments.

Notable upsets included Toni Collette (United States of Tara) besting Tina Fey (30 Rock) in the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy category , and Kristin Chenoweth’s Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy win for her work in the dead-as-a-doornail series Pushing Daisies.

Repeat winners included The Amazing Race, which picked up its seventh Best Reality-Competition Emmy; 30 Rock (Outstanding Comedy and Outstanding Writing for a Comedy); and Mad Men, winning its second consecutive award for Outstanding Drama. Also repeating their 2008 wins were Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) and Glenn Close (Damages) for Outstanding Lead Actor and Actress in a Drama.

The major award winners are listed below by category (or click for the full list of winners). Check out our red carpet video featuring EW’s own Michael Ausiello, our Emmys live blog and EW staffers’ tweets from the hottest after-parties.

DRAMA

Outstanding Drama Series
Mad Men (AMC)

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
Glenn Glose as Patty Hewes in Damages (FX)

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad (AMC)

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama
Cherry Jones, 24 (Fox)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama
Michael Emerson, Lost (Fox)

Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series
Kater Gordon and Matthew Weiner, “Meditations in an Emergency,” Mad Men (AMC)

Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series
Rod Holcomb, “And in the End,” ER (NBC) READ FULL STORY »

Sep 20 2009 06:00 PM ET

Emmy Awards 2009: You want a live-blog? We've got it!

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Some people’s favorite holiday is Thanksgiving. For others, it’s Halloween. Ask a TV junkie, though, and you might hear the word “Emmys.” So to celebrate the occasion, Annie Barrett and Adam Markovitz are live-blogging the 2009 Emmy red-carpet proceedings starting at 6:00 p.m., while Michael Slezak and Margaret Lyons take over when the trophy presentations begin at 8:00 p.m. EDT. If that sounds like your kind of party, click here to take the Emmys live-blog journey with our TV-obsessed staffers and your fellow PopWatch readers! Ready, set, chat!

Sep 20 2009 01:14 PM ET

Kara DioGuardi: Should we give her a clean slate to start her second season of 'American Idol'? (Probably not, but...)

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Kara-Dioguardi_lThe sound of Kara DioGuardi’s speaking voice and the sound of my soul howling in agony created constant cacophony in my living room during American Idol‘s eighth season. Week after week after infuriating week, the “fourth-judge” deflated the high expectations I had initially held for her, dubbing “Cryin’” an “early Aerosmith” track, mislabeling the legendary Studio 54 as “Studio 57,” and worst of all, sticking to the judges’ table party line and yammering on about “package artists” as if she wasn’t a respected songwriter and a one-time major-label artist with a credible point of view and an understanding of the injustices of the modern-day record business. (Excuse that long-winded sentence; it needs to go see a therapist about its rage issues.)

But here’s the thing. Maybe it’s because I’ve had almost four months hiatus from Kara the Terrible’s patented brand of nonsense. Maybe it’s because this summer I got obsessed with Jessie James’ “Wanted,” a song co-written by Kara. Or maybe it’s just because I’m desperately holding out hope that Randy or Kara or Ellen — I don’t really care which one of ‘em it is — will become a second, respected voice at the Idol judges’ table, a person who can and will stand up to Simon when he’s wrong, when he says Allison Iraheta isn’t likeable, or when he overlooks Ricky Braddy’s masterful vocals to comment on his lack of “personality.” Whatever the reason, I’m wondering if we should all (blasphemy alert!) wipe the slate clean to start season 9, and give Kara another take.

Part of me wants to say “yes,” and yet girlfriend’s not making it easy. READ FULL STORY »

Sep 20 2009 12:32 PM ET

'America's Best Dance Crew': It's down to the final three

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We-Are-Heroes_lMad Men has a place of honor on my DVR, but tonight’s big show — other than the Emmys, obvs — is America’s Best Dance Crew. It’s down to the final three, and it’s totally and completely anyone’s game still. Ayee.

I’m rooting for We Are Heroes for several reasons, not the least of which is that it’s time for an all-girl crew to take the title. (Beat Freaks got robbed last season.) But I wouldn’t pull for just any girl crew: We Are Heroes’ distinctive choreography and seamless stunts blow me away. Their dances have a sense of humor, so they’ve been my fave crew this season from the get-go.

Massive Monkeys have a more typical ABDC b-boy style, and they’re terrific, but AfroBorike’s innovative partner dancing is a lot more interesting, even if it’s not always as varied as the other crews’ moves. We all know Shane loves sexually-charged routines, and AfroBorike definitely delivers on that front, but I wonder if their Latin-inspired moves can capture the hip-hop and breakdance-heavy ABDC voters.

Have you been watching ABDC this season? Which crew are you pulling for?

Photo credit: Ewan Burns/ MTV

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