Hugh Laurie and 'CSI' slap Emmy

In his weekly recap of whazzup during TV sweeps' weeks, Matt Roush of TV Guide enjoyed the snarky irony of seeing never-nominated William Peterson hoist an Emmy on an episode of "C.S.I.," saying "Is that what this is?" Adds Matt: "A nice slap at the Emmys for taking procedural actors so for granted. A similar moment occurred on this week's 'House,' as the doctor invaded the dressing room of his favorite medical soap's leading man. We see Hugh Laurie holding an Emmy and looking in the mirror, feigning shock and humility at winning an award that has so far escaped him. Good stuff."

Kris Tapley has been using Tonys and Emmys time to brighten up his Oscars shrine — InContention.com — literally. Now it sports a new layout with white background instead of black. Best tweak: he's moved his blog to the home page. Hallelujah; along the right column he's kept his easy, breezy breakdown of his early, brave predix of Oscars frontrunners. Memorize those and you get teasing rights when you catch up with Kris when the weather, inevitably, changes. Meantime, it's nice to see everything so sunny over there.

There was so much grumbling all over Manhattan about how awful the movies were at the recent Tribeca Film Festival that I stayed away. Now I'm sorry I missed what Cinematical called "quite obviously Michelle Monaghan's 'Oscar' role. In 'Trucker,' she plays Diane, a female truck driver with one helluva edge -- not to mention a knack for drinking lots of hard liquor and taking part in more than a few unhealthy one-night-stands. She knows just what she needs to keep on truckin', and she knows just how to get it." Ed Douglas of Comingsoon.net hails her perf as "unforgettable." Scott Feinberg of AndTheWinnerIs suggests Monaghan "could generate serious attention" if "Trucker" is picked up by a decent distrib that gives it a decent release date.

Now that the One Club Awards are celebrating their 33rd year, I'm a bit late catching up with a prize that prides itself upon being "the ad industry's equivalent of the Oscars. " Last week I attended the doling out of its golden pencil awards at Jazz at Lincoln Center where I was quite impressed with the ceremony's slick presentation and zippy pace. They sure do give out a lot of pencils in 14 ad classifications like consumer magazines, branded content, cinema advertising, consumer television, innovation in advertising and marketing. Over two hours there was a constant parade of honorees, many of them ridiculous trendoid types from Madison Avenue agencies where meetings probably happen around ping-pong tables. No doubt the winners' Midwestern mamas would give 'em a good slap if they caught their kiddies slogging up to the podium dressed in torn jeans and sweatshirts with hoodies to claim their pencils. At least no acceptance speeches were permitted, thus sparing us a tsunami of 'tude. Meantime, the audience was entertained by the (sometimes shockingly insane) ads these rascals got honored for. See the winners roster HERE

(Phots: HFPA, InContention, Plum Pictures LA Times)