Gold Derby nuggets: See 'Damages' marathon on Aug. 7 ... 'The Wire' star Seth Gilliam blasts the Emmys ... Katherine Heigl & hubby Josh Kelley are 'chillin' out' after Emmy flapdoodle
On Aug. 7, FX network will air a marathon of all 13 episodes of "Damages" from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. ET / PT. The critically hailed show is nominated for seven Emmy Awards, including best drama series and best actress (Glenn Close).
On my favorite subject of Melissa Leo , InContention.com wonders if the "Frozen River" star could be an Oscar front-runner. READ MORE
Speaking of Melissa Leo. I asked Sony Pictures Classics if I could speak to director-writer Courtney Hunt to get her side of the story about Leo's diva fit on the set of "Frozen River," but I'm told that they're traveling and not available till next week. OK, let's see if I can chat with Hunt then. My request for an interview remains open.
Newcomer Jessie Farrell leads with the most nominations (seven) for the Canadian Country Music Assn. Awards that will be held in Winnipeg, Canada, on Sept. 8, hosted by Terri Clark. Jessie Farrell is a 30-year-old crooner who hails from Vancouver who is up for best single of the year ("Best of Me") and album ("Nothing Fancy"). READ MORE
"We take a little pride in not being nominated," fumes Seth Gilliam while lashing out at the Emmys for giving "The Wire" only one nomination in its farewell season: best writing. The star who portrays Sergeant Ellis Carver told BBC 5 Live: "The show deals with inner city civil servants and the Emmys would rather fantasize about lawyers and romance …. It's a show about a blue collar town. It's not very flashy and glamorous …. There aren't a lot of shootings in every episode and there isn't a lot of flesh and nipples … The Emmys will in no way validate the quality of the material we put out there." READ MORE
Rocker Josh Kelley finally speaks up about the hubbub surrounding his wife, "Grey's Anatomy" star Katherine Heigl, withdrawing from Emmy consideration — news originally broken by Gold Derby. (CLICK HERE) "Were pretty strong cats," he tells Hollyscoop.com. "We cook in a lot, watch a lot of TV, and just chill out and keep it simple." I'm not sure if this next sentence are the words Josh Kelley also uttered, or if this text is full of typos, but here's more: "When you get into the entertainment business usually most people get into knowing that the possibilities of these things happening are could be a reality I think you just try to get strong, deal with it move on and make your art." READ EVEN MORE
(Photos: HBO, OK Magazine)
Tom
You have gone completely too far. First you spend two days berating the lead actress of a movie based on second hand information, and then you continue to hold her reputation hostage while you extort the studio for an interview with the director. You’re like the idiot that curses all the time because they have no command of the English language to express themselves eloquently. You Mr. O’Neill are not a journalist. You seem to have no shame in expressing your unscrupulous ways of getting a story. What surprises me most is that a seemingly reputable paper like the LA Times carries your brand of yellow journalism. You must really be hurting if you have to pick on a worthy actress and a formidable film to fill your column. This glowing assessment of Frozen River came from your own hometown critic Kenny Turan. My greatest wish would be that you are found out to be an alien embodying the body of perhaps what once was an honest newspaper guy with integrity and truth as his core values.
Posted by: JenniferBernardMartin | July 31, 2008 at 05:54 PM
That's funny that you mention Melissa Leo and Katherine Heigl in the same post, Tom-O. Do you honestly feel that Leo's "transgression" in arguing with the director of her movie is so serious, that it warrants your baffling one-man quest to destroy her movie and her career? In the same vein, don't you think that Heigl's dissing of Knocked Up after it made her a movie star, and her transparent effort to get fired from Grey's with her pithy Emmy comments possibly, just possibly might be behavior that could be charitably describe as "diva-like"? Yet, all you do is carry water for Heigl, Tom-O. Guess it's easier trashing the reputation of a middle aged, obscure character actress than the TV blonde flavor of the week, eh what?
Posted by: Pete | July 31, 2008 at 03:33 PM