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Television fans, keep
those remotes in hand.
Sunday is Emmy night
This year, Ryan Seacrest hosts the
show on Fox at 8 p.m. ET, and it's
a night for a lot of newcomers.
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It's a jungle out there, but Tony Shalhoub
has tamed it He's so good at playing OCD
detective Adrian Monk that he has won
three Emmys, one Golden Globe and two
Screen Actors Guild awards for the same
role. Stanley Tucci, who played an actor who
would play Monk, was nominated in a
guest-role category and will be there with
Shalhoub and Shalhoub's wife, Brooke
f Warns. The funny thing is,
Shalhoub, 53, was nervous
about taking Monk. "I ques
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JpfIfHBSPK If Vanessa Williams wins an Emmy for playing Wilhelmina
Slater in ABCs Ugly Betty, she owes it to her mom. "She gave
me blueprint of Wilhelmina, because her stare could melt
ice," Williams says. But Williams, up for supporting actress in a
comedy, inherited more than an icy stare, as co-star Michael
Urie learned after one of Williams' singing engagements. "My
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USA WEEKEND • Sept. 14-16,2007
Who's twvli
By LORRIE LYNCH
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T Riches, Minnie Driver has
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as lead actress in a drama.
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'V guest spot on NBC's
’ MaSL sitcom 30 Rock. "I love
h|H|_ 30 Rock" Driver, 36, tells
gk kmamm* US. "My friend is a producer
on it.... I've asked if! can be
the and he said
'V f yes. So it might well
Hj% happen." We ask if, fol
her
ence on The Riches,
she thinks she could
, WJ-r hatch a good con. "No, I'm *
too honest," she says.
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show. He turned around and realized that voice
was coming out of my little mom," says Williams,
44. At a TV career high, she's about to make another
album. "I could never give one medium up for
another,"she says. "It's just not in the cards."
To ask a question, e-mail whosnews@usaweekend.com or click on "Contact Columnists” at our website. Include name, city, state.
In describing her Emmy nod for best
guest actress in a drama, Elizabeth
Reaser uses the word "crazy'a lot. U&m
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one goes off and becomes an ac
tor, then gets to be on Grey's
Anatomy and then gets nomi
nated.' It seems like a fairy tale; \r :l
the process, however, wasn't so
charming. On Grey's, she wore skin- j
irritating make-up to portray a pregnant J
ferry-accident victim. Seeing her dis- A
figured face on TV, "both of my sisters JH
called me, crying
on my voicemail,
'lt's not real, is it?'"
Reaser, 32, says
sympathy on the
set was not abun
dant. Jokes were
made, "like Elephant Girl.
That's the one I remember"
SPECIAL 2007 EMMYS REPORT
Join Lorrie
live on Emmy night
at the new
Who's News blog!
At usaweekend.com,
jump into the fun and get
behind-the-scenes gossip,
plus leave your own
comments!
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Andrea Bocelli 49
Kevin Dillon plays Johnny
"Drama" Chase, a C-list ac
tor, on HBO's Entourage.
But Dillon, 42, shot up at
least one letter grade with
his Emmy nod for best sup-
porting actor in a comedy.
Similarities between Dillon and
Drama end with the fact that both
have struggled to work. But don't tell that
to Drama's 35,000 MySpace friends and
Dillon's real-world fans. "People want me
to be like Drama, and they're disappointed
when I'm not," Dillon tells us. "But I'm not
apartier anymore."
As the gleeful, time-tinkering Hiro Nakamura on Heroes,
Masi Oka, 32, hit the jackpot. But breakout success does
create a few drawbacks. "There are some awkward things,
like when [fans] ask you to marry them. It's like, 'No thank
y0u.... I'm not looking to get married on a first date.'"
Speaking of fens, Oka's Emmy nod for outstanding
supporting actor in a drama helped him win over
a most ' m P ortant fen: his mom. She wasn't
■ too happy about his acting; he used to work
for George Lucas' Industrial Light & Magic.
aßßfc "Now I get an Emmy nomination," Oka says,
■ "and I finally feel like she forgives me."
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With Jon Tollestrup
I "I had no concept of what any of the Oscar
H stuff meant," says Anna Paquin, com
■ paring her win at age 11 with her Emmy nod.
■ “Obviously, I had
■ more control over
■ the performance
■ I did when I was
■ 24, so at least this
time I can take a
I little more credit."
I Now a nominee for
HBO's movie Bury My
Heart at Wounded Knee,
Paquin, 25, had to en
dure freezing weather
and learn the Lakota
language phonetically.
The Victorian-era cos
tumes she wore posed
, a particularly distress-
I ing challenge. "The
thing that upset me was wearing any of them
I outside and getting over the fact that I was
5 going to get mud all over these gorgeously
Rth designed costumes.'Tn the end she did save
one of them. C 3
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j OKA MICHAEL GERMANA. STARMAJONC, PAQUIN ARMANDO GALLO. RETNA
Drama s struggle
gives Dillon success.
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Paquin won her
Oscar for The Piano.