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| Emmy show aims for laughs, including for the dead Posted: 06 Aug 2011 05:31 PM PDT  Lynch, host of the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards, speaks at a FOX press tour in Beverly Hills, California August 5, 2011. — Reuters pic "I think the in memoriam segment doesn't need to be a bummer. It can be a celebration of what is left behind," Mark Burnett, who is producing the 2011 Emmy show, told reporters this week. "I am going to look at it a little differently...You are there to honour people's work, and so we can be very sad about it or uplifting about what is left behind," said the reality TV producer behind hits such as "Survivor." The "in memoriam" segment honours TV actors, actresses, directors and other industry players who have died in the past year and, more often than not, can be a section that brings sadness to what is supposed to be a joyous awards show. Burnett said he planned plenty of fun and spoof moments during the September 18 televised ceremony on Fox, when the most coveted awards in TV will be handed out to the year's top comedy, drama, reality show, actors and writers. But Burnett said the fun and laughter would be affectionate, rather than snarky. "Fox is edgier than other networks...You are allowed to jump off the cliff at MTV. At Fox you are allowed to lean over. What we need is to have a little fun with it. And the way you can do that is to have spoof moments — a lot of small, very funny moments that have good natured fun with the last year in television," Burnett said. "Glee" star Jane Lynch will host the Emmys for the first time. But Lynch, who plays scheming cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester on the Fox musical comedy and who is also nominated for her second Emmy, said she would largely be playing herself at the award show. "A little bit of Sue Sylvester goes a long way. I think we will probably leave her track suit on the Paramount (TV and movie) lot," Lynch said. Lynch said she was approaching her Emmy hosting duties with "the necessary cocktail of excitement, anticipation and abject fear." Saying she was hoping for plenty of laughs during the evening, she added; "My goal is that no one — or at least only a very few people — will cringe." — Reuters Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search. |
| New Yorker charged with stalking actress Cotillard Posted: 06 Aug 2011 04:40 PM PDT  Cotillard poses at the Bafta Los Angeles Britannia Awards in Los Angeles November 4, 2010. — Reuters pic Teresa "Terri" Yuan, who lives in Queens, was arrested by the FBI on Thursday, said Robert Nardoza, a spokesman for the US Attorney's office in Brooklyn, which also covers Queens. She was charged with sending threatening messages to a French movie actress, according to a criminal complaint. The actress is Cotillard, a law enforcement source told Reuters. Federal authorities have 30 days to seek a grand jury indictment. Yuan was released Friday on US$50,000 (RM150,000) bond, authorities said. "The guilt and sorrow I feel now, I won't feel after it happens," said one of the videos Yuan e-mailed from Queens to fan club servers in New Jersey. "After it happens I'll feel no regret whatsoever ... that's apparently how it feels to be a killer, to be a murderer." Yuan was accused of e-mailing several threatening videos and messages to the website, including one in which she indicated she knew Cotillard's travel schedule and planned to meet her. No future court dates have been set in the case, which was heard in US District Court in Brooklyn, Nardoza said. Cotillard, 35, who won the Best Actress Academy Award for her role as Edith Piaf in "La Vie en Rose," also appeared in Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris," "Inception" and is cast in the upcoming Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises." Yuan's lawyer, Michael Schneider, declined to comment. — Reuters Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search. |
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