Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. Carrie Preston, The Good Wife. No show casts guest stars quite like the CBS legal drama. Fellow Wife guest Martha Plimpton won last year, and Preston’s brilliant take as the quirky redheaded lawyer Elsbeth Tascioni deserves recognition too. She flawlessly balances Elsbeth’s genius with her crazy, giving Wife some of its best one-liners (”I don’t know how I know half the things I know!”) and scene-stealing moments. [Emmys: 15 Actresses We’re Rooting For | Photo 4 of 15 | EW.com]
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Yes, yes, a thousand times yes.

Carrie Preston, The Good Wife. No show casts guest stars quite like the CBS legal drama. Fellow Wife guest Martha Plimpton won last year, and Preston’s brilliant take as the quirky redheaded lawyer Elsbeth Tascioni deserves recognition too. She flawlessly balances Elsbeth’s genius with her crazy, giving Wife some of its best one-liners (”I don’t know how I know half the things I know!”) and scene-stealing moments.

[Emmys: 15 Actresses We’re Rooting For | Photo 4 of 15 | EW.com]

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theatlantic: The Banality of Seth MacFarlane’s Sexism and Racism at the Oscars The best moment of Seth MacFarlane’s Oscars hosting gig may have come late in the night when, in announcing Meryl Streep, he said “our next presenter needs no introduction” … and then just walked away. If only he’d kept his mouth shut more frequently. Read more. [Image: AP] UGH. AMY & TINA OSCARS HOSTS 2014
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theatlantic:

The Banality of Seth MacFarlane’s Sexism and Racism at the Oscars

The best moment of Seth MacFarlane’s Oscars hosting gig may have come late in the night when, in announcing Meryl Streep, he said “our next presenter needs no introduction” … and then just walked away.

If only he’d kept his mouth shut more frequently.

Read more. [Image: AP]

UGH. AMY & TINA OSCARS HOSTS 2014

rejectedjokes: Here is Golden Globe award winner Don Cheadle arriving to our table read this morning. Thanks to everyone who watched the House of Lies premiere last night. New episodes will air every Sunday at 10pm on Showtime. Can’t wait for you guys to see what happens next. yes. Okay, moving House of Lies up my Netflix queue!
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rejectedjokes:

Here is Golden Globe award winner Don Cheadle arriving to our table read this morning.

Thanks to everyone who watched the House of Lies premiere last night. New episodes will air every Sunday at 10pm on Showtime. Can’t wait for you guys to see what happens next.

yes. Okay, moving House of Lies up my Netflix queue!

theatlantic: Fey/Poehler vs. MacFarlane: The Golden Globes One-Up the Oscars Have the Golden Globes just beaten the Oscars at its own game? Thanks to last night’s announcement of the shrewd hiring of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler as hosts of its 2013 ceremony, it might have. High-fiving a million angels! The Motion Picture Academy’s ceaseless struggle to produce an Oscars telecast that appeals to younger viewers while still maintaining a relatively high level of traditional pomp and circumstance is, by now, a point of ridicule. First there was the parading of a Tiger Beat troupe made up of High School Musical stars and  Miley Cyrus onto the broadcast. Then, the fateful hiring of Anne Hathaway and James Franco as hosts. The tremendous crash-and-burn of the Brett Ratner/Eddie Murphy “edgy” producing/hosting team that never was. Yet the very embodiment of the “If at first you don’t succeed mantra…,” the Academy made another attempt at reaching the 18-24 demo, booking Seth MacFarlane, the man behind Family Guy, Ted, and nearly nothing that a majority of the aging Academy members have ever heard of, to preside over this year’s telecast. It was a risky choice, and one that might have ended up seeming wise in the long run. That is, until the Hollywood Foreign Press ruined everything by landing what may be the most perfect combination of award show hosts that there has ever been: Fey and Poehler. Read more.
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theatlantic:

Fey/Poehler vs. MacFarlane: The Golden Globes One-Up the Oscars

Have the Golden Globes just beaten the Oscars at its own game? Thanks to last night’s announcement of the shrewd hiring of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler as hosts of its 2013 ceremony, it might have. High-fiving a million angels!

The Motion Picture Academy’s ceaseless struggle to produce an Oscars telecast that appeals to younger viewers while still maintaining a relatively high level of traditional pomp and circumstance is, by now, a point of ridicule. First there was the parading of a Tiger Beat troupe made up of High School Musical stars and  Miley Cyrus onto the broadcast. Then, the fateful hiring of Anne Hathaway and James Franco as hosts. The tremendous crash-and-burn of the Brett Ratner/Eddie Murphy “edgy” producing/hosting team that never was. Yet the very embodiment of the “If at first you don’t succeed mantra…,” the Academy made another attempt at reaching the 18-24 demo, booking Seth MacFarlane, the man behind Family Guy, Ted, and nearly nothing that a majority of the aging Academy members have ever heard of, to preside over this year’s telecast.

It was a risky choice, and one that might have ended up seeming wise in the long run. That is, until the Hollywood Foreign Press ruined everything by landing what may be the most perfect combination of award show hosts that there has ever been: Fey and Poehler.

Read more.