Emmys 09.

God...My Emmy predictions went astray! Neil Harris did more than an exceptional job and carried off a white suit awesomely well ! With the Sitcom gurus dressed in varying shades of black, Neil was swan white and had the nonchalant humor of Jack Sparrow only with a more manicured visage. NPH's opening number and monologue were exceptional and gave Hugh Jackman from the Academy Awards good competition...The Emmys felt like a re-run of all the familiar shows like '30 Rock', 'Mad Men', 'Monk', 'The Office'..same people..same themes...Comedy, Reality, Variety, Made for TV Movies and Drama. The extra category was the Variety section which entirely seemed made up to me. Alec Baldwin won the best Male ACtor in the Comedy series for 30 Rock, and surprisingly Toni Collette won the best actress in the comedy series for United States of Tara. Now I haven't seen United States of Tara but I was completely on for either Christina Applegate - Samantha Who? and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, New Adventures of Old Christine. Both women have the charm and the exuberance of personality to carry it off and it surprised me that Toni (who seems to me like a plain Jane) walked away with the award! Toni,,,you must've been really good and enamored the academy to deserve the award, but the only time I've seen Toni on screen is on the Hugh Grant movie, "About a boy" where she plays a distraught single mother striving to bring up her son. She hardly struck me as a natural for wit and humor though. Anyways, she won. Sigghhh....the LOL of the nominations was when comedian Sarah Silverman donned a faux mustache as Justin Timberlake read the nominees for best actress in a comedy. She had an incredibly pained and mournful expression and looked like a pitiful dog lost in search of its master! It was so classique and the idea so completely unique, it was an inimitable Emmy Moment - had people pealing in laughter! It was a show stealer when people sniggered and then had a good laugh - soo suggestive on the evil Silverman in play!

But I, in my opinion really wanted Neil to win...Jon Cryer...I mean okay,,,Jon could be good,,,but Neil is Barney ! And Barney never loses! He always makes it ! For those of you that watch " How I met your mother" and are familiar with Barney's flippancy, his easy-cheesy way with the women - you would be equally disappointed as me. Remember the intervention episode when Barney dresses up like a 80 year old version of his self and he is trying to attract young women while in old man makeup to prove to Marshall that he will still be hooking up with 22-year-old bimbos when he is 80. Or that other episode when Barney vouches he goes to bed all dressed up in a suit to be "PREPARED" for the sudden occurrence of hot chicks in bed! I mean come on --- Jon Cryer couldn't do better than that !
Oh well...the consolation is that all the chicks love Neil and all the baby boomers might vote for Cryer! So there! I content myself with the thought that Neil carried off an image of a well clad rebel perfectly well. He dressed in white as the world dressed in black, his humor was self deprecating and yet self-aggrandizing! So well played and well hosted. In comparison, Cryer looked like he stepped out of a period movie in his yellow-striped sweater vest under his pinstriped black suit. Not a big fan of mis mismatched tie, either.
So Cryer can have his award and gloat all over it - It ain't gonna make the women swoon over him.

Neil -- you're the man dude!!