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Worst Dressed Male

Laurisa (on Days): Bryan Dattilo.  What the holy heck was his stylist thinking?  The guy is not that tall to begin with, so why would you put him in a jacket that makes his legs look even shorter?  He’s a very attractive, funny guy.  But this look made me laugh a little too much.    

Laurisa (in general): Van Hansis (Luke Snyder, As The World Turns) reminded me of Jack Skellington in “The Nightmare Before Christmas”   And no, I don’t mean in a good way.   

Tony (on Days): He did look good, but Thaao Penghlis’ suite disappointed me a little. Sure, it was standard awards show garb, yet I expected him to have a little more panache. An ascot perhaps or something a little distinctive – something worthy of a count.  Then again after seeing some of the other outfits, maybe playing it safe wasn’t so bad after all (please see Exhibit A: Worst Dressed Male (in general)).

Tony (in general): Whether is was leather or pleather, Anthony Geary’s (Luke Spencer, General Hospital) getup was just all shades of wrong. I respect the man, he’s a great actor and can pretty much do what he wants, but his clothing looked as if it would melt under hot lights. Not a good thing in the LA sun.

Worst Dressed Female

Laurisa (on Days): Tony’s going to kill me for this…..I picked Shelley Hennig!  I just didn’t like it.  The plunging neckline looked horribly uncomfortable (I’d be self conscious all night) and there’s no way she can sit in that dress.  I also didn’t like the way that her skin was so shinny it looked like her breast bone was covered in turtle wax.  At least I liked her red clutch!    

Laurisa (in general): Tyra Banks.  I disliked everything about her look.  First, her skin, hair, and dress were essentially all the same color which did not look good on camera.  Second, the structure of her dress almost reminded me of a multi-piece window treatment.  Third, and most importantly, she knows better!!  We’re talking about a woman who is one of the most beautiful women on the planet.  For being a super model, her outfit was anything but super. 

Tony (on Days): This hurts because I love Suzanne Rogers, but her Emmy garb was a little too “Sex and The City.” Whereas she’s normally the picture perfect example of elegance, her black dress with the oversized flower just seemed a little too young for her perhaps. It wasn’t bad, just not for her – she doesn’t need a lot of hoopla to make something work, she’s a pretty woman and I think a simpler dress would have worked a little better for her.

Tony (in general): Wow! Who ever told Melody Thomas Scott (Nikki Newman, The Young and the Restless) that her outfit looked great before she left the house needs to apologize to her. White dresses were plentiful, too plentiful, but her getup managed to easily nab my pick for the “Worst Dressed.” The necklace was too gaudy, the cut of her dress made her look top heavy and the fur! The fur!? She looked like a linebacker for some Icelandic football … AKA – not good.

Worst Dressed Duo

Laurisa (on Days):  Rachel Melvin and her invisible Emmy.  Rachel looked beautiful dressed in gold.  Unfortunately, he best accessory some how alluded her.         

Laurisa (in general):  I don’t mean any disrespect, but Kassie DePaiva and Michael Easton (Blair Cramer and John McClain, One Life to Live) were not a good looking fashion duo.  The thing is, I didn’t like either of their looks individually.  She wore a 1980’s inspired white wrap dress that was missing the shoulder pads.  He wore a suit that would make Sonny Crockett jealous.  Surely someone told them that they were presenters and had to appear on stage, at the same time….right?

Tony (on Days): I’m not being nice, because you probably all know I rarely am, but I didn’t see any Days couple that made me cringe. Salem was styling this year! Next year they will even look better as the show will be nominated for Best Daytime Drama … ok, a guy can dream!

Tony (in general): Could Sherri Shepherd be considered a duo as she changed her outfits a few times throughout the night? I love her, she’s great, but her first gown, the blue number, looked like something out of Sue Ellen Ewing’s closet from the 80’s. It just didn’t work on her in my opinion. The next one wasn’t so bad, but her hair looked all over the place. Finally, by the third outfit, she looked great, well, better.

Biggest Acceptance Speech Oversight (someone forgetting to thank their spouse, on screen partner, etc.)

Laurisa:  Did anyone else hear Regis thank Kelly or Kathy Lee?  Me either.  I know that he’s done a lot outside of “Live with Regis and (insert name here)”, but that’s pretty much how everyone knows him.   Some love for his co-hosts might have been cool. 

Tony: Gina Tognoni (Dinah Marler, The Guiding Light) totally pulled a Hillary Swank and forgot to thank her significant other – whoops! At least she corrected it quickly, that should have saved her from sleeping on the couch.

Biggest Oversight (how did that person not win?)

Laurisa:  Rachel Melvin.  I don’t care that Jennifer Landon had to give away a baby.  I’d like to see her try to come back from the dead after being buried in a swamp!  Grr….three years in a row….whatever…how about SHARING Jen-ster?

Tony: Not to sound all nepotistic, but Rachel Melvin was robbed. Sure, Jennifer London is great, but Melvin also packed one heck of an acting punch last year. Hopefully, with Landon off her show, our little Chelsea will be a sure thing next year! 

Susan Lucci Moment (someone who was over looked….again)

Laurisa (on Days):  Alison Sweeney has never received an Emmy nomination.  Let me repeat that.  Alison Sweeney has never received an Emmy nomination.  Obviously, I’m a huge Alison Sweeney fan, so I’m a little biased.  But I just don’t get how the execs at NBC practically fall over themselves to put Alison Sweeney in almost every show in the network (she’s appeared in Fear Factor, Friends, Las Vegas, American Dreams, and hosts The Biggest Looser), yet the academy continually misses the boat.     

Laurisa (in general):  “Days of our Lives” not being nominated for outstanding drama series.  Ok, that’s me just being a dreamer.  But, I thought that the show dealt with a lot of good story lines and it appealed to a very wide range of fans.  That has to count for something.  

Tony (on Days): Ok, this is a Double Lucci as both Alison Sweeney and James Scott were both overlooked for an Emmy nod. 2007 was easily the year of “Ejami” and both of them even played two roles. Granted, the accents during the Colleen/Santo saga were, how do I say this nicely, bad, but ninety percent of last year seemed to focus on them, yet neither of them got a nomination? Right.

Tony (in general): Among many, many others, Kathy Brier (Marcie McBain, One Life to Live) was robbed of an Emmy nod, if not the Emmy itself. Her storyline last year was heart wrenching and she knocked her portrayal of Marcie way out of the park. As Julia Robert’s character said in Pretty Woman, “Big mistake. Big. Huge.”

Most obscure presenters (strange on stage pairing)

Laurisa: I think the strangest pairing were the hosts themselves.  Sherri Sheppard and Cameron Mathison.  I genuinely enjoy them both, but that’s an absurd amount of energy to have between two people.  Usually there’s a funny man and a straight man.  Instead, we got the energizer bunny twins and I’m not so sure that their pairing didn’t ace out some joke possibilities.   

Tony: Sorry, I’m again changing a plural to a singular, but I thought Jimmy Kimmel giving Regis his Life Time Achievement Award was a little odd. He was fine, don’t get me wrong, but my first choice would have been Kelly Ripa and/or Kathy Lee. I think one or the both of them would have come across a little more meaningful perhaps.

Most overlooked category (why don’t they give an award for X?)

Laurisa:  “Outstanding Episode” This is like the answer to the Grammy’s “Best Record” award.  I think that there should be an award that is episode specific for those great soap episodes that just stick out in your head.  Think for a minute of how rare that accomplishment is.  Story lines move slow to begin with, but if that perfect storm of acting, writing, and directing actually gets together and reaches viewers at the same time, I feel like it should be rewarded.        

Tony: I think they should have given an award for “Best Comedic Performance in a Daytime Drama.” Sure, it’s all about the drama, but some of the best scenes are the ones that make the audience laugh. It would have been a nice balance to all the crying and screaming shown in the reels.

Worst Pet Cause Plug (Watch my TV show!  Go Green!  Save the Unicorns! Etc.)

Laurisa: I totally second Tony’s pick for Babs’s book.  But since I want to be different, I’ll go with the continual, shall I say bitter, mentions by any person on YR that was given a microphone of how their show is #1 despite the fact that they weren’t given enough writing or directing nods.  Listen to me Young-and-Restlessers, Days is just starting to be allowed in the room.  Stop complaining that your table isn’t close enough to the stage.

Tony: God, if I had a drink for every time I heard about Barbara Walters’ dang book I would have been drunk. Wait … I did and I was, but I still didn’t have enough liquor to block out all that shameless promotion. Pick a cause, any cause … it’s not hard and probably more meaningful than making a rich woman richer. Remember when people wore colored ribbons? That was nice and meaningful.

Worst Speech Cut off (you know that music will start and some poor schmuck should have been allowed to finish their speech.  

Laurisa: Judge Christina’s poor producer didn’t ever get to start talking before the music started.  Not that I’m a big Judge Christina fan, but the fact of the matter is that the academy sat them so far back in the auditorium that it took them 10 minutes to make it on stage after they won so they had zero time to talk.  Who’s fault is that, academy???

Tony: This wasn’t exactly a “Cut Off,” but more like an “It should have been cut off.” Now, I give Tyra Banks tons and tons of credit for promoting Positive Self Esteem, in a perfect world we’d all love our bodies, but I thought it was a little distasteful to use the word “ass” in an Emmy acceptance speech. I’m not a prude, I drop the f-bomb and other “not nice” words from time to time, but at the Emmys? Not so much. Time and place, Tyra, look it up.