No Emmy nomination for Rebecca Romijn and here’s why
The Emmy nominations won’t be announced until July 17, but we can tell you right now without a doubt that Ugly Betty’s Rebecca Romijn will not be among the outstanding supporting actress in a comedy category at the Emmys. No, we’re not psychic. It’s just that her spokesman has confirmed that her name was never actually submitted. DOH! And why was that, you wonder. No good reason, said her rep, “It was an oversight.”
According to L.A. Times’ Tom O’Neil, this isn’t really that far-fetched an occurrence. Tim Allen, at the height of his Home Improvement success, missed a chance for an Emmy nomination when somebody fumbled the ball. The next year, his paperwork was hand-delivered, accompanied by the University of Southern California marching band.
Romijn’s omission — on the surface — looks like a mistake. Yes, it’s true that her status on the show is going from series regular to recurring, but I don’t believe she purposely kept her name out of the running to in some way act out in protest against the show. It makes no sense? How is she hurting Ugly Betty by not getting an Emmy nomination? No, this was a screw up, nothing more.
There are some other names who have already chosen not to submit. TV previously wrote about Lindsay Lohan (also for Ugly Betty) and Katherine Heigel for Grey’s Anatomy. Everybody Hates Chris lead Tyler James Williams has also decided not to submit, probably because the Emmys have consistently dissed his show despite the love it receives from critics.
Two multi-Emmy award winning actresses are also staying out of the race in 2008. Laurie Metcalf, a four-time Emmy winner for Roseanne, and a nominee as Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series in 1999, 2006 and 2007, chose not to throw her name in the hopper for her guest stint on Big Bang Theory as Sheldon’s mom; and Valerie Harper (also a four-time Emmy winner for The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rhoda) is not going to be nominated for her role as Barbara on ’Til Death.
When you’ve been as fortunate as Metcalf and Harper to already have been recognized and won the Emmy — more than once — I choose to believe that they submit their names for consideration when they do work they deem truly worthy, as opposed to just tossing your name out there for a nomination based on your reputation. Metcalf, for instance, really gave a great performance on Desperate Housewives in 2006. She was scary good as Alma. She deserved an Emmy nomination. To be honest, on Big Bang Theory, her performance was good, but not Emmy stuff.
Cruise Crushes Dr. Drew’s Diagnosis
Uh-oh. Someone’s been glib.
And sadly for Dr. Drew Pinsky, the price of such an affront has risen in the past three years from simple YouTube parody to complete public evisceration.
Tom Cruise’s ever-vigilant lawyer has lashed out at comments made by the Loveline and Celebrity Rehab doc in which he not so subtly speculated that people drawn to so-called cult religions (and specifically, Cruise to Scientology) likely do so as a result of childhood trauma, neglect and mental illness.
Attorney Bert Fields wasted no time in rallying back with a stunner of a theory of his own: namely, that such diagnoses have not been heard since the height of Nazi Germany.
Cruise’s latest war of the words was launched after Playboy released snippets of its interview with the good doctor, which is featured in next month’s issue.
“A lot of people in the public eye who behave strangely have mental illness we can learn from, and much of it is based on childhood trauma, without a doubt,” Pinsky told the magazine.
“Take a guy like Tom Cruise. Why would somebody be drawn into a cultish kind of environment like Scientology? To me, that’s a function of a very deep emptiness and suggests serious neglect in childhoodmaybe some abuse, but mostly neglect.”
Needless to say, Pinsky’s hypothesis didn’t sit well with Cruise’s camp.
“This unqualified television performer who is obviously just looking for notoriety is so grotesquely unprofessional as to pretend to diagnose Tom and others without ever meeting them,” Fields told the New York Post’s Page Six. (Professional or not, Pinsky is hardly unqualified, having received his M.D. from the University of Southern California, where he teaches, is a board-certified addiction medicine specialist and has served as the chief resident at the Huntington Hospital in Pasadena.)
“He seems to be spewing the absurdity that all Scientologists are mentally ill,” Fields continued. “The last time we heard garbage like this was from Joseph Goebbels.”
Sounds like someone could do with a little thetan cleansing.
Pinsky, meanwhile, didn’t take long to realize the error of his ways, not in terms of his theory, but rather the way in which it was taken.
“[Dr. Drew] apologizes if his comments were hurtful,” a rep for the medico confirmed to News, adding that he “meant no harm” to the actor.
“Although Mr. Field’s intent is clearly to slander and discredit Dr. Drew, under no circumstances is Dr. Drew making a blanket diagnosis about Scientology nor Mr. Cruise, whom he does not know. Dr. Drew was simply using Mr. Cruise as an example of someone who is recognizable to help the public understand.
“Again, Dr. Drew meant him no harm.”
Jenna Dewan Biography
Born in Hartford, Conneticut, Jenna grew up in Dallas, Texas. Never the shy child, Jenna discovered her love of dancing at age 5, and began taking dance classes immediately. During her teenage years, Jenna agressively pursued her dance career, winning numerous scholarships and awards. Jenna attended college at the University of Southern California, and she was simultaneously booking dancing roles in music videos from artists such as Mandy Moore and Toni Braxton. But things changed dramatically when Jenna was cast in Janet Jackson’s video, Doesn’t Really Matter. Shortly following the video, Jenna was asked to tour with Janet, and Jenna left USC to follow her dreams. Jenna is currently dancing as well as pursuing her acting career.
Marisa Coughlan Biography
Blonde Marisa Coughlan started her acting career with guest appearances on television programs lending her sad-eyed innocent looks to episodes of “The Magnificent Seven”, “High Society”, “Diagnosis: Murder” (all CBS), “Weird Science” (syndicated) and “Step by Step” (ABC). She also had featured turns in “Fist of the North Star” (1996) and the telefilms “Our Son, the Matchmaker” (CBS, 1996) and “Sleepwalker Killing: From the Files of ‘Unsolved Mysteries’” (NBC, 1997). Coughlan made her television series regular debut playing a graduate student in the short-lived Kevin Williamson’s drama “Wasteland” (ABC, 1999), a “Dawson’s Creek” for the older set, chronicling the exploits of a group of twentysomethings in New York. Starring opposite already recognizable names Brad Rowe, Rebecca Gayheart and Eddie Mills, Coughlan would reach her largest audience to date on this Miramax/Williamson production.
1999 would prove to be Coughlan’s breakthrough year, starring alongside Katie Holmes in Williamson’s directorial feature “Teaching Mrs. Tingle”, a much-awaited black comedy. She cemented her “one to watch” status with a featured role in the ensemble of the college campus set psychothriller “Gossip” (2000). After appearing in a pair of poorly performing comedies in 2001 (”Freddie Got Fingered” and “Super Troopers”), Coughlan again returned to more independent-minded features when she appeared in 2002’s “Pumpkin” with Christina Ricci, Hank Harris and Dominique Swain.
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on 03/17/73 in Minneapolis, Minnesota - Job Titles:
Actor
Education
- University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
Milestones
- 1993 While still in high school, landed role in “Untamed Heart”; part cut from finished film
- 1995 Guest starred on an episode of “Step by Step” (ABC)
- 1996 Appeared in the sci-fi adventure “Fist of the North Star”
- 1996 Featured in an episode of the short-lived CBS sitcom “High Society”
- 1996 Played the younger version of Ann Jillian’s character in the CBS telepic “Our Son, the Matchmaker”
- 1997 Had a featured role in the NBC mystery “Sleepwalker Killing: From the Files of ‘Unsolved Mysteries’”
- 1999 Made film debut in Kevin Williamson’s “Teaching Mrs. Tingle”
- 1999 Starred in Kevin Williamson’s drama series “Wasteland”, chronicling twentysomethings in New York; ABC made a 13-episode commitment
- 2000 Featured in the ensemble cast of the psychodrama “Gossip”
- 2001 Appeared in gross-out comedies “Super Troopers” and “Freddy Got Fingered”
- 2002 Played the sorority sister of Christina Ricci’s character in the Francis Ford Coppola produced comedy “Pumpkin”
- 2004 Appeared in the film “”Broken Lizard’s Club Dread”