...And Answers
Here are the answers to yesterday's Emmy quiz:
1. Cloris Leachman holds the record with 8 Emmys. However,
Julia Louis-Dreyfus has 7 and is up for her eighth this year.
2. L.A. Law won four Emmys as best drama, but not in
consecutive years.
3. In 2013, Louis C. K. was nominated 9 times in various
categories—acting, writing, directing, producing, editing—for his show
Louie, for his stand-up special and for a guest appearance on Saturday
Night Live. He only won one Emmy for writing his special.
4. Henry Fonda was nominated for 3 Emmys, but never won
(while his daughter Jane already has one—she also won an Oscar before he
did.)
5. 2006 was the last year a broadcast network won for best
drama. The show was the Fox series 24. However, NBC could break the
cold streak if This Is Us wins this year.
6. Jessica Fletcher herself—Angela Lansbury—has never won an
Emmy. But don’t feel too bad—she’s got an honorary Oscar, five Tonys and a
bunch of Golden Globes.
7. Many have been nominated, but the only host of the Oscars
to win an Emmy is Billy Crystal, who did it twice--in 1991 and
1998.
8. Jonathan Banks is getting his fifth chance to win his
first Emmy this year. He’s been nominated for playing Mike Ehrmantraut on
Breaking Bad and now on Better Call Saul. In 1989, he got his first
nomination for playing Frank McPike on Wiseguy.
9. Eddie Murphy was nominated for his work on SNL,
but did not win.
10. Werner Klemperer won the supporting actor Emmy in 1969
as Colonel Klink on the comedy Hogan’s Heroes. He was up against Leonard
Nimoy in the drama Star Trek because back then the category was for any
genre.
posted by LAGuy @ 11:30 AM
3 Comments:
My instincts were more reliable than I thought.
(6) I actually thought of Angela Lansbury, because I always picture her when I think of gracefully aging TV actresses. But then I thought, no way -- she was only in one major TV series. But now that I look it up, I see that Murder, She Wrote was nominated over and over and over.
(8) I actually thought of Ehrmentraut. A friend of mine knows him, and I loved him in Breaking Bad. But then I paused and said, he's been a great supporting actor in two series, but I can't think of a third. I never heard of Wiseguy.
(10) It was a guess, not a joke. I tried to think of military TV shows from the late 60s. All I could think of were Gomer Pyle and Hogan's Heroes, and I figured GP was off the air before 1969 (I was wrong), so I picked HH. As comedy goes, it was pretty long-lasting; it was still in reruns throughout the 1970s and maybe early 1980s.
I remember Banks quite well from Wiseguy. He was the best thing in the show. But it was so long ago that he seems like a different person.
Lansbury got six Emmy nominations for performances outside Murder, She Wrote, though often for recreating roles she'd played on stage.
Have you tried to watch Murder She Wrote? Can't be done.
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