Emmy nominees getting ready for the big night
This is the time of year when the cast of HBO’S “Veep” would usually be shooting a new season. Now that the show is done, actor Tony Hale says they’ll have to settle for getting together at the Emmy Awards. “Obviously, a win would be so much fun,” Hale said at Friday night’s reception for nominees. “But it’s more a celebration just to be together. This is around the time we’d be shooting, so we’re just kind of sad. So, it’d be nice to see each other and just kind of celebrate the culmination of ... the seven-year journey we had.”
“Veep” has won best comedy the last three times it was nominated and will try for a fourth at tonight’s Emmy Awards. Hale, who played loyal aide Gary Walsh to star Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ character of Selina Meyer, has won two Emmys for his role. Louis-dreyfus has the more crowded shelf of trophies, having won six times as best comic actress for her character.
There’s a similar feeling for Carice van Houten of “Game of Thrones,” another muchhonored HBO series that has wrapped up.
“We’ve had a lot of parties along the way, of course,” she said. “But this feels like it really is the end. So, I feel like we really want to go out with a blast and, you know, hopefully we’ll take them all.”
Actress Patricia Clarkson of “Sharp Objects” plans to wear a Christian Siriano dress “that he literally kind of draped on my body.” You feel like Cinderella at an event like this, she said. “It’s like you’ve died and gone to heaven,” she said. “But it is work. You know, you have to make sure you get it right.” Jonathan Banks of “Better Call Saul,” a six-time nominee, is not looking forward to the temperature extremes of the night. Even though he shoots a series in the desert, he said Emmy’s night is “hot enough just to kill you.”
“You wear a tuxedo because your wife makes you wear a tuxedo, and other people suggest that you do it,” Banks said. “So you’re boiling hot and then you go into a place that is 60degrees. And, immediately, you’re a candidate for pneumonia.”
Motown Museum to break ground on expansion today
The Motown Museum has scheduled a ceremonial groundbreaking today to expand the Detroit building where Berry Gordy Jr. built his music empire. Gordy recently announced plans to donate $4 million toward the project incorporating interactive exhibits, a performance theater and recording studios.
Gordy launched Motown in 1959, moved it to Los Angeles in 1972 and sold it in 1988. His late sister, Esther Gordy Edwards, founded the museum in the former “Hitsville U.S.A.” headquarters in Detroit in 1985. Motown’s roster from the Detroit era included the Supremes, the Miracles, Martha and the Vandellas, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, the Jackson 5, the Four Tops and Temptations.