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The 2010 Emmy Award Winners

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (81)



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I think this is where we’re supposed to snark on the worthlessness of awards shows in general, and fly our hipster flag by proclaiming that we didn’t watch the Emmys. Why would we? Who watches the Emmys? Lame.

Well, I watch them. And I didn’t mind Jimmy Fallon. He was goofy charming, and worked his mediocre talent for all its worth, starting with a splendid, entertaining “Glee”-inspired opening Springsteen number (Hurley!), and brought a few inoffensive musical interludes to the mix. The Twitter announcements were unnecessary, and the musical montage for the departing shows wasn’t terribly impressive, but I wasn’t bothered. Dude’s strangely endearing, and I appreciate his earnestness. It’s cool to hate Jimmy Fallon, but in this instance, I have no desire to be cool.

That said, the best part of the show was probably the “Community” promos during the commercial breaks. The last 90 minutes of the telecast, as usual, dragged. They really should bump the mini-series/television movie categories off-telecast.

The Emmys rarely get it right, but lately, part of that problem is the increasing number of quality choices. Network television is on the decline, perhaps, but overall, television is kicking the crap out of Hollywood in the intelligence department. “Breaking Bad” and “Mad Men” alone have supplied more hours of superior entertainment than the movie studios have so far in 2010.

That still doesn’t excuse giving Kyra Sedgewick the Emmy over Connie Britton. But still, look at the Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor categories in Drama, alone: I think they chose correctly, but I wouldn’t have been disappointed if any of the other nominees won. Even Matthew Fox. And both of those categories could’ve easily provided 10 nominees.

Here are the 2010 Emmy winners in the categories you might care about.

DRAMA

OUTSTANDING DRAMA
Lost
Breaking Bad
Dexter
Mad Men
True Blood
The Good Wife

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA
Julianna Margulies (The Good Wife)
Mariska Hargitay (Special Victims Unit)
Glenn Close (Damages)
Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer)
January Jones (Mad Men)
Connie Britton (Friday Night Lights)

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A DRAMA
Jon Hamm (Mad Men)
Kyle Chandler (Friday Night Lights)
Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad)
Hugh Laurie (House M.D.)
Michael C. Hall (Dexter)
Matthew Fox (Lost)

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A DRAMA
John Slattery (Mad Men)
Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad)
Martin Short (Damages)
Terry O’ Quinn (Lost)
Michael Emerson (Lost)
Andre Braugher (Men of a Certain Age)

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA
Sharon Gless (Burn Notice)
Christine Baranski (The Good Wife)
Christina Hendricks (Mad Men)
Rose Byrne (Damages)
Archie Panjabi (The Good Wife)
Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men)

COMEDY

OUTSTANDING COMEDY
Glee
Modern Family
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Nurse Jackie
30 Rock
The Office
Curb Your Enthusiasm

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
Lea Michele (Glee)
Tina Fey (30 Rock)
Toni Collette (The United States of Tara)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus (The New Adventures of Old Christine)
Edie Falco (Nurse Jackie)
Amy Poehler (Parks and Recreation)

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A COMEDY
Larry David (Curb Your Enthusiasm)
Alec Baldwin (30 Rock)
Matthew Morrison (Glee)
Steve Carell (The Office)
Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory)
Tony Shalhoub (Monk)

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY
Chris Colfer (Glee)
Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother)
Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Modern Family)
Jon Cryer (Two and A Half Men)
Eric Stonestreet (Modern Family)
Ty Burrell (Modern Family)

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
Jane Lynch (Glee)
Kristen Wiig (Saturday Night Live)
Jane Krakowski (30 Rock)
Julie Bowen (Modern Family)
Sofia Vergara (Modern Family)
Holland Taylor (Two and A Half Men)

OUTSTANDING REALITY SHOW COMPETITION
Project Runway
Top Chef
The Amazing Race
Dancing with the Stars
American Idol

VARIETY, MUSIC, OR COMEDY
OUTSTANDING VARIETY, MUSIC, OR COMEDY SERIES
The Colbert Report
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Real Time With Bill Maher
Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien

OUTSTANDING TV MOVIE
Endgame (PBS)
Georgia O’Keeffe (Lifetime)
Moonshot (History)
The Special Relationship (HBO)
Temple Grandin (HBO)
You Don’t Know Jack (HBO)

OUTSTANDING MINI-SERIES
The Pacific (HBO)









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Comments

I thought it was an entertaining show. I like Jimmy, I can't help it and I won't apologize for it. I really enjoyed the opening! That was cute and fun.

I'm just SO happy no one from Two and a Half Men or Monk won. It would have been so great if Coach and Mrs. Coach had won, but I didn't expect them to win, so I wasn't too broken-hearted about it.

Ricky Gervais KILLS me every time!

Posted by: Lainey at August 29, 2010 11:11 PM

Jon Stewart, you bitch. That was totally Conan's trophy!

Posted by: adam at August 29, 2010 11:14 PM

Missed the show, but I saw some red carpet photos. The Billy Joel Award for Nominally Non-Surgical Face Transplant goes to....Claire Danes!

Posted by: sansho1 at August 29, 2010 11:18 PM

It would have been way cool if Jimmy Fallon pulled Courtney Cox out of the audience during the opening Springsteen number.

Posted by: Mr Wasserstoff at August 29, 2010 11:22 PM

Jim Parsons!! Yay!

Posted by: Salieri2 at August 29, 2010 11:27 PM

No, it's not cool to hate Jimmy Fallon. It's integral to existing as a human being with dignity.

Posted by: Jim Doggie at August 29, 2010 11:40 PM

Christina Hendricks has ditched the shocked ingenue face, which had run its course, but she's still going full blow-up doll. She might relax a bit so the rest of us can, too.

Posted by: sansho1 at August 29, 2010 11:45 PM

I'm pleasantly surprised that Modern Family defeated Glee AND Two and a Half Men. Glorious!

Posted by: Ruth at August 29, 2010 11:47 PM

Yay for all the Temple Grandin & Breaking Bad wins!

Posted by: Snrub at August 29, 2010 11:48 PM

Yay for Modern Family! {happy little dance}

Posted by: MM at August 30, 2010 12:34 AM

I really did like Fallon tonight. I think he was just perfect for the show, being goofy, friendly, harmless but also funny. He didn't try too hard and fit right in. I don't get how anyone can hate the guy. He's so harmless.

I also agree that they should definitely bump the Miniseries and TV Movie awards off, because that's always the most boring part of the show. I know they have an audience, but a lot of those things happen in the cable networks, and with actors who might not exactly be super exciting to watch. Plus there's just way too many awards. At least bump the writing and supporting-actor awards away.

I was very glad to see Modern Family win, and so happy that Eric Stonestreet won--he's hilarious on that show.

My only two annoyances were that Kyra Sedgwick won for some damn show that no one watches and where she has a horrible accent and that neither Terry O'Quinn nor Michael Emerson won their award. I wonder if the votes were split. Screw it, I would've given it to both of them, because they played off of each other so brilliantly.

Anyway. There was lots of Jon Hamm (he sang! he danced! he was ridiculously hot!) and some good Skarsgard. And pretty dresses. I was happy.

Posted by: figgy at August 30, 2010 12:44 AM

Is the Outstanding Actor in a Drama pre-engraved with Cranston's name on it? If not, it would really save them some time, as the the man kills it every episode.

But good on Aaron Paul for picking up Supporting Actor in a Drama! I need to go watch all three seasons of Breaking Bad again just to keep the shakes away.

Posted by: branded at August 30, 2010 2:27 AM

The Closer. How the hell is that still around.

Posted by: Mick J at August 30, 2010 3:56 AM

but she's just a fat girl with big boobs in spanx. come on now. the worship is ridiculous.

Posted by: stump at August 30, 2010 4:08 AM

Give me a sec to get my fake outrage started...
Ah who am I kidding, Glee won the only award they deserved, Parson won and I kinda agree with most off them...

Posted by: foaly at August 30, 2010 4:14 AM

i don't care! Hamm was ridiculious! where is Sam Rockwell when we need him?

Posted by: caro at August 30, 2010 5:18 AM

the worship is ridiculous.

Go suck on a chicken bone, hater.

Posted by: Rykker at August 30, 2010 5:53 AM

Never underestimate the power of fat girls in Spanx, for we are luscious, soft, and full of many wonders.

Also, let's be honest here, we have hypnotizing racks.

Posted by: ZombieNurse at August 30, 2010 6:38 AM

Ah...hypnotizing.
That explains many of my past actions - it was mind control!

Under normal circumstances, I do try to behave like a gentleman. But under all this civilised refinement, there are still those basic XY chromosomes. You try not to look, but...

Posted by: Simon at August 30, 2010 7:09 AM

Tom Selleck's reaction to Jimmy Fallon's "dad" bit and hugging was great:
"Oookay."

All the wins for "Temple Grandin" have transformed the real life Temple into a world-class power lifter. She was jumping out of her seat like a toddler on speed. And on a related note, I misheard the name of Autism Speaks and thought it was Autism Sucks for quite awhile. I wasn't embarrassed when corrected because I thought that named kicked ass.

Pacino's speech could've lasted 27 minutes and there was no way they'd play him off. The chairman and CEO of the Emmys probably sucked him off backstage, too.

Mrs. Kballs crush on Joel McHale has reached exclaim-"OH!-everytime-he-appears-onscreen levels, so there's that.

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Posted by: blucee at August 30, 2010 10:16 AM

I cannot believe Friday Night Lights didn't have any acting awards. And two outstanding actress nominations for Mad Men? Give me a break.

Posted by: samantha t at August 30, 2010 10:21 AM

Stop. Kyra Sedgwick wins over Connie Britton, who can act circles around her and is at least twice as hot? Ridiculous. Kyra is Julia Roberts Lite, and that's as lame as it sounds.

Posted by: ponch at August 30, 2010 10:32 AM

Jim Parsons, finally.

Everything else, beh! Who cares.

Posted by: Ian at August 30, 2010 10:34 AM

Wait just a fucking minute! Back the truck up! Just because Christina Hendricks doesn't look like she just got liberated from Auschwitz she's a fucking "fat girl"?

I call bullshit on that one. She's a real woman and real women have curves. Deal with it!

That's one of the major problems in this country. Women seem to buy into the adage that you can never be too rich or too thin.

Christina is a beautiful woman. Deal with it!

Posted by: UncleJR at August 30, 2010 10:34 AM

I truly feel sorry who anyone who cannot appreciate the awesome beauty of Christina Hendricks. She is the best ever.

Posted by: ben at August 30, 2010 10:37 AM

Last night was the first time I've watched the Emmys in a long, long time.

The opening skit was good as was the Modern Family skit with George Clooney.

Posted by: John W at August 30, 2010 10:43 AM

EAT IT, GLEE!

Glee is the Avatar of this year's Emmys: It won in the category it deserved, and its ridiculous number of nominations didn't amount to much more than an impressive statistic with little gold to back it up.

Posted by: ChristianH at August 30, 2010 11:12 AM

Unfortunately, she wore yet another horrible dress last night. I mean yeah it was boobalicious and whatnot, but I'm a girl and the boobs can only hold my attention for so long. And that dress was super fug. She badly needs a new stylist who won't let her out of the house in a lavender thing with frills on the shoulder. Ick.

Posted by: figgy at August 30, 2010 11:12 AM

I'm sorry, you can't spanx something into submission-you can smooth it but you can't completely reshape it. Christina has the dishiest of hourglasses. True, there is def SOME structural work going on under there, but spanx it ain't. She would require some major boning (BONING! HA!).

Love,

Me.

Posted by: coveredinbees at August 30, 2010 11:13 AM

The only reason that that Sedgwick cunt won is because Bernie Madoff stole her and her husband’s money and left them two on the side of the road like a filthy prostitute and the Emmy people felt sorry for her.

I don’t want anybody accusing me of being anti-lady because of my views on the ladies on t.v. not when I am bombarded with this big tittyed lady from “Madmen” always out showing off her titties. I’m not a hypocrite so I would hope that you all don’t become one.

Posted by: Pookie at August 30, 2010 11:21 AM

Yah, I'm not saying cover 'em up or anything. I'd just like to see the elevator stop at a middle floor a little more often.

Posted by: sansho1 at August 30, 2010 11:22 AM

Aaron Paul won and that is all that matters. Yay Team Breaking Bad! And speaking of BB, I am shocked that Full Measures didn't get a writing cred. Seriously.

Posted by: annoyingmouse at August 30, 2010 11:36 AM

Pookie is particularly enraged today.

I just feel sympathy for Christina Hendricks (poor hideous creature that she is) because when I see boobs that huge all I can think of is my friends with the same issue and all of the back and neck pain they experience, plus grooves in their shoulders from their bras. Also, she must get pretty sick of people talking about her chest endlessly. I know she's an actress and publicity is good, but jeez that's got to rankle after a while.

On that note, nevermind the frills figgy there were feathers on her dress! Shards of feathers really. I look forward to the astute observations of the Fug Girls on this topic.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at August 30, 2010 11:44 AM

On, and YAY Eric Stonestreet! YAY Modern Family!

I was hoping The Colbert Report would win, but it is hard to argue with
The Daily Show.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at August 30, 2010 11:47 AM

It's cool to hate Jimmy Fallon? Then consider me uncool because I think he's goofy, charming, and totally (unexpectedly) hot in person. So there.

And I always hated Claire Danes until I saw Temple Grandin. She was a revelation, and now I've got a girl-crush on her. And Temple herself is just remarkable. Well deserved, I say.

Posted by: cydeleida at August 30, 2010 12:07 PM

Also that opening number was simply adorable. I love when people go goofy like that.

Posted by: figgy at August 30, 2010 12:20 PM

Mrs. Julien, don’t feel sorry for that Hendricks lady. She’s got it so she’s going to flaunt it, just like a guy with a nine inch cock. The only difference is that a guy can’t walk around with his cock out, but a lady with big coconuts can walk around like some wanton harlot straight out of the bible corrupting man and taking him off his true path. That woman is a snake, and her soul will burn in the lake of fire for all eternity.

Posted by: Pookie at August 30, 2010 1:13 PM

Only watched bits and pieces between my 300th viewing of Casino Royale. Yes, Emmy producers, I'd rather watch a movie that I've seen an obscene amount of times than endure whatever the hell it is you put together every year.

As for the winners, I LOVE The Closer and think that it is a fantastic show, but there is no way in hell that Kyra is better than Connie Britton or anyone on that list besides January Jones (who didn't belong on that list to begin with.) I was pleased with some of the nominees and winners though.

Also, what the HELL is Tru Blood doing on that list for best drama? Give me a fucking break! That show made me yawn through orgies! No one should ever be yawning through orgies! Appalled? Yes. Excited? Yes. Bored? NEVER. They robbed Friday Night Lights of its rightful place in that list. Gah.

I don't mind it when the best man doesn't win, but to not even be acknowledged on the list of what is supposed to be the best in TV is why I hate the Emmys and all awards shows actually.

Posted by: Groovy Violet at August 30, 2010 1:18 PM

"Aaron Paul won and that is all that matters."

Amen. He was incredible this season in Breaking Bad.

As to Hendricks, the boobs are a schtick and all schticks get old. I understand the ogling and all of that, but please stop telling me she looks good. If your breasts are your main accessory, you're limited.

Posted by: samantha t at August 30, 2010 1:33 PM

...like some wanton harlot straight out of the bible corrupting man and taking him off his true path. That woman is a snake, and her soul will burn in the lake of fire for all eternity.

Geez Pookie, you're about 500 years too late with this fundamentalist fervour.

It's considered civilised nowadays, if people don't respond a display of décolletage as if they're heading out on a witch hunt.

Posted by: Simon at August 30, 2010 2:13 PM

Oy! Just took a peek at the "Emmy dresses" as plastered all over the web, and saw Christina's lavender fug.

Look, I'm not *that* into pronouncements of "people with X color hair/skin/whatever shouldn't wear Y color", but this is very simple and always true: redheads should not wear lavender.

I am a redhead. I was once forced to wear a lavender bridesmaid dress. It wasn't pretty. In fact, it was tragic. There are just so many other beautiful colors out there for a redhead; why, WHY, choose lavender?

Posted by: MM at August 30, 2010 2:31 PM

Simon, your wretched tongue will one day speak the truth. Your eyes shall bear witness to the righteous one, and then we will see how arrogant you are. Take communion for it is your only salvation, lest you be cast down into a pit with the serpents and the sodomites.

Posted by: Pookie at August 30, 2010 3:18 PM

To their credit, that pit has had some great conversations come out of it.

Posted by: Ian at August 30, 2010 3:42 PM

"

Wait just a fucking minute! Back the truck up! Just because Christina Hendricks doesn't look like she just got liberated from Auschwitz she's a fucking "fat girl"?

I call bullshit on that one. She's a real woman and real women have curves. Deal with it!

That's one of the major problems in this country. Women seem to buy into the adage that you can never be too rich or too thin.

Christina is a beautiful woman. Deal with it!
"

Nothing you said even remotely begins to address what I said. you spout off ridiculous maxims like they're supposed to be facts.

First of all, no where did I say I would like women to look like starving concentration camp survivors. There is a lot of wiggle room between miss hendricks and auswchitz. Real women have vaginas, not curves. So that means Kate Moss, Rosie ODonnell, Christina Hendricks, and myself are all women. Amazing!

I think she has a lovely face, but if the corsets/spanx/pushup bra came off it wouldn't be as pretty a picture as you all paint it out to be. and let's not pretend we're doing ladies of the world a favor by worshipping miss hendrix, her proportions when clothed are RIDICULOUSLY unattainable. Skinny can happen with diet and exercise. Ginormous boobs and hourglass figures are genetics.

Posted by: stump at August 30, 2010 4:11 PM

And__ you know all th rally *hot* peopl. are h ere at s er pents_ and sodo mite sdotcom Im going there now cum join meee!

Posted by: SpamBill (Formerly 'Bill') at August 30, 2010 4:18 PM

"Skinny can happen with diet and exercise. Ginormous boobs and hourglass figures are genetics."

Stump - I must agree with you on this one. I'll never understand why it's less creepy to worship somebody who looks more like Betty Page than Cameron Diaz in a bathing suit. Both set women up to feel like crap if they don't measure up.

Posted by: samantha t at August 30, 2010 4:54 PM

Aww, I'm a redhead and I love lavender. And I rather liked Christina Hendricks' dress. There, I said it.

Posted by: meaux at August 30, 2010 5:12 PM

Simon, your wretched tongue will one day speak the truth. Your eyes shall bear witness to the righteous one, and then we will see how arrogant you are. Take communion for it is your only salvation, lest you be cast down into a pit with the serpents and the sodomites.

Thanks Pookie...but I'm going to have to take a rain-check on that offer.

If your deity does actually exist, I'm already damned, what with me being an atheist and such. I've yet to be convinced though. I've called your invisible friend a lot of four-letter words over the years and have not been smited once.

It used to be in the old days that you felt the full force of his rage just for glancing at a golden calf, but I'm being steadfastly ignored.

Unless of course, he's smiting me through attrition with insultingly small pay rises each year. I hear he moves in mysterious ways...


Posted by: Simon at August 30, 2010 5:13 PM

Calling Christina Hendricks a Fat Chick is not useful. She is a naturally occurring 38DDD, and has the hips to match. Sure a little corsetry is needed to rein those puppies in, but thank Godtopus for variety in the world.

Posted by: Lindsey with an 'e' at August 30, 2010 5:24 PM

Simon, let me put you at ease, God and I are tighterthanTHIS.

You'll know unequivocally when you're being smited by 'The Big Guy' -
and being sodomized by a serpent will only be your first clue...

Posted by: abliac at August 30, 2010 6:05 PM

@meaux:

I like lavender too. In fact, I'm thinking of painting an accent wall in my house a light purple hue. But I look TERRIBLE wearing it.

(I'm going to assume, especially in light of you being Canadian and all, that you also have very very fair skin?)

Posted by: MM at August 30, 2010 6:07 PM

Stump, Kate Moss and Christina Hendricks are women. But Rosie ODonnell, not so much.


Simon, you can mock me all you want to. But when the staff of truth strikes you, you will shout out his name but it will be in vain.


Posted by: Pookie at August 30, 2010 6:27 PM

MM, lavender is so temperamental. But if you are into earth tones a nice warm butterscotch will pick up nicely every color opposite your accent wall.

Posted by: Pookie at August 30, 2010 6:34 PM

……also if you are fair skin lavender has a way of picking up blotches or freckles that may be on your skin. I would advise you to go with a more subdued color. Your fair skin and the wall will play off one another very nicely I might add.

Posted by: Pookie at August 30, 2010 6:42 PM

MM, lavender is so temperamental. But if you are into earth tones a nice warm butterscotch will pick up nicely every color opposite your accent wall.

That is good advice, sir. Thank you.

Posted by: MM at August 30, 2010 7:02 PM

stump and samantha t have my thoughts regarding Ms. Hendricks and women's bodies pretty well covered, on this one. Particularly:

I'll never understand why it's less creepy to worship somebody who looks more like Betty Page than Cameron Diaz in a bathing suit. Both set women up to feel like crap if they don't measure up.

I also feel like Hendricks really needs to hire the Mad Men people full-time for her makeup and clothing. They know how to buff and dress her. For some reason at all of these awards shows it really seems like her actual team over-does it every single time. It's like their mantra is, "Damn, we didn't get the make-up quite right this time either. Oh well... BOOBS!"

Posted by: Amanda6 at August 30, 2010 7:08 PM

You assume correctly, MM, I am pretty damned pale. Also rather freckly these days (the summer sun has reached our boreal latitudes)...so thanks for the heads-up, Pookie, maybe I'll lay off the lavender for a few months.

It's not the most flattering colour on me, but it's not bad and my wardrobe has an ungodly proportion of greens, so I have to mix it up a little. It doesn't look as bad on me as *shudder* pink.

Posted by: meaux at August 30, 2010 7:10 PM

I'll be struck by the staff of truth?
Seriously?

Here's a couple of truths for yer:

1) Scary tales about non-existent bogeymen ceased to be effective once my age reached double-digits.

2) If he did exist, how come he doesn't haul his staff and his arse over to Africa, where several hundred million people do believe in him and get nothing but famine, floods or genocide in return for their worshipping.
One might be tempted to think he doesn't give a toss...


Posted by: Simon at August 30, 2010 7:15 PM

Simon I have a very short attention span, your thoughts on religion/deities/ bogeymen is very interesting I‘m sure. But nevertheless, I’ve moved on and I’ve put on my decoratin' hat so I can help the ladies of pajiba with their decoratin’ and haberdasherin’ solutions.

Posted by: Pookie at August 30, 2010 7:26 PM

Hearing the word haberdasherin' has made my Monday complete.

Say what you will about Mr. Pookie; he has quite the vocabulary.

Posted by: MM at August 30, 2010 7:34 PM

but if the corsets/spanx/pushup bra came off it wouldn't be as pretty a picture as you all paint it out to be.

First off, stump, I am very sorry for the "chicken bone" comment from this morning.
It was nothing more than a knee-jerk reaction to being told by someone who does not know me that my appreciation of someone is ridiculous while I'm still half-asleep, right after I've first opened my eyes for the day.

But I think you are overgeneralizing here (and you appear to be rather fond of the word "ridiculous").
You seem to put forth a belief with your "pretty picture" comment that I really don't have a clue what I will actually see when the clothes come off, that my perceived ideal of Ms. Hendricks' "true form" is way off base; making the assumption that I'm just a silly boy with his head in the clouds who won't like what is hidden inside the corset/spanx/push-up bra.

I appreciate women of all shapes and sizes. I've even been intimate (e.g., naked) with a few, running the range from thin, to athletic, to average, to fat... short to tall. None of them were perfect, but that didn't affect my desire, or detract from their attractiveness.
I know full-well what I'd see underneath Christina's clothes, were I to be blessed to be in her presence when it happened, and my eyes are not equipped with Photoshop.
Take a look at ZombieNurse's comment up above; now back to me.
I consider the "luscious, and soft, and full of many wonders" to be all-inclusive of imperfections.
A mature person is aware, and fully accepting, of whatever imperfections there may be, while still being attracted. It doesn't shouldn't matter if we're talking about you, Kate Moss, or Christina Hendricks.
It is only a silly childish person who confines their opinion of "desirable" to a rigid ideal, and who ostracizes those who don't fit it.

And you shouldn't allow the opinion of a silly childish person to make you feel like you don't measure up.

Posted by: Rykker at August 30, 2010 7:39 PM

Hey, whoah now with all your inciteful 'normal guy talk' there, Rykker - just because the bisexual people and straight women on here flaunt their crude opinions about the physical aspects/anatomy of the male gender without being told the 'appropriate' way to do it, doesn't give you some kind of implicit right to express your preferences in females-

just where did you get the assumption that "appreciat[ing] women of all shapes and sizes" was an acceptable opinion on our site? Not from me, and certainly not from stump, 'cause we're tighterthanTHIS, understand?!!

Take a hike, pal - and good luck in finding another site out there where guys actually freely, insanely, express their attractions to specific physical attributes of a lady.

You're in for a lonely night...

Posted by: abliac at August 30, 2010 8:13 PM

You're in for a lonely night...

Pfft. No different than any other, pal.

Nice guys finish last, remember?

Posted by: Rykker at August 30, 2010 8:22 PM

Once again House, And Hugh laurie were robbed. All the more reason to not want to watch these awards shows. Its more political than anything else.

Posted by: Ryan at August 30, 2010 8:53 PM

Yeah, true enough there-

too bad my wife will never know bwaAHHHAHAHAHA!!!

Posted by: abliac at August 30, 2010 8:53 PM

I get really irritated when I go to Olive Garden and the host is supremely mediocre. It puts me in the wrong mood for the rest of the time I'm there.

Posted by: Barnes78 at August 30, 2010 9:07 PM

I loved the glamorous dresses this year. Worst dress: Wanda Sykes!

Posted by: Martin Alanis at August 30, 2010 9:25 PM

Well Barnes78 you should do what I do. Every time the waitress forgets to bring the hot sauce or a straw I begin to mentally dock her tip.

Posted by: Pookie at August 30, 2010 9:45 PM

I'm not sure why people are making her out to be some sort of put-upon vixen who just isn't allowed to be anythng more than her body. I' the first to say that beauty is a passport to life, and if you haven't 'got it' or don't possess the rigid qualities that are in vogue at a particular time, certain amenities will be barred to you. But I simply don't belive that a person who has been in the business for as long as she has never been educated in the finer points of navigating the landscape. Deflect, divert, refusal--these things can be employed if necesary or desired, so when I see a campaign shoot that features her chest and sometimes bra whist wearing a trenchcoat, I see someone who just isn't interested in turning the conversation in another directon.

And if she is this zaftig feminist avenger as she has recently been painted, then her perceved lack of agency in the 'control of her public' image pretty much negates crumbles that image of my most hated of late four letter word,'empowerment'. It's too jarring for me parse, we keep trying to politicize her body, but cup size isn't a manifesto, and it's funny that all of this extra-corporeal sloganeering on behalf of taking back our power or what-have-you is surrounding one of the most fetishied bodies in the world of popular entertainment at this time.

She's beautiful and talented (I truly believe it, I happen to find Joan Harris consistently annoying and dull, but that has nothing to do with her, I feel the same way about Sally Draper, no actresses on the planet could make me care about those characters), so if you think that's appealing, have at it. It's entertainment, she's entertaining, everyone wins. I just can't concur with this prevailing idea that every time she puts on another dress that purposely doesn't fit, she's effectively saying 'this is for the brotherhood of womankind!' It's a way to differentiate oneself from the yard of blonde of girls--though coming from the lady who stated 'I didn't know my body was different', spatial relationships and depth perception are an issue. I guess she must've popped out Falk's glass eye and inserted it into her own eye socket, because celebrities are not disingenuous. They wouldn't even know the meaning of the word!

A woman can do as she pleases with her body, that's her right, I would never challenge that. But I don't think it's fair to be branded as trying to usher in a new wave of widespread repression or suffering from envy if you're not totally 100 per cent impressed when she rips off the top half of her dress and makes all about the body. Again.

Whatever, barrage at will if you are so inclined.

Posted by: Jo 'Mama' Besser at August 31, 2010 12:00 AM

I live in Charlotte, NC. Do you recomend anyone that covers that area?

Posted by: Shavon Pierron at August 31, 2010 12:37 AM

@Pookie,

Silly Poo, I was referring to the host of the joint, not the waitress.

@Shavon,

I grew up in Hickory!!! Woooo!!!!!

Posted by: Barnes78 at August 31, 2010 12:54 AM

It's ok Pookie, I understand.
I find the introduction of logic normally ends up with the other side retreating. Don't worry - you're not the first.

Good luck with the decoratin’ and haberdasherin’ though.

Posted by: Simon at August 31, 2010 3:01 AM

Wow, missed the point much?

Posted by: Ender at August 31, 2010 7:14 AM

Maybe.
Maybe not.
Can you tell from there who is wearing a straight face?


Posted by: Simon at August 31, 2010 8:04 AM

I'm so sick & tired of these drama queens. It’s depressing.

Posted by: Depressing Music at October 24, 2010 7:26 PM

I have found that wearing outstanding clothes improves my self esteem and doesn't make me that self conscious about being significant. I believe everyone need to at least give this a try for 1 week and see how it works for them!

Posted by: Effie Epperheimer at November 22, 2010 1:44 AM

Why is larger sized clothing so difficult to locate? I have come to accept that it is additional high-priced but wearing the exact same thing over and over is terrible!

Posted by: Cassy Benigno at November 22, 2010 1:52 AM

I had a challenging time growing up fat. Yes, I said it. Fat. I am now able to accept it. I HATE the reality that I can't discover elegant clothes though. I really feel we are being discriminated. We deserve to look amazing too don't we?

Posted by: Nu Masterman at November 22, 2010 3:04 AM

Purple haze, all in my brain, lately things they dont seem the same. Acting funny, but I don't know why, excuse me while I kiss the sky! Yeah! Jimi Hendirix was the Man!

Posted by: Alison Winson at November 27, 2010 3:02 PM

I’m sad that Hannah Montana is over, but I know that Miley is moving on to bigger and far better things and I'm so proud of her!

Posted by: Barton Watson at January 17, 2011 1:16 PM


















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