Article: Kudos elude a few good men: Crix, aud favorites unloved by voters.(EMMY M.I.A.)

Sometimes being great isn't enough.

So what's an actor have to do to get some Emmy love these days? Partake in a dramatic dying scene? Chew up the scenery? Make an unforgettable courtroom speech? After all, lots of actors whom critics and audiences admire have never been tabbed with a nomination.

Sometimes their shows just "fly under the radar and have not made stars out of them," says TV Guide critic Matt Roush. He points to HBO's "The Wire," critically hailed as one of TV's great dramas, yet not one of its performers has ever received an Emmy nora through its first four seasons.

Roush also theorizes the series' location-shot tale of down-and-out Baltimore "is ...

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