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Article: An Emmy show with class? Producers' promises of business attire and a 'heartfelt' tone bode well for Sunday's postponed, bicoastal awards ceremony
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- October 5, 2001
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A healthy ambivalence about who wins the actual awards?
Fashionistas and their ridiculously ostentatious haute couture
replaced by common-sense dressy business attire? We lose Joan Rivers
and gain Walter Cronkite?
Already this is shaping up to be one of the best Prime-Time Emmy
Awards ever.
"Overall, at the end of the show, I'm hoping that what people feel
is that it wasn't so much about the horse race and the competition,"
said Don Mischer, executive producer of this year's postponed
Emmycast, now set for 7 p.m. Sunday on WBBM-Channel 2. "I don't think
people care much any more about whether 'The Sopranos' beats 'The
West Wing,' or vice versa. But what I'm hoping this show feels like
is ...