Oh, what I’ve been through. Total techical nightmare that required me to dictate my red carpet ramblings to a very patient Armando Hernandez who I work with. He was great! Now I’m in a dimly lit deadline room (cannot see a bloody thing!) getting ready for this thing to get going!
Before leaving the red carpet, in one eyeful, I saw Mary Tyler Moore getting ohotgraphed by te throngs of photogs, Megan Mullally standing nearby beaming. Maybe she didn’t want to do that damned talk show anymore anyway! And Julie Andrews is a few feet away from Mary. It’s a a “Thoroughly Modern Millie” reunion! All they need is Carol Channing!
Some Grey’s Anatomy stars like Sara Ramirez and Katherine Heigl did interviews but Ellen Pompeo just posed for pics as far as I could see and Sandra Oh and Patrick Depmsey sailed by fan and press. T.R. Knight is here tho! Good for him. No sign of Isaiah Washington, he’s still in “gayhab.”
OK, show is starting!!!

… or to pick up the awards-season hardware that leads to more $. We’re told that some studios were inspired by the success of “Crash” last year to follow its lead and send out DVD screeners of “Little Miss Sunshine,” “The Departed” and “Venus” to all 110,000 members of the Screen Actors Guild to encourage their support on the ballot. If one of these three wins the ensemble or lead prizes tonight, it might just be worth the $500,000 investment for DVDs and shipping. We’ll leave it to the accountants and lawyers to decide whether such a move is worth the high risk of piracy.

Oooh, a goodie bag! For us? How exciting!
I opened this little zippered purse (with a silver lining, the better to keep your Lean Cuisine cold at your desk until lunchtime), and found two candy bars and a rather hefty bottle of Listerine rinse. Next to the coffee urns, more Listerine pocket packs than anybody could ever need. Are they a major sponsor? Or is this just because it’s flu season?

Greg Hernandez on the Red Carpet: “Ugly Betty” star America Ferrera – who’s is looking more like “Gorgeous Betty” in an Emerald-green gown…fans in the bleachers go nuts