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How very well I remember that page from TV Guide which was everyone's TV Bible back in the day.

It was earlier than that, I believe. Angela Lansbury and George Hearn both earned CableACE awards for their performances in the taped version of Sweeney Todd which aired on A&E. But they were also nominated for Emmys for that taping (stupidly in the same category of Outstanding Performance in...

The Wizard of Oz, Gone With the Wind, Singin' in the Rain.

The last time three actors from the same film won the acting awards was Network!

I think the acting categories this year are the toughest to pick in several years. I LOVE it when we don't know in advance who's going to win (apart from Best Supporting Actor).

This running gag has made me laugh for years. At the Emmys a few years ago, Kimmel, hosting the ceremony, lost for his talk show, and Damon was the next presenter after his category loss. He ribbed him for three or four minutes about losing to John Oliver.

I believe you've made a mistake here: Coppola was definitely nominated for directing The Godfather. He lost to Bob Fosse for Cabaret, but he was nominated.

Let's face it: Louis B. Mayer was very high on Luise Rainer during her first year and a half at MGM and pushed her enormously. He was sick of Garbo's demands and peculiarities especially since her box-office drawing power was waning in the US by 1937 (she was still big in Europe). I suspect he...

Rainer beat her the next year anyway, in The Good Earth.

9 minutes. Straight's 5 minutes is the winning record. I'm not sure what the records are for the other categories, but I'd guess Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs is the briefest for Best Actor and Luise Rainer for The Great Ziegfeld for Best Actress. Those would be my guesses.