Any Emmys?

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Emmy nominees won't be announced officially until July 17, but the "short lists" of finalists already have leaked and circulated on the blogosphere. What would we do without the Internet?

Unfortunately, it doesn't look like it's going to be an exciting telecast for Westchester viewers. Even though Emmy categories are divided between “actor” and “actress” and “comedy” and “drama”—and even though shortlists are hardly short, having around 10 names each—there are very few locals among the potential nominees.

Thank goodness for our ladies, right? I'm talking about Bedford's Glenn Close and Chappaqua's Vanessa Williams. Both are vying for Best Actress statues—Close for Damages and Williams for Ugly Betty. And, since one is a drama and the other is a comedy, they're not even competing against each other. That makes for two categories we can be at least slightly interested in.

Other than our fearless females, the only other local nominee is Stanley Tucci, who I guess had some sort of guest acting appearance on E.R. this year that might get him a nomination. I feel like whenever I'm writing about awards, be they for movies, TV, or audiobook recordings, Tucci winds up nominated somehow. He really knows how to work the system.

And, of course, there's Alec Baldwin, who's on the shortlist for his brilliant portrayal of business mogul Jack Donaghy on 30 Rock. Wait, he doesn't live here? Well, some of the Baldwins do, so I'm counting it. We have to widen our net a little to just get a few more horses in the race.

In fact, I'm now considering ex-girlfriends of residents, and ex-girlfriends of ex-residents, to be unofficial residents. Any guesses as to whom I might be talking about? The first is an ex of possible nominee Stanley Tucci and a co-star with not-quite-local actor Alec Baldwin. Edie Falco's on the list for her portrayal of the bleeding-heart Celeste Cunningham, Donaghy's forbidden love on 30 Rock. I was never a Sopranos fan—don't hate me, I just don't get HBO—but Falco is pitch-perfect as the yin to Baldwin's yang, so I hope a real nomination comes through. As for the ex-girlfriend of an ex-resident, I'm talking about Kristin Chenoweth, who once dated Scarsdale High School grad Aaron Sorkin. (Rumor has it she was the inspiration for Sarah Paulson's character in Sorkin's Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, but Chenoweth is funny and Studio 60 was not.) Chenoweth plays the delightful Olive Snook on Pushing Daisies. Yeah, she really doesn't belong here because her connection to the county is so far-fetched—but I really, really love Pushing Daisies.

Stay tuned to see if any of these "short list" names turn into real nominees. If you're interested, the full lists are below, courtesy of the "Gold Derby" coverage of the LA Times.

DRAMA SERIES

Boston Legal
Dexter
Friday Night Lights
Grey's Anatomy
Heroes
House
Lost
Rome
The Sopranos
24

COMEDY SERIES

Desperate Housewives
Entourage
Extras
My Name is Earl
The Office
Scrubs
30 Rock
Two and a Half Men
Ugly Betty
Weeds

DRAMA ACTOR

Gabriel Byrne, In Treatment
Kyle Chandler, Friday Night Lights
Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad
Patrick Dempsey, Grey's Anatomy
Michael C. Hall, Dexter
Jon Hamm, Mad Men
Eddie Izzard, The Riches
Hugh Laurie, House
Denis Leary, Rescue Me
James Spader, Boston Legal

DRAMA ACTRESS

Patricia Arquette, Medium
Glenn Close, Damages
Minnie Driver, The Riches
Sally Field, Brothers and Sisters
Mariska Hargitay, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit
Holly Hunter, Saving Grace
Elisabeth Moss, Mad Men
Mary McDonnell, Battlestar Galactica
Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer
Jeanne Tripplehorn, Big Love

SUPPORTING DRAMA ACTOR

Naveen Andrews, Lost
Bruce Dern, Big Love
Christian Clemenson, Boston Legal
Ted Danson, Damages
Michael Emerson, Lost
Zeljko Ivanek, Damages
T.R. Knight, Grey's Anatomy
William Shatner, Boston Legal
John Slattery, Mad Men
Blair Underwood, In Treatment
Jake Weber, Medium

SUPPORTING DRAMA ACTRESS

Jane Alexander, Tell Me You Love Me
Candice Bergen, Boston Legal
Rose Byrne, Damages
Jill Clayburgh, Dirty Sexy Money
Sharon Gless, Burn Notice
Rachel Griffiths, Brothers and Sisters
Christina Hendricks, Mad Men
S. Epatha Merkerson, Law and Order
Sandra Oh, Grey's Anatomy
Dianne Wiest, In Treatment
Chandra Wilson, Grey's Anatomy

COMEDY ACTOR

Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
Steve Carell, The Office
Larry David, Curb Your Enthusiasm
David Duchovny, Californication
Lee Pace, Pushing Daisies
Tony Shalhoub, Monk
Charlie Sheen, Two and a Half Men

COMEDY ACTRESS

Christina Applegate, Samantha Who?
Marcia Cross, Desperate Housewives
America Ferrera, Ugly Betty
Tina Fey, 30 Rock
Anna Friel, Pushing Daisies
Felicity Huffman, Desperate Housewives
Eva Longoria Parker, Desperate Housewives
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, New Adventures of Old Christine
Mary-Louise Parker, Weeds
Sarah Silverman, The Sarah Silverman Program

SUPPORTING COMEDY ACTOR

Jon Cryer, Two and a Half Men
Kevin Dillon, Entourage
Justin Kirk, Weeds
Neil Patrick Harris, How I Met Your Mother
John Krasinski, The Office
Jack McBrayer, 30 Rock
Tracy Morgan, 30 Rock
Jeremy Piven, Entourage
Fred Willard, Back to You
Rainn Wilson, The Office

SUPPORTING COMEDY ACTRESS

Kristin Chenoweth, Pushing Daisies
Conchata Ferrell, Two and a Half Men
Jenna Fischer, The Office
Jane Krakowski, 30 Rock
Judith Light, Ugly Betty
Elizabeth Perkins, Weeds
Amy Poehler, Saturday Night Live
Jean Smart, Samantha Who?
Holland Taylor, Two and a Half Men
Vanessa Williams, Ugly Betty

GUEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES

Polly Bergen, Desperate Housewives
Edie Falco, 30 Rock
Vivica A. Fox, Curb Your Enthusiasm
Kathryn Joosten, Desperate Housewives
Annie Potts, Ugly Betty
Carrie Fisher, 30 Rock
Shirley Knight, Desperate Housewives
Jane Lynch, Two and a Half Men
Amy Ryan, The Office
Sarah Silverman, Monk
Elaine Stritch, 30 Rock

GUEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES

Keith Carradine, Dexter
Charles Durning, Rescue Me
Danny Glover, Brothers and Sisters
Robert Morse, Mad Men
Peter O'Toole, The Tudors
Oliver Platt, Nip-Tuck
Peter Riegert, Damages
Stanley Tucci, E.R.
Glynn Turman, In Treatment
Robin Williams, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit