Gee, remember when the Daytime Emmys were presented before thousands of deliriously happy fans at Radio City Freakin' Music Hall in primetime during May sweeps and drew massive Nielsen ratings? Griffin, working without censors, will shock the crap out of us (can't wait!) and most of my fearless predictions in the drama categories will, as usual, be laughably wrong. Outstanding Drama Series How is it possible that daytime's most creatively troubled soap - The Young and the Restless - could take the top prize? Executive producer Jill Farren Phelps, brilliant at choosing Emmy reels, submitted the wrenching hit-and-run death of little Delia, the kind of well crafted, awesomely acted tragedy that can move even the coldest of souls (and judges). Days of Our Lives chose Kristen's aborted wedding, while The Bold and the Beautiful picked the episodes where Katie reacts to the news that her hubby bedded - and knocked up - her big sister. Internet reboot One Life to Live sent its first episode, the splashy, trashy grand opening of the club Shelter. Outstanding Lead Actor Davidson is again revelatory, this time in scenes where Paul convinces young, suicidal Jamie not to jump off a building, then blasts Phyllis for letting her daughter bully the poor kid. Miller, as dead Delia's grieving dad, is so profoundly touching and at his wit's end that you want to do two things - hug the guy and give him a shiny gold lady with pointy wings. There's a good (make it great) chance that Daytime Emmy history will be made when The Bold and the Beautiful's Heather Tom becomes the first four-in-a-row acting winner thanks to Katie's magnificent meltdown over the Bill-Katie affair. [...] will her name be in the envelope? I suspect the voters may be swayed by tears and hysterics instead of truly titanic acting and go for one of the Y&R stars who were so moving in the Delia story. Days' much-missed Chandler Massey, up for his third consecutive win, chose scenes where Will worries about the fate of his unborn daughter, but even though his acting is fascinating and divinely nuanced as always, the material only runs three minutes. Will this be the category where the suds industry honors Prospect Park for its brave but disastrous attempt to save those cancelled ABC soaps? I think maybe so.
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