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1. Winner.

["Gore won Outstanding Achievement in Interactive Television for his two-year-old cable network, Current TV. The channel relies heavily on viewer generated content, like Internet sites YouTube and MySpace. Current TV is available 24 hours a day in 41 million homes across the U.S."]

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2. Kathy Griffin's Jesus mocking cut from Fox Emmy broadcast

["A lot of people come up here and thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus," an exultant Griffin said, holding up her statuette. "Suck it, Jesus. This award is my god now."]

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3. David Sims at South Dakota Dark live-blogged the Emmys.

["22.38: OK, this is going on too long."]

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4. Television Without Pity on the Emmys by Joe R.

["So the Emmy Awards are upon us again, and while every year we all say the Emmys have lost all credibility and are stupid, we still manage to be outraged when the same damn people win the same damn awards, because we somehow convinced ourselves that this year it would be different."]

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5. Robert Duvall ropes an Emmy for Walter Hill's AMC miniseries Broken Trail.

["Best actor Robert Duvall and supporting actor, Thomas Haden Church come out on top. The two play uncle and nephew, respectively in the miniseries."]

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Quote of the Day:

"I never knew an actor in my lifetime or anybody's lifetime who didn't want to do a Western. We all want to do Westerns and believe me it belongs to us in this country, uniquely to us. ... The Western is here to stay."—Robert Duvall's acceptance speech

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Clip of the Day: Sally Field's %!@$#*% speech is cut off.

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