“THE EMMY AWARDS,” Sunday, 8 p.m. (7)...
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“THE EMMY AWARDS,” Sunday, 8 p.m. (7) (3) (10) (42) (Illustrated on the cover)--Here they come again, three hours and change. Stars galore, from Tom Selleck to Emmanuel Lewis. Glamour galore, from swanky limos to glittering gowns.
Wrong choices galore.
Why wrong? Because, inevitably, most of the Emmy choices are not my choices. So listen, I never promised humility.
Here, in a few categories, are my picks followed by forecasts of the actual winners.
COMEDY SERIES My choice: “Family Ties.” Winner: “The Cosby Show.” Others: “Cheers,” “Kate & Allie,” “Night Court.”
DRAMA SERIES My Choice: “Cagney & Lacey.” Winner: “Miami Vice.” Others: “Hill Street Blues,” “Murder, She Wrote,” “St. Elsewhere.”
LIMITED SERIES My Choice: “The Jewel in the Crown.” Winner: “The Jewel in the Crown.” Others: “A Woman of Substance,” “Ellis Island,” “Robert Kennedy and His Times,” “Space.”
VARIETY, MUSIC OR COMEDY PROGRAM My Choice: “Late Night With David Letterman.” Winner: “Motown Returns to the Apollo.” Others: “The American Film Institute Salute to Gene Kelly,” “Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music,” “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.”
DRAMA OR COMEDY SPECIAL My Choice: “Do You Remember Love?” Winner: “The Burning Bed.” Others: “Fatal Vision,” “Heartsounds,” “Wallenberg: A Hero’s Story.”
LEAD ACTOR, COMEDY SERIES My Choice: Ted Danson, “Cheers.” Winner: Jack Warden, “Crazy Like a Fox.” Others: Harry Anderson, “Night Court”; Robert Guillaume, “Benson”; Bob Newhart, “Newhart.”
LEAD ACTRESS, COMEDY SERIES My Choice: Shelley Long, “Cheers.” Winner: Shelley Long. Others: Phylicia Ayers-Allen, “The Cosby Show”; Jane Curtin and Susan Saint James, “Kate & Allie”; Isabel Sanford, “The Jeffersons.”
LEAD ACTOR, DRAMA SERIES My Choice: Daniel J. Travanti, “Hill Street Blues.” Winner: Don Johnson, “Miami Vice.” Others: William Daniels and Ed Flanders, “St. Elsewhere”; Tom Selleck, “Magnum, P.I.”
LEAD ACTRESS, DRAMA SERIES My Choice: Sharon Gless, “Cagney & Lacey.” Winner: Tyne Daly, “Cagney & Lacey.” Others: Debbie Allen, “Fame”; Veronica Hamel, “Hill Street Blues”; Angela Lansbury, “Murder, She Wrote.”
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