Joan Rivers Gets Emmy as Best Talk Show Host

Joan Rivers, whose late-night talk show flopped on Fox Broadcasting three years ago, was chosen daytime’s best talk show host, even though her syndicated series, “The Joan Rivers Show,” was not nominated. The Emmy for best talk show went to “Sally Jessy Raphael.”

“I always had a fantasy about winning one of these,” Rivers said in her acceptance speech.

While handing out thank yous to her staff, she began to cry.

“Two years ago, I couldn’t get a job and my income dropped,” she said. Then, alluding to her late husband, Edgar Rosenberg, who committed suicide in August, 1987, she said, “This is really for him. He was with me at the beginning.”

“Jeopardy!” was named best game show, and its host, Alex Trebek, shared the Emmy for best host with Bob Barker of “The Price Is Right.” Trebek had won last year; Barker won in 1987 and 1988.

A tie also was voted in the category of best animated program. ABC’s “The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh,” which won last year, shared this year’s award with another Saturday morning series on ABC, “Beetlejuice.”

Henry Darrow, a veteran of prime-time TV shows dating back to “The High Chaparral” in 1967, was named best supporting actor in a soap opera for his performance as Rafael Castillo in NBC’s “Santa Barbara.”

The Emmy for supporting actress in a drama series went to Julia Barr, who plays (Brooke English) on “All My Children.”

The Daytime Emmys, covering the period between March 6, 1989 and March 5, 1990, were presented jointly by the Los Angeles-based Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and the New York-based National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

Complete results in Friday’s Calendar.