NEWS LITE : DAYTIME EMMYS: SOBBING LUCCI ACCEPTS LONG-ELUSIVE EMMY.After 18 nominations and 18 losses, hard-luck soap star Susan Lucci Susan Victoria Lucci (born December 23 1946) is a Daytime Emmy Award-winning American actress. Lucci has been called "Daytime's Leading Lady" by TV Guide. Early life Lucci was born to Jeanette and Victor Lucci. finally came up a winner. Lucci, whose status as a longtime loser often overshadowed her work, won the Daytime Emmy Award The Daytime Emmy Awards are awards presented by the New York-based National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Los Angeles-based Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in recognition of excellence in American daytime television programming. for best actress Friday for portraying the villainous Erica Kane on ``All My Children.'' She sobbed as she received a standing ovation. ``Thank you very much. I truly never believed that this would happen,'' she said. Lucci's victory overshadowed a record-setting performance by ``General Hospital,'' which won eight awards. Rosie O'Donnell swept the major talk show awards. Lucci was clearly the sentimental favorite and was thought to have her best chance this year for her performances in a hospital vigil over her TV daughter, Bianca. When music played to get her to stop talking as she accepted the award, she plowed right through to thank her fans. ``I'm going to go back to that studio Monday and I'm going to play Erica Kane for all it is worth,'' she said. The awards for ``General Hospital'' included its sixth for best soap opera soap opera Broadcast serial drama, characterized by a permanent cast of actors, a continuing story, tangled interpersonal situations, and a melodramatic or sentimental style. . Anthony Geary, who won best actor in 1982 when his character Luke Spencer was a national sensation, won the award again. Jonathan Jackson, who plays his son Lucky, won his third award as best younger actor. Stuart Damon won best supporting actor. A tearful O'Donnell won her third straight honor as best talk show host and also for best talk show. It was a boost for O'Donnell, who had a tense fight with actor Tom Selleck over gun control on her show this week. She twice paid tribute to Oprah Winfrey, who shared the award with her last year. Winfrey, who has won seven of the awards, took herself out of the running after getting a lifetime achievement award last year. ``I one day hope to move through life with the grace and dignity of that woman - Oprah Winfrey,'' said O'Donnell, as tears streamed down her face. The 26th annual Daytime Emmy Awards were given out during a ceremony at New York's Theater at Madison Square Garden Current arenas in the National Hockey League Western Conference Eastern Conference , televised on CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. . Bob Barker, host of ``The Price is Right,'' was given a lifetime achievement award. Jagger's Brazilian lover gives birth Mick Jagger's Brazilian lover gave birth this week in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , a source said Thursday, but spokesmen for the model and the Rolling Stones star were not talking. The source said Luciana Morad, 29, whose affair with Jagger jag 1 n. 1. A sharp projection; a barb. 2. a. A hanging flap along the edge of a garment. b. A slash or slit in a garment exposing material of a different color. tr.v. prompted his wife, model Jerry Hall, to file for divorce, gave birth Monday. A spokesman for St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital said Morad left the hospital with her baby boy, Lucas. `E.T.': Allegory of Spielberg split Steven Spielberg says his 1982 hit ``E.T.: The Extraterrestrial'' is about divorce. The filmmaker said in the latest issue of Life magazine that the movie about a boy seeking friendship and trust in the otherworldly was a message to his own father, Arnold. Spielberg's parents divorced when he was 16. ``There was a distance between us,'' the director said of his father. ``And when my father remarried, it separated us even further. . . . I wanted my father to remarry remarry Verb [-ries, -rying, -ried] to marry again following a divorce or the death of one's previous spouse remarriage n Verb 1. my mother and he didn't.'' ``E.T.,'' he said, was ``a manifestation of my feelings about my mom and dad. The whole movie is really about divorce.'' Spielberg's own divorce from Amy Irving and marriage to Kate Capshaw changed his bitter feelings about his father. ``Look. You're 16, 17 years old, blaming your parents for something that you know very little about,'' he said. `Strokes' ' Plato's death ruled suicide Former child actress Dana Plato's drug-overdose death was ruled a suicide Friday, not an accident as initially believed. The 34-year-old former star of the NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. sitcom ``Diff'rent Strokes'' died May 8 while visiting her fiance's parents in Moore, Okla. Police in Oklahoma City initially said she died of an accidental overdose of a painkiller and Valium. But Dr. Larry E. Balding, deputy state medical examiner A public official charged with investigating all sudden, suspicious, unexplained, or unnatural deaths within the area of his or her appointed jurisdiction. A medical examiner differs from a Coroner in that a medical examiner is a physician. , said Friday that she had fatal concentrations of the muscle relaxant muscle relaxant an agent that specifically aids in reducing muscle tone. Most such agents inhibit the transmission of nerve impulses at the somatic neuromuscular junctions. They include tubocurarine, gallamine, pancuronium, succinylcholine and decamethonium bromide. Soma soma (sō`mə), psychotropic plant, the juice of which was sometimes drunk as part of the Vedic sacrifice (see Veda). Many hymns in the Rig-Veda are in praise of soma. and a generic form of the painkiller Lortab in her body. She also had the equivalent of seven tablets of the muscle relaxant in her stomach. Balding said the death was ruled a suicide because of the high level of drugs and her history of suicidal tendencies. She did not leave a suicide note. Plato had been prescribed both drugs - according to her fiance, for back injuries she suffered in a car crash. Harrelson's words almost lead to jail Woody Harrelson and a federal judge clashed during a marijuana cultivation trial, and the actor nearly landed in a Sacramento jail. Harrelson was appearing Thursday as a defense witness for a friend accused of growing marijuana. The actor is an outspoken advocate of hemp hemp, common name for a tall annual herb (Cannabis sativa) of the family Cannabinaceae, native to Asia but now widespread because of its formerly large-scale cultivation for the bast fiber (also called hemp) and for the drugs it yields. cultivation. On the stand, he disobeyed U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr.'s orders not to discuss certain matters that had been ruled inadmissible That which, according to established legal principles, cannot be received into evidence at a trial for consideration by the jury or judge in reaching a determination of the action. . ``I'm just wondering why you're keeping the truth from the jury,'' Harrelson said. As he stepped down from the stand, he snapped: ``How do you sleep at night?'' News Lite is compiled by Karen Duffy from Daily News staff and wire reports. CAPTION(S): 4 Photos PHOTO (1) Almost ready Miss Brazil Renata Fan sports curlers in her hair Friday during a dress rehearsal for the Miss Universe Pageant in Trinidad. (2) SPIELBERG (3) PLATO (4) LUCCI |
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