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One last Emmys post … I think!

Emmys 2009 by you.
The Emmys were a week ago but I still have a few little tidbits I wanted to share with you from the red carpet and backstage that somehow slipped through the cracks.

Let’s start out with Bryan Batt of A&E’s Mad Men which took home the outstanding drama Emmy for the second straight year. Bryan, the openly gay actor who had been best known for his work on stage, plays a closeted advertising agency art director on the show which is set in the early 80s.

“It’s such a honor to play this character,” Bryan told me on the red carpet.  “I want to get it right because we have to pay homage to the men and women who went through this.”

I wondered what Bryan would be doing between seasons of Mad Men and he said: “I don’t know yet, something good! If anybody wants to hire me, call me!”

Since Jon Cryer won the Emmy that many thought would go to Neil Patrick Harris, the star of Two-And-A-Half Men was asked backstage about actors like Harris being openly gay.

“I don’t think it was easy until Neil did it,” said Jon who won his first Emmy. “I think Neil Patrick Harris is blazing an amazing trail and good for him and good for everyone to be brave.”

“It’s a different world now, thankfully, than when we were kids,” Cryer added. “I think that’s just not what people think about when they’re watching filmed entertainment.”

Cherry Jones – who won her first Emmy for her first regular TV role (she plays the President of the United States on FOX’s 24) – was one happy winner backstage

She is already a two-time Tony winner and one of the highest-profile lesbians in showbiz.

Miss Jones was asked backstage about her philosophy as an actress and she said: “My mama always told me, never confuse your self-worth with your professional success or failure. … I wish every child could hear that a lot.”

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  1. “Mad Men” is set in the 60s not the 80s.

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