Good Morning everyone.

I’m blogging from Java Detour in West Hollywood this morning and want to share with you some items from Sunday’s Emmys that I have not had a chance to post until now.

I was so very glad to see veteran actor Ken Howard win the Emmy for outstanding supporting actor in a miniseries or movie for Grey Gardens. I had not met him until shortly before the telecast when he and his wife stopped by for a chat on the red carpet and he was completely charming.

“I’m really pleased I was part of this project, it’s nice to be a part of something that you like so much,” Ken said of Grey Gardens.

“It was beautifully done and I think both the leading ladies [Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore] were astounding and I was thrilled to be working with them.”

I noticed that Ken was wearing a White Knot on his tuxedo and asked him about it.

“It’s for equality in marriage for lesbians and gays and transgenders and bisexuals,” he explained. “I started on Broadway [he’s a Tony Award winner] so I have an appreciation of different lifestyles (laughs)….. It’s personally driven. I just have so many friends in the business and I’m fond of them all.”

Ken, who is running for president of the Screen Actors Guild,  also ended up having one of the best lines of the night when while accepting his Emmy he quipped: “I will make my speech as short as possible in the hopes it wont be interrupted by a congressman or a rapper.”

A SURVIVOR: I remember a year ago, I watched Jeff Probst posing for pics with his fellow Emmy co-hosts Ryan Seacrest, Howie Mandel and Heidi Klum and thought how odd it was that they had been chosen to host the show.

It turned out to be pretty bad – they had no opening bit which set a lackluster tone – but things turned out pretty well for Jeff who won the Emmy for outstanding reality show host for Survivor.

So this year, when I saw Jeff on the red carpet, I asked if he felt more relaxed since he wasn’t hosting and also already had an Emmy at home.

“Yeah I am,” he said. “Now I’m just looking around and meeting people.”

What did he think of the selection of Neil Patrick Harris as host?

“I know Neil so I’m really happy for him,” he said.  “He’s actually a really talented guy , a singer and a comedian and a dancer and a magician.”

We know that Neil kllled as host. What was also nice was that Jeff repeated as winner in his category. He now has two more Emmys than 18-time nominee Angela Lansbury.

ME? SEXY? It was fun talking to Weeds star Hunter Parrish who one year was a boy and the next, a hot stud having sex in the back of a cheese shop with his much-older girlfriend!

I asked Hunter, who plays Mary Louise Parker’s older son on the show, about his sex symbol status at the Emmys.

I asked him what it was like to go from being a kid on the show to a sex symbol.

“People say that, that’s just weird to hear,” he said. “I don’t know if I’m a sex symbol. Well, I guess that’s an honor I don’t know. There would be some people who would disagree, I’m sure. Some of my old friends!”

He explained why people think he grew into a man overnight: “We have eight months between each season so I have a lot of time to grow up in between. We all grow up on the show. It’s kind of crazy.”

But he is loving every minute of the ride: “It’s so great to be working and to be appreciated for what you do.”

His nominated co-stars, Parker and Elizabeth Perkins, have yet to win Emmys for their roles and lost out again on Sunday to Toni Collette and Kristin Chenoweth, respectively. But Hunter thinks their time will come: “Martin Scorsese, it took forever for him to win [the Oscar], I think you can use that as a template.”

Hunter also has some big-screen action coming up: “I have a movie coming out called It’s complicated with Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin and a bunch of other rock stats.”

So, he really only works with the best?

He joked: “Yes, it’s in my contract.”