Courtesy of HBO(LOS ANGELES) — The Emmy nominations were announced Tuesday, with HBO’s Watchmen and Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel leading the pack with the most nominations. While many of the nominees were predicted by experts, other nominations — or lack thereof — came as a surprise. Some of those included:
Snubs
Elisabeth Moss won the best actress in a drama series Emmy in 2017 for her starring role in The Handmaid’s Tale, and earned a nomination in the same category in 2018. This year, however, her name was omitted.
Although Meryl Streep and Laura Dern received best supporting actress in a drama series nominations for their work on Big Little Lies, the show was snubbed in the best drama series category. Additionally, Nicole Kidman was expected by some to be recognized as one of the year’s best actresses in a drama series, but she wasn’t.
Better Call Saul star Bob Odenkirk was not recognized Tuesday morning, though he was nominated for best actor in a drama series in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2019. And his Saul co-star Rhea Seehorn was once again snubbed, even though critics agree she did some of her strongest work this season.
Pose star Billy Porter — an Emmy winner last year for best actor — received another nomination, but Pose itself — expected by some to be recognized in the best drama series category — was shut out.
While Reese Witherspoon was nominated as an executive producer of of Hulu’s Little Fires Everywhere, she wasn’t nominated for her acting in either that series, nor in AppleTV+’s The Morning Show, nor in Big Little Lies.
Surprises
Euphoria star Zendaya received her first-ever Emmy nomination in the best actress in a drama series category.
The Mandalorian won over Star Wars fans when it premiered on Disney+, and on Tuesday, many were pleasantly surprised to hear its name called in the best drama series category.
Unorthodox, the Netflix series about an Orthodox Jewish woman leaving her community, earned eight nominations — more than many had predicted.
Insecure actress Yvonne Orji earned her first-ever Emmy nomination in the best supporting actress in a comedy series category, and the show itself was recognized in the best comedy series category.
The FX vampire comedy What We Do in the Shadows was recognized for comedy series in its second season — it was seen as a long shot amidst other high-profile series.
Linda Cardellini earned a nomination for Dead to Me along with her co-star Christina Applegate. Last year, only Applegate was nominated.
Orion Pictures/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — This week marks the 40th anniversary of the release of Caddyshack. The classic comedy started Kenny Loggins’ reputation as the “soundtrack king” of the ’80s, thanks to his hit “I’m Alright” and three other songs he wrote for the film. Loggins tells ABC Audio he got involved with Caddyshack through his friend, movie producer John Peters.
“When I saw the rough cut…we laughed through the whole thing,” Loggins recalls. “And I said, ‘This is a great movie. I want to write every song!'”
“It was the first movie that I wrote [multiple] songs for, and was really a fun project,” he notes. “And it’s amazing that it’s still so heavily rented…It is the golfer’s national anthem.”
As for “I’m Alright,” Loggins says when he first saw the movie, the director had thrown in a random song to suggest the kind of track he was looking for Loggins to write.
“The lead character, Danny, [in] the opening scene…he’s riding his bicycle through a condo development…probably golf course, and the temp[orary] music was a Bob Dylan song, ‘[Gotta] Serve Somebody,'” Loggins recalls.
“And I thought. ‘So they’re trying to portray him as a rebel, even though he’s riding a bicycle through a golf course condominium area.’ And I thought, ‘I want to do something that has that vibe that says basically, “I’m fine, leave me alone.”‘ And that’s where ‘I’m Alright’ came from.”
Unfortunately, another character in the movie sort of co-opted “I’m Alright.”
“John said, ‘Oh, we got this gopher hand puppet that we’re going to use,'” Loggins laughs. “And I thought, ‘That’s a really stupid idea!'”
“It turned out to be a really great idea and people loved it! So the song, I think, is associated more with the gopher than with the character.”
ABC/Eric GebhartJason Aldean is taking his new single to Late Night.
The ACM Artist of the Decade will perform “Got What I Got” on Late Night with Seth Meyers tonight with a virtual performance outside of his Nashville-area home.
The track is featured on the hitmaker’s most recent album, 9, which became Jason’s sixth consecutive album to reach the number-one spot on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart following its 2019 release.
Jason debuted the “Got What I Got” music video — which features his wife Brittany and the couple’s two young children, daughter Navy and son Memphis — during the online CMA Summer Stay-Cay event earlier this month.
“Got What I Got” is currently in the top 20 on the Billboard Country Airplay chart.
Late Night with Seth Meyers airs at 12:35 p.m. ET on NBC.
MCA NashvilleReba McEntire is setting the “rumor”straight with a re-release of her famed album, Rumor Has It.
To celebrate its 30th anniversary, Reba is re-releasing the 1990 album that gave birth to her early signature song, “Fancy,” a cover of Bobbie Gentry‘s 1969 classic, along with the number-one hit “You Lie,” “Fallin’ Out of Love,” which reached number two on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, and the title track, which was a top-10 hit.
Rumor Has It became the first of Reba’s 17 studio projects at the time to reach the top 40 on the Billboard 200, peaking at number 39. The album also hit number two on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and remained in the top 10 on that chart for 26 weeks.
In a statement, Reba notes that Rumor Has It is “very special” to her, as it marks the first time she recorded with producer Tony Brown, who helped her record “Fancy” and produced many of her subsequent chart-topping albums. Vince Gill also provided background vocals on the project.
“I never imagined I’d get the chance to put out an album for a second time. It’s just so much fun to look back and remember where we were and what we were doing when they were originally released,” Reba says.
The country icon is also releasing a special vinyl edition of Rumor Has It that will include a live acoustic version of “Fancy,” recorded at the Ryman Auditorium. Both the standard and vinyl editions will feature a bonus track.
The re-issue of Rumor Has It will be released on September 11.
Samara Heisz/iStockBy JON HAWORTH and EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News
(NEW YORK) — The novel coronavirus pandemic has now killed more than 655,000 people worldwide.
Over 16.5 million people across the globe have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. The actual numbers are believed to be much higher due to testing shortages, many unreported cases and suspicions that some governments are hiding or downplaying the scope of their nations’ outbreaks.
The United States has become the worst-affected country, with more than 4.2 million diagnosed cases and at least 148,298 deaths.
Here is how the news is developing on Tuesday. All times Eastern:
2:40 p.m.: 12 NYC bars get liquor licenses suspended for ‘egregious’ violations
New York state has suspended liquor licenses at 12 New York City bars, alleging they made “egregious violations” of COVID-19 rules, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a statement Tuesday.
“The bars and restaurants that ignore public health guidance are disrespecting their sacrifices which have saved lives while allowing us to sustain the reopening of our economy,” Cuomo said.
A state task force conducted over 1,300 compliance checks this weekend and reported 132 violations, Cuomo said. Over 600 more compliance checks were done Monday night and the task force found 26 violations in New York City, he said.
Businesses violating coronavirus rules can be fined up to $10,000 per violation. “Egregious violations can result in the immediate suspension of a bar or restaurant’s liquor license,” the governor’s statement said.
2:10 p.m.: 30% of new Louisiana cases are among young people
In Louisiana, 30% of the coronavirus cases reported on Tuesday are among people ages 29 and under, the state’s Department of Health said.
Twenty-six new fatalities were reported on Tuesday, bringing Louisiana’s death toll to 3,700, the Department of Health said.
As of July 25, all bars and restaurants in New Orleans are prohibited from selling takeout alcohol. A statewide rule prohibits bars from serving people on the premises.
1:35 p.m.: Columbus, Ohio, schools will begin year fully virtual
Columbus city schools — Ohio’s biggest school district — will have 100% virtual learning for the beginning of the year, from Sept. 8 to Oct. 27, officials announced Tuesday.
While it was recommended on June 30 that high schoolers go fully virtual and younger students have blended learning, since then, “public health conditions have dramatically worsened” in the county, Columbus City schools said in a statement Tuesday.
Franklin County, which includes Columbus, has at least 3,993 confirmed COVID-19 cases and at least 124 deaths, according to Monday’s data from the county.
Columbus City Council President Shannon Hardin said the council stands with the school officials’ decision.
“While this is a tough decision, it will save lives and prevent the spread,” Hardin tweeted Tuesday.
Earlier Tuesday, Dr. Anthony Fauci said he was concerned about the Midwest reopening, noting that hard-hit South and West states like Florida, Texas, Arizona and California look like “they may be cresting and coming back down.”
States like Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee and Kentucky are “starting to have” a “very early indication” of rising COVID-19 positivity rates — a “surefire sign that you’ve got to be really careful,” the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases told Good Morning America.
12:20 p.m.: DC, Illinois now on New York travel advisory list
Illinois, Kentucky and Minnesota have been added to New York’s travel advisory list, as well as Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on a conference call Tuesday.
Anyone traveling to New York, New Jersey or Connecticut from a state with a high coronavirus test-positivity rate must quarantine for two weeks.
Thirty-four states, plus D.C. and Puerto Rico, are now on the list, according to ABC New York station WABC.
11 a.m.: Florida reports new daily death toll record
In Florida, a record 186 new fatalities were reported in one day, according to data released by the Florida Department of Health Tuesday morning.
The previous one-day record was 173 fatalities, reported on July 23.
Coronavirus cases in the state have jumped by 9,230, bringing the total to over 441,900, according to the Department of Health.
Florida has the second-most COVID-19 cases, behind California.
Of those tested in Miami-Dade County on Monday, 17.5% were positive, officials said.
Throughout Florida, 16.86% of the state’s adult ICU beds are available, according to Florida’s Agency for Healthcare Administration.
Two counties — Monroe and Putnam — had no ICU beds, the agency said.
These numbers will fluctuate throughout the day as hospitals and medical centers provide updates.
9:30 a.m.: Hospitals overwhelmed in Florida, Texas
An internal FEMA memo obtained by ABC News has detailed the latest on overwhelmed hospitals in Florida and Texas, and the strain on EMS systems in Georgia.
In Florida, hospitalizations statewide have increased 79% since July 4, with 8,974 current COVID-19 patients, the memo said.
In hard-hit Miami-Dade County, ICU beds were at 146% capacity, the memo said.
In Georgia, where the test-positivity has reached 15.6%, the EMS systems are under strain with staff out sick, according to FEMA.
And in Texas, as of July 22, five ICU beds were available in Laredo and none were available in Galveston, the memo said.
4:58 a.m.: Russia coronavirus cases pass 820,000
Russia reported 5,395 new COVID-19 cases and 150 coronavirus-related deaths in the past 24 hours, according to the coronavirus response headquarters statement on Tuesday.
“Over the past day, 5,395 cases of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus infections were confirmed in 84 regions of Russia, including 1,620 active asymptomatic cases (30.0%),” the headquarters said.
Russia’s total case count currently stands at 823,515 and 13,504 coronavirus patients died.
Moscow on Tuesday reported 674 new COVID-19 cases and 10 deaths.
3:35 a.m.: COVID-19 linked hunger killing 10,000 children per month, says UN
COVID-19 and its ramifications are pushing children who already live in hunger to beyond the breaking point, killing an estimated 10,000 more youngsters a month as meager farms have no way of delivering produce to markets while villages are isolated from food and medical supplies, the United Nations has warned.
Furthermore, more than 550,000 additional children each month are being struck by what is called wasting, which manifests in spindly limbs and distended bellies, according to the U.N.
3:16 a.m.: Trump Jr. shares video of doctor claiming hydroxychloroquine is a cure for COVID-19
Donald Trump Jr. shared a bizarre video on Twitter featuring what appears to be doctor that blasts the science and medical health experts recommendations about wearing masks and saying there are cures for COVID-19, including hydroxychloroquine.
Trump Jr. says “This is a much watch!!! So different from the narrative that everyone is running with.”
The doctor calls the science and studies against hydroxychloroquine fake studies and says they’re sponsored by big pharmaceutical companies.
Courtesy of HBO(LOS ANGELES) — The Emmy nominations were announced Tuesday, with HBO’s Watchmen and Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel leading the pack with the most nominations. While many of the nominees were predicted by experts, other nominations — or lack thereof — came as a surprise. Some of those included:
