Should Win/Will Win

Detroit Free Press, TV columnist Mike Duffy writes:

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By giving academy members the freedom to screen at home, Emmy officials hoped to increase the number of people voting. They also wanted younger, more adventurous voters.

That may yield less conventional winners for a change. ...

LEAD ACTRESS, DRAMA: Lorraine Bracco, "The Sopranos"; Amy Brenneman, "Judging Amy"; Edie Falco, "The Sopranos"; Sela Ward, "Once and Again" ; Julianna Margulies, "ER."

Will win: Edie Falco. Yeah, I hate repeat winners. But Falco's performance as mob wife Carmela Soprano is every bit as amazing and emotionally rich as Gandolfini's angst-filled gangster.

Should win: Sela Ward. Like I said, repeat winners are a bore. And Ward's vivid portrayal of suburban divorcee Lily Manning is a charming knockout...

(rest of the article "snipped")__Detroit Free Press (September 8, 2000)