The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, September 14, 1999 - 11 , _.. < 5f. j . ..- Associated Press alsta Flockhart at the 51st Annual Emmy Awards. NBC take dost '99 Emmys The Winners Outstanding Drama Series: "The Practice," David E. Kelley Productions, ABC Outstanding Comedy Series: "Ally McBeal," David E. Kelley Productions, FOX Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series: "Late Show with David Letterman," Worldwide Pants, CBS Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special: "1998 Tony Awards," Walter C. Miller, CBS Outstanding Performance in a Variety, Music or Comedy Special: John Leguizamo, "John Leguizamo's Freak," HBO Outstanding Mini Series: "Horatio Hornblower," Andrew Benson, A&E Outstanding Made for Television Movie: "A Lesson Before Dying," Ellen M. Krass, HBO Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series: John Lithgow, "3rd Rock from the Sun," NBC Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series: Mel Brooks, "Mad About You," NBC Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series: Helen Hunt, "Mad About You," NBC Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series: Tracey Ullman, "Tracey Takes On," HBO Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series: Dennis Franz, "NYPD Blue," ABC Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series: Edward Hermann, "The Practice," ABC Outstanding Lead Actress In a Drama Series: Edie Falco, "The Sopranos," HBO Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series: Debra Monk, "NYPD Blue," ABC Outstanding Lead Actor in a Mini Series or Movie: Stanley Tucci, "Winchell," HBO Outstanding Lead Actress in a Mini Series or Movie: Helen Mirren, "The Passion of Ayn Rand," SHO Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series: David Hyde Pierce, "Frasier," NBC Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series: Kristen Johnston, "3rd Rock from the Sun," NBC Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series: Michael Badalucco, "The Practice," ABC Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series: Holland Taylor, "The Practice," ABC Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie: Peter O'Toole, "Joan of Arc," CBS Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie: Anne Courtesy of NBC Helen Hunt was honored for her role in "Mad About You." Bancroft, "Deep in My Heart," CBS Anika Kohon ilv Arts Writer Father and son competing for the same award, David Hyde Pierce and enna Elfman in body suits, the Emmy statue falling on Kenney, what more an you really ask for from the last Emmy Awards of the Millennium? After he usual hoopla over what everyone was wearing, the 51st Annual Emmy twards got underway on Fox Sunday night. HBO tied NBC with the most eork wins, while David E. Kelley's name came up most frequently for his irucer's credit on "The Practice" and "Ally McBeal." Despite the bad parodies on "Dawson's Creek" and "Felicity," the awards how was tightly directed, and well-scripted. David Hyde Pierce and Jenna lfman were a fluid hosting pair, if not a good dancing team as well. With the exception of Jay Kogen's mic being turned off as he tried to roadcast the phone number of a real estate agency, the ceremony was devoid f technical glitches, and the live, multi-camera directing was tightly execut- d. The set was appropriately clean and modern, while unlike some of the /ardrobe tragedies from the Oscars, the presenters' attire was aptly chic. Soa Ward's dress was the most original.) llywood-TV romances were blossoming as Brad, Julia and Michelle, ade cameos with Jennifer, Benjamin and David, respectively, and lollywood husband and wife team, Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft both took ome awards for their television appearances this year. Lee creates touching Sew hero in 'Life' Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series: Thomas Schlamme, "Will & Grace" Pilot, NBC Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series: Paris Barclay, "NYPD Blue," "Heart and Souls," ABC Outstanding Directing for a Variety of Music Program: Paul Miller, "1998 Tony Awards," CBS Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries or a Movie: Allan Arkush, "The Temptations," NBC Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series: Jay Kogen, "Frasier," "Merry Christmas, Mrs. Moskowitz," NBC Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series: James Manos Jr., David Chase, "The Sopranos," "College," HBO Outstanding Writing for a Variety or Music Program: "The Chris Rock Show," HBO Outstanding Writing for a Mini Series or Movie: Ann Peacock, "A Lesson Before Dying," HBO Network Totals: HBO: 8 NBC: 8 ABC: 7 CBS: 5 SHO: 1 A&E: 1 FOX : 1 1 Please Join Us To Discuss Investment Bain >rt ies At SGesture Life hang-rae Lee iverhead Books Chang-rae Lee has won acclaim om many corners in his nascent areer as a novelist, but perhaps he ould be able to claim more if not e one way in which he seems to nu rmine his reputation. He writes ooks that remind too many people f favorite books that have already een written. As a result, certain critics spend alf their energy nattering over the inship between Lee's triumphant ebut, "Native Speaker," and Ralph llison's monumental "Invisible 4an," a modern epic which casts a ularly unlucky shadow from vhich to be glimmered by a young vriter. And the song threatens to remain he same for Lee's new novel, "A esture Life," which already has nhappily been labeled an Asian- ~merican recasting of Kazuo shiguro's English-butler master- iece, "The Remains of the Day." lake no mistake, Lee has followed pr n his initial promise with a work Weautiful as it is discerning. Vrguably, his ambitious new accom- lishment is the more impressive, at cast as regards the creation of the nain character. Franklin "Doc" Hata, a retired and enerated fixture in his hometown of edley Run, New York, is a figure of ach fascination, whose nature veals itself by such delicate yet rseless degrees, as to leave the ,4er breathless. Even Doc Hata's lost superficial features are contra- ictory:' He is not nor has he ever osed as a doctor, but simply pur- eyed advice and Ace bandages hile running Sunny Medical apply; his Japanese name belies his Japanese Army as a World War I medical officer. It is difficult to explain how, before reaching age 35, Lee was able to so completely and truthfully depict the spirit of the elderly Hata. Unlike the young Henry Park, the protagonist of "Native Speaker," Hata does not afford the author any wiggle room to fill out the character with his own anxieties and youthful idiosyncracies. That is not to say that "Native Speaker" was autobigraphical, or anything less than a fully formed creative landscape. But in "A Gesture Life," Lee takes a quantum leap in revealing the long-submerged pain that Hata has so fiercely com- bated with grace, decorum and self- possession. But as the old gentleman's long- standing routines recede, Lee trips the one immediate mechanism of his plot, the liberty every author must be granted. A fluke fire sidelines Doc Hatain hospital care, and , thus begins the hero's momentous dia- logue with himself that may or may not augur a genuine reckoning. Part of the challenge to Hata's - and the reader's - moral axis appears-in the form of Sunny, way- ward daughter and namesake of the family business. An even greater part emanates from the seismic disruption Hata's life underwent in the Burmese jungle over 50 years ago. But even as Hata seriously ques- tions his own values, there is a poignant courage to the man's resolve in using those very values to further prosecute his self-knowl- edge. 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