It's Emmy eve, party time! (9.21.2008)

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It's Emmy eve, party time!

By DERRIK J. LANG and ANTHONY McCARTNEY

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Sure, Sunday night's 60th Annual Emmy Awards show is the big event in Hollywood this weekend, but the Emmy eve parties are pretty swell too. An about-town sampling:

GOING WITH THE CHAMPAGNE FLOW: Mary Louise Parker is not stressing about this year's Emmys. At Los Angeles Confidential's pre-Emmy party at Hollywood nightclub Les Deux Saturday night, the lead actress nominee for Showtime's "Weeds" said she'll prepare for Sunday's ceremony by lounging around with friends, drinking champagne and listening to music — after a bevy of stylists arrive around 3 a.m.

"Usually, you have vibe if you're going to win," the Emmy, Tony and Golden Globe winner said. "I don't really have a vibe."

Parker, who won a supporting actress Emmy in 2004 for HBO's "Angels in America," said the most trying part of any awards show is when the cameras focus on nominees. She said she hopes friend Laura Linney will win the lead actress in a miniseries trophy for HBO's "John Adams." Parker also revealed her Emmy date: Her best friend's husband, "Raising the Bar" actor Currie Graham.

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Ellen Pompeo speak to LA Confidential

Pompeo criticizes media coverage of Hilton-like celebs

August 9, 2007

NEW YORK (AP) — Ellen Pompeo says Hollywood socialites "who are rich and famous for nothing" set a bad example.

"I just think the media should take this country in a different direction," the 37-year-old actress tells the new issue of Los Angeles Confidential Magazine, on newsstands Aug. 15.

"We're so focused on the wrong things. We're teaching young girls that this is what they should be focusing on: rich and famous girls who are rich and famous for nothing."

In an apparent reference to coverage of Paris Hilton and her ilk, Pompeo says: "What are we doing to this younger generation? It's not very responsible."

Pompeo, who plays Dr. Meredith Grey on ABC's Grey's Anatomy, also calls the media "irresponsible" for ongoing speculation that she has an eating disorder.

"I just worry about the girls who look up to me — I don't want them to think I starve myself or don't eat, and that to be like me that's what they have to do," explains the actress, who says she is naturally slender.

Pompeo, who is engaged to record producer Chris Ivery, says they haven't yet set a wedding date. They became engaged in November, after dating for three years.

"I swear we're going to get married at sometime," she says. "We're just trying to fit it all in. It won't be a big ceremony — we want one thing to ourselves."

Does she see children in her future?"I do," she says. "With the show, I just don't know if it's entirely fair to myself and to everybody else right now. We'll see what happens."

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