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Early this morning Hayden Panettiere and other Hollywood elite looked ready to hit the town for a night out even though it was 5:30am. They were announcing this year's Golden Globe nominees, often a good sign for who will be nominated for that other gold statue. All in all New York-based shows and movies fared well as the envelopes were opened sheets of paper were read from. 30 Rock (Best Television Series, Comedy or Musical...

as Law & Order SVU used to be on then (and we remember the good ol' Fridays when The X-Files was on at 9PM and then Homicide was on at 10PM). And maybe Govich's ADA character, Jessica "From the wrong side of the tracks" [the elevated train tracks?] Rossi, won't be that lucky - the lady ADA's have a mysterious way of leaving every so often.

You can take your 21st century crimefighting techniques and shove them - psychics are totally coming back! At least with investigations involving missing dog show dogs. AM New York reports that the owners of Vivi, the show-worthy whippet that has been missing since last week, are taking tips from various psychics. Apparently, four of the twelve psychics have been saying the same thing, but it's unclear whether or not that was "the dog is lost, scared and alone." Still, the owners have hope:

Monday afternoon, one of those psychic leads appeared to have paid off. [Vivi's co-owner Paul] Lepiane said dog droppings consistent with the 30-pound whippet's were found behind a cargo building in the northwest section of the airport.

Additionally, according to a friend of the owners, the psychic also said, "She said Vivi could hear a person calling to her, but she didn't recognize the voice." Now, Gothamist watched The X-Files and we want to believe the truth it out there, yada yada yada. But we could have guessed those things! A group of volunteers will conduct a grid search around JFK Airport today, and the owners are looking to bring in special whippets trained to search for their own kind today.

Good lord. It's not even five minutes into the Emmys and Gothamist (and friends Aaron Dobbs of out of focus and a Gothamist contributor, and Margaret Lyons, formerly of Chicagoist) is very very frightened. There is no reason why Taboo from the Black Eyed Peas should force Doris Roberts to dance with them. Doris needs to get the AARP to fight the fight with her. Welcome to Gothamist's attempt to liveblog the Emmys, until the show drains every single molecule of life from us, which we believe will happen in the 10PM hour.

Yes, we've seen trailers for it. Yes, we've read about it in magazines. Yes, we've seen David Duchovny do the talk show rounds. But Gothamist always knew we were never going to see his writing-and-directorial debut, The House of D, because, well, the idea of seeing Robin Williams play a mentally disabled janitor felt masochistic unless we were seriously medicated. And we think many people would agree with us - the people who cringe when we see Williams approach an awards show podium, when we are watching Access Hollywood, when somehow it's Jakob the Liar on cable. And today, A.O. Scott echoes everyone's fears with the first two lines of his review in the NY Times:

The reasons to avoid David Duchovny's unwatchable coming-of-age drama can best be summarized in a simple declarative sentence. Robin Williams plays a retarded janitor.

Our only problem is that David Duchovny seems like a genuinely funny guy (the deadpan, funny episodes of The X-Files were always the best in our book and he's always a brilliant talk show guest). And Gothamist liked that we learned that The House of D means the Women's House of Detention that used to be West 10th Street and Sixth Avenue in all the press he's been doing. But, still, given someone at the studio thought, "Yes! Robin Williams as a retarded janitor! Yes!" reminds us we can never count on Hollywood.

Gothamist could not have been the first to think of "The X-Presidents" cartoons on Saturday Night Live when we saw the press conference where President Bush announced that his daddy and President Clinton would help raise funds for tsunami relief. Of course, a more power tableau was during the Clinton Presidential Library opening, because President Carter was also present, but in this instance, President Bush is calling upon ex-Presidents to fight for a good cause. We have to tip our hat to W's team, because there is something motivating to see his predecessors back in a sort of action.

There's a video compilation of SNL's Clinton-Lewinsky scandal sketches, with Hammond as Clinton, Molly Shannon as Monica, Ana Gasteyer as Hillary, and in a brilliant stroke of casting, John Goodman as Linda Tripp. Other SNL takes on presidental types (and wannabes): Chevy Chase as Gerald Ford, Dana Carvey as George Bush, Darrell Hammond as Al Gore, Norm MacDonald as Bob Dole, and Dan Ackroyd as Nixon and Jimmy Carter, not to mention The X-Presidents. Also, there's the book Live From New York, the extremely comprehensive (just no Eddie Murphy) look at SNL.