F&*#ING DUCT TAPE, HOW DOES IT WORK?  Gizmodo explains.

HAVE WE SHOWN YOU HOW TO START A NUCLEAR WAR YET?: Look, I'll watch Helen Mirren in pretty much anything, but this? A play with her reprising her role as Queen Elizabeth II, imagining her audiences with the twelve prime ministers who have led Her Government? Yes, mum.

A LANNISTER ALWAYS WINS HIS EMMY:  The problem with the Emmy Awards is that they neither succeed as recognition of merit or, as the Grammys now do, as spectacle. But we go into Sunday night with the awards show we have, and not the awards show we want.  Matt Zoller Seitz lists five races which excite him, while Sepinwall and Fienberg continue their omnibus will/should wins.  Wiki has the most concise rundown of the major categories, but, really, is there ever going to be as tight and well-regarded a category as 2005's Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series?

David Shore, House, "Three Stories"
J. J. Abrams, Jeffrey Lieber, and Damon Lindelof, Lost, "Pilot"
David Fury, Lost, "Walkabout"
Denis Leary and Peter Tolan, Rescue Me, "Pilot"
George Pelecanos and David Simon, The Wire, "Middle Ground" 

And I'll remind everyone, again, that among those actors who never won an Emmy for their iconic roles are Hugh Laurie, Jason Alexander, Steve Carell, Martin Sheen, John Goodman, George Wendt, Noah Wyle, Angela Lansbury, Elizabeth Montgomery, Delta Burke, and, thus far, Jon Hamm.

LOOK 'EM IN THE EYE, AND SPEAK FROM THE HEART:  That was some lovely television last night, and a hell of an affecting three-parter from Mr. C.K. When even Jay Leno moves the story along in welcome ways, you know you're watching some fine tv occupying that odd dramedy space which the show does. [Bonus: Louis C.K., on Letterman, 1995.]

SOMEONE SHOULD HAVE STOPPED THE FIGHT, AND TOLD ME IT WAS HIM: Thirty years later, the NYT checks in with Ray Mancini and the family of Duk-koo Kim.

ONE NINETY-SIX DAYS MORE:  The Les Misérables team wants to show off the fact that everyone's singing live in the movie.

WALKING AND TALKING:  Because it's ostensibly a nonpartisan election, I think I'm allowed to link to this web video which a number of former West Wing cast members did in support of Mary McCormack's sister's bid for the Michigan Supreme Court, and there's a hell of a nice little Martin Sheen callback joke at 2:50.