No mob rule for Emmys this year
With The Sopranos sitting out this year's Emmy Awards race, there should be no shortage of surprises among the nominations to be revealed today in the traditional predawn announcement at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' headquarters in North Hollywood.

Side show
SOMEWHERE, NICOLE IS CHUCKLING: The magazine business, struggling with declining advertising and sales for the past year-plus, hit its watershed moment last month: Four mags had Tom Cruise on the cover, braces and all, and none of them got the big sales bump they had expected.

In the news
Jolie says she and Thornton have split

Humble and hopeful
ABC is eschewing innovation and banking on a "Happy Hour" of family programming to boost ratings.

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