Rob Lucas In The Morning

So were the Daytime Emmy's as awkard for you as they were for us?! The show was plagued with technical and human issues, including the cast of The Talk being given the wrong winner's envelope, one that was for a category completely different from the one they were awarding. SheKnows Entertainment covers all the odd moments, and Extratv.com shows you who wore what!

40th Annual Daytime Emmy Award Winners

Drama series: "Days of Our Lives."

Lead actress in a drama series: Heather Tom, "The Bold and the Beautiful."

Lead actor in a drama series: Doug Davidson, "The Young and the Restless."

Supporting actress in a drama series: Julie Marie Berman, "General Hospital."

Supporting actor in a drama series (tie): Scott Clifton, "The Bold and the Beautiful," and Billy Miller, "The Young and the Restless."

Game show: "The Price is Right."

Informative talk show: "The Dr. Oz Show."

Entertainment talk show: "The Ellen DeGeneres Show."

Culinary program (tie): "Best Thing I Ever Made" and "Trisha's Southern Kitchen."

Culinary host: Linda Bastianich, "Lidia's Italy."

Morning program: "CBS Sunday Morning."

Original song: "Good Afternoon" from "Good Morning America."

Special class animated program: "Star Wars: The Clone Wars."

Younger actor in a drama series: Chandler Massey, "Days of Our Lives."

Younger actress in a drama series: Kristen Alderson, "General Hospital."

Entertainment talk show: "The Ellen DeGeneres Show."

Drama series directing team: "The Bold and the Beautiful."

Drama series writing team: "The Bold and the Beautiful."

Talk-show host: Ricki Lake, "The Ricki Lake Show."

Game-show host: Ben Bailey, "Cash Cab."

I found these comments regarding the future of theatre-going pretty amazing...nearly shocking. But when you take into account who is saying them, two of the biggest to ever be behind a camera, you've gotta think that there is a lot of credibility to these thoughts.


Steven Spielberg thinks movie prices are going to rise to $25. He says, ''You're gonna have to pay $25 for the next Iron Man, you're probably only going to have to pay $7 to see Lincoln. There's going to be an implosion where three or four or maybe even a half-dozen mega-budget movies are going to go crashing into the ground, and that's going to change the paradigm. You're going to end up with fewer theaters, bigger theaters with a lot of nice things. Going to the movies will cost 50 bucks or 100 or 150 bucks, like what Broadway costs today, or a football game. It'll be an expensive thing. … (The movies) will sit in the theaters for a year, like a Broadway show does. That will be called the 'movie' business'. There'll be big movies on a big screen, and it'll cost them a lot of money. Everything else will be on a small screen.

George Lucas says, ''I think eventually the Lincolns will go away and they're going to be on television. The pathway to get into theaters is really getting smaller and smaller. We're talking Lincoln and Red Tails - we barely got them into theaters. You're talking about Steven Spielberg and George Lucas can't get their movie into a theater!''

If you've been a member of the workforce for about 15 years or more, you've seen incredible changes in the "fun factor" in your workplace. Too few people, doing too many jobs means there is NO downtime to decompress, build at work camaraderie, and do the little things that in the long run make you better at what you do (why don't most companies and CEO's get this?) Well known business writer Stanley Bing has penned the below commentary for Fortune magazine. He brings up some incredible points that will totally make sense to those who have been in business for more than a few years, and remember things before everything was based on stock prices financial metrics. Now I'm not saying that we need to go back to the workplace being an episode of "Mad Men," but we do need to figure out a way to bring back the little things that made you enjoy work and kept doing what you do from simply being a "job".

I can pretty much tell you the precise moment I realized Fun had died. It was like one of those movies where people walk into a darkened room to check on a friend they haven't seen for a while. They think the body in bed is sleeping -- until they take a closer look. "Hold on," says one. "He's not asleep ... He's ... dead." Then there is a dramatic silence as people consider what they have lost.

At any rate, Fun is clearly dead. It happened about 10 a.m. last Thursday. I got an e-mail from a guy just back from the annual boondoggle in Sanibel Island. "Terrible time," he said. "Meetings around the clock. Lots of whiteboards. Nobody disgraced themselves."

Où sont les boondoggles d'antan? That's French. It means "We're not having the kind of fun we used to."

A boondoggle like that before Fun's untimely demise? Forget about it! Careers were destroyed. Guys running around the hallways late at night in their bathrobes. A gaggle of vice presidents in the outdoor Jacuzzi at two in the morning, drunk on their butts, some in a state of inappropriate habiliment, in the sense that they didn't have any. Faces would have been slapped throughout the week. People went missing! Not now. Now we know where everybody is. They're drinking freshly squeezed tangerine juice in a breakout session.

Work? Ha! I'm trying to remember what "work" might have gotten done. Maybe, like that time in Vegas, a short confab in the morning to talk about where Moran might have spent the previous night. He showed up late for the 10 a.m. meeting, finally, but the amazing thing was that it seemed his driver was still missing. So was the car! They asked Moran what had happened to the guy. He couldn't remember. They found him several hours later, wandering in the desert! Fabulous!

Afternoons at these things were off, you know. Unless you were in Scottsdale, in which case you could go out into the desert with the Sales guys and shoot tin cans with .44 Magnums. Other than that, it was golf for the grownups, who were followed around the course by a cart loaded with booze. Booze!

Où sont les boozes d'antan!? It means ... aw, you know what it means. We are awash in a sea of Pellegrino. Nobody drinks at lunch anymore, let alone breakfast, not even at getaways! At Sanibel, I hear the biggest event was the daily run at dawn, which took place before the first group sessions in the main ballroom, which immediately preceded the think-tank breakout workshops, which drooled over into the working lunch that preceded the mandatory afternoon lecture from the inspirational football coach. Then a short break. Then cocktails and assigned seating at dinner, casual business attire suggested. Very worthwhile expenditure of corporate resources, to be sure. But Fun? Really?

I blame all the very serious businesspeople who came into the workplace after the years of disgusting excess and greed and automatic double-digit revenue growth. I blame all the dudes in Silicon Valley, whose idea of fun is going to TED. Or Gstaad. Or any conference featuring themselves on a panel. I blame Human Resources, for having standards and communicating them effectively. I blame all of us, for getting so frickin' respectable.

Let's make a promise to each other. We spend 80% of our waking hours doing whatever the hell this is for a living. We have a right to play it the way we want. Fun is over? Only if we want it that way. I'll start by throwing out my whiteboard. After that I'm going to take Sales out and get hammered for no reason whatsoever. You come too. You can't win if you don't play. So ... let's play!

--Lyrics on the foldout are a little daunting...the yellow on the aqua a little rough on the eyes. Made it really tough to find out who wrote which song, production etc. But in the words of Spinal Tap "That's nitpicking"

I give MAGNETIC a straight A, and not because the guys are from Buffalo, and great friends to STAR. If the album wasn't good, I simply wouldn't say anything about it. But for its diversity of material, huge melodies and orchestral productions, combined with power pop, MAGNETIC is a MUST OWN.

When it comes to music, no one is more qualified to comment on what songs put people in a good mood than a fruit drink company. (Joking...) Upbeat, a high-protein fruit drink surveyed its customers for the top songs that put them in a good mood. Here are the winners, though Rob feels ABBA's "S.O.S" and "Waterloo" could be right up there with "Dancing Queen." He has waaaaaay too many guilty pleasure songs!

1 ABBA's Dancing Queen

2 Billy Joel's Uptown Girl

3 Gloria Gaynor's I Will Survive

4 The Beatles' Hey Jude

5 Theme from Fame.

6 Ride on Time by Black Box

7 Rhianna's Only Girl (In the World)

8 I Feel Love by Donna Summer

9 Somebody that I Used to Know by Gotye featuring Kimbra

10 Gnarls Barkley's Crazy

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Here are some fan Tweets from RADAR Online:

Taylor Swift just butchered "as years go by." Sad. But a great show tonight.

Taylor Swift cannot harmonize to save her life. Bless her soul. Poor Mick had to try and save that song.

She looked a helluva lot better than she sang.

Rolling Stones were great- not Taylor Swift,she was bad

ew taylor swift get off the stage and stop ruining this song. sincerely, everyone.

Taylor swift was late for the stones concert, that's why they started a damn hour late. You're performing w the stones, how are you late?

I was there- It was great- except for Taylor Swift- my ears still hurt

So happy I decided to get a beer RT @chicagotribune Taylor Swift sings with the Rolling Stones at the United Center http://bit.ly/11o45uE

Taylor Swift. Looking Great. Sounding, not so good. Stones looking not so good. sounding pretty damn…

what have i done to deserve the horrifyingly cruel punishment of having to see taylor swift sing with the rolling stones tonight?