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Macy's 3 ladies: Felicity, Sofia, Emmy
By Jeannie Williams, USA TODAY

William H. Macy, one of the movies' best-known faces, has a new, permanent role —
that of dad. He and wife Felicity Huffman, formerly of Sports Night, became parents of
Sofia Grace Macy on Aug. 1 in L.A.

Macy, nominated for two Emmys this year, saved Harrison Ford in Air Force One and
faced off with Frances McDormand in the Oscar-winning Fargo. But Sofia's "picture-perfect
delivery," he says, "was the most dramatic thing I've ever seen in my life."

"We are blessed — she's a little angel," he says. Sofia looks more like Macy, "the button nose,
huge upper lip, and she has reddish-auburn hair and big, deep-blue eyes."

At 50, Macy is among today's older dads (Huffman is 37). "I think it'll keep me young," he
says. "It's less painful than collagen." He sounds as ifhe'll be protective. He doesn't even
want to think about first boyfriends and cars, and he has pals who joke (joke?!) that their
daughters are going into a nunnery. It's because "we know" what guys are like, he acknowledges.

He has had a good career year, with two independent films, an off-Broadway play and a couple
of Microsoft commercials before the SAG strike. Next month: the Emmy Awards and the start
of Jurassic Park 3. Macy doesn't know his exact role because the script is in major rewrite.
"Mystery Men (last year) was a big-budget movie, Air Force One was pretty big, but (Jurassic)
is probably the biggest thing I've done so far."

One of his Emmy nominations is for A Slight Case of Murder, in which he played a film critic
(also with Huffman). He's "so proud of TNT for putting it on -- a character-based black comedy
on prime time." He figures Jack Lemmon probably will win for Tuesdays With Morrie. "But I've
talked to Jack, and if either of us wins, we'll give it to Ving Rhames anyway." (Rhames tried to
give his '98 Golden Globe to Lemmon.)

His other nomination is for a guest spot on Sports Night. Macy really gets worked up on the
topic of the show's cancellation by ABC in May, after only two seasons. "It was genuinely
funny, and it made me cry every single show. I feel so lonely when I see what the networks
choose to keep and to throw away. It makes me feel so out of step with the world." He
blames such decisions on the "flyover attitude. The big guys say, 'I don't like it, but those
people out in America do.' They should realize those people are smarter as a conglomerate
than any of us will ever be on the best day we were born."

He is pumped about Jurassic, directed by Joe Johnston (October Sky, Jumanji). He figures
by now they have the dinosaur technology down. "This time it'll be more story-based, and
the dinosaurs will be astounding."

Most shooting will be done around L.A., but three weeks will be in Hawaii. Huffman and
Sofia will go with him. "Then I'll be back to chase dinosaurs and burp the baby."

7/23/00
An Extra Emmy Nod for William H. Macy

Winkler loses one of his Emmy nominations
By Michael Schneider and Josef Adalian

HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - Maybe the Fonz needs to hear about this
one: the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences on Friday pulled
Henry Winkler's Emmy nomination for outstanding comedy guest
actor after ruling that his stint on the short-lived ``Battery Park'' was
ineligible.

Winkler's nomination was thrown out after Academy officials discovered that
his episode didn't air until after May 31 -- the cutoff date for the Emmy eligibility period.

In his place, William H. Macy has picked up a nomination in the category for
his multi-episodic stint as a consultant on ABC's ``Sports Night.''

7/20/00
Sports Night Receives 4 Emmy Nods

Sports Night received four Emmy nominations, announced this morning. They are:

Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series
Outstanding Cinematography - The Cutman Cometh
Outstanding Directing - Quo Vadimus
Outstanding Editing - The Cutman Cometh

The awards will be broadcast September 10th on ABC.

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