Emmys' Red Carpet Grows

This year the red carpet leading into the Shrine Auditorium is twice as wide as last year's--38 feet instead of 19. According to Reuters, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences originally had planned to ban celebrity publicists from the walkway to reduce carpet congestion. But once publicists--including Annett Wolf, whose clients include Matthew Perry and David Hyde Pierce--got wind of the plan, they complained, causing the Academy's planners to come up with a more creative solution.

Posted 09.07.00