Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.

Clint Eastwood is aging beautifully. But someone like Burt Reynolds and others are practically destroying their faces in the amount of work they have.

The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process.

The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.

I don't play polo anymore because I am too old. But we still have a half a dozen horses - a couple of young horses we are teaching how to play polo and older horses that are real trustworthy when you get them up in the mountains.

What I would have liked to do on that show was play a secretary of state who has huge personal business interests throughout the world. That, to me, seems to be more in synch with reality.

I'm an Irish-American, and I grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood.