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    • Kathryn Joosten scores posthumous Emmy nod for ‘Desperate Housewives’

      By Dave Nemetz | Yahoo! TV Emmys Blog – Thu, 19 Jul, 2012 1:00 PM EDT

      Kathryn Joosten (AP Photo/ABC, Danny Feld)"Desperate Housewives" fans were devastated to hear last month that beloved co-star Kathryn Joosten, who played cranky neighbor Karen McCluskey, had passed away after a long battle with lung cancer at the age of 72. But Emmy voters will always have a place in their hearts for Mrs. McCluskey: They gave Joosten a posthumous nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy this morning, her first in the category.

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      Joosten's no stranger to the Emmys, though: She took home two previous Emmy wins for the role, but in the Guest Actress category. She also won raves (but no Emmys) for her key supporting role as President Bartlet's secretary Mrs. Landingham on "The West Wing." But it was her heart-wrenching death scene in the "Housewives" series finale that clinched this year's Emmy nod; eerily, Joosten passed away just weeks after her on-screen character did.

      And this isn't the first time the Emmys have recognized an actor after their death. Farrah

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    • Five actors who deserve some Emmy love

      We love "Modern Family"; we really do. And clearly, Emmy voters do too, because they lavished ABC's hit comedy with another 14 nominations today, and handed four of the six Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy slots to the show's male leads: Ty Burrell, Eric Stonestreet (both previous winners), Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Ed O'Neill. That's a full two-thirds of the category… and that's ridiculous.

      No matter how fantastic you think "Modern Family" is, there's too much great TV on these days to devote the lion's share of any category to a single show. So we'd like to see some of the "MF" cast move into the lead category next year and allow some non-Dunphy-Pritchett blood back into the Emmy race. In fact, here are five worthy turns by supporting actors in a comedy that Emmy overlooked this year by keeping it all in the "Family."

      Charlie Day, "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia"

      Day is finally starting to get recognized for his fine comedic work in hit movies like "Horrible Bosses," but we've

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