MOST UNPRECEDENTED ACCEPTANCE SPEECH
Helen Mirren
The always well-mannered Helen Mirren may have been the first awards show winner in history to beg to be played off by the orchestra for running long in her thank-you speech. Accepting the Best Actress in a Miniseries Prize for Prime Suspect: The Final Act, Mirren thanked all the colleagues she needed to thank and even expressed gratitude to the American people for their generosity, then decided she was babbling and pleaded, ''Come on, music, I'm going on and on.'' Don't worry, Helen, you weren't. And the music didn't.