Mr. Thompson, elected governor of Wisconsin four times, the Health and Human Services secretary under President George W. Bush, and once seen as the dominant political voice in this state, faces a serious challenge for the Republican nomination — a spot that once seemed nearly certain to be his.
"These shows are at the forefront of prestige comedy, earning magazine profiles and Emmy nominations and spots in discussions of culture at the highest level," he writes.
That was just three years after he had received an Oscar nomination for his spot-on performance as Johnny Cash in "Walk the Line," and memories of the film were fresh enough to induce shock in the millions who watched him on the show and in later Internet replays.
Following this, Jeff learned that he had won the power of the "Coup d'Etat", in which he could overthrow the Head of Household and make his own nominations on the spot; this power could only be used at the next two evictions, and the current Head of Household and Power of Veto holder were unable to be nominated.
Her nomination is a bright spot in a week dominated by the threat of a default from failure to raise debt ceiling.
Last year it was France's critically acclaimed submission, "Of Gods and Men," which won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival and many other European awards, but did not get an Oscar nomination or even a spot on the earlier shortlist of nine films.
The agency garnered only one Clio nomination, for a Michael Ginsberg spot, with Peggy Olson's work shut out entirely.
HBO leads all networks with nine nominations, while Netflix, Showtime and Starz share the second place spot with six nominations apiece.
For Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, the debate could be a chance to reclaim the top spot in the nomination battle.
As Spielberg noted, painfully, on the day of the nominations in 1976, when Jaws received only four nominations and Fellini nabbed his spot for Best Director.
