If there are any sure bets at this year's Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, they are Modern Family again being crowned TV's best comedy series and Kate Winslet winning for her role in Mildred Pierce. Most everything else is up for grabs at the TV industry's highest honors in what awards watchers call one of the closest Emmys in years.

'The Fonz' gets royal honors

Actor Henry Winkler has been made an Honorary Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The OBE, presented by Sir Nigel Sheinwald, British Ambassador to the United States, took place during ceremonies at the British embassy in Washington last week and was awarded to the Happy Days TV star in recognition of his services to children with dyslexia and special educational needs.

Killer's new manifesto is about style

Anders Behring Breivik, the gunman who killed 77 people after a shooting rampage at a youth camp and a bombing in Oslo on July 22, insists on wearing red Lacoste sweaters on his trips out of prison. Lacoste is not pleased. European media reported that the French company has called Breivik's love of Lacoste a PR "nightmare" and according to Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet, it actually wrote to Oslo police demanding the terrorist be stopped from wearing their clothes.

Breivik also apparently wore a black sweater by Lacoste in a photograph he used for his manifesto, "2083: A European Declaration of Independence" and has said that wearing the luxury brand "makes it possible to act as an educated European of the conservative character."

'Gumby' surrenders to San Diego police

Gumby's bandit days appear to be over. A man named Jacob Kiss, 19, told police in San Diego last week that he is the person who dressed as the green animated character Gumby, entered a California 7-Eleven store this month and had an encounter with the store clerk that investigators later described as an attempted robbery, police said.

Baby suckles directly from cow for milk

An 18-month-old Cambodian boy who has suckled milk directly from a cow daily for more than a month is in fine health, the child's grandfather said. The boy, Tha Sophat, made international headlines after his grandfather revealed he had been feeding himself directly from a cow since July when a storm destroyed his home storm and his parents left for Thailand to find work.

OK, lady, we'll do it later online

Hungary's Central Statistics Office thinks an ad featuring a topless woman in red lingerie will lure citizens to the census website next month. In a video posted on social networking sites last week, a topless young woman in red underwear, lacy black stockings and holding a whip opens the door to a census taker - who, realizing he has arrived at an inopportune moment, offers her the option of completing the census online.

JK Rowling to appear in UK inquiry

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling and actor Hugh Grant will be among more than 50 "core participants" at a public inquiry into press standards set up after the phone-hacking scandal that has engulfed Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper arm. They were on a list of presumed hacking victims announced last week by the judicial inquiry.

Reuters - China Daily

(China Daily 09/18/2011 page4)