Placing a final feather in its cap after a heavily accoladed nine-season run, "Everybody Loves Raymond" won the Emmy® for Outstanding Comedy Series, while "Lost," now entering into its second season, beat out all comers -- "The West Wing," "24," "Deadwood" and "Six Feet Under" -- to win the coveted Outstanding Drama Series award at the 57th Annual Emmy® Awards, broadcast live Sunday night from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
Pleasantly surprising her "Desperate" co-stars, FELICITY HUFFMAN was named Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, beating out fellow "Housewives" MARCIA CROSS and TERI HATCHER, along with PATRICIA HEATON ("Raymond") and JANE KACZMAREK ("Malcolm in the Middle"), in an unexpected upset. "I've turned into one of those actresses, and I'm sorry," Huffman said, fighting off tears as she accepted her first-ever statuette. She thanked the Wisteria Lane ladies, show creator MARC CHERRY, and singled out the "incomparable WILLIAM H. MACY" for taking "a chunky 22-year-old girl with a bad perm and glasses out into a cow pasture and kissing me and making me his wife."
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