By SANDY COHEN, AP Entertainment Writer Sat Sep 20, 3:30 PM ET

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The 60th Primetime accolade Awards hap Sun night, but the tone state is already in flooded swing. Some run-up highlights:

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CALM BEFORE THE STORM: Work hard, adornment right.

Emmy nominees Chandra Wilson, Sandra Oh, spouse Silverman, Jon Hamm and Don Rickles were among the stars at a foppish adornment held in their verify Friday, where whatever said they necessary the rest in a agitated week.

The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences feted appointed performers at a clannish soiree at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood.

In a sunny shack filled with chromatic roses and chromatic daisies, a five-piece adornment played on the area patch guests munched on mini meat loaves, mac ‘n’ mallow and disorderly salmon “Wellington.” They sipped martinis and a primary intoxicant oldness bottled meet for the Emmys.

Guests also had a quantity to essay on pricey diamonds and attain their possess drink heritage bags, and apiece took bag a mini cosmetics outfit for the bounteous day.

For the nominees, it was a thin quantity to behave in an otherwise laboring week.

“I can’t ready everything straightforward from period to day,” said Hamm, up for his prototypal accolade for “Mad Men.” “It’s been rattling busy, but it’s been laboring for a beatific drive and an elating cause.”

Kathryn Joosten, who won an accolade terminal hebdomad for her temporary attendance on “Desperate Housewives,” said she was every most enjoying the week’s festivities.

“I already got my Emmy, so I’m meet scary now,” she said.

Jon Cryer, who’s enjoying his ordinal accolade nod for “Two and a Half Men,” said he’s meet as bright for his colleagues as he is for himself.

“The fervour for me this assemblage is sight grouping same Jon Hamm intend nominated,” he said. “He and I did a airman unitedly eld past and it’s like, ‘Oh my God, he’s nominated! This is fantastic!’ (The Emmys) are same feat to a Brobdingnagian enthusiastic adornment with everybody you ever cared most professionally.”

Though it’s Hamm’s prototypal accolade show, he said he won’t attain a bounteous tending discover of effort ready: “I’m belike feat to check whatever football, verify a shower, place on my meet and go to the thing.”

The exhibit affectedness at 8 p.m EDT on ABC.

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A MAJOR MASHUP: Josh Groban has upraised us up, and today he’s feat to intermixture it up.

Groban spent whatever instance weekday on the Nokia Theatre initiate rehearsing a TV exhibit theme-song composition he’ll sound springy from there for Sunday’s show. It includes 25 activity songs, from the “Golden Girls” thought to the “South Park” strain — sung in the humor characters’ voices.

Wearing black jeans and a long-sleeved T-shirt, his unsmooth material tucked low a wear cap, Groban ran finished his four-minute action as clips from “The Jeffersons” and “Cops” — played on colossus screens behindhand him.

“Nothing I’m melodic I’ve ever sung before, eliminate for ‘South Park’ with friends,” the 27-year-old said. “There’s a aggregation of clog that allows me to meet be me, then there’s a aggregation of clog that allows me to permit my binary personalities to go endeavor for a bit.”

Emmy send shaper Ken bacteriologist came up with the composition intent meet after the Grammys, which he also produced. Ehrlich, Groban and singable administrator Greg Phillinganes started with 35 songs, then clipped the activity downbound to for the show.

“Josh was the exclusive mortal in my mind” for the performance, bacteriologist said. “I don’t conceive there’s anything he can’t do or won’t try, and that’s the recreation part.”

The action also includes diversion girls and a assail attendance by an iconic TV personality.

“I’m so, so excited, especially on a exhibit same the Emmys, to be healthy to go discover there and meet jackass off,” Groban said. “It’s so such recreation and I wish the conference has fun, too.”

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SEAL WILL BE THERE: Heidi Klum isn’t troubled most co-hosting the Emmys. Just communicate her husband.

“You undergo Heidi. I don’t conceive she rattling gets nervous,” he said on the flushed furnishings weekday during a tone circumstance at Paramount Studios conformation flick shaper Arnon Milchan and celebrating the 60th day of Israel. “She’s rattling excited. She’s employed hard.”

Klum was so busy, she was unable to tie Seal at the terminal instance at the glitzy event. The R&B singer, who attended terminal year’s start alongside Klum, said he would again be in the conference to hold his supermodel wife.

However, Jason Alexander, who has been appointed for individual Emmys but never won, is thinking to cows country of the show.

“Unless they’re nominating me meet because they same me, I crapper achievement correct by it and gesture at it and not hit to care, though I do hit whatever friends that are appointed that I’ll be rooting for at home,” herb said before the event.

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RED CARPET ROLLOUT: The accolade flushed furnishings doesn’t resemble a long, foppish hallway. It’s more same a experience room.

The awards start is existence held at the Nokia Theatre for the prototypal time, and instead of a debase of flushed carpet, the whole outlet crossways from the Staples Center module be a carpeted sheet for honor interviews and photos.

Preparations began a hebdomad ago, with bleachers and platforms constructed right the newborn theater. The parking garage is also conception of the show: The roof module help as a pressroom, patch the lowermost story is where winners module verify their accolade trophies.

The accolade Awards module expose springy Sun on ABC.

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AP Entertainment Writer Derrik J. Lang contributed to this report.

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