• Seth Meyers is no stranger to live television. For years he anchored "Weekend Update" on Saturday Night Live. Nor is playing host on TV an alien experience. Since February, he has occupied NBC's Late Night host chair. So Meyers isn't sweating his new role as master of ceremonies when The Prime-Time Emmy Awards airs Monday on NBC. "Butterflies tend to go away with the first laugh," he said, "so you try to make that happen as early as you can." Speaking by phone from Los Angeles, where he was prepping for Emmy night, he said, "We've written our first pack of jokes. But the best stuff will come later in the week. ... The monologue is the biggest thing I do," he said, "but they are leaving spots during the telecast where I can comment on things that are happening, and if we come up with something silly this week, we don't have to go hat-in-hand and ask for a minute here, 90 seconds there. It's built into the program for us." Even so, Meyers said he will honor an Emmys tradition of front-loading the program with comedy, when those gathered at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles are most likely to embrace it.
• Jackie Chan apologized to the public Wednesday over his son's detention on drug charges in Beijing, saying he's ashamed and saddened. The Hong Kong film star wrote on his microblog that Jaycee Chan would have to face the consequences of his actions but that they would do so together. "Regarding this issue with my son Jaycee, I feel very angry and very shocked. As a public figure, I'm very ashamed. As a father, I'm heartbroken," Chan wrote. Jaycee Chan, 31, and Taiwanese movie star Kai Ko, 23, were detained last Thursday, becoming the latest high-profile celebrities to be ensnared in one of China's biggest anti-drug crackdowns in two decades. Police said both actors tested positive for marijuana and admitted using the drug, and that 3.53 ounces of it were taken from Chan's home. Local media reported that the elder Chan and Ko's father traveled to Beijing to meet with their sons this week. The reports could not be immediately confirmed. Extending from his fame as an actor and singer, the elder Chan is a high-profile public figure in mainland China and was named by Beijing as an anti-drug ambassador in 2009.
A Section on 08/21/2014