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LOS ANGELES – Before Kathy Griffin won a creative arts Emmy last weekend for her reality show, “My Life on the D-List,” she joked that an award would move her to the C-list. She was right: “C” as in censored. The TV academy said her raucous acceptance speech will be edited when the event, which was taped, is shown Saturday on the E! channel.

The main prime-time Emmy Awards air the next night on Fox.

“Kathy Griffin’s offensive remarks will not be part of the E! telecast on Saturday night,” the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences said in a statement Monday.

In her speech, Griffin said that “a lot of people come up here and thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus.”

She went on to hold up her Emmy, make an off-color remark about Christ and proclaim, “This award is my god now!”

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For some reason the Ctrl button on my laptop no longer works.  I’m one of those that love using keyboard short cuts and not having this button function is driving me batty.  This is happening on all programs.  I have a feeling it’s more of a software issue rather than my keyboard not working.

Any suggestions, other than buying a Mac?

More here.

A weekend vigil to pray for the return of a missing Maryland college freshman turned into a celebration Saturday after the young man miraculously crawled up an embankment from a ravine where he had crashed his car a week earlier.

Julian McCormick, an 18-year-old freshman at Bowie State University in Maryland, was spotted by a passerby Saturday. He was bruised, disoriented and dehydrated, but alive.

“Oh God,” his father, James McCormick, said, unable to control his emotions. “Such a burden relieved.”

McCormick had left the Bowie State campus around noon Sept. 1. He was on his way to pick up his girlfriend in College Park, Md., when he lost control of his Honda Civic near his home in rural Laurel, Md., and drove off the road into a ravine.

The car tumbled down the embankment, landing upside down in a creek under a bridge. It’s heavily traveled stretch of road that his friends and family members passed repeatedly in the last week as the search for the young man intensified.

For the last week, according to authorities, he drifted in and out of consciousness. Police said it took McCormick, trapped upside down, two days to free himself from his seat belt. He had no food and reportedly used a shoe to collect stream water to drink.

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[Thanks, Nathan!]