The hottest stars on Daytime TV will converge on sunny Las Vegas on June 19 for this year’s Daytime Emmys. One lucky USA WEEKEND reader and a guest will be there!

One lucky reader will receive a trip to Las Vegas and two free tickets to the Daytime Emmy Awards on June 19. The winner will fly to Las Vegas and stay for 3 nights — June 17, 18 and 19. This year’s show features Lifetime Achievement Awards for Pat Sajak and Alex Trebek, to be presented by Vanna White, all of whom are scheduled to appear on our cover June 17-19.

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Sandra Goodwin, Ellsworth, Maine

LaPaglia, an Aussie, has tailored his accent for roles since his arrival in the States in 1982. “When I moved here, it wasn’t particularly fashionable to be an Australian actor,” says LaPaglia, 52, who won a Tony in 1998 for A View From the Bridge, an Emmy for guest-starring on Frasier and a Golden Globe for his work on Without a Trace. “I was always a great believer in ‘When in Rome . . . adapt,’ ” he says.

After LaPaglia’s seven years on CBS’ Trace, pal Stanley Tucci invited him back to Broadway in last year’s revival of Lend Me a Tenor. “It was too hard to resist,” says the star, who lives in Santa Monica, Calif., with actress wife Gia Carides and their daughter Bridget, 8. Now he’s adapting View From the Bridge into a movie. “I’ve been in love with this play since I was an acting student in my 20s,” says LaPaglia, who is producing.

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Gloria Douglas, Gary, Ind.

Pitts hasn’t gone anywhere! He’s still a contributor for 60 Minutes—he started off the new year with a piece on the violent drug war in Mexico. Before that, in November, he reported a story about Haiti. But it’s Pitts’ job as chief national correspondent for the CBS Evening News With Katie Couric that “keeps him quite busy,” a CBS spokesman says. Pitts, 50, won an Emmy Award for his CBS News coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Sofia Vergara of Modern Family and Community‘s Joel McHale took the stage with Television Academy chairman/CEO John Shaffner this morning in L.A. to announce the Emmy nominations. Jimmy Fallon will host the Aug. 29 show from the Nokia Theater in L.A., live on both coasts on NBC. Some of the top categories:

Comedy series: Curb Your Enthusiasm, Modern Family, Glee, Nurse Jackie, The Office, 30 Rock

Drama series: Breaking Bad, Dexter, The Good Wife, Lost, Mad Men, True Blood

Actress, comedy:, Lea Michele, Glee; Julia Louis Dreyfuss, New Adventures of Old Christine; Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie; Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation; Tina Fey, 30 Rock; Toni Collette, The United States of Tara

Actor, comedy: Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory; Larry David, Curb Your Enthusiasm; Tony Shalhoub, Monk; Steve Carell, The Office; Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock; Matthew Morrison, Glee

Actor, drama: Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad; Michael C. Hall, Dexter; Kyle Chandler, Friday Night Lights; Hugh Laurie, House; Matthew Fox, Lost (his first Emmy nomination); Jon Hamm, Mad Men

Actress, drama: Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer; Glenn Close, Damages; Connie Britton, Friday Night Lights; Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife; Mariska Hargitay, Law & Order: SVU; January Jones, Mad Men

Reality Competition program: American Idol, Amazing Race, Dancing With The Stars, Project Runway, Top Chef

Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series: The Colbert Report, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Saturday Night Live, Real Time With Bill Maher, Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien

What do you think? Let us know who you’re happy with and who you’re upset were left out in the cold below.

Jimmy Fallon, our upcoming cover boy next month, was named the host of the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards, airing live on NBC, Sunday, Aug. 29 (5-8 p.m. PT, 8-11 p.m. ET). “Jimmy has many talents. He can sing, he can dance, he does impersonations, and he does it gracefully and with ease,” said executive producer Don Mischer. “I think he’ll make a terrific host and we are really looking forward to working with him.” Said Fallon in the release: “Hosting the Emmys has been a dream of mine ever since they told me I was doing it.” – Ann Oldenburg

It’s going to be a good day for both Tina Fey (at right) and Jon Hamm. The NBC comedy 30 Rock leads all shows going into this year’s Emmy Awards with 22 nominations, announced this morning, and AMC’s Mad Men, which became the first basic cable show to win an Emmy Award for best drama series last year, looks poised to clean up again this year with 16 nominations. The possible Emmy nominee list was expanded to six in all the major categories in 2009, and Mad Men will compete against Breaking Bad, Big Love, Lost, Dexter, Damages and House for best drama series. Mad Men‘s Hamm joins Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad), Hugh Laurie (House), Gabriel Byrne (In Treatment), Simon Baker (The Mentalist) and Michael C. Hall (Dexter) in the lead actor in a drama series category. Hamm was also nominated in the guest actor in a comedy series category for his stint as Fey’s love interest on 30 Rock, which had a great morning as well. The NBC sitcom will go up against Entourage, Family Guy, How I Met Your Mother, Flight of the Conchords and Weeds for outstanding comedy series, and its star, Fey, was nominated for best actress in a comedy series alongside Julia Louis-Dreyfus (The New Adventures of Old Christine), Christina Applegate (Samantha Who?), Sarah Silverman (The Sarah Silverman Program), Toni Collette (The United States of Tara) and Mary-Louise Parker (Weeds). For a list of all the nominations, click here. How I Met Your Mother star Neil Patrick Harris, who was nominated as an outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series, will host the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards, airing on CBS, on Sept. 20.

Photo courtesy of NBC

It’s a mid-summer Monday and on my mind today I have:
• Entourage. It’s back (on HBO) and it’s good, though I’m not wild about the Gary Cole character; would rather see more Debi Mazar.
• Johnny Depp. I saw Public Enemies Saturday. Liked the movie, loved Johnny. It’s still  No. 4 at the box office. Bruno was No. 1.
• Rescue Me. My piece on Denis Leary ran in the magazine a couple of weeks ago but today I interview Larenz Tate,
who plays Black Shawn on the FX drama. It’s been  a
wild season to date so I’m interested in what Tate has to say about  it.
• Harry Potter. The sixth movie, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, opens Wednesday so I sent intern Steve Thompson, who has read the books and seen all the previous movies, to an early screening today.  Come back this afternoon for his report.
• The Emmys: Nominations for the PrimeTime Emmy Awards will be announced Thursday. As I suggested after Neil Patrick Harris‘ successful night of hosting the Tony Awards, CBS is planning to use him to host the Emmys. And let’s hope for  fresh faces    — anybody from the cast of Friday Night Lights for example — among the usual Tina Fey, Hugh Laurie, Steve Carell, etc.