On Wednesday, Anderson bought full-page ads in Hollywood's two insider trade papers--Daily Variety and the Hollywood Reporter--to pay tribute, albeit belated, to the cast and crew of her Fox show. That's right. The cast and crew. You know, the people she forgot and/or declined and/or ran out of time to thank on Sunday night when she picked up an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.
"I would like to sincerely thank Chris Carter, my dear friend and creator of The X-Files," Anderson's five-sentence make-good begins.
The ad also offers a nod to her costar, David Duchovny. "Your talent has always inspired me--without your 'Mulder' there would be no 'Scully,' " it reads.
While there was no comment Thursday from Anderson's camp as to the reason behind the print campaign, it has been reported that the 28-year-old actress' colleagues weren't exactly big fans of her Emmy acceptance speech.
When Anderson picked up her golden statuette, she gushed effusively over presenter Helen Mirren and then turned her attention to her family--a family, she says, that still treats her like a real human being and presumably not like the World Class Master Thespian she is.
Sometimes she wants to shake them, Anderson confided to the audience, and say, "'Don't you know who I am?'"
The attempt at self-effacing humor was met with meek laughter from the crowd at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium--and a stone-faced reaction shot from Duchovny.
That was the high-point of Anderson's thank-yous. No mention of Carter or Duchovny. Ditto for Cancer Man.
Granted, live TV is tough--you never know what you're going to say (or not going to say) until you've gone and done it. A couple years back, John Travolta won a Golden Globe and had to corral Dick Clark backstage to allow him to broadcast some previously omitted thanks...to his wife, actress Kelly Preston, and their son.
But Anderson, for one, seems especially prone to forgetfulness. Last January, when she picked up a Golden Globe for her Scully self, the actress also failed to acknowledge Duchovny from the stage--even if he thanked her in his own acceptance speech later that night.