Pompeo loses on red carpet attire, too

Poor Ellen Pompeo. Not only did her hit show, ``Grey's Anatomy," get shut out at Sunday's Emmy Awards -- despite 11 nominations -- but now the Everett-bred actress is being bashed for what she wore on the red carpet. One of our favorite bloggers -- dlisted.com -- has pegged Pompeo as the evening's worst-dressed participant. ``I call her look drunk, wet, alley cat meets `Nightmare Before Christmas,' " says the snarky spectator. ``I didn't know John Galliano made children's clothes. He probably took a size zero and cut it in half." Worst-dressed runners-up included: Mariska Hargitay, Eva Longoria, and Stockard Channing. If it's any consolation, Sprint polled its mobile-phone customers, and they rated Pompeo the second best-dressed babe at the Emmys, right behind Jaime Pressly.

Piven bristles over baby questions

If Ben Affleck watched the Emmys, he had to be impressed with the performance of Jeremy Piven. The ``Entourage" star, who's shooting a movie with Ben's bride, Jennifer Garner, got steamed at Billy Bush of ``Access Hollywood" for asking a series of questions about celebrity babies, including Ben and Jen's little girl, Violet, Tom Cruise's kid, Suri, and Brangelina's baby, Shiloh. ``You need another job," responded Piven. ``This may not be right for you. Seriously -- can you focus on other things?" . . .

``The Office" writer-director-executive producer Greg Daniels, who won a best-comedy Emmy, used his moment in the glow to give a shout out to his fellow Harvard alum and former comedy writing partner Conan O'Brien. . . .

And Denis Leary was caught by the TV cameras rescuing himself from the media crush after the Emmys. The "Rescue Me" creator, who lost out to "24" ironman Kiefer Sutherland for best actor in a drama series, did a quick interview and then cut behind the red carpet crush to get inside the party at Wolfgang Puck's Spago in Beverly Hills.

Couple cash in on ‘Mimi’s Miata’

Mariah Carey handed a Nashua couple the keys to a new Miata at the TD Banknorth Garden, but the couple decided a trade-in was in order. Melanie Anderson, 28, won free tickets through FM radio station Kiss 108 to Carey's concert in Boston last week, and while there, Anderson and her fiance, Tony Neve, 32, learned she'd won the raffle for "Mimi's Miata." But instead of driving off into the sunset, the couple got Ira Mazda in Danvers to buy the car back. They'll use a portion of the $18,500 to pay for their Sept. 30 wedding in Scarborough, Maine, the bride-to-be told the Nashua Telegraph. Anderson said she was pleasantly surprised by how nice Carey was, when the couple got the keys to the car. But the diva is particular about her image. "She didn't like a couple of the pictures, so she had us erase stuff," the newspaper quoted Anderson as saying. "She straightened out my hair and fixed Tony's collar and made sure we looked OK."

From time to time, the popular political gossip blog Wonkette posts the Facebook pics of Washington insiders' kids. In the past, the blog has posted the profiles of Georgetown student Laura Alito, daughter of Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito, President Bush's nephew Pierce Mallon Bush, who goes to the University of Texas, and the sons of Senator Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) -- Bryan, a student at Princecton, and Jonathan, who is at Vanderbilt. The latest political progeny posted by Wonkette is Rose Kennedy Schlossberg, daughter of Caroline Kennedy and granddaughter of JFK. In one pic, the pretty Harvard undergrad's hanging out with a friend who's holding a large pipe, and in the other she's got a bottle of wine in her lap. . . . Former daytime diva Linda Dano's doing a show at the Cape Playhouse, and that means her fans can't be far behind. ``They're called `The Dano Girls' and they go everywhere I do," the onetime soap star told us yesterday. ``They all have jobs, husbands, and kids, and I'm the catalyst for their club. I'm very flattered." Dano, who played Felicia Gallant on ``Another World," is starring in the Cape Playhouse production of A.R. Gurney's ``Sylvia." (The show opened last night and runs through Sept. 9.) Asked about Nora Dunn's memorable spoof of her on ``Saturday Night Live," Dano said , ``Oh, God, I loved it . There I was, shaking my shoulder pads. . . . My father never got that it was somebody playing me -- he thought I was on the show!"

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