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The case for Catherine O'Hara: Why the 'Schitt's Creek' star deserves an Emmy

LOS ANGELES - Why is this Emmy nominations morning different from all other Emmy nominations mornings? It's the last chance for "Schitt's Creek," which ended its run earlier this year, to get in that game. And it has, with nominations for Eugene Levy (lead actor) and Catherine O'Hara, who deserves to take home a lead actress Emmy as Moira Rose, the self-dramatizing, language-massaging, ultimately touching mother in a family that lost all their money, moved into a small-town motel, and, over the course of six seasons, found one another.

This is O'Hara's sixth Emmy nomination, including one last year for comedy actress for "Schitt's Creek" and one in 2010 for the HBO miniseries biopic "Temple Grandin." Her only win was in 1981, as part of the writing staff of "SCTV,"

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