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Debbie Reynolds (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)Who is that famous actress who's unrecognizable under the fake nose and two-hour makeup applications it took to pass her off as Liberace's mom in HBO's upcoming biopic "Behind the Candelabra"?

Hint: She's got a famous ex-husband and a famous daughter who has a famous ex-stepmother … give up? It's Debbie Reynolds.

HBO has released a 12-minute making-of featurette on the May 26 movie, and viewers get a peek at Reynolds, who was a real-life pal of the late singer and plays his tough mama, Frances. Though Frances Liberace was in her mid-to-late 80s during the time period the movie covers, 81-year-old diva Reynolds says she initially thought she was too young to play the role.

[Related: We Break Down the 'Candelabra' Trailer, Including Matt Damon in a Speedo]

"I didn't think I was ready to play that age, but when I ran to my dressing room to look in the mirror, I decided I can play the part," Reynolds joked to Entertainment Weekly.

Reynolds -- mama to "Star Wars" actress Carrie Fisher, whose

It wasn't the best episode of the season, but that leaves a lot of wiggle room, because FX's "The Americans" was most certainly one of the best new shows of the season. And while the final scene of Wednesday's installment, "The Colonel," was underwhelming, there was still plenty to like, which set up plenty to look forward to in Season 2.

We'll start with the bad, only because there really was very little of it. But the finale's last scene, with Phillip and Elizabeth's daughter, Paige, going down into the basement/laundry room to snoop for … something? The fact that she found none of the evidence of her spy parents' secret double life wasn't inherently underwhelming (if she had made some great discovery, it would have meant that the Jenningses were sloppier spies than we've known them to be); but the fact that this scene ended the episode, the season-finale episode, when it would have been a fine penultimate scene, was a let down.

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CBS's daytime drama "The Young and the Restless," which is celebrating its 40th season on the air this year, is celebrating another number today -- 23, the number of nominations the top-rated soap received for the 2013 Daytime Emmy Awards.

"Y&R" brought in nearly half the 50 nods earned by CBS, including nominations for Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series (Michelle Stafford), and three of four Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series nominations (Peter Bergman, Doug Davidson, and Michael Muhney).

PBS followed with 44 nominations, while ABC totaled 38 nods, Nickelodeon earned 36 nominations, and NBC checked in with 25. ABC's "General Hospital," which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, followed closely behind "Y&R" with 19 nominations, while "Sesame Street" and NBC's "Days of Our Lives" earned 17 nods each.

Watch a clip from "Y&R":

More stats from the nominations, for those who can't wait until this year's set of Daytime Emmy trading cards are

"All My Children" stars Debbi Morgan and Darnell Williams, who have starred on the daytime drama off and on for more than 30 years, were soapdom's first African American supercouple (and there's nothing daytime soaps love more than bringing characters back from the dead, aging kiddie characters a decade or more overnight, and creating supercouples).

So, it's fitting that the co-stars will now help lead the soap known affectionately to its fans as "All My Kids" through a new trailblazing move, as "AMC" and "One Life to Live," another series canceled by ABC, make their debuts as online series on April 29.

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"Debbi and I were talking last night about the fact that soaps have gone from radio to TV, [and] now to online, and what an honor to be at the forefront of this brand-new day," Williams said in a conference call.

Added Morgan, "Yes, I think it's huge, because I really think, in about four or five years or so,

Hey White House Correspondents' Association, what took you so long to have Conan O'Brien back as the comedian guest for your annual White House Correspondents' Dinner? The talk show host last entertained your audience in 1995, and 18 years later, on Saturday night at the Washington Hilton, the funny guy kept the laughter and applause going throughout his 20-minute speech.

And that was after he followed President Barack Obama, who landed quite a few zingers of his own.

Among TBS late-night host O'Brien's best jokes at the event nicknamed the Nerd Prom: comparing the room of media types to a high school cafeteria. "Fox is the jocks, MSNBC is the nerds, bloggers are the Goths, NPR is the table for kids with peanut allergies, Al Jazeera is the weird foreign exchange student nobody talks to," he said, "and print media, I didn't forget you. You're the poor kid who died sophomore year in a car crash … cheer up, we dedicate the yearbook to you."

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Filmmaker Sarah Burns spent a decade investigating the case of the 1989 Central Park jogger rape and the roles that racial tension, the media, a violent city, and aggressive law enforcement played in wrongly convicting five boys of the crime.

And it all came down to a fight over the TV. One of the many extraordinary details in "The Central Park Five" is the coincidental meeting that led to the exoneration of five teenagers whose lives had been upended when they were accused of and jailed for a crime they didn't commit.

"Five," which is airing on PBS this month and is now available on DVD and Blu-ray, recounts the case of Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, and Korey Wise, the titular black and Latino teenagers who were convicted of the brutal beating and rape of a white woman jogging in Central Park in 1989.

Wise, the oldest of the teenagers, had a run-in in the TV room at Rikers Island with a fellow inmate named Matias Reyes in 1989. Years later, they found

After all the stops and starts, the alleged returns to TV via Showtime and rumored big-screen movie adaptations, "Arrested Development" creator Mitch Hurwitz is really and truly unleashing new episodes of his beloved 2003-06 Fox comedy series -- 15 of them, to be exact -- in just one short month.

And Entertainment Weekly has the proof, with a new "AD" cover story that includes set visits, interviews with Hurwitz and the cast, and even details of what sounds like a deliciously disturbing scene involving Gob Bluth (Will Arnett); his nephew, George-Michael (Michael Cera); and a wardrobe marked by leopard vests, leather and chains, and "a--less" pants.

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Want more? The May 3 issue of EW, which hit newsstands on April 26, features three different "AD" covers; episode pics of the cast -- which also includes Jason Bateman, Tony Hale, David Cross, Jessica Walter, Alia Shawkat, Portia de Rossi, and Jeffrey Tambor --

What, you don't remember when Flo, that superperky saleswoman from the Progressive Insurance commercials, traveled back in time to the "Mad Men" era? She did, when Flo's portrayer, comedian Stephanie Courtney, appeared as droll switchboard operator Marge in five memorable Season 1 episodes of the AMC drama.

Whether she was watching, disgusted, with Peggy as Ken Cosgrove chased a secretary around an office party to sneak a peek at her panties or discussing the more titillating passages in great literature with Joan, Marge's appearances were brief but memorable.

Check out videos of Courtney's "Mad Men" performances:

Marge in "Nixon vs. Kennedy":

Marge in "Marriage of Figaro":

Here are eight more things you might not have known about the sassy headband wearer who just wants to make sure you get a good price on your auto insurance:

1. Though fans of Flo think she's all that, Courtney doesn't find her advertising alter ego -- whom she's played since 2008 -- at all sexy. "I don't know what it is.