TEAM STUHLBARG! I'm safely ensconced in a hidden mountain lair this weekend; Ms. Cosmopolitan is visiting Undisclosed Island Location, and everyone else is still reeling from the results of today's football games (of which I'm unaware, having drafted this post many hours ago to be queued for posting at this very moment.)
Yet somewhere in Beverly Hills at this very moment, a group of obscure and occasionally bribable foreign journalists is about to announce the winners of its annual Golden Globe Awards -- one of which, we must never hesitate to mention, was given to Pia Zadora as New Star of the Year in 1981 for a movie of remarkable suckitude, besting (among others) Kathleen Turner in Body Heat. As with most such awards, these are not necessarily awards of merit but awards which capture a certain cultural consensus, and a show which we look to for entertainment, not education. So let us all hope for one speech as good as Sacha Baron Cohen's in 2007, and I look forward to everyone's ongoing commentary.
After the red carpet I have yet to see any horrifying dresses. And I haven't seen Precious or USoT but from what I've heard, both Collette and Monique (I know there's a spelling issue there) both are deserving. Best part so far: Parenthood previews.
ReplyDeleteWe're decidedly pro-Colette as a general rule around here, but Lea Michele might be the only other actress in that category with an equal degree of difficulty.
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ReplyDeleteThe HFPA apparently doesn't like celebs on Twitter: no wins for @leamichele, @actuallynph, @neilhimself.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that Michael C. Hall had lymphoma! But apparently he's already pretty much kicked it. I feel like such a slouch of a fan.
ReplyDeleteT-Bone Streep has the best speech of the night so far, just because of T-Bone Streep. Wooo! Mad Men just won. Oh no, Christina Hendricks has should not be wearing that color of be following Mariah Carey's fashion advice about how to dress when you have large breasts.
ReplyDeleteThat should be "or be" not "of be"
ReplyDeleteChloe Sevigny = insufferable
ReplyDeleteChloe=high
ReplyDeleteSandra Bulloch?? Wowza.
ReplyDeleteThe Hangover: REALLY?
ReplyDeleteRDJ for Sherlock Holmes: REALLY?
ReplyDeleteMad Men's win = good; Jon Hamm's beard = BAD. Do not like.
ReplyDeleteI know. I had to mute that mess.
ReplyDeleteStreep, Mirren and Jodie Foster looked fantastic. WTG ladies of a certain age (and over a certain age).
ReplyDeleteGreat as Stuhlbarg apparently was, the Golden Globes are stardriven, and Downey was in the biggest movie in the category. And Hangover was arguably the strongest film in the category--500 Days was cute, but exceedingly twee, Julie and Julia was half great and half meh, It's Complicated was three really good performances in a mediocre movie, and Nine was nominated simply because it was a movie. Bullock's a pure star choice. She was the only nominee in a widely-seen movie and by a huge margin, the biggest name in the category.
ReplyDeleteAlso, Sandra Bullock doesn't even deliver the best performance in "Blind Side." Quinton Aaron does, and I'd nominate him for supporting actor before Christopher Walz, but I generally was not a "Basterds" fan. Does this lock in Bridges, Cameron, and Mo'Nique, though?
ReplyDeleteIs it possible for Julia Roberts to just present an award without somehow trying to turn the spotlight on herself?
ReplyDeleteDrew Barrymore's was bad enough. Chloe's capped off the unbearable.
ReplyDeleteMeghan: No.
ReplyDeleteAvatar. Blech. Any of the others would have been fine by me.
I think that just went public like this week or at least super recently.
ReplyDeleteWhat a terrible speech from James Cameron. I missed the middle of the show due to a DVR snafu, but I did get to enjoy RDJ's speech.
ReplyDeleteDuring Julia Roberts' self-indulgent prattle, all I could think was, "They played off the director of Up after, like, two words so that she would have time to do this?"
I didn't know either. That explains the awful hat (which I now feel bad for making fun of...)
ReplyDeleteAvatar? Good GRIEF, Hollywood Foreign Press. Really?! That's just appalling. Although I will say this, WRITER's GUILD -- at least they didn't nominate it for a freaking screenwriting award.
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