You can't mention Pia Zadora and not expect this.
Posted on 01/11/2009 10:23:10 PM PST by This Just In
Live-Blogging the Golden Globes
Posted by Martin Luther (Doktor) on January 11, 2009
Best something … yea … hah? … whoa … Kate Winslet … she’s crying … she’s going on and on and on and on … nobody’s even seen The Reader …
Blah blah blah … Bruce Springsteen … commercial …
I can’t keep this up … I’ll lose my mind … plus House is on USA …
So I’m back. They just gave Best Actor in a TV Series to Gabriel Byrne for something called In Treatment. They blew off Hugh Laurie for House and Jon Hamm for Mad Men. Byrne didn’t even show up to collect his award.
I demand an investigation! Someone — some ones — were paid off! This is the 1982 Pia Zadora debacle all over again!
Back to House …
Heath Ledger wins again … Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan gives another dignified acceptance speech … more blah blah blah … something about John Adams …
Simon Beaufoy wins the Best Screenplay award for Slumdog Millionaire. Excellent. Well done.
Oh, yes, a weepy British girl won a few minutes ago for Happy-Go-Lucky, another film no one saw.
Alec Baldwin wins again for his role in 30 Rock. I must confess a weakness for his performance in that show. Take him out, and you have little left.
I believe Ralph Fiennes is nominated in 23 categories, including Best Resemblance to a Ralph Fiennes Type Performance.
Paul Giamatti wins for John Adams. I don’t know who he played … Small consolation for his not getting an Oscar nomination for American Splendor. One may have nothing to do with the other, but I suffer from an acute case of diachronic peripatesis. (OK, I made that part up.)
Best TV Series, Comedy or Musical: 30 Rock. Big surprise. Tracy Morgan is giving the acceptance speech. He should never be permitted to do that again. He sounds like ants are nibbling at his brain.
Pierce Brosnan can’t believe he’d ever appear in a movie based on ABBA songs — one in which he’d sing. You and me both …
Spazzed out. Missed something … who knows … Best Unified Field Theory, maybe …
Tina Fey wins something again. Didn’t she just win an Emmy a few months ago? Those with much will be given more. “As a kid, I had all the Hollywood Foreign Press action figures.” So did I. Strange.
Cecille B. DeMille Award is coming up. It will be given to Steven Spielberg, who has been celebrated enough. Now is a good time to grab a snack. Where did I put my wurst-on-a-stick jerky pops …
Emma Thompson and Dustin Hoffman give the Best Director of a Motion Picture award to Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionaire. Haroo. This bodes well for a Best Non Comedy or a Musical Film award.
Colin Farrell is now jabbering on about winning Best Comic Actor in a Dramatic Role or some such thing for a movie about Belgium, which itself is mildly amusing.
Sasha Baron Cohen is making several bad jokes. Which comes with being Sasha Baron Cohen. Anyway, Best Comedy or Musical (can’t they tell?) goes to Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Of course, Woody Allen is not there to accept, but his sister, Letty Aronson, a producer on the film, is.
Kate Winslet just won again for something. (I fell asleep briefly and missed the category.) Best Actress, yes? Revolutionary Road? Did anyone see that? Was the film really even made? She won’t stop blubbering. It’s a Golden Globe, for heaven’s sake! By Thursday no one will even remember the show was even on!
Mad Men wins Best Show on AMC. I may be mistaken.
There are three or four more categories. I can’t stay awake long enough to care. Or I don’t care enough to stay awake for long. I’m sure they’ll publish the rest of the results on the Interweb tomorrow. Good night. Drive safely.
Wait. Mickey Rourke just won for Diner. That can’t be right …
Just as I predicted: Slumdog Millionaire has won Best Serious Motion Picture. Well deserved.
Is that it? Can I go now? Ach — remind me never to do this again. It’s both depressing and exhausting. I can always go to the average American church for that …
Just saw Slumdog Millionaire this afternoon. Loved it. Theater was surprisingly full.
Kate Winslet babbled on, with baited breath, and on the verge of tears, like a true Hollywood idiot.
Congratulations, Kate.
You can't mention Pia Zadora and not expect this.
Mickey Rourke won for “The Wrestler.” He deserved it. Great performance. I hope he wins the best actor Oscar.
Good acceptance speech from Rourke. He got his director to give him the finger.
“Heath Ledger wins again … Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan gives another dignified acceptance speech … more blah blah blah … something about John Adams …”
Christopher Nolan directed the John Adams TV Series based on David McCullough’s book.
LOL!
Ohhhh...so that’s why the screen went black for a few moments during Mickey’s speech.
Nice turn of events for Slumdog. That film opened in only ten theaters across the whole country when it first hit the theaters, IIRC...
Slumdog, Gran Tornio, and The Wrestler are all 4 star films...not 5 star...those are reserved for The Passion of the Christ, Apocalypto, Goodfellas, Braveheart, and A Christmas Story ;)
I didn’t watch all of the GGs while channel surfing, but I did happen to catch TWO acceptance speeches by Kate Winslet — and she was blubbering like an absolute idiot both times. I kept thinking she was doing a parody of some of the all-time worst acceptance speeches at the Oscars, such as those by Sally Field (”you like me..... you LIKE me....”) and Gwyneth Paltrow blubbering for her mummy..... to mention just the two worst I happen to have seen, when I really don’t watch any of these award shows most years.
But Kate W. finished her 2nd speech (that I saw) without any hint that these were parodies, so I guess that she really is such a simpering snivelling idiot, too. Just like Sally and Gwyneth...... good heavens, are these clowns actually respected by anyone?
How appropriate, for they are surely golden.
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