Posted on 01/07/2008 11:49:01 AM PST by abb
Longshanks: You see, as king, you must find the good in any situation.
Nope. Those are silicon globes.
Serves the actors right.What if nobody cares but them?
Are you one of them?
Mea culpa!
How does the writers strike stop the Golden Globes... not that I’ve ever watched it.
Now, if only we could get Congress to go on strike for the rest of the year.
The WGA was going to put up a picket line which the actors wouldn’t cross. The actors are all SAG members and are inclined to honor picket lines, in most cases.
I’ve never even known what the Golden Globes were for, unless they belonged to Demi Moore, and those came out of a box. Just another meaningless “award” from a bunch of twits to a bunch of twits.
We should talk...I’m doing the indie thing in NYC.
I knew nothing about that so I google it.
The most notorious scandal was presenting Pia Zadora - one of the worst actors ever - with a best newcomer award over nominees such as Kathleen Turner, Howard Rollins and Elizabeth McGovern.
Turns out that Zadora’s billionaire husband, Meshulam Riklis, feted HFPA members at one of his luxurious hotels while their ballots were still blank. That scandal cost the Golden Globes its television contract with CBS. The show was banished to UHF stations for 14 years until NBC noticed the public’s growing fascination with award shows
LOS ANGELES - The Golden Globes, the ceremony known for getting Hollywood's awards season off to a rollicking start, will be reduced to a news conference Sunday by the writers strike and will likely draw picket lines and lack star power.
Despite the revamped ceremony announced Monday by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the Screen Actors Guild said it was encouraging its members to skip the show in support of the two-month walkout by the Writers Guild of America.
"The WGA informed us they will picket the event on Sunday," the actors guild said in a statement.
Patric M. Verrone, president of the Writers Guild of America West, said union leaders were uncertain if they still would picket outside the Golden Globes since they were unclear about what form the awards announcement would take.
"I would say an awards show in news conference clothing would still be picketed, but I just don't know if it's been definitively decided," Verrone said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080108/ap_en_tv/hollywood_labor_golden_globes;_ylt=AkpDqTfOYxGzxBbkBRWaSoys0NUE
updates
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/08/business/media/08globe.html?ref=business
Strikebound, the Globes Scale Back
By MICHAEL CIEPLY and DAVID CARR
LOS ANGELES — Are the Golden Globes, the annual movie and television awards given out by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, really news?
They are now. In an attempt to engineer a workaround of a writers’ strike that is playing havoc with the awards season, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced Monday that the festive awards dinner would be replaced this Sunday night by a news conference to announce the prize winners — and would be covered exclusively by NBC News and print reporters.
There may be parties afterward for those who prevail, but the red-carpet black-tie alcohol-flowing celebration itself will not go on — brought down by the threat of pickets from striking writers’ guilds and a vow from the members from the Screen Actors Guild not to cross the lines.
“We are all very disappointed that our traditional awards ceremony will not take place this year,” the press association’s president, Jorge Camara, said in a statement, “and that millions of viewers worldwide will be deprived of seeing many of their favorite stars.”
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http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-globes8jan08,1,4845032.story?coll=la-headlines-business
From the Los Angeles Times
NBC pulls plug on Golden Globes broadcast
With celebrities under orders to honor writers’ picket lines, a scaled-down ‘news’ show is to be substituted.
By John Horn and Meg James
Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
January 8, 2008
Hollywood’s awards season locomotive was derailed Monday when NBC pulled the plug on its highly rated Golden Globes, choosing not to broadcast on Sunday what promised to be a virtually celebrity-free ceremony.
The scrapped program would be the first awards show to fall victim to the Writers Guild of America strike, and February’s Academy Awards also could be in jeopardy.
Although NBC cobbled together a series of Golden Globes-related “news” programs to fill the slot — including a scaled-down news conference to announce the winners — the decision sent shock waves through the entertainment business, which had been waiting for weeks to see whether a compromise could be reached among the WGA, the network and Globes producer Dick Clark Productions to allow the show to proceed.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119975305208673433.html?mod=mm_media_marketing_hs_left
Golden Globes to Go On in Abridged Form,
But Hollywood Will Lose Usual Boost
By SUZANNE VRANICA and SAM SCHECHNER
January 8, 2008; Page A17
Hollywood’s lucrative awards season is hanging by a gilded thread as the industry scrambles to come up with alternatives amid the 10-week-old strike by film and television writers.
The question is whether viewers, advertisers and others will be satisfied with solutions like a truncated plan for Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards.
Faced with the prospect of picketing by the striking Writers Guild of America, the parties behind the Golden Globes announced a plan to preserve the event in a makeshift form that can still be televised. The plan calls for scrapping the traditional hours-long Globes dinner put on by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and replacing it with a one-hour “press conference” to announce the winners.
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Actually, that one comes from Broadway.
Golden Globes?
Don’t rich liberals use Golden Globes to replace the real things when they neuter their dogs and each other?
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