Those cut-ups at Scribe Vibe liveblogged the Golden Globes last night and it's worth reading if you need a few laughs this morning, much at the expense of Billy Bush and Nancy O'Dell:
6:03 (Joe) And holy crap! NBC is still on its open-- they just missed an award. HFPA to NBC: Drop Dead! 6:04 (Mike) Wait, is NBC not actually carrying the press conference? 6:04 (Joe) This. Is. So. Lame. 6:05 (Mike) NBC: We’ll show them! Nanny-nanny-boo-boo! 6:05 (Joe) HA! NBC to HFPA-- Screw you, too! We're gonna tape delay it and use our own team. This is awesome! 6:06 (Mike) So awesome! They’re having to stretch and wait until after the HFPA announces, then announce it themselves. Which to watch? The train wreck press conference, or NBC’s train wreck of a fake press conference?
Here's a bad review. And here's another - Matt Lauer didn't mention the strike during star interviews??? And another - Matt Roush called it "an extra long edition of No-Access Hollywood." Ca-ching!
In other strike-related news...
Are the directors guild negotiations now underway the best chance of getting Hollywood back to normal?
Studios are starting to cancel deals with writers and producers.
Writers guild president writes to members about the DGA talks and more.
The extremely unexciting NBC writers strike press conference version of the Golden Globes is limping to a conclusion and the major TV winners follow. Click here for a complete list.
Best drama - AMC's "Mad Men" (Yay!)
Best comedy - "Extras" on HBO (Seriously?)
Best actress in a drama - Glenn Close in FX's "Damages"
Best actor in a drama - Jon Hamm in AMC's "Mad Men" (Yay!)
Best actress in a comedy - Tina Fey in NBC's "30 Rock"
Best actor in a comedy - David Duchovny in Showtime's "Californication"
Best mini or movie - HBO's "Longford"
Best actress in a mini or movie - Queen Latifah in HBO's "Life Support"
Best actor in a mini or movie - Jim Broadbent in HBO's "Longford"
In a sad state, are the Golden Globes. Struck by the writers, and thus boycotted by the actors, the ceremony and NBC telecast set for Sunday has been cut down to a 6 p.m. press conference, to be televised for a single hour. If you're keeping score, that's one for the WGA. Champagne merchants, manicurists and high-priced escorts across L.A. are weeping for their lost income. Following is the press release from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association...
RECIPIENTS OF “THE 65th ANNUAL GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS” TO BE ANNOUNCED AT BEVERLY HILTON PRESS CONFERENCE ON JAN. 13 HOLLYWOOD, CA, January 7, 2008 – The Hollywood Foreign Press Association today announced that the recipients of Golden Globe Awards in 25 categories will be revealed during an hour-long HFPA press conference at The Beverly Hilton to be covered live by NBC News beginning at 6:00 pm PST on January 13. “The 65th Annual Golden Globe Awards” NBC telecast and champagne dinner in The Beverly Hilton’s International Ballroom is officially cancelled. “We are all very disappointed that our traditional awards ceremony will not take place this year and that millions of viewers worldwide will be deprived of seeing many of their favorite stars celebrating 2007’s outstanding achievements in motion pictures and television,” said Jorge Camara, President of The Hollywood Foreign Press Association. “We take some comfort, however, in knowing that this year’s Golden Globe Award recipients will be announced on the date originally scheduled.”
Wow, there's some comfort, huh? No word yet on how NBC will fill the rest of the evening, although some Globes clips shows, perhaps produced by the news division, are rumored.
Developments came fast and furious over the weekend, and you can expect more big news today, as the Golden Globes, Jay Leno and Jimmy Kimmel, Tom Cruise and United Artists are all embroiled in strike related brouhahas. Can you feel the love?
BIG MESS NUMERO UNO: Today could spell the end for next week's Golden Globe Awards, at least the televised version. Late last week the Screen Actors Guild announced that its members would not cross Writers Guild of America picket lines to attend the ceremony. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association tried to get a Letterman-style waiver deal from the WGA, but failed. So will NBC want to pay a fat rights fee for a show without big stars? Doubtful. Expect NBC and the HFPA to have an announcement today. One possibility was that the telecast would be canceled, allowed the awards show to go on, so at least the stars could have their ego moments - Steven Spielberg is getting the Cecil B. DeMille Award! Rumer Willis is Miss Golden Globes! - and the studios would be able to put "Winner of Five Golden Globes!" in their movie ads.
BIG MESS NUMERO DOS: NBC is also spank in the middle of a nasty pissing match with the WGA over Jay Leno's return to the airwaves with a monologue he's writing himself. Jay and the network say he has the right to pen his own gags - and in some versions of the story from their camp, the WGA promised to look the other way. But the WGA says Leno is in violation of the WGA contract. Leno could adopt the obscure "fi-core" clause in the contract and opt out of the guild, but it's not clear what the long-term effect of such a move would be. Somebody's going to get stung here. Meanwhile Leno and fellow L.A.-based host Jimmy Kimmel are going to combat the lack of big-name guests on their WGA-boycotted shows by doing a crossover on Thursday night, with Leno visiting Kimmel's ABC talker and Kimmel heading to the "Tonight Show."
In other late-night news, amid plunging ratings for reruns, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert return to the air tonight on Comedy Central, sans writers, and it should be interesting to see how that's going to work. Bill Maher will also return to the air this week, but he can ease into more of a talk-show format which much pain.
BIG MESS NUMERO TRES: The Tom Cruise-run United Artists studio has signed a Letterman-style waiver deal with the WGA that would allow production on its projects to go ahead. That's be a second crack in the united front of studios and productions houses aligned against the WGA, and things are getting ugly behind the scenes. It seems likely that behind the scenes the AMPTP members are frantically dialing each other on their Crackberries and iPhones to make sure no one else is going to jump ship. Compared to the solidarity that SAG is showing with the writers (see BIG MESS NUMERO UNO), things are looking just a bit shaky for the moguls. But then there's also the Directors Guild, which is beginning its own negotiations with the AMPTP and is believed to be considerably less sympathetic to the writers.
We'll be watching developments all day. Meanwhile, here's Letterman talking about the strike:
The Golden Globe nominations have been released. The best film (drama) nominees are "American Gangster," "Atonement," "Eastern Promises," "The Great Debaters," "Michael Clayton," "No Country for Old Men," and "There Will Be Blood."
Well, I'm shocked not to see "Southland Tales".... no, wait, I'm not. I'm not surprised at all.
Maybe I'm crazy, but I'm less interested in the nominees than the psychology of the award season. I can't stop thinking of how it must feel to work at the Golden Globes and know that everybody regards your party as nothing more than a lead-in to the Oscars. Sure, people say it's not much of a predictor for who's going to win (or, rather, Fox says that), but it's still the runner-up in the pageant. It's still the supporting actor, the bridesmaid, the less important event. Why not just give up? What does this award do that other awards do not?
If you've ever interviewed someone, you know that sometimes what sounds great in person doesn't always translate well on paper. With this in mind, we bring you some of the best mp3 nuggets we captured from the cast of The Office, on the red carpet of the 2007 Golden Globe Awards.
The Screen Actors Guild Awards aired on TBS and TNT tonight with few surprises -- and that's a good thing. Baldwin, Wilson, Laurie, and Mirren; Grey's, Betty, Office, and House -- rarely
has an award show season been this right on-the-money. This proves
once and for all that sometimes talent can win over Botox and
bankability.
Without further ado, the winners of the 2007 SAG Awards are:
TELEVISION
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series: Grey's Anatomy
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series: Hugh Laurie
(House)
Well, not really, but definitely some juicy tidbits. Here's what Ali Larter, Jorge Garcia, and others had to say when we asked them what's next for their characters and the show live, on the red carpet.
Rainn Wilson -- The Office Last week, Dwight quit -- rather gallantly, I might add. Is he coming back? "Well, Dwight goes to work for a competitor. That’s all I can tell you.
But I think eventually he’ll be making his way back into the fold at Dunder Mifflin."
Later on Golden Globe evening, as winners emerged from the Beverly Hilton with their statues in hand, MeeVee was there to greet them. Here's what Alec Baldwin (30 Rock), Eric Mabius (Ugly Betty), and John Lasseter (director of Cars) had to say about their experiences:
John Lasseter How does it feel to win the Golden Globe? "It’s so
exciting to win this award with Cars. It’s the first Golden Globe given to an
animated feature film. All of us at Pixar are
really proud."
Thanks to much due diligence and a teensy bit of luck,
MeeVee scored red carpet passes to the NBC Golden Globe Awards afterparty. For six hours, we braved thirty-degree weather to interview stars from our favorite TV shows. Several were GG newbies. We discovered that celebs, being just like us,
worship other famous folks just as much as we do.
We asked stars from the casts of
Ugly Betty, Lost, and Grey's Anatomy -- among others -- which of their dream celebs they hoped to meet that night.
Josh Holloway -- Lost
"I’d love to meet Leonardo DiCaprio. I’m a big fan of his work. Brad
Pitt. I love his work. Clooney -- I’d love to meet him. All of the beautiful ladies. I’m a fan. I’d love to meet them."
Last night’s Golden Globe Awards did not have a host. At least, not in the traditional sense. Several pseudo-stars huddled backstage to interview the winners, but no one was truly driving the bus, a la Billy Crystal and the Oscars. Instead, NBC went with a simpler formula: An announcer introduced the star presenters, then let them tell us who won.
And boy, were there stars in this room. This was the kind of crowd whose agents have their own agents. Brad and Angelina didn’t even turn any heads.
Every year, the Fashionistas That
Be pick a beloved decade to mimic, while adding some sort of modern spin.
However, this year's Golden Globe Awards
really ducked into historical style. Aside from a few wardrobes
reminiscent of Marilyn Monroe, the red carpet fashions transported us
back to Ancient Greece.
I was sure that either Wonder Woman was
going to bust out from the dark recesses of the Beverly Hilton, or the entire
place was going to erupt into a reenactment of Animal House.
If a lady
didn't look as though she was headed to a diamond-crusted toga party,
she appeared ready to head down the matrimonial aisle. Matched with the
myriad of
black-hued fare, the Golden Globes ceremony was a monochromatic
wonderland, with
periodic bursts of Technicolor.
And we're off! Welcome to the 1st Annual llogging of the 64th Annual Golden Globes! More than 50 stars have been enticed to present and even more are in attendance, all looking remarkably fabulous and waiting on bated breath for their names to be called.
With the gift bag valued at less than 600 dollars, it's amazing that any stars are showing up to present at tonight's Golden Globes. But free swag is still free swag, and nobody loves the freebies like celebrities.
Here's a partial list of the luminaries scheduled to present awards this evening:
Many women (and some men, too) spend ample time convincing themselves that Hollywood's "beautiful people" are real people, and therefore don't actually look like they do in magazines and TV interviews. It's physically impossible for a person to look that good -- right? Then awards season comes along, and we see celebs strolling the red carpet and being interviewed live, all the while looking just as amazing as they do in those artfully retouched photos that we've spent months convincing ourselves are inaccurate. This can't be good for one's ego.
Never fear, your self-image can remain intact. Celebrities aren't nearly as beautiful as Melissa and Joan would lead you to believe! Here are the top 10 reasons why celebs look so ridiculously beautiful on the red carpet that you want to curl up into the fetal position and cry.
As the Golden Globes creep closer, fax buzz about who should win is gaining volume. It's getting downright noisy in the halls here at MeeVee -- an inevitable side effect from putting so many opinionated, television-obsessed people in one place! Since all of you can't be here in person, we've decided to share some of our water cooler conversation with you.
Three of our most qualified (read: loudly opinionated) representatives recently sat down to talk turkey about the Golden Globes. Here's what happened when our Managing Editor (Preppypunk) and a chemically unbalanced columnist (Flyingpuck) met with special MeeVee guest/pop culture guru Christy Barnes to dish about Golden Globe predictions, justice, and Patrick Dempsey's hair.
The 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards are just around the corner. Movie stars, film stars, and even some scattered rock stars will cascade down from the Hollywood Hills to attend the gala celebration. We'll see tears of joy, tears of gratitude, and tears of pain -- the latter caused by the verbose acceptance speeches. Fans stay glued to their sets, not necessarily to see who wins, but rather the reactions of those who don't win. When an actor or actress is denied the coveted Golden Globe, and manages to hide his or her raging fury behind a forced grin, that's true acting!
This week, our picks focus on video exclusives featuring nominated TV shows or actors.
Through some obvious clerical error, I've been elected to pick this year's Golden Globe Awards TV winners. Because, really, what would an awards ceremony be without some highly inaccurate predictions from various media outlets?
Ah, the swan. No, I'm not talking about the surprisingly brutal fowl, or the creepy reality show of years past. I'm talking about that elusive creature that transforms herself from an onscreen ugly duckling into a gorgeous, well-styled swan on the night of an awards show.
Television has a tendency to show only the prettiest of the pretty. There are, however, those rare beauties who follow Charlize's Theron's lead, disguising their loveliness in search of fame -- playing characters that are a bit, shall we say, stylistically challenged. At awards shows, these swans typically discard the unflattering trappings of their roles in favor of letting their light shine. And shine it does.
As the Golden Globes creep closer, the buzz about who should win is gaining volume. It's getting downright noisy in the halls here at MeeVee -- an inevitable side effect from putting so many opinionated, television-obsessed people in one place! Since all of you can't be here in person, we've decided to share some of our water cooler conversation with you.
Three of our most qualified (read: loudly opinionated) representatives recently sat down to talk turkey about the Golden Globes. Here's what happened when our Managing Editor (Preppypunk) and a chemically unbalanced columnist (Flyingpuck) met with special MeeVee guest/pop culture guru Christy Barnes to dish about Golden Globe predictions, justice, and Patrick Dempsey's hair.
Those cut-ups at Scribe Vibe liveblogged the Golden Globes last night and it's worth reading if you need a few laughs this morning, much at the expense of Billy Bush and Nancy O'Dell:
6:03 (Joe) And holy crap! NBC is still on its open-- they just missed an award. HFPA to NBC: Drop Dead!
