Late Night Drift
Posted: January 17, 2011 Filed under: Festivities, just because, open thread | Tags: golden globes, open thread, Ricky Gervais, you probably think this joke is about you, You're so vain 29 Comments
Doctor Daughter introduced me to Ricky Gervais for the joint celebration of youngest daughter’s birthday and another one of mine that I really tried to ignore back in November. Both daughters were exhausted and spent the evening after sushi at Wasabi determining what was watchable On Demand. The movie that won the twenty something vote was called “The Invention of Lying”. Doctor Daughter told me that that the religious right was ticked off about it which immediately got me interested. I actually sat, then watched for a change. It was watchable. That’s a big compliment coming from me.
Whenever some one is accused of crashing some big Hollywood self love celebration or having a prime time meltdown, my interest is completely piqued. It’s the same sorta thing that gets me up and about when some one pisses off the supremely ultra-religiously sanctimonious. Some of the snooty set were into Ricky’s muse and some took themselves completely TOO seriously. It’s always fun to see the nerds and outkasts take revenge on the kool kids. If it wasn’t for the big pay checks, the plastic surgery and the multiple retakes, they wouldn’t be so cool. I know. I’ve sat in mix stations before and heard raw results.
The Daily Mail called him “saucy“. Hugh Hefner faced his own mortality by tweeting “age is just a number”. (That isn’t what most of us thought when Ronald Reagan could push the detonator button on the ‘football’.) I will say that the word self-destructive came to my mind as I read and watched the many snippy folks accessing his performance. As long as he has a nice paid for cottage some where near Scotland, he should never worry. The UK has national health, after all.
You can chant along with me … “you’ll never work in this town again …”
It’s an open thread. Other blogs behave badly. Here, we just embrace the snark. Have fun!!
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One bad night and he’s through? Nah! The man IS “The Office.”
Makes me wish I’d watched the Golden Globes after all!
I didn’t watch it either but the reviews and sour looks tell me that I Missed something.
Some hot house flowers got their petals bruised by the harsh sunlight.
Like Robert Downey Jr, who frankly makes my skin crawl.
Other blogs behave badly
No! 😯
I always thought if I had scads of time on my hands, I’d put up something called Blogs Behaving Badly! and just link to blogs having meltdowns, temper tantrums, etc. Sort’ve like having a drama channel … all drama 24-7!
That would make a great “reality” blog fest!
Meanspiritedness is plenty kewl today.
So long as you’re hurting the right people.
One thing I noticed about the Globes, was the fashioned seems to be channeling Reagan too. Some of those gowns just screamed 80’s consumption and greed. Hey, I am an 80’s chick…and I can’t help but have fond memories of the big hair, big shoulder pads and Boy George. I just think the evening wear of Alexis Carrington just needs to stay in the closet.
Photos of Alexis Carrington Colby
Were there any wrestling matches between Alexis and Krystle? I lived for those.
Tee hee, Fredster:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELzjQ8F_2gE
Beata: Oh noes! A fight in the cement pond! 😯
The 80s fashion is the absolute worse!!!! That was a terrible decade, in general!
So glad I skipped the GB. I have little sense of humor these days for sh#$$t like that. (I didn’t crack one smile.) From what I saw in the above video, the GB host was pretty hostile and seemed to add an ugly pall over the ceremony. I’m glad some found a way to call him on it. Tom and the other guy (tool-time guy) were pitch perfect.
You gotta read this.
I missed the show too (can I look forward to the SAG awards?) but I heard about the “missing Ricky” hour. I wonder what really happened with that?
I like Gervais and I watched the Globes and even enjoyed some of his jokes, but frankly he was just being snarky and poking everyone for the sake of poking, not really making much of a point. That’s the way it came across. It really didn’t feel like he was “targeting the hypocrisy of Hollywood.” That’s really overstating it and giving his performance a lot more meaning than it really had, imho.
I know nothing about this guy, but it came off badly to me. Hollywood is hypocritical, etc., but who really cares? It’s all entertainment to me. I got the sense that his performance was geared for manufacturing controversy and attention. But again, I really don’t know anything about this guy.
Given that Globe Awards are basically bought and that most of what he was doing was just pointing out inconvenient truths, I found it kind’ve fun in that schadenfreude way. It would have been cruel were it happening to honest people. As it was, it was kind’ve prime time whistle blowing. I still like the stab he took at Travolta too … guy needs to let his poor wife have a life and come out of the Hollywood baths.
Watching it live, it just came across more like overkill than truthtelling. It felt like watching someone on a schoolbus rattle off a bunch of insults. I was more bored by it than anything else.
Ah, well hard to judge that from the snippets I’ve seen, I guess … Since you watched it, I’ll defer to you on that!
I guess I was just really looking forward to Gervais hosting and had higher expectations! On the complimentary side, I’ll say his dig at Hefner was priceless–got the room full of Hollywood laughing despite themselves.
I had to watch it, promised my daughter we would watch it together…and I was reminded of that line in the cartoon Jon Lovitz had long ago: The Critic…it stinks!
Minx! ROFL! The Jon Lovitz cartoon! Thanks, I needed that laugh.
Found it!
No, thank you for finding that bit of The Critic. Love that series.
Apparently, there was some big beef last week at the NY Film Critics’ Circle Awards, as well. Annette Bening burst into tears and pleaded with everyone to get along. Film geeks everywhere are upset with the NY Press critic for spoiling Toy Story 3’s chances of receiving the all important perfect unanimity at Rotten Tomatoes, and Roger Ebert was forced to recant his defense of the guy after finding out he praised “Norbit.” Big doings. Anything that calls the integrity of Rotten Tomatoes into question is newsworthy.
Everybody’s blaming somebody but there was snarkiness all around.
I think people are frustrated, disappointed, upset and more than a little fearful right now and we are not a society that knows how to deal with that any more.
Zaladonis – I guess RD Jr has never heard of Don Rickles.
Or Joan Rivers, Richard Pryor
If you need a reason to not feel sorry for these people, try this:
http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/the-most-expensive-celebrity-real-estate-for-sale.html
Candy Spelling’s place is up for like $150 million. Couldn’t you feed an entire country for that amount?