Afterparty: Golden Globes on Twitter

Posted: January 15, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: just because | Tags: , , | 5 Comments

If you don’t want to bother wading through all the live-blogging in the comments of the last thread, here are some tweets that I think sum up all the essentials you need to know about Globes experience this year:

from ZooeyDeschanel, via her twitter acct: "I am wearing a gown but my nails are wearing tuxedos!!! #goldenglobes instagr.am/p/hiuYs/"

marcadelman Marc Adelman
Fassbender just took a whole new meaning in the American vernacular #GoldenGlobes #GetExcited

Jezebel Jezebel
Wow. 180 minutes of show, maybe 5 minutes of Ricky? Sad panda is sad. #goldenglobes

goldenglobes Golden Globe Awards
Meryl Streep: I’m very interested in the stories of women, especially the unwritten stories of women.

(I believe that was backstage to the press after Streep won.)

Ok, final one:

TresSugar TrèsSugar
Highlight of #goldenglobes — George Clooney making a joke about Michael Fassbender being able to play golf with his manhood

The other thread was getting too long, so this is just an overnight thread to tide us over until the Monday morning reads from Dr. Dakinikat…consider this completely open space to post anything you want!

Open Thread: Golden Globes being hosted by… “Elvis’ last trip to the toilet”

Posted: January 15, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: just because | Tags: , | 140 Comments

While the red carpet arrivals are still going on, I thought I’d put up an open thread for the Golden Globes. And, the nominees are…. (that’s the Hollywood Foreign Press site’s nomination list, which should update with the winners as the night goes on and they are announced.)

Ricky Gervais is hosting again, so this year’s GG should generate no dearth of headlines! Here’s a preview from the Vancouver Sun:

Photograph by: Eduardo Munoz, Reuters, Postmedia News

Just 48 hours before the 69th Golden Globe Awards, mere mention of the name is enough to strike fear into the hearts of every Mel Gibson, Tom Cruise and Gibson-Cruise wannabe in Hollywood.Gervais, a self-confessed equal-opportunity offender, has been invited back to host the first major awards event of the year, despite a scorched-earth routine at last year’s Globes that had some Hollywood bigwigs suggesting that his U.S. work visa be revoked the next time he tried to cross the pond.

The real Gervais, of course, is a pale, pudgy, unassuming, self-deprecating twonk and obsessive tweeter who says things like (remarking about his recent profile for The New York Times), “[The Times] wanted to portray ‘the king of comedy,’ but, because of me, it looked more like Elvis’s last trip to the toilet.”

Wonk the Vote’s Golden Globe picks… (mostly I’m just going with the one I saw or want to see but haven’t gotten around to yet…)

  • Best Motion Picture, Drama: The Descendants (want to see)
  • Best Actress, Drama: Viola Davis, The Help (saw)
  • Best Actor, Drama: Ryan Gosling (haven’t seen Ides of March, but I like Gosling’s acting better than the others…yes, seriously)
  • Best Motion Picture, Comedy/Musical: Bridesmaids (saw)
  • Best Actress, Comedy/Musical: Kristen Wiig, Bridesmaids (saw)
  • Best Actor, Comedy/Musical: Ryan Gosling, Crazy, Stupid, Love (want to see…just barely, probably will redbox when I’m bored)
  • Best Animated Feature Film: No Kung Fu Panda II? No comment!
  • Best Foreign Language Film: In the Land of Blood and Honey (Want to/Must See! Go Angie!)
  • Best Actress, Supporting Role: Jessica Chastain, The Help (saw! she was brilliant in this role!)
  • Best Actor, Supporting Role: No clue…haven’t seen any of the movies and don’t particularly want to
  • Best Director, Motion Picture: Meh…no woman director, no dice
  • Best Screenplay, Motion Picture: No woman writer, no thank you
  • Best Original Score: No woman composer, no surprise
  • Best Original Song: The Living Proof, The Help–Mary J. Blige et al. (saw/heard)
  • Best TV Series, Drama: Haven’t seen any of them
  • Best Actress, TV Drama: Haven’t seen any of them except Julianna Marguiles in early season 1 of The Good Wife…she was great!
  • Best Actor, TV Drama: BRYAN CRANSTON, BREAKING BAD! (I love him and this show!)
  • Best TV Series, Comedy/Musical: Enlightened (it’s the only one I’ve seen, and I like it a lot–but only seen first few episodes)
  • Best Actress, Comedy/Musical: Would love to see Laura Dern, Zooey D., Laura Linney, or Amy Poehler win. Tina Fey is boring me lately.
  • Best Actor, Comedy/Musical: I don’t know. I guess David Duchovny by default, even though I don’t watch Californication. Okay, I did watch for a season or two, but meh.
  • Best Miniseries: No clue… haven’t seen any of them. I hear a lot about Downton Abbey though.
  • Best Actress, miniseries: Kate Winslet,  Mildred Pierce… another one by default. Love Kate, just don’t watch much TV.
  • Best Actor, miniseries: William Hurt? Too Big to Fail? (Again, no clue…just picking because of the title and I remember William Hurt in Body Heat)
  • Best supporting actress, miniseries: Evan Rachel Wood, Mildred Pierce… (default; she’s a good actress)
  • Best actor, miniseries: Paul Giamatti, Too Big to Fail… (default; Lol…I’m just going by Sideways from 2004… )

Are you watching/rooting for anyone tonight? Have at it in the comments, Sky Dancers.

Late Night Drift

Posted: January 17, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Festivities, just because, open thread | Tags: , , , , | 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!!

Oh, and in the word’s of The Bard:   “Well, God give them wisdom that have it, and those that are fools, let them use their talents.”