Golden Globes, part 3

Well, I hit "publish" when I meant to hit "save draft" but oh well. So, part 3. Meanwhile, Teri Hatcher has beaten Sarah Jessica-Parker out for Actress in a TV Series, which makes me ridiculously happy. SJP has won quite enough awards, thank you. (Is Teri Hatcher really over 40? Hmm, IMDb says yes, but just barely - as of last month. Still, that's older than I thought she was.)

This shows you what I know. Usher and Lisa-Marie Presley are presenting the soundtrack award, and I said, "There's no way Howard Shore will win, he won everything last year." So, naturally, he did.

Songs - the nominees are "Accidentally in Love" which I sort of hate, and a lot of songs which I have never heard of: "Believe" from The Polar Express, a song from Phantom which must've been written specifically for the movie (so as to be award-eligible, presumably), one from Hotel Rwanda and one from Alfie. And the one from Alfie wins, which at least gets Mick Jagger up on stage. That's always entertaining.

Prince comes out (to introduce the clip for Ray), and starts talking, very quietly, while everybody is still applauding. He is followed by Ron Howard, who seems to have taken his cue from that and is shouting. Best director: Clint Eastwood. He gets almost as much applause as Prince.

Diane Keaton, who I'm guessing won Best Actress last year, is presenting Best Actor in a Musical/Comedy. Jim Carrey, Jamie Foxx, Paul Giamatti, Kevin Kline & Kevin Spacey are the nominees. I'm thinking Jamie Foxx, and I'm right! Jamie Foxx is a new face here, as far as being a respected actor. Hasn't he mostly done comedies until recently? (As a matter of fact I am ashamed to say that I couldn't even remember who he was most of the time until very recently. I always think he's a Wayans brother.)

Long pause for the DeMille Award, which goes to Robin Williams. It's worth sitting through all the clips for his speech, though. Robin Williams improvising is always worth the price of admission.

Meanwhile, I have looked up Jamie Foxx on IMDb, because I wanted to know whether he was really from Terrell, Texas, which he is (never mind that I have no earthly idea where that is) - but I see that he is doing Jarhead, which is exciting because I had no idea that they were making a movie of that!

Eek! Orlando Bloom! (OK, maybe the sangria is going to my head.) And then, speaking of boy-actors, Leo goes and wins Best Actor. Back to IMDB to see how old DiCaprio actually is - and my goodness, he's 30. I still have a great deal of trouble thinking of him as an adult.

(Is this a sign of age, thinking everybody is younger than they are? I don't know.)

Best TV series, comedy: Desperate Housewives.
Best Actress (drama, I'm assuming): Hilary Swank. (Man, you'd think the woman didn't already have an Oscar, she's so excited.)
Best Picture, musical/comedy: Sideways.
Best Picture, drama (they are moving fast now, they must be running out of time): The Aviator

Whew.

Golden Globes, part 2

While I was posting part 1, we had clips from Finding Neverland, and now Annette Bening (who has apparently stopped churning out babies long enough to make a movie) has won for Being Julia. She seems to be thanking the whole cast and crew individually. Also, she looks like she's reading her speech off a teleprompter - I don't quite know what to make of that.

Next up: Best TV Series - Drama. Ooh, "Lost" is nominated; I had no idea. And the winner is... "Nip/Tuck," darnit. (Another one I've never seen.)

Oops, lost my internet connection for a minute there. Meanwhile, the "Desperate Housewives" are presenting Best Actor in a TV Movie, and Geoffrey Rush has just won. That's two for the Peter Sellers movie, right?

And now, actress. Glenn Close, for a "Lion in Winter" that I didn't even know they made. (With Patrick Stewart, apparently.) She seems extremely surprised.

You notice that a lot of the TV stuff goes right over my head... There's a reason I rarely watch the Emmys. Nothing against TV at all, god knows I watch plenty of it! I just follow the business of movies a lot more closely than I follow the business of TV, I think.

After the commercial, Glenn Close is back, presenting, and she has thought of more people to thank!

I've hardly gotten snarky about anybody's clothes so far, but my god, what does Scarlett Johanssen think she's doing? She seems to be going for some sort of Hollywood glamour-girl look, red lips and retro-hair and a strapless gown that looks like it's sort of sitting in front of her instead of on her. I'm going to be interested to see if other people think this outfit is awful or fabulous. Obviously, I'm voting for awful. It would be alright, I think, if it was a good color for her but she looks all washed-out rather than glamorous.

OK, screenplay. This is probably an early (well, relatively early) indication of how the major awards are going to go. And... hmm, Sideways. I know absolutely nothing about this movie, so I don't know quite what to make of the fact that it beat out The Aviator and so forth.

Liveblogging the Golden Globes

(That's what this is called, right? I've been doing it since way before I knew there was a word for it, anyway - for that matter, I've been doing it in one form or another since before there was an internet. Not that I have anything all that profound to say, normally, but that doesn't stop me.)

Hmm, Renee Zellweger is presenting something that I've missed already. Best Supporting? Well, Clive Owen won, anyway. Yum. (Also, Renee needs to get the blonde hair back. Being a brunette doesn't seem to do anything for her.)

Now Tim Robbins is presenting - also Best Supporting. And... Natalie Portman, also for Closer. She has on what appears to be some sort of flapper dress. I can't see the whole thing, so it's hard to be sure. And she's gushing her head off, but how can you blame her, I guess.

I need to pay more attention if I'm going to do this, because the commercial is over and they're presenting another award and once again I don't know what it is. Seems to be television, female - TV movie, maybe? The winner is Angelica Huston. Oh, it's TV supporting (which can be series, miniseries or movie, apparently). And while I was typing that, William Shatner won the men's version. "I wanna thank the wife," he starts off. Has Shatner ever won any sort of major award before? I can't imagine that "T.J. Hooker" got a lot of Emmy nominations, and I'm pretty sure "Star Trek" was roundly ignored back in the day, too.

Another commercial break, then scenes from Kinsey. Now Jim Carrey is talking about Italian contributions to entertainment - ah, he's introducing the president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. (Sometimes it's really hard to figure out where they're going with this stuff, even when you are paying attention.)

OK, this one is definitely Actress in a TV Series. And Mariska Hargitay wins. Cool! "I kinda want to thank everybody I've ever met right now," she says. I was looking her up just the other day, because I wanted to know if my memory was correct and she was actually Jayne Mansfield's daughter - she is. And oh look, her father is there. I wasn't even sure if he was still alive, either.

Speaking of show-biz children, Miss Golden Globe tonight is Clint Eastwood's daughter.

Actor, TV series - Ian McShane, "Deadwood" - huh? OK, I sort of vaguely know that there is a series called "Deadwood" but I've certainly never seen it. And I have no clue who Ian McShane is.

Sam Jackson introduces The Incredibles - I had forgotten he was in it, actually. They follow that up with clips from all the nominated TV movies, which is good, because who has actually seen all of these? I never have, even when I had HBO. And The Life and Death of Peter Sellers is the winner.

Meanwhile, Jason Bateman has won for "Arrested Development" - I've never seen it, but I hear it's good, so that's nice.