Golden Globe Recap on Netscape

"The Globes are selected by members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a loosely-defined, corruption-ridden organization that seems to grant membership to any interested party boasting a non-U.S. passport and an affiliation with the entertainment media. Think of it this way: these are the greatest achievements in film and television as decided by the people who produce the Argentinean version of Entertainment Tonight."

Read more here. See also Heather Havrilesky's fab analysis at Salon, and a cell-phone-pic adorned recap at Defamer (yes, I stole the above Arnold shot from them. Gawker has no legal standing to complain about that sort of thing).

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Golden Globe nominations

Remember when I said I wasn't going to do this kind of shit anymore? I should really stick to that, but this is just the Globes, which we all know are the result of Italian gossip columnists making lists of which Hollywood celebrities they'd like to watch getting messy drunk. That makes it just a little bit of fun to pretend like it matters. I have two thoughts:

1. Did the 9/11 films open too early? Or, were foreign critics, who could look at the films outside the American, "omigodits9/11" bubble of sensitivity, simply unimpressed?

2. Two foreign language nominees directed and produced by Hollywood A-listers; all five nominees distributed by major studios. They're not even pretending like they care about anything outside the margins anymore.

Full list here.

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