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...need to dry-clean your tuxes, George and Denzel. Thanks to the Hollywood writers' strike, Sunday's Golden Globe Awards has shrunk from the usual celebrity bacchanal of red carpet, dinner, ceremony and after-parties to a one-hour news conference broadcast on NBC. The highly-rated Globes is the first awards show to fall victim to the strike, and February's Academy Awards may be next...
...Monday evening, the HFPA was announcing its plans for a scaled-down Globes, and various studios were canceling their parties. "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 HFPA, in a statement. "We take some comfort, however, in knowing that this year's Golden Globe Award recipients will be announced on the date originally scheduled...
...Even his own opponents cannot refute that he is a true American hero and an honorable man. In this election, he has won an endorsement from Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) and from newspapers like The Boston Globe, The Concord Monitor, The Manchester Union Leader, and The Des Moines Register...
...think of one reason the Golden Globe Awards show might get a low Nielsen rating this year: it won't be on TV. That's a real possibility, since the Writers Guild, on strike since Nov. 5, has announced it will picket the Jan. 13 ceremony if it's aired on NBC or even as a webcast. (Especially as a webcast: the income that studios derive from the Internet, and don't share with writers, is one of the sticking points of the strike.) And if the writers haul their placards to the Beverly Hilton Hotel, the glamorous stars...
...study from Privacy International and the Electronic Privacy Information Center says Big Brother is getting bigger around the globe. The report ranked 70 countries for 2007: Greece, Romania and Canada had the strongest privacy protections for their citizens, while Malaysia, Russia and China were the most invasive...