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...Monday, NBC, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), Globes producer Dick Clark Productions and the Writers Guild of America (WGA) feverishly tried to cut a deal that would have allowed the Globes to go forward without forcing actors to cross picket lines to make their acceptance speeches. But talks broke down over NBC's plan to supplement the press conference with a clips reel, a special episode of Dateline using already taped actors' interviews and an Access Hollywood-style broadcast from the after-parties with casual acceptance speeches from the revelers...
...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...
...Golden Globes is part awards ceremony, all party, and the HFPA members have always been smart about nominating the kind of megastar that they need to have access to as interview subjects. So on Jan. 13, 8 p.m. Eastern time on NBC, you're likely to see more celebrities than you can shake an autograph book or a fist at: George Clooney (Michael Clayton), Johnny Deep (Sweeney Todd), Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts (both for Charlie Wilson's War), Jodie Foster (The Brave One) and John Travolta (Hairspray). Angelina Jolie couldn't attract paying customers to A Mighty Heart...
...Russell Crowe, excellent in two hits (3:10 to Yuma and Am Gang), was snubbed by the HFPA. Philip Seymour Hoffman got two nominations, for Charlie Wilson and The Savages (my favorite '60s garage band, BTW), but not for the bleaker, in fact bleakest movie, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, which got shut out. Charlie Wilson, which comes out Christmas day, is a true-life kinda comedy about a Texas Congressman who funded the Afghan rebels against the invading Soviets in the 1980s. It's a feel-good war-on-terror movie, and it was cited five times...
...Neatest trick of the awards season: The HFPA found a way to nominate Clint Eastwood twice in a year when he didn't make a movie. He wrote the score for Grace Is Gone, and the music for the title song, and got nominated for both. Way to fluff up the guest list, guys...