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...Actress category, "There are a lot of Dames out there." Mirren snagged two of the awards, for impersonating Elizabeth I (in Elizabeth I) on the small screen and her namesake (in The Queen) on the big one. Sacha Baron Cohen took Best Actor (Musical or Comedy) for Borat, and Hugh Laurie, Bill Nighy, Jeremy Irons and Emily Blunt won statuettes in the TV categories...
...sheer aplomb, the Golden Globe for best Golden Globe speech has to go to... Hugh Laurie! His comments deserve to be reprinted in near-fullness: "I am speechless. I'm literally without a speech. It seems odd to me that in the weeks leading up to this event, when people are falling over themselves to send you free shoes and free cufflinks and free colonic irrigations for two, nobody offers you a free acceptance speech. It just seems to me to be a gap in the market. I would love to be able to pull out a speech by Dolce...
...While Brits Hugh Laurie and Sacha Baron Cohen supplied the night's wittiest quips, comic Eddie Murphy turned in a snoozer of an acceptance speech for his supporting actor win as Dreamgirls' James "Thunder" Early. Surely beating Jack Nicholson warrants more than a couple shout-outs to his producers and agents? Backstage, when quizzed on jokes about his film career, Murphy snapped, ""Have I become that uncool?" No, Eddie, but it wouldn't hurt to write a few funny lines in case you get another crack at this speech thing at the Oscars. Or, there's always showing...
...rest of you - nobody could pronounce those foreign names. Naomi Watts flubbed Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu; Meryl Streep gave Spanish film Volver a nice plug but rhymed it with Oliver; Barrymore botched composer Alexandre Desplat's name badly enough when announcing the Best Score category that co-presenter Hugh Grant snatched away the winner's card with Desplat's name, saying, "Yeah, it's in French." Remarkably, everyone could pronounce that Kazakh fellow Borat's name just fine...
...posse - including Helen Mirren, Hugh Laurie, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jeremy Irons and Bill Nighy - were the night's big winners and big charmers. Why this makes us want to throw tea into the Beverly Hilton pool, we have no idea. But we're pretty sure we can talk the Latin posse (three Mexican directors, Penelope Cruz and Salma Hayek), into helping us. If not, we'll have Governor Schwarzenegger look into their immigration status...