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...participant who clearly did not get the Appropriate Hollywood Reaction memo was Golden Globe host Ricky Gervais, who, in the fourth minute of the show, gleefully threw a grenade at the NBC executives for their handling of the Late Show fiasco. But the embattled NBC brass were generally spared from a night of continuing barbs about the pop scandal of the moment. By minute five, presenter Nicole Kidman turned the attention right back to Haiti and Clooney's telethon. And so it went...
...only January and the Hollywood swells are assembling in tuxedos and evening dresses, you know it must be an award show of dubious provenance but free television exposure. George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Sandra Bullock, king-of-the-movie-world James Cameron: if you offer them the chance to win a prize on TV, they will come. Thus on Friday the Broadcast Film Critics Association presented its star-clogged Critics Choice Awards, hosted by Broadway and prime-time cutie Kristin Chenoweth. And Sunday night found the Hollywood Foreign Press Association rounding up all the usual suspects, plus famous folks...
...most of the categories on both shows, the same people were winners. Best Actor: Jeff Bridges for his role as an alky singer in Crazy Heart. Best Actress, at both: Streep for Julie & Julia and Bullock for The Blind Side. (At the Golden Globes, to get more stars to show up, the actors' awards are split into Comedy/Musical and Drama.) Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds. Best Supporting Actress: Mo'Nique, Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire. Only in the Picture and Director categories did the two groups disagree. The Broadcast Critics gave those awards to Kathryn...
...minutes chatting up stars and directors. Berlin extolled "the hard-working journalists who spend up to 40 or more weekends a year on the 'junket circuit,' gathering whatever juicy morsels they can to satisfy the insatiable appetite for news about Hollywood." And then they get to give an awards show: a dreadful, amateur, mean-spirited one, to judge from Friday's disaster. Its only fresh moment: when Bullock came onstage to share the Actress prize and planted Streep with a full-on kiss...
...quality of the HFPA membership has risen slightly since the days when it was thought to be a crowd of Beverly Hills florists and valet parkers loosely affiliated with foreign newspapers and magazines. But it remains a group of show business reporters, mostly, desperate for access to movie stars who, once a year, are avid to get free exposure by being on their show. The relationship is one of mutual parasitism, and deeply suspect. Live-blogging Sunday's Golden Globes show on her Deadline Hollywood web site, the asp-tongued industry reporter Nikki Finke wondered, "How many times is that...