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UPDATE: Golden Globes show canceled!
Well, it’s confirmed: It’s a smaller Globes after all.
As I noted earlier today, the full awards ceremony fell victim to the writers’ strike, with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association planning instead to announce the awards in sort of a news conference, per the LA Times.
There had been talk of stringing several “news” casts together to make up for the lost time, but that idea has been scuttled, and even most Globe parties have been scrapped, making this year a very low-key affair indeed,
This reminds me of one of the Oscar ceremonies from a few years ago. I could be wrong, but I think it was Steve Martin who said something to the effect of: “We have decided to streamline the show this year. We have a list here. When you hear your name, come up and get your Oscar.”
So it looks like we really will get something like that this year for the Globes.
I’m of two minds on this. On the one hand, I’m grateful to have some kind of awards broadcast without all the overheated puffery. On the other hand, I’ll miss the loopiness the Globes and its liquor-filled tables usually bring us.
I will say this, though. They can get away with this for the Globes, but NOT the Oscars. Granted, the Oscars need some serious slimming down of their own. But even if the writers are as right as rain,history will not look upon them kindly if the Oscars become a casualty of the strike. As Warren Beatty once said, “The Golden Globes are fun. The Oscars are business.”
So I suggest the producers and writers get back to the table, hunker down and don’t come out until this mess is settled once and for all, even if they have to pause for the occasional fist fight.
What say you? Will you still watch a scaled back show, or is the fun gone?
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By Cali
January 9, 2008 12:55 AM | Link to this
I was hoping the show wouldn’t get canceled to this extent. It was always so much fun watching the show, and the red carpet pre-show’s. It seems so odd that it’s cancelled, and that it will be presented via newscast. I think the fun is pretty much gone. It seems like it’s going to be like a nomination ceremony, like for the Grammy’s…they stand there and read off the nominations. So for the Golden Globe’s they will probably just stand there and read the winners. It seems like all the enthusiasm will be gone. Haha as I’m writing this, an add came on for the “show” and they are calling it “Golden Globes Night”…the preview actually looked somewhat entertaining, so we shall see!