(8p – BEWARE SPOILERS IN THE COMMENTS IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THE SHOW)
This is the first year I have watched The Golden Globes live on my computer.
I would have paid 20 bucks for the right to simply watch the east coast feed.
The future makes some businesses look dumb.
It was way to easy to do this.
Sigh…
(P.S. I am soooo happy for… heh heh heh… not doing that…)
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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?
So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.
And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.
There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.
I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.
So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.
But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”
My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher
“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.
~ David Simon
Perhaps this is a dumb question, but how can I do the same?
Winslet with the only upset of the night!!!
Colin Ferrell with the most honest comment!!! (his past cocaine use)
Would someone please hide a link in their next comment?
I’m confused. Did T. Holly ghost-write this posting?
Sasha Stone is updating her thread on the globes live at http://awardsdaily.com/
Best I can do.
If you click on my name, it’s not MY website, but it may be a way to see the Golden Globes. Maybe. 😉
Ok, apparently it didn’t show up… We’ll try it this way: Does HTML work?
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Really Tiki? Really???
ALSO, the first 30 mins of this red carpet stuff, and we get to hear insight from Jonas Bros, Miley Cyrus and Zach Efron, and some chick from Gossip Girl. What the fuck. I’m not that old, but who is this telecast aimed at?
I’m so thrilled about the woman who won twice tonight. So deserved.
Winslet! Winslet! Winslet! Anyone ever won both actress awards??? Statisticians…go!
I was trying to figure out the business rationale for an east coast feed not being available and the best I could come up with was local advertising.
Like how much money would affiliates lose if their customers could choose to watch another version of the same station? Craigs list is an apt comparison considering what it did to newspaper classifieds. Perhaps the affiliates fear the same happening to them.
Sigourney Weaver won for Working Girl and (I think) Gorillas in the Mist.
er, that was to answer Ethan’s question about anybody winning lead and supporting in the same year. A quick check of IMDb proves me right. It was 20 years ago exactly, too.
Damn…though I love me some Weaver too. A Winslet/Weaver/Ethan threesome would be heaven. Even now.
I don’t know if it counts because one was a miniseries, but in 2006 Helen Mirren won, ironically enough, for playing both Elizabeth I and Elizabeth II.
Anyhow, happy for Ferrell (Ferrel for the Oscar! not likely). Happy for Winslet, but that seems like such an HFPA thing to do. I never get why (some) celebrities seem so happy about awards from these dumbasses. Happy for Rourke, too.
Also, I forget whose face they showed after Sacha Baron Cohen’s joke about Guy Ritchie, but I remember that it was fucking priceless.
What does this mean about Slumdog’s chances at Best Pic? I’m still trepidatious ( made that word up) about it winning. No matter how you slice it, it’s a movie about brown people (not trying to be racist, etc.) and half of it’s in Hindi. How will that sit with (non-foreign) Academy voters?
Also Freida Pinto is fucking HOT.
Oh, and the highlights of the night for me were Tracey Jordan’s and Tina Fey’s speeches.
Lex, I agree with you about Weaver, Winslet and Pinto. Oh wait… sorry, guys. My mistake. 🙂
Pinto is also blank like a canvas.
For those with DirecTV, they offer subscribers in some areas (not sure which) the East Coast feeds of some broadcast nets for an additonal cost per month.
Or at least they did as of December 2007 (after which I, unfortunatly, had to give up DirecTV after a move).
If you are in a city in which they offer local channels, they are not allowed by FCC rules to give you the other coast’s feed.
What’s kinda stupid about it is that the NY/LA network stations are all O&Os, so they should try it out… doesn’t cost the corporation money if you switch coastal alliances.
It would have been worth seeing the early feed to hear what Mickey said (it looks like it was directed to and/or about Marisa) at the :42 mark which got “bleeped” via a sound drop out. Can someone tell me sooner than later?
http://www.nbc.com/golden-globes/video/clips/surprise-win-of-the-night/927021/
I’m never going to find out what (isn’t in the east coast feed either) that Clayface said, not even from the auditors, Lou Lumenick or Tom O’Neil. “Thank you baby,” yes he bothers me. As weird as it was, at least Kate really thanked her co-star.
DP wrote: If you are in a city in which they offer local channels, they are not allowed by FCC rules to give you the other coast’s feed.
When I had it (New York’s WNBC in Los Angeles), I lived just northwest of La Brea and Wilshire. I believe it was a test they were offering at the time. See this blog post at LAist, which dates back to that era (summer 2007):
http://www.laist.com/2007/06/14/la_directv_cust.php