That ballroom does look bigger on TV than in real life. The years I worked
on that sh*tshow, there was no backstage area… if you walked off the stage,
you literally walked outside the building. They couldn’t fit all the
“critics” (sarcastic air quotes) back then. Nearly tripling the amount of
them
Penske Media, the dominant force in entertainment industry media coverage
which is the new owner of the awards ceremony that disbanded the Hollywood
Foreign Press Association and expanded the voting pool to 300 to attempt to
avoid the alleged chicanery of the past, supposedly told some of the