On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Seriously, does anyone give even half a f*ck?
>
If I were an actor I am not sure how seriously I would take these, though I
assume they made for a nice consolation prize for Ben Affleck. I would
think the Oscars/Emmys, and SAG awards would be more meaningful, for the
obvious reasons. Still, it is always nice to get a slap on the back for a
job well done, and if it is seen by millions of people, all the nicer. I
don't begrudge it. I won "teacher of the year" about 10 years ago, and
though it means even less than a Golden Globe, and only a few thousand
people knew about it, I won't pretend that I did not enjoy at some level
the little ceremony and commotion that they went through. I also enjoyed
the "Father of the Year" trophy I got from my daughters when they were 6
and 7.
As a television show, I usually find the GG to be fairly interesting, and
last night was about as entertaining an episode of that show as I can
remember. Fey and Poehler were very good - both much funnier, and really
much edgier and dangerous, than anything Gervais ever did. Poehler's line
about Bigelow ( “When it comes to torture, I trust the lady who spent three
years married to James Cameron”) and Fey's about Hathaway ("I have not seen
someone so totally alone and abandoned like that since you were on stage
with James Franco at the Oscars”) were more daring, adn much funnier, than
calling Mel Gibson an anti-semite or making fun of Tim Allen for not being
as succesful as Tom Hanks. I just wish they had been on stage more than
they were. Much of the other comedy bits were okay to good as well (I will
have to assume that Sasha Cohen made good enough friends with Anne Hathaway
to earn his public reference to her vagina-flash a few weeks ago).
I also thought the speeches were pretty interesting this year, though no
full-on meltdowns. As always, I wish the producers would relax their facist
obsession with the clock - it would have been worth going over 5 minutes to
let Daniel Day Lewis really finish his thought to Steven Spielberg.
One of my favorite moments was the kind of middle aged frumpy guy giving a
longish, boring speech for musical score or something, then quickly closing
by saying something like "In a hall full of beautiful starlets, I want to
thank my wife, who is the most beautiful woman in the room", while the
camera takes a second to cut to the requisite shot, I expected to see a
frumpy middle aged woman moist from the cheezey compliment - when low and
behold it turns out she really is the most beautiful woman in the room - or
at least deserved to be in the competition for that title.
Always a kick to hear Damien Lewis talk naturally.
Adele had a great reaction to winning (of all the young women singers, I
actually like both her and her music, and listent to her a lot on my ipod)
- and it contrasted nicely with a great reaction shot of Taylor Swift
looking really disgusted that she didn't win.
Jodie Foster's speech was incoherent but ultimately touching. Her reaction
to the lifetime achievment award most deserves Kevin's original question.
While it must be nice, it is also maybe a little embarrasing to get so
worked up over anything from the HFP. We know Foster has grown up in the
public eye, and that must have been horrible, but it seems to have also led
her to assume that more people really care about what is going on in her
life than do. She has made a lot of films, but only a handful are really
notable, and her choice for the award was the most surprising thing about
the whole deal. I guess she has been pressured by LGBT advocacy groups to
do a formal comming out, but I doubt that most people who care about film
actors and LGBT issues did not already know, for quite a while now, that
she is a lesbian, and it seemed odd that in the same speech that so
strongly refused to come out she acknowledged her long time former lesbian
lover and co-parent. But I forgave her all of that when she switched to
talking about, and too, her mother, who has dementia and whom she has
committed to caring for at home through the end of her life. That was all
very moving.
I was disappointed we didn't get some kind of Alias reunion on stage -
looks like they were trying to help us, with Jennifer Garner announcing the
Best Actor award that Bradley Cooper was favored to win, and Victor Garber
sitting at a front table, and soon after on stage (late) for Argo. I guess
we all missed his comming out speech as well.
All in all, a very good show, as these things go (if you do not count that
excruciating pre-show from the Today cast)
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