Anyone else notice that Daniel Day-Lewis actually used the time's-up- get-offstage-now music to heighten the dramatic effect of his GG acceptance speech? Talk about going with the flow, getting lemons and making lemonade, etc.
On Jan 14, 12:54 pm, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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) -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. 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