Nancy O'Dell?
On Tuesday, May 11, 2021, 7:27:26 PM PDT, Kevin M.
<[email protected]> wrote:
I worked the show once as an NBC Page and again when I worked for Dick. It
was, without a doubt, the worst show I’d ever worked. Foul tempered people,
raging egos, space not designed for TV production, horribly managed, and it was
a show I couldn’t stand. The first year I worked in it, having a fun positive
interaction with Jamie Lee Curtis (this was around the time of True Lirs) was
the only highlight. The second year, it was the sky blue dress worn by the
cohost of Access Hollywood (whose name escapes me… no, not Pat O’Brien). I
drank brazenly and was drunker than drunk long before the show wrapped.
On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 3:31 PM Paul Murray <[email protected]> wrote:
How the Golden Globes Went From Laughingstock to Power Player
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/11/business/media/golden-globes-tom-cruise-nbc.html
TL;DR: In 1996, NBC (Don Ohlmeyer) wanted an awards show to broadcast, and DCP
made it very entertaining. Everyone who should have known better had a vested
interest in playing ball.
On Monday, May 10, 2021 at 11:51:18 PM UTC-4 Kevin M. (RPCV) wrote:
On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 8:49 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote:
And I think we can expect more of this...
Call me when he rejects Scientology
On Mon, 10 May 2021 at 1:06 PM Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote:
On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 1:04 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote:
And now NBC weighs in - almost inevitably, they will not televise GG this
year,I clear if they have to pay the $60M rights fee.
https://deadline.com/2021/05/golden-globes-canceled-nbc-2022-hfpa-1234753314/
And Warner Bros and HBO are backing away from HFPA as well.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2021-05-10/warner-bros-and-hbo-cut-ties-with-hfpa-as-crisis-deepens-for-golden-globes-group
Our long national nightmare might finally be over
On Sun, 9 May 2021 at 10:45 AM Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote:
Amazon joins Netflix in dissing and dismissing the HFPA
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2021-05-07/times-up-blasts-golden-globes-group-reforms-as-window-dressing-as-publicist-continue-boycott
On Sat, May 8, 2021 at 3:49 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote:
So, that is a big part of the push back here. These people are not just racist
oddballs, they are not in any recognizable terms “press”. They don’t even
pretend to honor or have professional journalistic standards. They may speak
with various kinds of non-American accents, but they do not work for real news
organizations of any kind.
If they survive, it will be because they will transform themselves, not into an
association of Hollywood correspondents for non-US newspapers, but
entertainment writers for non-US media outlets.
On Sat, 8 May 2021 at 3:39 PM Adam Bowie <[email protected]> wrote:
I'm pretty sure that these days, most of these "foreign press" are basically
freelancers who might publish the odd article here and there, but I wouldn't
imagine many news organisations these days have any kind of permanent Hollywood
entertainment correspondents.
I remember years ago seeing a list of the then membership and not recognising
any of the British names as writing for major titles in the UK. I actually
spent some time researching everyone who claimed to be published in the UK.
Spoiler: few of them seemed to be actually published here:
https://www.adambowie.com/blog/2004/12/golden_globes_w/
Adam
On Sat, May 8, 2021 at 10:06 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote:
I think something like your first suggestion is pretty much what they are
asking for - they want them to more than triple their current membership, which
is not adding thousands, but, along with higher professional standards, would
basically marginalize the current membership.
I do think the main motivation is to stop their talent from having to take all
those fawning photographs with the awful HFPA people, without having to pay a
price in losing nominations/wins. By boycotting until the current membership is
diluted enough to blunt their toxicity, and practices are changed so that
fluffing and blowing the “journalists” is no longer necessary or allowed, they
are protecting themselves.
On Sat, 8 May 2021 at 12:19 PM Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote:
I’ve been trying to think of what the HFPA could do at this point, and there
really isn’t anything, short of opening up their membership to include hundreds
if not thousands of international film critics, which they would never do as
they consider their membership an exclusive privilege. The current members —
all of them — are the problem.
What are the odds Netflix hosts/produces its own awards show? I’m thinking
that’s what they’re gearing up to announce.
On Sat, May 8, 2021 at 12:03 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote:
Yesterday Netflix, which dominated the most recent Golden Globes, announced it
was not satisfied with recently announced plans for reform by the HFPA, and
would not be working with them anymore until more changes were made.
This is on top of an announcement the same day that 100 global PR firms would
“continue to refrain from any HFPA sanctioned events, including press
conferences.”
No doubt a number of big stars want to avoid having to associate and take
photos with HFPA members when their racism is increasingly visible. But
Deadline reports that also at issue is the informal, corruption-friendly
policies that govern HFPA activities.
It does seem that if the Golden Globes are to continue in any viable form, they
are going to have to be based on significant change to the organization, making
it more diverse and less corrupt.
Of course, if studios and publicists can no longer buy and schmooze their way
to nominations and wins, it will remain to be seen what value the GG add to the
Emmys and Oscars (themselves of course somewhat embattled for somewhat
different reasons).
https://deadline.com/2021/05/netflix-hollywood-foreign-press-ultimatum-ted-sarandos-diversity-inclusion-controversy-1234752218/
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