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| l to r: Jessica Biel, Mandy Moore, Kristen Bell giving bold anti-cleavage |
Spotted giving insane post-baby bods: Blake Lively, aka Mrs.
Ryan Reynolds, who gave birth in September. Also Kerry Washington, who gave
birth in October.
Also spotted: Mel Gibson and his very young baby mama. Ewww.
So many men, many of them good-looking, sporting hideous
beards. Isn’t Mo-vember over?!
Lots of plunging necklines on flat-chested women (Mandy
Moore, Kristen Bell, Drew Barrymore, Gina Rodriguez, and Jessica Biel—aka Mrs.
Justin Timberlake) so it looks chic rather than bodacious. Except for Jessica
Chastain, who is decidedly not flat.
Secret Brit (they’re everywhere, faking American accents!):
the little girl who plays Eleven on “Stranger Things.” She doesn’t use a
British accent on the show, does she?
Jimmy Fallon’s opening song-and-dance was cute but less than
clever. I get that it was mimicking the “La La Land” opening, but I wasn’t a
huge fan of that movie either, so…
First award of the night—Best Supporting Actor, Movie—Aaron
Taylor-Johnson (he’s British?!--another secret Brit) in “Nocturnal Animals.” Interesting choice. I
heard some pretty good things about Nocturnal, directed by fashion designer Tom
Ford from Gucci. (Sidenote: Does Tom Ford still design? He’s done a handful of
movies at this point.) I wanted to see this movie, but it didn’t stick around
long enough. I’ll be interested to see if it gets any Oscar noms. Fun Fact:
Aaron Taylor-Johnson was the star of “Kick-Ass,” an awesome wannabe-superhero
movie. Fun Fact #2: Justin Timberlake was wearing a Tom Ford suit/tux last
night, so that answers the designer question.
Best Actor in a TV Drama—Billy Bob Thornton for Amazon’s
“Goliath.” New show, haven’t seen it but I’ve heard good things. There just
aren’t enough hours in the day for all the good tv out there! The Globes tend
to really love Amazon. They awarded “Mozart in the Jungle” last year when it
was largely ignored elsewhere.
Best Actress TV Comedy—Tracee Ellis-Ross for “Black-ish.” Mainstream
tv isn’t completely dead! I love “Black-ish.” But that means Julia
Louis-Dreyfus, whom I adore, lost for “Veep,” which I also adore. She has
plenty of awards already, so I guess it’s okay to share the wealth.
Best TV Comedy—“Altanta,” a new show on FX created by and
starring Donald Glover of “Community” fame. It’s like the anit-“Black-ish”
(still a black family dynamic but less financially well-off). He also has a
pretty successful music career under the name Childish Gambino. His star is
really on the rise. I like but don’t love the show. It’s one of those comedies
that isn’t terribly laugh-out-loud funny.
Best Actress Miniseries—Sarah Paulson for “People vs. OJ
Simpson.” She is cleaning up this awards season for her portrayal of Marcia
Clark. I binged the series last summer, 10 eps in about 3 days. It was hard to
stop watching.
Best Miniseries—“People vs OJ” again. Hard to believe Ryan
Murphy was responsible for this, “Glee,” and “American Horror Story.” Points
for genre-diversity, Mr. Murphy.
Best Supporting Actor Miniseries—Hugh Laurie for AMC’s
“Night Manager” beat Sterling K. Brown from “People vs OJ.” Upset. Sterling has been
cleaning up for this portrayal of Chris Darden—but not tonight.
Best Score—“La La Land,” of course. I still don’t understand
why this movie is being so embraced.
Best Song—“La La Land” song. Duh.
Best Supporting Actress, Movie—Viola Davis for “Fences,” as
expected. She positioned herself in the supporting category instead of lead to
give herself a better chance to win, and so far it’s working for her.
Best Supporting Actress, Miniseries—Olivia Coleman from
“Night Manager” beat out the “This is Us” girls. (No idea who this woman is.)
So Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn are playing mother-daughter
in a new movie. And Goldie is still doing the ditzy blonde bit on stage tonight.
To her credit, she’s doing it pretty well.
Best Actor, Comedy/Musical Movie—Ryan Gosling for “La La
Land.” He very thoughtfully dedicated his award to his love Eva Mendes’
brother, who died of cancer earlier this year.
Best Screenplay—“La La Land.” Really? Was the story that
great? Was the dialogue that great?
Best Animated Movie—“Zootopia”
Sweet film montage tribute to Carrie Fisher and Debbie
Reynolds. So tragic.
Best Actor Miniseries—Tom Hiddleston for “Night Manager.”
The Globes is really loving this program.
Best Actress TV Drama—Claire Foy from “The Crown.” Yay!
Great Netflix show about young Elizabeth II.
Best TV Drama—“The Crown.” It really is the new “Downton
Abbey.” So glad I watched it before awards season kicked into high gear, so I
could actually be excited about it winning.
Meryl Streep receives the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime
Achievement Award. Normally I can skip over this rather long segment, but I
love Meryl, so I actually watched the whole thing. In addition to being the
greatest living actress, Meryl gives very good speeches too. She kept it pretty
serious tonight (must’ve skipped the plentiful booze at the ceremony).
Best Director—“La La Land.” I just don’t get it…
Best Actor TV Comedy—Donald Glover for “Atlanta.” He also won the Critics’ Choice
Award. It will be interesting to see if he wins the Emmy next fall.
It’s taking the crowd longer and longer to quiet down and
pull it together after the commercial breaks. It’s like the beginning of a
class in middle school. Hello, the bell rang! Let’s get to work.
Best Actress Musical/Comedy Movie—Emma Stone for “La La
Land.” (eye roll)
Brad Pitt showed up to present the clip for nominated film
“Moonlight,” which he produced. Hubba hubba he is still looking fine. He’s not
all scruffy or messy-looking. Rather he’s looking insanely doable for 53. Divorce
is agreeing with him.
Best Musical/Comedy Movie—Duh, it’s freakin’ “La La Land”
Best Actor Drama Movie—Casey Affleck for “Manchester by the Sea.” Hate the insane beard
he’s sporting, but it was a good movie and I enjoyed it more than a lot of the
Oscar bait. And big brother Ben’s bestie Matt Damon was a producer on “Manchester,” so Casey
thanked Matt for casting him. Awwww. Fun fact update: Matt was all set to play
the lead, but “The Martian” got in the way, and Matt told the director he would
only feel comfortable handing the role over to Casey. Double awww.
Best Actress Drama Movie—Isabelle Huppert for something
called “Elle.” I’m guessing it’s a foreign film. And the Hollywood Foreign
Press is responsible for the Globes, emphasis on “foreign,” so there you have
it. I don’t think this will happen at the Oscars.
Sylvester Stallone (looking far too plastic) presents the
last award of the night with Carl Weathers (aka Apollo Creed), in honor of the
40th (?!) anniversary of “Rocky.” We’re all very old, my fellow
Rocky fans.
Best Drama Movie—“Moonlight,” a nice little independent movie
that a lot of folks more enlightened than me truly loved. I liked it but wasn’t
as transported as others. Which pretty much describes how I felt about most of
this year’s awards crop. Sigh.
