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In yesterday’s summation of the self-congratulatory festival of actors that is The Golden Globes awards, the Los Angeles Times’ Maria Elena Fernandez and Richard Rushfield penned that “If the Golden Globes are Oscar's quirky, irreverent stepsister, the assembled multitudes of nominees, paparazzi and hangers-on did their best Monday to help the show live up to its reputation.”
So in LA-speak, a Golden Globe is quirky. Irreverent. Yep.
I didn’t in fact watch The Golden Globe Awards in their entirety; but please, please, for the sanctity of the Los Angeles Times and its nevertheless frequently worthy staff of Pulitzer-winning writers, reveal to me anything worthy of the celebrated quality of “quirk” in the Golden Globes 2006. The carpet was red, the speeches were canned, the smiles were practiced, the speeches were long, the smiles were self-congratulatory, the speeches were uncreative, the smiles were ready to get the hell out of there – as far as I could tell in the brief span of time it took me to fold my one load of laundry on my white shag rug.
Let’s not even talk about irreverence, and its sad absence in any award ceremony anywhere close to southern California.
Thank you.
IhateLA
P.S. I did manage to catch a moment of Gweneth Paltrow’s presentation of the Olivier Award to Anthony Hopkins. Gwenyth pronounced “Anthony” as “Antony”. Over and over and over. Is that quirky?
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