January 14, 2008 - 1:17 pm
Apparently, the Cowboy’s fulfilling my playoff expectations was not the only big event that happened yesterday. It seems that in a mundane hotel conference room somewhere in L.A. Hollywood finally threw the kind of award show they deserve.
My contempt for the self-congratulatory circuses is well documented. I’m very glad to hear that the writer’s strike has hit Hollywood where it hurts the most, their pride!
I’ll bet you didn’t even know that the Golden Globes took place this weekend. I sure didn’t. I just happened to catch a link to the non-story on Drudge. It would seem that without the writer’s guild’s blessing, the show that is usually a red-carpet, super-extravagant, over-produced, back-patting showcase was instead on par with an Amway sales pitch at the local Holiday Inn.
The hotel ballroom, which should have been filled with famous nominees cheek-to-cheek at cozy tables, instead was given over to risers holding TV cameras and an audience of reporters and anonymous others.
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Lacking Hollywood’s trademark famous faces and manufactured excitement, the awards … were missing any magic or meaning – an emperor stripped of his designer duds.
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TV viewers – those who bothered tuning in – had to forgo any celebrity sightings and settle for the likes of Billy Bush of “Access Hollywood” and Mary Hart of “Entertainment Tonight” fame. They read a laundry list of winners, supplemented by clips from nominated film and TV shows.
Now that’s what I call entertainment!</sarcasm> I only hope the guild’s snub of the Oscars has the same effect.
Some industry pundits are taking this to the extreme. One even forecasting, “Hollywood’s end is near.” Oh, if only ’twas true. I’m honestly excited to see Hollywood and her elitist twits served a large helping of humble pie when they find out that we cretins out in “flyover country” will live on as happy as ever without the bilge they call “entertainment”, but I’m not so naive as to think that their pedestal will actually be toppled. Then again hope springs eternal.
