Golden Globes

For the first time in human history, the Golden Globes were awesome.



Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, mighty queens that they are, showed everyone how it's done.  They doled out zingers without being mean-spirited.  They made purposely corny jokes and then high-fived each other.  They got Daniel Day-Lewis to pretend he was E.T., and they got Glenn Close to play sloppy-drunk. They rewrote the lyrics to the Big, Sad song from Les Mis to be about eating a sandwich.  They cuddled up with the stars of Out of Sight and appeared in the audience as fake nominees, which spawned this:



(Thanks, Uncredited Photoshopper!  But here's where I got it from.)



They owned every laugh-out-loud moment of the show except one, the deliriously absurd bit by Kristen Wiig and Will Ferrell, an awesomely misinformed recap of the Best Actress nominees.  Judi Dench, policewoman-turned-actress.  Jennifer Lawrence collecting silver for her cookbook.  Meryl Streep as a sassy sheriff: "Hi, I'm Hope Springs!"   And at some point, they all say, "You...get out of here!"




As for the awards themselves?  Ben Affleck was left off the Oscar list for Best Director, but won the big trophy here.  Christoph Waltz took home a golden gong, but he isn't even nominated for a SAG award.  The "Musical or Comedy" categories -- created to combat the usual snobbery against comedy -- were once again undermined, with a musical tragedy trouncing the comedic favorite Silver Linings Playbook for Best Actor and Picture.  So they didn't do much to clarify the Oscar race, but who cares.  It was a fun show with plenty of fashion candy...



(Jennifer Lawrence, Anne Hathaway, Amy Adams, Naomi Watts)



(Jessica Chastain, Sally Field, Jacki Weaver, Helen Hunt)



(Nicole Kidman, Marion Cotillard, Helen Mirren, Emily Blunt, Rachel Weisz)



(MVP's Tina Fey, Jodie Foster, and Kathryn Bigelow)



(Misc. favorite gowns: Julianna Margulies, Halle Berry, Jessica Alba, Rebecca Miller)

(More misc. favorite gowns: Olivia Munn, Lucy Liu, and Alyssa Milano...and thanks once again to Helena Bonham-Carter for bringing some humor to the red carpet!)