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Colin Firth
Annette Bening
Natalie Portman
Geoffrey Rush
Helena Bonham-Carter
Darren Aronofsky
David Seidler, or
Lisa Cholodenko (or maybe a tie!!)
Alexandre Desplat
Iain Canning/Emile Sherman/Garethe Unwin
It is twenty minutes before show time. It seems I still have the same excitement in the pit of my stomach that I had at age 12....when I would plan my own acceptance speech for someday...and was inspired to work in earnest on a screenplay that I knew could not lose....
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POSTSCRIPT: Bening's win, and classy speech, made my night. Ditto Colin Firth's gracious remarks. Portman was nervous and I smiled. Cholodenko at least made it to the stage.
So not a bad evening on the whole.
Ricky Gervais has got to go.
I wonder what they bleeped out of Christian Bale's final remarks.
And Paul Giamatti....who cares what he said, bleeped or otherwise....
My favorite line of the evening was from Jane Lynch: "I'm nothing if not falsely humble. " And she singled out the creator of "Glee", Ian Brennan,
a neighborhood kid whose parents live around the corner from Mark and me.
At least three of your wishes came true :). Lynch definitely had the best line of the night. I actually like Ricky Gervais, he's mean but hilarious!
ReplyDeleteThanks for weighing in Walter. Yes, I did get to see a few of my favorites...I am sure you did also!
ReplyDeleteI have been fascinated by the widely disparate opinions about Gervais. He sure does have a following!
As silly as the whole affair is, I still give the Golden Globes credit for trying to recognize excellence in the field. An industry award should make the work the star of the show, not detract from it. Gervais took something away from those accomplishments.
He is a funny guy but was a bad fit for this type of gig, in my own humble view.