I have a dream, Idoloonies. And in that dream, the Jan. 16 premiere of Idolatry would feature guest performances by Kelly Clarkson, Fantasia Barrino, Elliott Yamin, and the winners of Randy Jackson’s America’s Best Dance Crew, as well as a helicopter that would lift me from the roof of EW’s office building while I passionately debate the merits of Blake Lewis’s "You Give Love a Bad Name" with my colleague Kristen Baldwin. But since we don’t have that kind of budget (yet) — I am counting on you to make it happen, Congress! — you’ll have to settle for some homespun choreography and over-the-cubicle banter when Idolatry‘s third season kicks off Jan. 16. Dawnie Walton, Annie Barrett, and I have been practicing our moves. In the Time Inc. cafeteria! Ch-ch-check it out!
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Golden Globes: What was your favorite moment?
Another Golden Globes has come and gone, and as usual, the mashup of TV stars, movie stars, and alcoholic beverages (both at home and the Beverly Hilton) made for an entertaining telecast that left me handing out a variety of trophies in my head. The prize for most touching acceptance speech by a little-known British actress in a movie I haven’t yet seen went to Happy-Go-Lucky‘s Sally Hawkins. The Strangest Evening-Long Audition for an Unannounced Marilyn Monroe Biopic trophy went to giggly, frosty-locked Drew Barrymore. And the special award for Controversial Use of a Nehru Jacket With Beaded Neckline went to Monk’s Tony Shalhoub. (Yeah, I’m envious; dude worked that look like a nine-to-five.)
Still, for my money, the night’s best moment had to be Tina Fey’s acceptance speech (embedded below) for Best Actress in a TV Series (Musical or Comedy). Not only was Fey’s win well-deserved, but her speech (clocking in at a mercifully brief one minute, 17 seconds) contained the phrase "good gravy," eschewed the typical (boring) litany of agents, attorneys, and other sundry advisers, and best of all, was packed with punch lines, including a scathing takedown of her most dogged Internet haters. (Gawker dug up some backstory on Fey’s nemeses, Dianefan, BabsonLacrosse, and Cougar-Letter; click here to read all about it.)
But, hey, as Dianefan has proven, not everyone loves Tina Fey. So check out my colleague Adam Markovitz’s gallery of the Golden Globes’ Best and Worst Moments, then click on down to the message board below and tell us your picks for highlights (and lowlights) of the telecast.
More Golden Globes:
EW’s Golden Globes HQ
Golden Globes: The 2009 Winners
Golden Globes: Best and worst moments
Golden Globes: Best and Worst Dressed
Mandi Bierly and Annie Barrett’s live-blog of the Globes telecast
Golden Globes backstage: Tom Hanks riffs and Ricky Gervais biffs
Quote of the day: Chin Up Edition
”Ah, what’s the matter, dollface — down in the dumps? Sucks to be you, huh? What’s with you, Lloyd’s of London? You take one ‘mind-blowing’ philosophy class, and all of a sudden you’re Jean-Paul Sartre? Oh, so now you’ve got this existentialist hook-thing too? Well, that’s great, because all you need is a little more mystique. Now you’ve got a chance with all the freaky chicks I was gonna get. I’ve taken so much acne medication my lips are splitting in half! This might cheer you up: You’re hotter than most chicks! What are you doing in college anyway? People like you don’t need to know how to read. Nice nose.” — Perry (Jarrett Grode), trying to cheer up Lloyd (Charlie Hunnam), on Undeclared
Golden Globes backstage: Tom Hanks riffs and Ricky Gervais biffs
The Golden Globes are nothing if not irreverent: A small group of foreign journalists with occasionally dubious credentials ply Hollywood’s movie and TV stars with food and booze and golden, er, globes. It’s a super silly evening, and I’m gonna treat the goings on in the backstage press room in kind. For starters, I decided to wear green socks with my tux. For seconders, not ashamed to say that, upon spying the two giant tubs of iced beer available to the press, I may have snagged a bottle and threw back a few swigs. To any editors reading this, I was just "researching" what it must be liked for all those soused celebs. So forthwith, my hopefully pithy, slightly tipsy Golden Globe Awards for Backstage at the Golden Globes.
Award for Possible False Modesty
Kate Winslet. When asked if the extra sheets of paper spotted in her purse when she won Best Supporting Actress for The Reader were perhaps another speech in case she also wins Best Actress in a Drama for Revolutionary Road,Winslet demurred, stating they were just "blotting papers.…it wasn’t asecond speech. I have no further expectations." Uh-huh.
Award for Unexpectedly Not-So-Funny Non-Winner Backstage Appearance
Ricky Gervais.Example A: What was Gervais drinking on stage? "Beer, but Ithink somebody put a little bit of crack in it." Har har. Example B:What was the other Holocaust joke he didn’t go with on air? "I wasgoing to say that when I got the DVD of Schindler’s List a reviewer onthe box said ‘Have a box of tissues ready,’ and I was going to say,’That sounds a little bit sick.’" Huh? Oh. Ewww.
Live blogging the 2009 Golden Globe Awards
At 8 p.m., Mandi and I gratefully leapt from red carpet land (where Ryan Seacrest and Giuliana Rancic were pretending the 2009 Golden Globes are the most important thing ever) to NBC’s telecast (where everyone else in Hollywood got to do the same). We hope you’ll digest the spectacle with us. Know what’ll help it go down? Alcohol!
Mandi: Jennifer Lopez opens the show in a gold dress that makes the audience (and herself) giggle.
Mandi: Mama announces that Kate Winslet wins for The Reader. I love how this music playing compares to the Pussycat Dolls they played a moment ago.
Annie: Yeah, culture shock! I love how no one’s cutting Kate off from her discush of hair and makeup, as she’s the first winner.
Mandi: She’s just lovely. And disappointingly sober.
Annie: Aww, she adds “-er” to first names (like her daughter, Mia) just like Cat Deeley.
Live blogging E!'s Golden Globes red carpet
Mandi Bierly and I are just tuning in for the final hour of E’s coverage of the 2009 Golden Globe Awards red carpet to feast upon Ryan Seacrest, Giuliana Rancic’s tragic foible-to-minute ratio of 1:1, and specifically the Glam Cam’s full-body pan of Simon Baker. Oh, and Jay Manuel, whose "hair" has bravely become more shellacked than ever. Won’t you join us? (UPDATE: Join us as we liveblog NBC’s telecast!)
Annie: I can’t handle when Jay dips his head like that to inspect the Glamastrator. I’m blinded!
Annie: Kevin Nealon’s wearing Nabisco. I’m wearing Frito-Lay. Who are you wearing, Mandi?
Mandi: I am getting ready to wear a hot dog, fries, and vanilla shake from Johnny Rockets, as soon as my dinner shows up.
Annie: Wait, Susan Sarandon’s shoes don’t hurt? Get her outta there! That’s not allowed on the red carpet.
Bono's Op-Ed: Our Opinion
A wise person once said: “Opinions are like bellybuttons, everybody’s got one.” (Actually, they didn’t say “bellybuttons,” but as this is a Sunday I thought it best to keep matters clean). U2 lead singer Bono, however, has more opinions than most, which is presumably one of the reasons he decided to start writing columns for the New York Times opinion page. Another possibly reason? The fact that U2’s new album No Line on the Horizon is out on February 27. Anyway, the singer’s first effort is in today’s paper. Entitled "Notes from the Chairman," the piece starts with Bono recalling a recent drinking session in a Dublin pub at which he happened to hear Frank Sinatra’s “My Way” come out of the speakers. The U2 frontman once duetted with Ol’ Blue Eyes on a version of “I’ve Got You Under My Skin,” and Bono spends the rest of the article reminiscing about the Chairman of the Board — who, apparently, was given to uttering such pearls as “Miles Davis never wasted a note, kid, or a word on a fool” and “I don’t usually hang with men who wear earrings.” The result is rather flowery ("Malt joy and ginger despair are all in the queue to be served on this, the quarter-of-a-millennium mark since Arthur Guinness first put velvety blackness in a pint glass"). Yet it does make a change from both the singer’s usual well meant, though rather unsubtle, public pronouncements and the rest of today’s op-ed pieces which predictably lean towards the political (Maureen Dowd’s column begins with the sentence, “In the past week, I’ve twice been close enough to Dick Cheney to kick him in the shins.”)
So, Popwatchers, what other music stars would you like to see contributing to the Times? Bruce Springsteen? Courtney Love? That guy who used to dance around next to Howard Jones? Let’s hear your opinion.
'SNL' and NPH: One more for the 'Eh List'
Maybe mild disappointment was inevitable–we were all just a little too excited, a little too sure of the guaranteed awesomeness of an SNL hosted by Neil Patrick Harris.
And it certainly wasn’t bad. NPH scored laughs right off the bat bashing child star rival Fred Savage (see opening monologue embedded below) and kept us smiling with bouncy characters (the guy from Rent; an exercise instructor, embedded after the jump ). But the sketches never really clicked, and Harris only got a few chances to show off the comic chops that earned him a Golden Globe nod this year for his How I Met Your Mother performance (tune in tonight to see if he wins).
At least he didn’t have to worry about getting shown up by the musical guest and guest stars (We still love you anyway, Paul Rudd!). Taylor Swift gets props for gusto despite so-so songs, but was her guitar even plugged in? And a pantsless Liza Minnelli, while certainly a hoot, just doesn’t pack quite the same thrill as a pantsless Justin Timberlake.
So here’s hoping NPH gets another shot at hosting soon. Because with the right sketches, there’s no doubt that he could be nothing short of legen…..wait for it…..dary. (Okay, it’s funnier when he does it.)
So, what do you think PopWatchers? Was the show better or worse than you expected? Should Neil Patrick Harris get another shot at hosting? Or should they just turn the whole thing over to Liza and the tomato next time?
Get ready for the Golden Globes (and our coverage)!
The 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards air Sunday on NBC at 8 p.m. Eastern time, but you’ll want to hit PopWatch at 7 p.m. for the start of our live blog. (Annie Barrett and I can only take an hour of E!’s red carpet coverage with Ryan Seacrest and Giuliana DePandi.) (Go to the live blog now!) We’ll call the action during the telecast, then turn the mic over to EW’s Couture Correspondent, Meeta Agrawal, who’ll offer your style report (with actual authority). Adam Markovitz will take a closer look at the evening’s best and worst moments.
While you’re waiting to see who wins, who looks as good as Jon Hamm (no one), and who gets tanked (so happy we get a real telecast this year!), browse through our complete Globes coverage.
We’ve got your:
Full list of nominees
Expert picks of who will and who should win
Reader polls picking the TV winners
Reader polls picking the movie winners
Dave Karger’s video interviews with nominees including Dustin Hoffman, the Doubt cast, Anne Hathaway, and Ralph Fiennes
TV category snubs
Movie category snubs
20 memorable Globes moments from years past
This 'movie trailer' has too much extra baggage
Ugh. Press play below for the "movie trailer" that played at Angelika Film Center in New York, right after three decent trailers and just before Doubt. Hold your breath for the "big reveal" at the end!
Having somehow never been subjected to this nonsense before, my reaction was a simple, dead-eyed "No way," but most everyone else in the theater just laughed. Not with it. Atit. Severely.
Anyone wanna go buy some effin’ luggage?
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