To Mary Hart: It’s not you, it’s us.
I couldn’t do it, you guys. It was all just a shadow of its former self: no red carpet, no “this is like the Oscars only way less stuffy” comments, no Joan and Melissa Rivers asking inappropriate and possibly drunken questions on the red carpet. Just Mary Hart, a TelePrompter, and imaginary tumbleweeds drifting by in the background. I wanted to watch the announcement of the Golden Globe winners, but I couldn’t. The lack of sequins and organza was just too depressing.
A look through the nomination list—the actual awards—is actually pretty heartening: there were some Good Things (TM Martha) going on in 2007, on the big screen and the small. Atonement; Julie Christie (winning the most cliched field out of the bunch); Daniel Day-Lewis; Johnny Depp; Cate Blanchett; Sweeney Todd; No Country for Old Men; Ratatouille. Most of the winners aren’t that surprising (Blanchett wins, I think, just for existing at all), but they aren’t usually the only obvious choice, either. Who’s going to tell the
And so I say: three cheers for awards, for giving credit where credit is due, and for giving a few people recognition for a job they’re currently not allowed to do at a ceremony they can’t write for. Next year let’s let those writers get up onstage in their not-as-glamorous outfits (writers always look so bewildered at these things) and take a real bow, shall we? You can even invite Mary Hart if it’ll make you feel better.
Golden Globe Awards, Golden Globes, HPFA, Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd, Atonement, Julie Christie, Coen brothers, No Country for Old Men, Daniel Day-Lewis, Javier Bardem, Cate Blanchett, Ratatouille, Mary Hart
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