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The Golden Globe nominations are announced this morning. Once again, I predict that whoever lobbied the so-called Hollywood Foreign Press Association the hardest will win. And whichever films and TV shows have the highest wattage stars will score nominations to hype the paparazzi interest and help the telecast's ratings. Be aware that the small motley local crew who belong to the scandal-riddled HFPA won't grant membership to the real foreign journalists at the prestige newspapers across the world. As a result, I refuse to hype the HFPA's b.s. awards. Trust me, they're as meaningless as the crappy organization behind them. Therefore, while I will post the nominations, I will not treat them with seriousness by offering any analysis.
This Is A Golden Globes Hype-Free Zone
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This is why I fucking LOVE Nikki Finke.
Hey Nikki! Thanks for telling it like it is (about the HFPA and the rest of Hollywood for that matter). That’s why your site is essential reading.
Maybe that’s why they serve so much booze at their “awards” presentation, so people will forget that it is really a farce.
ummm Tom Cruise for Tropic Thunder? Joke. That organization is a mess, but they throw a great party. Yay for Sutherland again.
…just waiting for it all to “crash and burn” oh happy day!
you said it like it is… they are the biggest joke in HOllywood with the best party
Darling Nikki is always the best read in the biz!!
Geez Nikki, bitter much? Sometimes I it seems that this place could be called “I hate Hollywood daily”
ROAST!!!
Nikki I love you but you’re wrong, it’s not who lobbied them the hardest, it’s the most famous. They DESPERATELY need to up their ratings.
Dear Nikki,
You Rock. That is all.
Marry me, Nikki.
but no will smith after all that money spent campaigning and all of those ‘premiers’ he held throughout the country? this is a really silly organization and award that is too ridiculous to speak of in serious company but still, no will smith? that’s just weird!! could the movie suck that much??
You’re right Nikki. A bunch of old goons who act like groupies and only want freebies. The more expensive the better you are treated by them. For years everyone knew the HFPA could be bought with gifts. Remember the days when they use to fight amongst each other during junkets? Remember how they all would yell at each other right in front of the actor being interviewed. There is a reality show in them.
I remember watching the Globes as a kid, but even I knew then you could of pretty much throw out the door any respect or prestige for this award when one PIA ZADORA won the “New star of the Year Award”
I don’t think her movie had even been in release yet.
Meshulam definitely “made friends” with the HFPA in order to make that happen. On the flip side, what wannabe starlet wouldn’t want a nice rich sugar daddy do whatever it takes to get his (32 years his junior) girlfriend all the breaks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pia_Zadora
I do like to watch the Globes and see the actors in various degrees of drunkenness though.
The eventual SAG strike could have provided one positive benefit: Another blow against the Globes.
SAG managed to screw that up too. How can SAG strike and not shutter the Globes?
Disappointing. Since SAG is going to strike anyway, it could have at least takend down the Globes.
I feel so bad for the folks behind “Milk.” Good god, only ONE nod?? Nothing for Best Film, Best Director or Best Supporting Actor(s)? But Tom Cruise gets a nod???? And James Franco gets a nod for Pineapple Express, NOT Milk???
Oversight or homophobia–or stupidity?
O.u.c.h!
Why post the nominations at all? Even in that small action they are getting more attention than they merit.
The globes have always been nothing more than a very conveniently timed marketing tool by desperate and creatively bankrupt studios to promote the garbage they inadvertently managed to screw up the least. Like dressing up and taking out a whore to try and impress more eligible and harder to get ladies later on in the game. But the trouble with cleaning up and taking out whores is that you never can quite get all the skank out.
The studios want the membership to remain small (and dumb – believe me, I knew a couple members) so they are easier to manipulate and control and to keep the costs for all the ridiculous parties they throw for them at a minimum – and the members themselves don’t want more respected journalists involved because it will lessen their own self-aggrandized importance in this charade.
You’re the bomb, Nikki. Were it not for Andy Williams there wouldn’t even be a Golden Globes telecast – and now, even he doesn’t care anymore.
The best awards money can buy!
Two words for the Golden Globes: Pia Zadora.
Well, I agree with the whole b.s. thing, but let’s not forget the GG are the best index we got for the Oscars, so there is a reason to follow them anyway…
BWAH-HA-HA-HA! Go Nikki.
Like the precious Oscars are so pure and clean.
You rock, Nikki! I’ve been rolling my eyes at the Golden Globes for years, not understanding why anyone ever takes it or the HFPA seriously other than Hollywood’s need to blow smoke up their own asses. Insert finger in mouth and vomit.
You might love Nikki, but I want to have her babies!!!!
What awards show isn’t “b.s.”? Real awards are distributed by the public.
The Dark Knight is hands down the best motion picture of the year but the academy is probably too stupid to recognpredictable “prestige” pictures. What is prestigious about a film no will pay money to see?
“This Is A Golden Globes Hype-Free Zone”
Best. News. Ever.
THE SEASON IS HERE THAT I HATE.
PRETENTIOUS AND DRESSED UP AS FATE.
LIKE A SHARP ANAL PROBE,
HERE COME THE GOLDEN GLOBES.
DON’T WE ALL HAVE ENOUGH PAPERWEIGHTS?