Cassie Belek
Issue date: 1/16/08 Section: Scene
The only good that came out of the absence of a red carpet before Sunday night's announcement of the winners of the 65th Annual Golden Globe Awards was that audiences were spared a barrage of crude and stale jokes from comedian Joan Rivers. With the exception of that one blessing, the evening was a bizarre disappointment to everyone but the winners, who didn't even have a stage to accept their award and bask in the glory.
A strike-induced cloud hung over the speedy 32-minute press conference announcing this year's winners in film and television categories, voted on by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA). The Globes' typical evening of alcohol-laced celebration was truncated to simple announcements of the winners by an array of entertainment show anchors, who attempted to make witty remarks throughout the press conference. This begged the question of which is worse: Mary Hart's failure to deliver an impromptu joke or the scripted banter that we are usually subjected to at the Golden Globes?
The Golden Globes award ceremony became another casualty of the writers' strike when the Writers Guild of America (WGA) refused to grant the award show a waiver to allow writers to script the show. The WGA threatened to picket the event if NBC, Dick Clark Productions and the HFPA made the decision to go on with the ceremony as usual, and the Screen Actors Guild boycotted in solidarity. The HFPA then opened the event to all media. The end result was a writer - and star-less press conference broadcast on the TV Guide Channel and CNN. NBC chose to broadcast a two-hour Golden Globes "Dateline" special hosted by Matt Lauer followed by a one-hour special telecast announcing the winners, hosted by "Access Hollywood"'s Billy Bush and Nancy O'Dell.
The writer shows how the WGA is needed to run the Golden Globes. Though she mocks the staged conversations between the actors and hosts "spared a barrage of crude and stale jokes from comedian Joan Rivers" she points out how uneventful the Globes are without the scripts.
"The evening was a bizarre disappointment to everyone but the winners" this statement summarizes the general opinion of the audience due to the lack of the usual glitz and glamour."Entertainment show anchors, who attempted to make witty remarks throughout the press conference" there were attempts made to salvage the show by the anchors but the writing was apperently crucial to the event.
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A strike-induced cloud hung over the speedy 32-minute press conference announcing this year's winners in film and television categories, voted on by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA). The Globes' typical evening of alcohol-laced celebration was truncated to simple announcements of the winners by an array of entertainment show anchors, who attempted to make witty remarks throughout the press conference. This begged the question of which is worse: Mary Hart's failure to deliver an impromptu joke or the scripted banter that we are usually subjected to at the Golden Globes?
The Golden Globes award ceremony became another casualty of the writers' strike when the Writers Guild of America (WGA) refused to grant the award show a waiver to allow writers to script the show. The WGA threatened to picket the event if NBC, Dick Clark Productions and the HFPA made the decision to go on with the ceremony as usual, and the Screen Actors Guild boycotted in solidarity. The HFPA then opened the event to all media. The end result was a writer - and star-less press conference broadcast on the TV Guide Channel and CNN. NBC chose to broadcast a two-hour Golden Globes "Dateline" special hosted by Matt Lauer followed by a one-hour special telecast announcing the winners, hosted by "Access Hollywood"'s Billy Bush and Nancy O'Dell.
The writer shows how the WGA is needed to run the Golden Globes. Though she mocks the staged conversations between the actors and hosts "spared a barrage of crude and stale jokes from comedian Joan Rivers" she points out how uneventful the Globes are without the scripts.
"The evening was a bizarre disappointment to everyone but the winners" this statement summarizes the general opinion of the audience due to the lack of the usual glitz and glamour."Entertainment show anchors, who attempted to make witty remarks throughout the press conference" there were attempts made to salvage the show by the anchors but the writing was apperently crucial to the event.
http://media.www.ndsmcobserver.com/media/storage/paper660/news/2008/01/16/Scene/Writers.Strike.Dulls.Golden.Globes-3153706.shtml
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