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The Serious

So it was yet another award show where celebrity bodies of work override the French terrorist acts and world-wide violence that will never end where older white men won for behind the scenes work for movies typically about older white men with not much sensitivity towards women or minors. Oh, that's the Oscars, not the Golden Globes. Where the Oscars are much more stiff-upper-lip about the type of roles they award (veteran actors and biopics), the Golden Globes are like a karaoke contest in a bar with a comedian emcee. The drinks flowed and Hollywood was actually at its most awkwardly charming if not humbled of what the Hollywood Foreign Press chose to award.

This year culture continues to be intermingled with hot-button topics (rape, LGBT, civil rights) and the actors who portray these. Joanne Froggatt, the first winner of the night for her supporting character Anna Bates in "Downton Abbey", started off the night with a moving acceptance speech. Last season on the British TV show, the wife of the debonair Bates was raped by a visiting valet and her acting was well awarded. "After this story line aired, I received a small number of letters from survivors of rape. And one woman summed up the thoughts of many by saying she wasn't sure why she'd written, but she felt in some way she wanted to be heard. And I'd like to say I heard you and I hope saying this so publicly means in some way you feel the world hears you."

For the first time in Golden Globes history, and there were a few tonight, an Amazon-produced TV show "Transparent" won not only Best TV Series, Musical and Comedy but good old George Bluth Sr., Jeffrey Tambor, won for Best Actor. Why is this important? Well, not only is it produced by a website, following the success of the Netflix-produced "Orange is the New Black", but it is an autobiographical show about a family dealing with who they have known as their father and husband begins her transition into womanhood later in life. In the wake of Leelah Alcorn (which creator Jill Soloway dedicated the Best TV Series, Comedy or Musical award to), this win only helps the continuing visibility that transgenders have not had, since, well, the dawn of time. Tambor in his acceptance speech continues "I dedicate this award and my role to the transgender community. Thank you for letting us being a part of the change."

More hot button issues being paralleled in film were honored tonight includes Eddie Redmayne portraying Stephen Hawking in his descent (or ascent?) into ALS who won for Best Actor - Drama, Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television winner Matt Bomer won for "The Normal Heart" as a gay man plagued with AIDS, first time winner Gina Rodriguez won Best Acress in a TV Series, Comedy or Musical for her portrayal of a to-be teenaged mother in "Jane the Virgin", Julianne Moore won for Still Alice where she plays a woman who loses her ability to speak. The movie "Boyhood", not only a cinematic masterpiece of having been filmed over 12 years, won Best Movie, Best Director AND Best Supporting Actress for Patriica Arquette as a woman going through a divorce. Maggie Gylenhaal even won Best Actress in a TV Movie or Mini Series for "The Honourable Woman" as a business woman who attempts reconciliation between the Israelis and Palestinians.

Favorite Sound Bytes

"Wes Anderson is here for "The Grand Budapest Hotel", per usual Wes got here on a bicycle made of antique tuba parts." - Amy Poehler

"And she [Oprah] has put a cranberry candle underneath all of your seats." - Tina Fey

Jennifer Lopez: (opening envelope) "I got the nails."

Jeremy Renner: "You got the nails... and the globes."

"Famous people are above the law, just as it should be." - Ricky Gervais

"Thank you for hugging me, I hope your DNA rubbed off onto me." - Patricia Arquette to Meryl Streep

(When honoring George Clooney with the Cecil B. DeMille Award)

Don Cheadle: "After all, I was in Oceans 11, 12, and 13 with him."

Julianna Marguiles: "Who hasn't?"

....

Julianna Marguiles: "I kissed him."

Don Cheadle: "Who hasn't?"

"This is just the beginning of my revenge." - Kevin Spacey winning for Best Actor, TV Drama

Anna Faris: "We are a mixed couple, I'm CBS, Chris is NBC."

Chris Pratt: "And we'll raise our kids like HBO."

(Making fun of the movie "Cake")

Amy Poehler: "We have to explain to everyone in the room. It's like a fluffy dessert that people eat on their birthday."

Tina Fey: "And birthdays are a thing that people celebrate when they admit they have aged."

**Best Line of the Night**

"But the movie "Selma" is about the American civil rights movement that totally worked and now everything's fine." - Tina Fey

Wins
Best Supporting Actor: J.K. Simmons (Whiplash)
Best Mini-Series or TV Movie: Fargo
Best Actor in a Mini-Series or TV Movie: Billy Bob Thornton (Fargo)
Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical: Amy Adams (Big Eyes)
Best Animated Film How to Train Your Dragon 2
Best Screenplay: Birdman
Best TV Drama: The Affair
Best Actress - TV Drama: Ruth Wilson (The Affair) Best Actor, Movie or Comedy:Michael Keaton (Birdman)
Best Comedy or Musical: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Best Tweets of the Night

‏@courtknows

.@HeatherMatarazz They should put #AmyandTina in the balcony like those dudes on the Muppets & leave their mics on. 

‏@NylonMag

Little known fact: Matt Bomer is literally carved out of marble by Zeus himself. If you look into his eyes, you'll see forever #GoldenGlobes

‏@NylonMag

Did Prince just hover across the stage? If he evaporated into thin air after giving the award, who would be surprised? No ONE. #GoldenGlobes

‏@GabbySidibe

Wish Tina Fey and Amy Poehler would host game night at my house but they won't respond to my evite. :-(

‏@fortunefunny

Prince is the most beautiful woman at the Globes.

‏@HeatherMatarazz

Seriously, did Cosby find #AmyAndTina and now they're doped up and won't come back?? #GoldenGIobes

Le Kid is BAAAACCKK!!

Although it sounds like Le Kid mated with Icona Pop somewhat, the chorus still comes across in perfect bouncy Le Kid style -- all is right with the world and you can find it at the German site Fritz. Now when is this going to be available for download? Or preferably, a new album!

Bates... John Bates

Josh Groban Sex Pills.... Enough Said.

Downton Abbey Performs One Direction's "What Makes You Beautiful"

"When it comes to torture, I trust the lady who spent three years married to James Cameron." - Amy Poehler on nominated director Kathryn Bigelow

Supporting Actress (TV): Maggie Smith (Dowton Abbey)

"Blurg." - Anne Hathaway

Best Original Score - Mychael Danna (Life of Pi)

"You get out of here!!!" - Kristin Wiig and Will Ferrell talking over each other

Best Original Song - Adele (Skyfall)

Catherine. Zeta. Jones. End of Discussion.

Best Supporting Actress - Anne Hathaway (Les Miserables)

"Thank you for this lovely blunt object that I will forevermore use as a weapon against self-doubt."
- Anne Hathaway

Three Words: Robert Downey Jr. You make me question my sexuality.

Best Foreign Film - Amour

President of the Hollywood Foreign Press asking Bradley Cooper to "Call Me Maybe"

Best Comedy/Musical TV Show - Girls

"For the SNL fans, I'm 50! Although I feel I should be naked while saying that." - Jodie Foster (paraphrased)

Best Lead Actor in Comedy/Musical - Hugh Jackman (Les Miserables)

"That was so exciting, that was Hillary Clinton's husband!" - Amy Poehler after Bill Clinton appearance.

Best Comedy/Musical - Les Miserables

George Clooney cozying up to Amy Poehler. Yah bitch.

"You know what Taylor Swift? Stay away from Michael J. Fox's son!" - Tina Fey

Anne Hathaway and Amanda Seyfried's backwards girl-hug during acceptance speech

"We're going home with Jodie Foster." - Amy Poehler (with Tina Fey)

THIIIIISSS!!!

“I’m just being myself. There is not an ounce of me that believes any of that crap that they say. We can’t be feminine and be feminists and be successful? I want to be a fucking feminist and wear a fucking Peter Pan collar. So fucking what?”

- Zooey Deschanel, Glamour Magazine

Truly: Last night I had a dream.

Fanny: Were there gerbils again?

Truly: There were gerbils, but this time they did not make me dance.

- New from Bunheads, 1/7/13

[1/8/13] Council names The Chauncey as preferred development

Don McLean @ the Englert July 27th

Mission Creek

Festival April 2-7 2013:

Scheduled so far...

SALLIE FORD AND THE SOUND OUTSIDE

and THAO AND THE GET DOWN STAY DOWN (!!!!!!!!!!)

Zooey Deschanel, Zooey Deschanel, Zooey Deschanel! Can we get her to be a guest editor like with Victoria Beckham? MAKE. THIS. HAPPEN.

Lord Crawley of Downton Abbey (Dan Stevens) in "the five guys we're all talking about"

"I want to be a fucking feminist and wear a fucking Peter Pan collar. So fucking what?" - Zooey Deschanel

Pimping the bow ties ("The Top 10 Glamour Dos and Don'ts")

Making me love Khloe Kardashian even more than I already am.

"...Honestly, I'm happy with myself if I'm a little heavier. I realized, Why am I Trying to conform to someone else's idea of beauty? I think I'm beautiful either way." - Khloe Kardashian

Most of the products on "Khloe's Best Makeup Advice" are from drugstores!

Putting lady-love in the pictorial "just kiss me"

...But Glamour!...

Zooey Deschanel doesn't even look like herself! Glamour, you say you don't airbrush or alter your cover photos but after Amanda Seyfried's cover and this month's I'm really starting to wonder about you...

Valentine's Day. Corporate Woman's Magazine. Cashing in on what boy's like but has little about One Billion Rising (although that was last month's...) or self love. Thanks a lot Glamour.

Promoting beauty men love when they're on a woman but the average woman reader are more consumed by what they personally want for themselves. Co-dependence. Happy Valentine's Day!

You really couldn't get some boy-on-boy for the pictorial article "just kiss me" or would that hurt the male powers that be?