The Serious
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
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
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?"
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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
Courtney Knowles
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
Did Prince just hover across the stage? If he evaporated into thin air after giving the award, who would be surprised? No ONE. #GoldenGlobes
Wish Tina Fey and Amy Poehler would host game night at my house but they won't respond to my evite . :-(
Fortune Feimster
Prince is the most beautiful woman at the Globes.
Heather Matarazzo
Seriously, did Cosby find #AmyAndTina and now they're doped up and won't come back?? #GoldenGIobes
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