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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

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


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


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

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

Prince is the most beautiful woman at the Globes.

Seriously, did Cosby find and now they're doped up and won't come back??
Beatles and Celebrities "Come Together"
for one Big Beatles-Love Fest
(And it was AWESOME!)
 
 
Last night was the 50th year anniversary of when the Beatles first premiered their sound on the TV airwaves on Ed Sullivan. What did it all entail exactly? Well, Paul's 70s wail, Ringo bopping along, Dhani just being plain awesome and an 80 year old Yoko danced! Yoko danced a lot...
 
... And that made me a very very happy girl.

I will never understand the Yoko Ono hate -- a pioneering feminist/poet/artist had
one of the greatest love stories with a HSP revolutionary as John Lennon was.
Stop believing that this amazing woman was the cause of the Beatles breaking up!
It really was the perfect definition of a Love-Fest leaded by Dave Grohl, the perfect Beatle fan who collaborated (and help create) my favorite non-reunion moments of the nights with a lesser known Beatles rock tune, "Hey Bulldog" ("...it's a quintessential Beatles rocker," He explained his song choice, "Paul's rolling bass line. The trademark Ringo drum fills, George's gritty distorted guitar. And that sound that only the back of John Lennon's throat could produce." Backing him up on "Hey Bulldog" included ELO front man and close Beatle-friend Jeff Lynne and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" included mind-numbing and breathless rock n roll courtesy of Grohl on drums and mind-altering dueling solos by Joe Walsh and Gary Clark Jr. (I'm still not over that solo..)

 
And then "the great reunion" with a bevy of standards coming from either Starr or McCartney individually or together: "I Saw Her Standing There," "Hey Jude," "Get Back," "Yellow Submarine," and my absolute favorite moments in "Matchbox" and the infamous Shirelles cover "Boys." It was during somewhere in the middle of Ringo's set that all the charisma that is known as the Beatles became truthfully hypnotic with the whole room's arms up in the air making the peace sign. The Beatles are apart of us, and I sobbed like a little girl. It's truly something when we say we love The Beatles, but it's another thing to truly see it displayed on camera with close ups of your average celebrity enraptured by the music. The Beatles are apart of us. The Beatles music speaks to us like nothing else. It was then I realized that this little scuffle band from Liverpool speaks such volumes because they happened at a time when the human race was discovering themselves and from that, they were in the right place at the right time to design pop culture and rock-n-roll as we know it complete with sobbing pre-teen fans.

Thank you, Paul and Ringo for a majestic night.
 
....My only question is where the hell was Freda Kelly (their fan-club secretary and close friend) to enjoy this night with her, as she called McCartney and Starr back in the days, big brothers?
 
....Why am I learning about Ed Sheeran just now? This guy is amazing!
 
 
 
Josh Groban *HAS* been the Greatest
Philosopher of All Time, Where
Have You Been, Huffpo?
 
 
 
No complaints though, really, but this is so much win.
SO.
MUCH.
WIN.
 
 
 
 
 
Charlotte Church Continues to
"Glitterbomb" and Melt My Face
With the New Look!
 
 
 
Annie Gives Us (but mostly Russia)
a Big "Russian Kiss"
 
The only way to retaliate against politics is a good song. So leave it to one of my favorite people, Norwegian songstress who-simply-cannot-suck Annie to stick it to Russia. I was surprised when I saw the song's objective (and the video!), I half suspected this is something that Peaches or someone else more bent on the shock factor would take on but in a way, this makes me respect Annie SO MUCH more than I already do. Plus, I love that haircut!!!
 
Anyway, "Russian Kiss" is a great collaboration with visual artist Bjarne Melgaard and Annie's frequent lover in song, Richard X. Based on a 90s club song "French Kiss," Annie's embellished tune has been turned around to be a magical retaliation against Putin's anti-LGB Legislation. [I leave the "T" off because they are not the ones attacked for the moment...] And while I'm a person who keeps bedroom things in the bedroom without a double standard; I think what had to be done to get a message to Russia was bad-ass but for me personally, the video didn't do much for me. But I absolutely love that Annie did this... once my surprise wore off and the male groans left my ears. I like girls, I don't need to hear that. =) 
 
 

So every Monday night I'll be showing off at least under 10 things that are making me happy or a voguegastistic bitch the past week in pop culture, facebookland, twitterland, or random irreverent things here in Iowa City.

LA Times on 30 Rock Episode


NBC is slowly getting me back onto their Thursday nights, and Thank God! I've been wanting to for quite awhile noticing the humor has changed from Will and Grace slapstick to the smart low-key situational comedy. Liz Lemon is reputedly a voice for women, as Tina Fey's writing is sharp and witty, but according to the LA Times Blog, this past Thursday was no other but another example how pop culture struggles to find us a situational middle ground - on feminism.

After ragging on Joanofsnark.com, Lemon has decided to do the "feminist thing" in bringing a writer, Abby Flynn, to work at TGS. Big mistake as she, at first glance, was a male-happy fetishist complete with pony tails, revealing clothing, and babytalking lesbian orgies and sexual innuendo. Until Flynn is outed as a disguised woman on the run from her homicidal boyfriend, duping Lemon into her usual "put foot in mouth" style - LA Times were quick to place "Are the Liz Lemons of the world motivated by righteous feminist indignation, or by their own gnawing insecurity?" This is common with Glee as well, if you give a theme too much power, it will look pro- and like an After-School special but if you do too little with the theme, it looks like people don't care. But while Glee is off worrying about a special middle ground in caring what things should sound like, I think 30 Rock did one thing right last week - it's all about balancing on a very teetering subject while still showing well written dialogue.


Oscars

Well, 8 out of 15 nominations is pretty standard on my ballot card. Black Swan didn't get a single piece of recognition other than the amazing acting that was Natalie Portman (notice that her video clip was when she was telling her mother the news she got the White Swan part; how meticulous acting, happiness, relief, excitement, nervousness! All in one moment! That is acting, Christian Bale.) The King's Speech swept the Oscars, Inception most of the aesthetic awards, and Melissa Leo and Christian Bale rep'ed The Fighter. Best moments included Kirk Douglas being a dirty cheeky old man (I don't care what anyone says, I support old people getting their freak on, I just don't want to see it), James Franco dressed as Marilyn Monroe from "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" and Anne Hathaway showing off every reason why I wish I could play her girlfriend on Glee. Thank you, Anne, for being the unstoned one.


Annie is featured on Designer Drugs "Crazy For You"

This needs no introduction because Annie is awesome, I did not even question her awesomeness that when she tweeted me back about Norwegian brown cheese. I don't care! I love this woman.



Cats Quote Charlie Sheen

Ripped from the radio's "The Alex Jones Show," from the most appalling words from the famous party-man (somehow party-boy is a better phrase for how he acts) otherwise known as Charlie Sheen, this isn't your standard LOLcats.



Best Twitter last Week

jracineui This just in: Future #MiddleEast protests will be blamed on Lady Gaga's new music video for #BornThisWay

Lady Gaga's new Music Video



I question myself in embedding the video, but I suppose for elaboration purposes, here is the newest from Ms. Germanotta (oh yes, I went there!) where the creative 80s inspired art direction in my concern is actually... dare I say... good? It's creative, and maybe I harbor a little resentment towards the first three minutes of the slight original score of Metropolis, but I suppose that only shows that Gaga as a film/media student further. I can accept that - looking strictly as the video. The song is a whole other story (or rather article) based on cultural and humanistic leniency and NOT about the gayness.
As I have written multiple times before, and this should be made into a t-shirt, "Lady Gaga does NOT speak for me."


Stream "Wounded Rhymes" Lykke Li


But let's end on one of the best things that happened to me - or rather Li's fan club - is a full streamed preview of her album, Wounded Rhymes on stereogum.com. You can find the album everywhere as of TOMORROW! Spotlighted songs include "Get Some," "Sadness is a Blessing," and "I Follow Rivers."

Get excited and get some!
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