No Golden Globes this year
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
As you may have heard by now, the Golden Globes have been somewhat canceled this year due to the ongoing writer’s strike. There will still be awards, and there will definitely be glammed up celebs in designer gowns and tuxes hitting the parties and walking away with more goodies in one night than you or I will ever see, but there will be no official ceremony, and probably nothing will be televised. Many entertainment addicts are mourning this latest casualty of the dragging strike, but I say good!
Good? Yes, because this means a superfluous entertainment award show is knocked back down to just that — an unnecessary show for overinflated egos. If any of you are interested in old Hollywood, then you know by now that the Oscars, or Academy Awards, as they were called before they earned their more well-known nickname in the 1930s, was just a short ceremony held at the Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles to show some appreciation for outstanding actors at the time. You can find footage of past award ceremonies on You Tube and elsewhere, and the overall attitude is very casual. No one gives a six minute acceptance speech, there were no waterworks or hissyfits if someone didn’t win. It was just a statue. Obviously, a lot has changed, but maybe not for the better. Maybe it’ll do Hollywood good to go back to a more modest mindset. With the setback they’ve been handed by not treating their writers as equal human beings, maybe they’ll finally learn some humility. Especially if the writers’ allies, the actors themselves, continue to side with the writers and boycott the Oscars as well. Is this what it’ll take to get Hollywood to take writers seriously? Or will they still think that the people who create and animate the characters we know and love are still on par with the guy who drives the catering truck?
To read more about the ongoing developments regarding the Golden Globes, stay tuned with CNN.
