Golden Globes announce that they still, in fact, exist
nypost.comwere announced Monday morning, and the biggest shocker is … that they still exist!Like a post-apocalyptic Twinkie, the 80-year-old ceremony has survived against all odds.
There’s been scandal after scandal, the disbanding of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a sale to Dick Clark Productions and a move from NBC to CBS.
And somehow it’s back to being cuckoo for yet another year.This Globes are the only awards show on the planet where Emma Stone (“Poor Things”) and Natalie Portman (“May December”), starring in prestige films that premiered in Cannes, France, and Venice, Italy, will duke it out against Jennifer Lawrence for her performance in a raunchy sex comedy called, ahem, “No Hard Feelings” (best female actor in a motion picture — musical or comedy).More jaw-dropping than that roster is that Netflix’s “May December,” about a woman loosely based on Mary Kay Letourneau who had an affair with a high-school student and married him, has been deemed a “comedy or musical.”And, apparently, the powers that be have also decided it is of vital importance that the public witness “Oppenheimer” compete in the same category as “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” (the asinine cinematic and box office achievement prize).
The lunacy doesn’t stop there, folks. The Jan. 7 telecast reportedly doesn’t even have a host yet. Tick tock.But what’s great about the Globes’ booze-soaked craziness is that it can lead to inspired, underdog picks too.
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