Comedy central at awards
Tina Fey and amy Poehler bring the funny to the Golden Globes.
FOR a second year running, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted NBC’s Golden Globes telecast in Beverly Hills yesterday, and Fey, droll as ever, laid out the brutal essence of their return engagement: “This is Hollywood,” she said, “and if something kind of works, they’ll just keep doing it.”
Their presence was a tonic to the earnestness of the night’s early winners, letting the goodnatured barbs fly. Taking in the array of movie stars assembled together, Poehler nodded in the direction of Matt Damon: “On any other night, in any other room, you would be a big deal, but tonight – and don’t take this the wrong way – you’re basically a garbage person.”
That helped set the tone for what is usually a loose, fairly boozy affair – even when the slate of movies nominated are as serious as they come. Sputtering speeches (hello, Jacqueline Bisset, who won for the little-seen Starz series Dancing On The Edge) and the long, long walks by stars to the stage didn’t help; winners manoeuvered – ambled, really – awkwardly around round tables clustered together like roadblocks, threatening to kill any momentum Fey and Poehler built in their opening minutes.
“Everybody just keep drinking,” presenter Sean “Diddy” Combs said only an hour into the broadcast. “It’ll be over soon.”
It’s advice many in the audience probably should have heeded from the start, because Fey and Poehler’s light touch promised a spunkier tone for the night. Meryl Streep’s performance in August: Osage County prompted Fey to crack that the role proved that “there are still great parts in Hollywood for Meryl Streeps over 60.”
Hitting close to the bone was Fey’s assessment of Gravity: “It’s the story of how George Clooney would rather float away into space and die than spend one more minute with a woman his own age.”
The monologue also touched
Report from the smoking patio
The patio outside the ballroom at the Golden Globes was as star-studded as the room inside. When Globes celebrants need fresh air – or nicotine-tinged air – they head straight there.
12 Years A Slave co-stars Michael Fassbender and Sarah Paulson dropped by to share a smoke and a laugh with actress Emma Roberts.
Elisabeth Moss juggled a cigarette in one hand and her Golden Globe for best actress in a miniseries or movie in the other.
Kate Beckinsale shared a smoke with on Poehler’s nomination for her NBC comedy Parks And Recreation, with a request to one of the camera operators to “get a shot” of Poehler in the audience – only to have the camera fix on Jennifer Lawrence. “Wow, radi- HERE’s what happened in and out of the main ballroom of The Beverly Hilton Hotel during the 71st Golden Globe Awards in Los Angeles, California. ant!” Poehler deadpanned. “It is hard to believe she’s a 42-yearold mother of two.”
Moments later, Lawrence won best supporting actress for her role as a tacky housewife in American Hustle, and she landed a
As a presenter, Emma Thompson (pic) personifies the ethos of the Golden Globes. She arrived barefoot on stage to announce the best screenplay winner holding her Christian Louboutin high heels in one hand, and martini glass in the other.
She sipped her drink, then, before tossing her shoes over her shoulder, offered a bit of party-infused wisdom: “I just want you to know, this red,” she confided, noting the zinger of her own on her way to acknowledging the fine actresses in her category: “I actually did watch all the movies this year,” she said. “Well, not all of them, but you know what I mean ...”
Her American Hustle co-star Amy Adams, so devastating and sexy and calculating in the film, also walked away with an award, for lead actress in a movie comedy or musical. “You cannot play me off talking about my daughter,” she instructed the orchestra as she thanked her young child.
Music is always integral to a movie’s tone (especially American Hustle’s 1970s-heavy soundtrack) but perhaps even more so for the nearly wordless Robert Redford man-at-sea solo act All Is Lost, which won for best original score for Alex Ebert.
On the TV front, Breaking Bad – which reached its series conclusion in the fall – garnered wins for star Bryan Cranston, as well as a Globe for the show itself in the drama category. Mad Men star Elisabeth Moss won for her other TV project, the Sundance Channel series Top Of The Lake, and Jon Voight won for the freshman Showtime drama Ray Donovan.
Amid the sincere speeches and less-than-entertaining mishaps (malfunctioning teleprompters, for example), at least Poehler and Fey brought the comedy back in full force when Poehler dressed in tuxedo drag, pretending to be a petulant teenage “Mr Golden Globes aka Randy” and wondering if any of the men in the audience could be “his” long-lost father.
Poehler first sidled up to Idris Elba asking: “Is it him?”, before moving on to movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. — Chicago Tribune/McClatchy-Tribune Information Services shoes’ trademark red soles, “it’s my blood.” — Frazier Moore, AP
Stars share acting tips
Nerves? What nerves? Less than an hour to go until show time, Golden Globes co-host Amy Poehler was all smiles as she walked the red carpet, pausing to exchange greet- HERE are the winners at the 71st Golden Globe Awards:
FILM Best film, drama: Best comedy or musical:
Hustle
Best actor, drama:
Best actress, drama:
Blue Jasmine
Best actor, comedy or musical:
Leonardo DiCaprio for The Wolf Of Wall Street
Best actress, comedy or musical:
Adams for American Hustle
Jared Leto for
Best supporting actor:
Dallas Buyers Club
Best supporting actress:
Jennifer Lawrence for American Hustle
Alfonso Cuaron for
Best director:
Gravity
Best foreign language film:
Beauty, Italy
Best animated film: Best screenplay: Best original score:
Her
All Is Lost from Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom
Frozen Spike Jonze for
Alex Ebert for
Amy
The Great
Best original song:
Ordinary Love from Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom, by U2
Woody Allen
Cecil B. DeMille award: TELEVISION Best drama: Best comedy: Best actor, drama:
Breaking Bad Breaking Bad Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Bryan Cranston for
Best actress, drama:
House Of Cards
Best actor, comedy:
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Robin Wright for
Andy Samberg for
Best actress, comedy:
Parks And Recreation
Amy Poehler for
Best TV film or miniseries:
Candelabra
Behind The
Best actor, TV film or miniseries:
Michael Douglas for Behind The Candelabra
Best actress, TV film or miniseries:
Elisabeth Moss for Top Of The Lake 12 Years A Slave
American
Matthew McConaughey for Dallas Buyers Club
Cate Blanchett for
Best supporting actor, TV film or miniseries: Best supporting actress, TV film or miniseries:
Jon Voight for Ray Donovan
Jacqueline Bisset for Dancing On The Edge ings with Emma Thompson.
“So great to meet you!” said Poehler, offering a hug to Thompson’s date for the evening – the actress’ daughter. — Sandy Cohen, AP