By split screen, Fey and Poehler kick off bicoastal Globes
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler began the pandemic-era Golden Globe Awards on Sunday night, delivering a split-screen opening from separate coasts.
With Poehler at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, and Fey in New York’s Rainbow Room on Sunday night, the two did an initial gag where Fey reached out through the screen and stroked Poehler’s hair.
The show, postponed two months from its usual early-January perch, promised little of the glamour that makes the Globes one of the frothiest and glitziest events of the year. Due to the pandemic, there was no parade of stars down the red carpet outside the Beverly Hilton.
The Globes, normally a loose-and-boozy party that serves as the kickoff for Hollywood’s awards season, has been beset with problems beyond the coronavirus leading up to this year’s ceremony. They include a revelation in the Los Angeles Times that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which gives out the awards, has no Black voting members in the group.
Fey took a shot at the organization in the show opening, explaining to the two small live audiences made up of first responders and essential workers that “the Hollywood Foreign Press Association is made up of around 90 no black journalists.”
Among the early winners announced were:
Norman Lear accepted the Carol Burnett Award for his storied career in television, saying he “could not feel more blessed.” The 98-year-old still-working television legend, creator of “All in the Family,” “The Jeffersons” and “One Day at a Time, is the third winner of the award that honors “outstanding contributions to television on or off the screen.”
Rosamund Pike was the surprise winner for best actress in a movie musical or comedy for her work in “I Care a Lot.”
Catherine O’Hara won for best actress in a musical or comedy series for “Schitt’s Creek.”
“Schitt’s Creek,” the Canadian comedy series created by the father-son team of Eugene and Dan Levy that dominated September’s Emmy Awards won for best comedy or musical TV series.
Moments earlier, Jason Sudeikis scored a minor upset when he won for best actor in a musical or comedy series for “Ted Lasso.”
Emma Corrin won for best actress in a drama series in “The Crown.”
Daniel Kaluuya wonbest supporting actor in a film for “Judas and the Black Messiah.”
Josh O’Connor won best actor in a TV drama series for “The Crown.”
9-1-1 Michael (Rockmond Dunbar) notices some strange behavior at a nearby apartment and turns into an armchair detective after installing a “rear window” in his home in the new episode “There Goes the Neighborhood.” Meanwhile, Hen (Aisha Hinds) is dismayed when her mother (guest star Marsha Warfield) unexpectedly arrives bearing news that she’s moving to Los Angeles. On the work front, the 118 come to the rescue of a man pinned under a Humvee, and a garage band that rocks out too hard.
MOVIE Romance on the High Seas TCM’s star of the month for March, Doris Day, made her film debut in this 1948 musical comedy that starred a top-billed Jack Carson, Janis Paige and Don DeFore. Day plays young singer Georgia Garrett, who finds herself swept up in a married couple’s (Paige, DeFore) complex scheme to figure out whether each is cheating on the other. The film earned two Oscar nods, one for the Jule StyneSammy Cahn song “It’s Magic” as the year’s best. The film kicks off an all-night marathon of Day’s early films. 9PM (BRV) Below Deck Sailing Yacht Captain Glenn Shepherd puts his trust in an all-new crew as the Parsifal III sets sail for a luxury cruise along the coast of Croatia. Joining Shepherd are chef Natasha De Bourg, chief stew Daisy Kelliher, chief engineer Colin Macrae, first mate Gary King, second stew Dani Soares, third stew Alli Dore and deckhands Sydney Zaruba and JeanLuc Cerza Lanaux. Friction sets in almost immediately between chief stew Kelliher and chef De Bourg, setting the tone for what’s to follow.
Liverpool halted a run of four defeats in the Premier League as it ended a miserable February with a 2-0 win over last-place Sheffield United on Sunday.
A series of fine first-half saves from Sheffield goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale kept the defending champions at bay in the first half.
The 20-year-old academy graduate Curtis Jones made the breakthrough for Liverpool in the 48th minute when he fired in off
Trent Alexander-Arnold’s deflected cross. There was a brief check for whether the ball had gone out of play in the buildup but there was no conclusive evidence that it had.
Oliver McBurnie sent a header wide in Sheffield’s best chance of leveling the score before Liverpool made it 2-0 in the 64th.
Roberto Firmino weaved through the defense before hitting a shot which took a deflection before going past Ramsdale. The Premier League ruled it was an own-goal for Sheffield’s
Kean Bryan, meaning Firmino went a seventh game without a goal in the league and Champions League.
Mohamed Salah missed from close range in
the 80th and Liverpool goalkeeper Adrian, standing in for Alisson Becker after his father died, stopped a late attempt from Oliver Burke.
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Jose Fonte rescued a point for Lille with a thumping late header in a 1-1 home draw with Strasbourg to ensure his side stays top of the French league. Lille will remain one point clear of Lyon even if Lyon wins at Marseille later Sunday. Lille is two points ahead of defending champion Paris Saint-Germain . ... Bayer Leverkusen’s slump continued and its hopes of Champions League qualification took another blow in a 2-1 defeat at home to Freiburg in the Bundesliga. Goals from
Ermedin Demirovic and Lucas Holer earned Freiburg its first win at the eighth attempt against Leverkusen and helped to propel the modest club to eighth place . ... Colombian defender Jeison Murillo
scored in the final minute of stoppage time to salvage a 1-1 draw for Celta Vigo against relegation-threatened Valladolid in the Spanish league. Murillo
netted the equalizer with a header from a set piece taken by Iago Aspas in the fourth minute of added time. Fabian Orellana
had opened the scoring for the hosts in the
70th . ... Glenn Roeder ,a former West Ham, Newcastle and Watford manager, has died. He was 65. Roeder, who also worked as a coach under England manager Glenn Hoddle at the 1998 World Cup, died after a long battle with a brain tumor, the League Managers’ Association said Sunday.
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Tennis: Second-seeded ●
David Goffin of Belgium rallied to beat top-seeded
Roberto Bautista Agut of Spain 5-7, 6-4, 6-2 to win the Open Sud de France, at Montpellier, France, on Sunday and clinch his fifth career title.
Bautista Agut was chasing a 10th career title and first since winning Doha in 2019, but Goffin took control when he broke his opponent in the first game of the deciding set and went on to celebrate his first title since Tokyo in 2017.
“This is my fifth [title] and every tournament that I’ve won was very special,” Goffin said. “I had some opportunities. I’ve had matches [where] I had zero chance to win in the final. Sometimes you take it, sometimes not.”
The 30-year-old Goffin has now beaten Bautista Agut in four straight matches and leads him 4-2 overall. Goffin hit 13 aces compared to seven for his opponent and proved stronger on second serve, winning 65% of points.