Award season has started and now we are obliged to follow miles and miles of red carpet so that we can admire and judge all those super privileged stars in their finest.
Last night it was the Golden Globes night. Smaller venue and (let's be frank) less prestigious award.
The Oscars are on a completely different league.
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler were the hosts of the event (for the last time) and as usual they didn't disappoint.
Their sarcastic and sad-but-funny-cause-it's-true humor never fails.
I didn't particularly care for Fey's frock but I won't focus on that since as Tina said It took me 3 hours today to prepare for my role as human woman. (I am sure the Fashion Police will exhaust the subject properly.)
The dynamic duo's last joke about Bill Cosby was so deliciously wrong the whole audience struggled a lot trying to look genuinely distressed.
Tina & Amy are the women I wish I was. After Meryl Streep of course.
The whole show was not as entertaining as the opening act but we all know what to expect from these kind of affairs. Lots of actors acting as if any of that really matters.
The garment of choice for 99.9% of the ladies was compression underwear. The heavy duty kind. When they were asked Who are you wearing? they should have answered Super Higher Power Spanx.
Thanks to some engineering wonders (AKA botox-spanx combo) Jane Fonda looked science-fiction gorgeous at the tender age of 77.
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| Amazing Jane! |
I won't spoil the pleasure of finding out who got the Globes in case you recorded the show and are planning a belated Golden Globes night.
I can only tell you that Meryl didn't win and we didn't have the pleasure of listening to yet another of her glorious acceptance speeches. Bummer.
Margaret Cho as “Cho Yung J,” was perfection. She was supposed to be a North Korean journalist but was dressed in a soldier’s uniform and spoke with an exaggerated, mock-Korean accent. She also walked off the stage doing a goose step. Too much? Then change the channel.
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| Margaret Cho. |
In all honesty I did turn off my TV before the whole epic was over. It was my first live Golden Globes ceremony but I was hoping for more Fey-Poehler fun rather than a speeches-snooze bonanza (Amy Addams was so bad...Bless her, I love her so anyway).
It was lovely though watching a room full of successful beautiful people exchanging awards for a job they have already been conspicuously awarded for. In Italy we say It was raining on wet.
What to do...We still have many of those award shows coming our way and all we can do is fantasize about what we would say in our acceptance speech if we ever got awarded any king of Globe, AMA, Grammy, Emmy and whatnot. We know we have all done it before or will do it eventually. No judgement bosom friends. After all George Clooney got a life time achievement award that night while his new wife Amal Ramzi Alamuddin, who carries a resume that makes any actor look like a buffoon, got zip.
As I said no judgement.
Ciao for now.
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