Must everything mean something?
The Golden Globes rose to prominence as the fizzy alternative to the pageantry of Hollywoods prizegiving Academies.
I was inspired by the message, hesitant about the medium.
The Globes have always honored Hollywood by capturing the mad willful anarchy this dream factory can produce.
So the Globes have been important, which is different from being serious.
Could they get real?
But theres another angle on this Globes decade.
Well… lets hope.
Jeff Sessions is coming foryour vape pen.
(Gervais joked that they accepted bribes.)
This year, the HFPA was part of the noble cause.
This angle could trend unconvincing, self-regarding.
We can elicit change, said Nicole Kidman, winning forBig Little Lies.
We are here for the work.
To go deeper would require conversations about rumors.
I was the only woman to get the Best Director award, she said.
That was 34 years ago!
But there was somuchbeauty in the 2018 Globes.
I was touched by James Franco inviting both his brother Daveandhis inspiration Tommy Wiseau onstage to share his award.
But Wiseaus presence was so oddlyrightfor what the Golden Globes can be, at once silly and tearfully sincere.
Franco held him back from the microphone; Ill wonder forever what he wouldve said.
I enjoyed the minor acts of rebellion, presenters transforming the act of presentation into playful defiance.
Natalie Portman teed up the all-male nominees in the Best Director prize.
Well, why not?
Will presenters at the upcoming awards shows so purposefully deconstruct the prizes theyre handing out?
Am I talking too much about past hosts?
He freely named names, throwing out early mentions of Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey.
The laughter could be nervous, but Meyers was borderline whimsical in his fury.
What are you gonna do, shrugged Poehler, onstage to hand out a prize.
Its a weird year!
True, but the weird years are memorable ones.
It was a speech so rich in oratory that everyone now assumes Winfrey is running for something.
Politics isnt entertainment, much as a certain TV-addled president wishes otherwise.
So I was inspired, too, by the speech that followed Oprahs.
Since childhood, Ive been faithful to monsters.
I have been saved and absolved by them.
Because monsters, I believe, are patron saints of our blissful imperfection.
Its a movie for our moment that will survive into a better one.
The orchestra tried to play him off, and del Toro convinced them otherwise.
Lower the music, guys!
Its taken 25 years.
Give me a minute!
Everyone got their minute at the 2018 Golden Globes.
And even the imperfections left me blissful.A-
