Tally Briggs / Actress at Large

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The Golden Globes
Warning:  Chances are I am going to contradict myself many times in the following rant….
So what.  I’m a girl.  I am biologically designed to do that.

I have a love/hate thing with the Golden Globe awards.  A very small group of Foreign Press folk
take it upon themselves to presume to know talent, and quality in filmmaking and television.
These are journalists.  Not Actors, not Directors, not Screenwriters.  Journalists.
(So very smug and arrogant… so republican.)

In such contrast to The Oscars by AMPAS (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)
or the Emmy awards, both of which are nominated and voted on my peers in the industry.
Take this year’s current nominations:

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE - MUSICAL OR COMEDY

JIM CARREY                The Grinch

GEORGE CLOONEY    O Brother, Where Art Thou?

JOHN CUSACK            High Fidelity

ROBERT DE NIRO       Meet The Parents

MEL GIBSON              What Women Want

Jim Carrey???????  Why?
What the hell is that about?
The Grinch?????
What about Christopher Guest in BEST IN SHOW?   Please.

Not one mention for Finding Forrester.
Booooooo!

Well, TITUS was the best film of 1998, and only three people saw that (two people other than me),
even though Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange were in it.  Oh well.

Ok, there are some good ones:
CSI!!!   YEAH!  CSI – nomination for BEST TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA!!!!
WoooHOOOO!  Along with THE WEST WING & THE SOPRANOS!
OK, THE PRACTICE & ER also…. Nice!

Great choices for:

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA

JESSICA ALBA                   Dark Angel  (YEAH!)

LORRAINE BRACCO        The Sopranos  (natch)

AMY BRENNEMAN           Judging Amy

EDIE FALCO                       The Sopranos  (also natch)

SELA WARD                       Once and Again  (brilliant!)

But…… then there’s: SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR
Buffy The Vampire Slayer

What???????

What about Gillian Anderson from THE X-FILES??????
UFFY????  (Oh, I guess X-Files is just old hat now…. Not fashionable anymore.  Whatever.)

Ok, moving on to:

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA

ANDRE BRAUGHER            Gideon’s Crossing  (nice choice!)

JAMES GANDOLFINI          The Sopranos (also also natch)

ROB LOWE                           The West Wing (impressive – but why is he in this category?)

DYLAN McDERMOTT         The Practice

MARTIN SHEEN                  The West Wing  (wooHOOOO!)

And...............

WILL & GRACE GETS FIVE NOMINATIONS!
YEAAAAAAAAAH!
Best Comedy & all FOUR of them too!  Yeah!

Allison Janney & Bradley Whitford (CJ & Josh from WEST WING)
also nominated in Supporting Actor categories.
(If Rob Lowe is in a Leading Actor category, these two should be as well.)

So, in my typical female biased fashion, I will raise a frosted flute full of bubbles
to those I love, and not give a fig about those I don’t, after all ~ It’s only the Golden Globes.
The real Super Bowl is the Academy Awards - for outstanding film achievements of 2000.
They will be presented on March 25, 2001, at the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium.
Sunday at the Oscars® will be televised live by the ABC Television Network beginning at 5 p.m.
(PST), with a half-hour arrivals segment preceding the presentation ceremony.

The 58th Annual Golden Globe Awards will take place Sunday, January 21, 2001,
with a live telecast airing on NBC at 8 PM (EST) and produced by dick clark productions
in association with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

Of course….. I’d LOVE to receive any of the above, who am I kidding!

 
 

 

 

 

 
 
 

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