Sunday night was full of A-list stars as they walked the red carpet for the 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in the International ballroom. Including Julia Roberts, who I thought appeared to dip in the sauce a little too much what with her unusual behavior and body, uh, movements.
The extravagant event was hosted by Ricky Gervais. The Brit-comedian spared no one and no subject was too taboo for him. He had the whole ballroom laughing with his opening monologue. He talked about plastic surgery faces in the crowd, his penis and how he would rather be at home masturbating than hosting. In addition, he shamelessly plugged his DVDs and the Ricky Gervais Show to fill the time allotted to him. The time was two hours, and Gervais reportedly said no way to singing and dancing--doing as little as possible. However, once in a while he did manage to pick up a glass full of what I could only imagine was scotch, or bourbon, or some other manly drink.
The infamous violins cut a couple award acceptors speeches off. Thank god for some stars, like Drew Barrymore, who was on the verge of tears and made absolutely no sense repeating the same thing over and over…and over. The starlet is on my best-dressed list of the night, but unfortunately she also took the bumbling idiot award of the night too.
Monique, who won Best Supporting Actress, gave the most eloquent and thoughtful speech of the night, praising the good Lord himself for her success…really? God, was the one who had the performance of their career in Precious?
On the other end of the speech spectrum was the winner for Best Actor in a Comedy, Robert Downey, Jr. who thanked no one but himself, joking of course. His speech was well received, being it was towards the end of the night and the crowd was getting antsy to hear who would win Best Picture.
Winning Best Picture was James Cameron’s $240-million green-screen epic, Avatar—no surprise there. Jeff Bridges won the Best Actor in a motion picture category for the film Crazy Heart…which had me wondering is this movie even in theaters yet? All I know is T-Bone Burnett, the man behind the Johnny Cash biopic Walk The Line, had to do something with it. A good guess would be music no? Well who is this one about? Things that make you go hmmmmm…
There was no shortage of cracks regarding the NBC network controversy between late-night talk show hosts, Conan O’Brien and Jay Leno. All in good taste? It seems whatever keeps the night going and people from falling asleep gets the thumbs up.
The earthquake torn country of Haiti made an appearance at the awards too. Nicole Kidman encouraged stars and viewers to give whatever they could…I’m sure me giving a blanket will go further than Brad Pitts million dollars and Angelina adopting a Haitian. A presenter, whose name shall be forgotten since I lost my pen in the couch, had the sole purpose of bringing attention to George Clooney’s telethon this Friday at 8 p.m.
On to the good stuff: my best-dressed list. Kate Hudson took the number one slot with a white, wedding-like gown made by Marchesa. Rounding out the list was Cameron Diaz, January Jones of Mad Men, Taylor Lautner, Glenn Close, the former drug-addict Drew Barrymore, Marion Cotillard, Maggie Gyllenhaal and the likable and insensitive host Mr. Gervais.
There was not a really long list of worst-dressed, but there were a lot of mediocre looking stars. Here they are: Mickey Rourke, who is of no relation to me…praise the Lord. Diane Kruger, daughter of Freddy? Penelope Cruz, Julia Roberts, Kristen Bell, Mariah Carey and her bronzed, plastic chest (literally plastic-looking, like a D-cupped Barbie, boy you sure are lucky Nick Cannon), Nicole Kidman, sans her over-powdered face this time (guess that make-up artist was fired) and last but surely not least, the beautiful star of Avatar, Zoe Saldana. Sorry Zoe, but it looked like someone ripped your dress to shreds and then sewed it back together again, in less than two minutes. I wonder if it takes a lot of money to look that poor... I bet that gown was anything but cheap, nevertheless it was a hit and miss for Louis Vitton.
Gervais ended the night plugging The Ricky Gervais Show and wishing for “peace on Earth.”
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