The Tube For 1/17/10: The Real Truth About The Golden Globes

First, more classic bashing at NBC (namely, Jeff Zucker and Dick Ebersol) from Julia Roberts ( though drunk), Tom Hanks.....


....And Tina Fey


But the real focus of this post isn't to make fun at arrogant NBC big wigs, but the overall BS that is the Golden Globes. Thank you real truth teller Nikki Finke

But that's why people tune in to the annual Golden Globes even though it's a completely meaningless awards show by a scandalous organization called the Hollywood Foreign Press Association on a network like NBC desperate for ratings. Because, over the years, Jack Nicholson has mooned the audience, Jim Carrey has talked out of his butt, Christine Lahti was locked in the bathroom, and other unscripted weirdness occurs at this intimate dinner. Including 1982's low point when Pia Zadora's husband bought her best "New Star Of The Year".

And that's the perennial problem with the Golden Globes: they have zero integrity. I've said it before and I'll say it again: studios and networks who lavishly lobby the HFPA usually score nominations. Stars win in direct correlation to their glamour quotient. Everything about the awards is geared towards hyping the media's interest and the telecast's ratings. Even the small motley group of freelancers who belong to the HFPA won't grant membership to the real foreign journalists at the prestige newspapers across the world. NBC and Dick Clark Productions could clean up the Globes but choose not to. Instead, the entire entertainment industry props up this pathetic show because it's seen as a night-long marketing tool.

I love when realness is spoken about "the powerful".

But hey.....at least Mike Tyson won!