As the Globe Turns
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As the Globe Turns
Carrie Rickey, Film Critic
As predicted, "Slumdog Millionaire" was the big winner at Sunday's Golden Globes, four statuettes in all, taking honors for best picture, best director (Danny Boyle), best screenplay (Simon Beaufoy's adaptation of the Indian novel "Q & A") and best score (A.R. Rahman's lively score and of-the-nanosecond soundtrack). Boyle sidestepped recent slams of him and his movie by thanking his co-director, Loveleen Tandan, the India-born casting director who found the winning young actors, coached them and convinced Boyle and his producers that the film would have more authenticity if the Mumbai street urchins spoke Hindi. The HBO miniseries "John Adams" likewise swept the awards for TV drama, winning the top prize and acting awards for leads Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney and for supporting actor Tom Wilkinson.
Unsurprisingly, Heath Ledger took supporting actor honors for his role as The Joker in "The Dark Knight."
Kate Winslet, gasping because although often nominated, she had never before won an award, who won two in one evening for roles that demanded both intense sexuality and mystery: supporting actress for "The Reader," as a German woman who seduces a young student, and lead actress for "Revolutionary Road," as a suburban homemaker and mother disillusioned in her marriage. Sister Brit actress Sally Hawkins, a delight in the film "Happy-Go-Lucky," took the prize for best actress in a film comedy and likewise could scarcely voice her thanks.
For his last-chance valedictory as a showman in the ring, "The Wrestler," Mickey Rourke was honored best actor in a film drama and gave an weirdly moving tribute to his companion -- his Chihuahua., Loki: "Sometimes when you're alone, all you got is your dog and they meant the world to me," he said, honoring pets past and present. In other interviews Rourke has described Loki as a quadruped antidepressant: "She's like a giant Xanax, you know."
So, did you watch? Happy with the winners? I preferred Sean Penn's performance in "Milk," but by and large I was happy with these awards voted on by 87 freeloading freelancers. Favorite quote? Hairdo? Frock? Show all work.
Hi, Carrie. The Contrarian here. While you preferred Sean, I was smitten with Clint this year. Some unsolicited obsedrvations: 1. Tina Fey. She's supposed to be a writer, correct? So how disappointing was it to hear to yell "suck this" not once, but twice, to the anonymous internet twerps? Real mature. And moving on, how much more overrated can "30 Rock" become? I am so over Baldwin. 2. Yes, the Hollywood Foreign Press consists of a bunch of freeloaders but, speaking as someone who was a professional movie critic for far too long than it's healthy to be, I have to confess that I felt like a freeloader during most of my career. 2. Pia Zadora. Are we still alarmed, after 20 years, that she was honored with a Golden Globe? I can think of way more Oscar botches - George Charkris for "West Side Story" (winning over Montgomery Clift for "Judgment at Nurmeburg"), Goldie Hawn for "Cactus Flower" (winning over Susannah York for "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?") and "Hoop Dreams," the amazing doc that wasn't even nominated that year - to name but a few. I'd wager that the Oscars have many more bizarre transgressions than the Golden Globes. Besides, I actually liked Pia in the film for which she was honored ("Butterfly"). --The Contrarian— Pash
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