Golden Globes Still Sounds Like a Porno Film to Me

It does! It's right up there with Lorenzo's Love Oil.

So I have to admit that I didn’t watch the Golden Globes last night. I was at the movies watching Brokeback Mountain instead. It’s a pretty good excuse. It’s a pretty good movie. I stand by my earlier statement that King Kong should win best picture, but I’m pretty sure it won’t. Brokeback Mountain probably will. It was a really good film.

But more about the Globes. I told my students that the contest for Best Actor would be between Philip Seymore Hoffman for Capote and Juaquin Phoenix for Walk the Line, and I’m happy to see the globes got that part right. My vote would go to Hoffman but the good money will stick with Phoenix in the more commercial movie. It also looks like a good year for Reese Witherspoon, Rachel Weisz, and George Clooney, although Will Farrell could sneak in come Oscar time for Best Supporting actor and, even though he wasn’t nominated for a Globe, I still think Jack Black should be considered for King Kong.

But for me the best thing about the Globes is that Hugh Laurie won Best Actor in a Drama series for House. The idea of Hugh Laurie, one of the best British comic actors, The Prince Regent from Blackadder, one half of Frye and Laurie, the absolute perfect, consummate, wonderful Bertie Wooster, should win an award as a dramatic actor is priceless. Most people who have seen the show probably don’t even know he’s English, let alone the best comic actor in the world not named Cleese or Atkinson. And, of course, the show is great. It deserves the props.

As for the rest; eh. Desperate Housewives is not a comedy and they should stop nominating it as such. Ang Lee is a great director, The Hulk not withstanding. It’s all just a big marketing ploy anyway. But Brokeback Mountain did win best picture and it should repeat come February.