During the whole week preceding the 78th annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony, the HFPA's "lack of diversity" within its membership was fiercely exposed. This smearing campaign started after Feb. 21, 2021, L.A. Times article by Josh Rottenberg and Stacy Perman, achieved its goals in full. In their opening coast-to-coast "monologues", Tina Fey and Amy Poehler both addressed this controversy: "The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is made up of around ninety international non-black journalists" … [Read more...]
The Globes
I wanted badly to comment the Globes, but I’m letting the specialists to do this, and my thinking will come later, less about the awarding, more about the films. I’ve noticed the grudge against Ricky Gervais from people with nothing to do with the movie industry. One former waitress and actual wife and mother who "personally can't stand Angelina Jolie" [sic] was feeling bad for her when the comedian joked about the cartoon named The Tourist, with all his 6.o imdb rate. Here you have the … [Read more...]