Golden (Globes) Night in Hollywood - Part Two

I am glad that they are airing the show live for us Californians finally! I never figured out why they would start the show at 8 pm for us and make us stay up late - so NBC, thank you for this one.

Some of the highlights of the show:

Ricky Gervais's funny monologue - taking potshots at his good friend Steve Carell, at Hollywood (looking at all the great work done by... plastic surgeons), NBC (let's get on with it before NBC replaces me with Jay Leno), Angelina Jolie etc. He did a decent job in all his bits through the presentation.

Nicole Kidman presented the first award for Best Supporting Actress that went to Monique from Precious (am yet to watch the flick but I heard it's amazing yet depressing). While on the subject, am not sure why Nicole Kidman chose not to wear a bra/pasties or something - wearing that gorgeous outfit, one would imagine that there would be attention to detail on the stylist's part at least. Toni Collette looking gorgeous in a shimmering outfit accepted Best Actress in TV Comedy. John Lithgow accepted an award too. Do not like Felicity Huffman's outfit. Jane Krakowski 9looking fabulous) and Neil Patrick Harris presented the Best Actor in Drama award to Michael C Hall who recently revealed that he is battling cancer. Best Actress in TV Drama went to my favourite Julianna Margulies for one of my favourite new shows The Good Wife. Loved her outfit too - the asymmetric neckline rocked.

Cher and Christina Aguilera looking suitably funky presented the award for best song which went to the song from Crazy Heart - I was bummed that I See You from Avatar did not win - Leona Lewis did a good job and I just loved the song itself. Best Original Score went to Up. They keep showing Kate Winslet in the audience and she looks very pretty. Amy Adams looked charming, and with Josh Brolin, presented the award to Grey Gardens for Best Mini-Series or TV Movie. Drew Barrymore was there with Justin Long so it looks like their on-off relationship is on again. Colin Farrell presented the Best Actress Comedy award to Meryl Streep and Sam Worthington, looking dapper as usual, along with Zoe Saldana, presented awards to Drew Barrymore, Kevin Bacon. Jennifer Aniston was a presenter and looked fab. She was more confident this time around as a presenter, as compared to the last time she did that - methinks it's because a certain Mr. and Mrs. Smith were not present at the awards show. Alec Baldwin won in his category (again) but he always does a fabulous job no matter what his role.

Sofia Loren got a standing ovation from everyone and her royal fabulousness presented the award for best Foreign Language film to White Ribbon. Zachary Levi (who I saw in this movie called All about Ray and loved by the way; I also like him in Chuck) and Amy Poehler (love love love Parks & Recreation) presented the Best Dramatic Series to Mad Men. Taylor Lautner (ever poised and confident) introduced 500 Days of Summer (another movie on my To Watch list). Choloe Sevigny (did not understand her dress choice by the way - it made her look like a frilly pillow case or something) nabbed Best Supporting Actress in a TV series, Halle Berry looking super fit and fab presented the Best Actor in a Supporting role in movie award. It was good to see Robert DeNiro and Leonardo DiCaprio reminisce as they honoured Martin Scorsese (as I was looking him up I discovered that he shares my birthday - fancy that!!). He got a standing ovation, deservedly so. He graciously shared his award with all his collaborators on all his movies.

I was very happy to see James Cameron win Best Director Motion Picture for Avatar - he completely deserved it. He acknowledged the director of The Hurt Locker (this movie is slowly gaining ground - another one on my To Watch in the near future list). Glee took home honours for Best TV Series - Comedy/Musical. It was a treat to see the cast of Hangover present their movie and it also won top honours for Best Motion Picture - Comedy. If you haven't watched it already, please please watch it - it's FUN. The Governator introduced Avatar - pronounced Aavadaar - he also took potshots at NBC. Sandra Bullock won for The Blind Side. Robert Downey won for Sherlock Holmes - his acceptance speech proved that he's as crazy as ever :). Avatar won Best Picture. And that's how the first awards of the year concluded.

Golden (Globes) Night in Hollywood - Part One

Sunday evening 4 pm:
Grocery shopping for the week - check
Spot of cooking for the week - check
Golden Globes Red Carpet - here I come. I am writing this blog as I watch the red carpet and the show. This first post is dedicated to the red carpet. Part Deux will be more about the show itself - Ricky Gervais as the host - am certain it will be fun. Enjoy!

E Channel had Giuliana Rancic and Ryan Seacrest working the red carpet and interviewing celebrities as they came in. They are veterans now at chatting up the stars and did a good job as expected. Billy Bush on the other hand was blundering his way through the red carpet on NBC - I swear that the guy sometimes does not know what to say. Natalie Morales did a decent job and tried to hold fort.

Some of the standouts on the red carpet for me: the lovely Emily Blunt looking like a vision in pink, Courtney Cox for once looking good - she usually takes risks on the red carpet and has never managed to pull it off except for tonight in my opinion, Kate Hudson and Kristen Bell looking pretty in white, Lisa Edelstein from House was gorgeous in silver. Sandra Bullock was in a fetching colour. The cast of Glee looked very well put together - I hope they do well. Julia Roberts, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson took potshots at NBC regarding the late night fiasco going on currently. Jennifer Garner looked pretty but alarmingly thin to me. Regarding the guys I really have nothing to say unless someone comes in wearing a garbage bag - the guys do well if they have a suit or a tux on.

Now for the "What were they thinking" - Tina Fey - love the gal but hated her outfit. She needs to sit down the stylist for a serious chat. Mariah Carey - never know what he is thinking but she had her globes out for the night (could not let that opportunity to take a shot pass). I think she would have looked better if she covered them up. I was not a fan of Sofia Vergara's outfit - I think the bow thing was not working for me. Heather Graham's outfit would have looked better if she had gone with an outfit with a symmetrical length but that girl will look good in anything. Absolutely did NOT like Patrcia Arquette's outfit but luckily the gal had a smashing accessory in the form of her handsome husband, Thomas Jane, on her arm. I had no idea what Quentin Tarantino had on.

So those were some of my likes and dislikes - let me know what you thought. Click here to check out some of the red carpet arrivals.

Some pics for you: