I don't have cable. Hell, aside from a DVD every now and then, I barely turn my television on. But Gary Dretzka's TV Barn column makes me wish I did have cable, if only for an hour. It seems that Trio's got sixty salacious minutes making the rounds. A modest tell-all ditty from When We Were Kings director Vikram Jayanti called The Golden Globes: Hollywood's Dirty Little Secret. The doc goes into length on how the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the junket whores behind the Golden Globes, is granted endless loot and, well beyond the shameful nod to Pia Zidora in 1982 and other dubious merits, the awards ceremony is inclined to favor young, dumb, and full of come mythos.
Jeffrey Wells has more on the subject: "With relatively few exceptions, the HFPA members are a bunch of eager-beaver pseudo-journalists (a fair portion of them write for publications in Germany and Japan) who smile much too broadly and get far too excited when celebrities are in the room. They're not ardent admirers of the art of motion pictures as much as people who appreciate huge bowls of tasty shrimp sitting on studio-supplied buffet tables. They're pigs who squeal on cue in order to flatter Hollywood and keep themselves feeding at the trough."
It's not unlike what seems to be going down in the literary world of late, at least as Choire Sicha reports it.
(It looks like there was some serendipity in finding the links, but Greencine Daily led me to Wells.)
Posted by DrMabuse at December 11, 2003 09:22 AM