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PEOPLE & ARTSSaturday 9 January 2016
20 Golden Globes: Producer Barry Adelman shares show secrets
SANDY COHEN little bit.” Executive producer Barry Adelman speaks at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. A
AP Entertainment Writer Adelman and his team veteran TV producer, Adelman will put on his 20th Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, Jan. 10,
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Every from Dick Clark Productions 2016.
year around this time, Barry do that by cultivating the
Adelman experiences a show’s trademark party at- (Todd Williamson/Invision/AP)
dream come true. mosphere.
He’s the man behind the “We have Champagne on ett, Melissa McCarthy and Keaton, Lady Gaga, Jenni- Golden Globes is “the stat-
Golden Globes. every table and we have Matt Damon are among fer Lopez, Jamie Foxx, Amy ure of the show has grown
The veteran TV producer an open bar,” he said. “We the nominees. Tom Hanks, Adams, Kevin Hart, Kate immensely.”
will put on his 20th Golden have free-flowing Cham- Will Ferrell, Chris Evans and Hudson and Channing Ta- “The bookings have be-
Globe Awards on Sunday. pagne and food, so it’s Kate Bosworth were an- tum. come the best bookings on
And again, he’ll get that much more festive.” nounced Friday as the lat- Adelman said the biggest TV,” he said. “It’s an amaz-
pinch-me feeling, remem- Fourth-time host Ricky Ger- est presenters to join a ros- change he’s observed ing spectacle that nobody
bering when he watched vais told Ellen DeGeneres ter that includes Michael over his 20 years with the can duplicate.”q
the show as a young man on her show that booze
in Chicago. gives him the courage to
“Even then, the Golden make his wince-inducing
Globes was a legendary jokes. “If I didn’t drink, I
show that people talked wouldn’t be brave enough
about,” he said in an inter- to say some of the things
view Thursday. “To now be I’m going to say,” Gervais
in charge of it is kind of a said. He also blamed alco-
dream come true.” hol in a pre-emptive apol-
Adelman has received ogy posted on Twitter last
nine Emmy nominations week: “Because I can see
for his work on the Golden the future, I’d like to apol-
Globes (among his 17 over- ogise now for the things I
all nods), so he can em- said at next week’s Golden
pathize with the nominees Globes. I was drunk...”
inside the Beverly Hilton’s More than 125 famous
International Ballroom on faces will be in the audi-
show night. ence when Gervais takes
“As a nominee, there’s a the stage during the NBC
nervousness that you feel,” live broadcast. Will Smith,
he said. “What we try to do Leonardo DiCaprio, Jenni-
is take the edge off that a fer Lawrence, Cate Blanch-
TV Critics Watch:
How Anthony Hopkins views his relationship with Shakespeare
The Associated Press Sir Anthony Hopkins appears onstage during “The Dresser” pan- but they come up and of- singer Lisa Marie Presley
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — el at the Starz 2016 Winter TCA on Friday, Jan. 8, 2016, in Pasa- fer me a job and I say, ‘OK.’ and the granddaughter of
A roundup of news Friday dena, Calif. We are mad. We want to the late Elvis Presley, who
from the Television Critics be loved. We want more, would have turned 81 on
Association winter meeting, (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP) more.” Friday.
at which TV networks and McKellen, who had never “My mother has seen the
streaming services are pre- He returned to King Lear, “The Dresser” has already shared a stage or screen show. She likes it. She’s pret-
senting details on upcom- in a way. Hopkins is in the been shown on the BBC with Hopkins before this ty progressive. She under-
ing programs: movie version of “The and will appear on the project, said he’s never stands art,” Keough told a
Dresser,” a play adapta- Starz network this summer. thought of quitting. gathering of TV critics. “My
HOPKINS AS LEAR? tion in which he portrays an Hopkins said he appreciat- “You don’t have to stop,” grandfather, I have no idea
Unlike many actors of his old actor who performs the ed the character and the he said. “There will always because I never met him. I
generation, Anthony Hop- Shakespeare role in war- need of actors to act. be a part for an old geezer really don’t want to show
kins says he had an uneasy time England. Ian McKellen “Did I ever want to quit?” in the corner of the stage.” men in my family the show,
relationship with the work of is his dresser, the backstage he asked. to be honest.”
William Shakespeare. friend who gets him ready “Yes, several times. Every KEOUGH’S NEW SHOW The 13-episode series shares
His background — he grew for each performance. day I think about quitting Riley Keough is starring in a title with the 2009 movie
up wanting to be a musi- a new TV show she really directed by Steven Soder-
cian, not an actor — had wouldn’t want her grand- bergh, who met Keough
something to do with it. But father to have seen. when she appeared in his
Hopkins, 78, admitted Fri- The 26-year-old actress movie “Magic Mike.”
day it was fear he wasn’t plays a law student and law “I had a sense I was kind of
up to the material that led firm intern who gets drawn scratching the surface of
him to Hollywood and mov- into the world of women her capabilities,” he said.
ie-making largely fulltime who provide emotional Keough’s character jug-
after playing King Lear on and sexual relationships at gles two different lives and
the British stage in 1986. a high price. quickly gets drawn into
“Now, after all these years, I “The Girlfriend Experience” the GFE world, attracted
know how to do it,” Hopkins debuts April 10 on Starz. to the rush of control and
said. Keough is the daughter of intimacy.q
