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Mamma Mia! ‘Rhapsody’ upsets ‘Star Is Born’ at Globes
By JAKE COYLE, AP Film Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Thunder bolt and lightning rocked the 76th Golden Globes where a string of upsets culminated with the Freddie Mercury biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody” winning best picture, drama, over another movie about musicians: Brad- ley Cooper’s much more heavily favored “A Star Is Born.”
“A Star Is Born” came into Sunday’s cere- mony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, as the presumed heavy- weight and Oscar favorite. But Cooper’s remake went home with just one award, for the song “Shallow.” Instead, the night’s final two awards went to “Bohemian Rhapso- dy” — the popular but poorly reviewed drama about Queen’s frontman, a movie that wrapped after jettisoning its director, Bryan Singer — and best actor-winner Rami Malek for his full-bodied, prosthetic
teeth-aided performance as Mercury. “Thank you to Freddie Mercury for
giving me the joy of a lifetime,” said Malek. “This is for you, gorgeous.”
Few nominees were considered more of
a sure thing than Lady Gaga as best actress in a drama. But Glenn Close pulled off
the shocker in that category, too, for her performance in “The Wife,” as the spouse of a Nobel Prize-winning author. Met with a standing ovation, Close said she was think- ing of her mother, “who really sublimated herself to my father her whole life.”
“We have to find personal fulfillment. We have to follow our dreams,” said Close, drawing still louder cheers from women in the crowd. “We have to say I can do that and I should be allowed to do that.”
It’s Close’s second Globe in 14 nods. She’s never won an Oscar.
A year after Oprah Winfrey’s fiery an-
ti-Donald Trump speech at the Globes, pol- itics were largely absent from the ceremony before Christian Bale took the stage for winning best actor in a musical or comedy for his lead performance in Adam McKay’s “Vice.” He thanked the antichrist.
“What do you think? Mitch McConnell next?” joked the Welsh-born actor, referring to the Senate’s majority leader. “Thank you to Satan for giving me inspiration for this role.”
Co-hosts Sandra Oh and Andy Samberg opened the Globes, put on by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, on a note of con- geniality, including a mock roast of attendees and a string of jokes that playfully critiqued Hollywood. Oh performed an impression
of a sexist caveman film executive who casts like the title of Damien Chazelle’s Neil Arm- strong drama: “First ... man!”
Noting the success of “Crazy Rich Asians,” Oh alluded to films with white stars in Asian
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