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PEOPLE & ARTS Tuesday 8 January 2019

Snubs, surprises and a Satanic shout-out? Key Globes moments

By JOCELYN NOVECK Dick Cheney. After thank- attendees wore ribbons of change,” she said. “I At least Lady Gaga didn’t
Associated Press ing castmates and director saying “TIMESUPx2,” mark- am not fooling myself. Next go home empty-handed:
It was a moment when ev- Adam McKay, he extend- ing the second year of the year could be different. She won as a co-writer for
eryone — absolutely ev- ed a “thank you to Satan gender equality move- But right now this moment best song, “Shallow,” which
eryone — expected to see she performs with Cooper
an ebullient Lady Gaga in “A Star is Born.” In her
climbing to the stage in speech, she too referred
her dramatic periwinkle to the challenges women
gown. Instead, a visibly face, not in the film industry
stunned Glenn Close got but in music. “As a woman
the Golden Globe. But her in music it is really hard to
deeply personal speech be taken seriously as mu-
about women’s need for sician and as a songwrit-
fulfillment outside the fam- er,” she said, adding that
ily soon had the crowd her co-writers “lifted me
on its feet, providing the up, they supported me.”
emotional highpoint of the Gaga wrote the song with
night. Mark Ronson, Anthony Ros-
A year ago the Golden somando and Andrew Wy-
Globes were all about att.
#MeToo and Time’s Up. A COLMAN’S ‘FAVOURITE’
year earlier, it was all about THING
politics. The 2019 Globes Not every speech had a
were much less overtly serious tone to it. Olivia Col-
activist or political, but man, who won best ac-
speeches by Close as well tress in a musical or com-
as co-host Sandra Oh and edy for ‘The Favourite,’ in
actress Regina King kept is- which she plays a comi-
sues of equality and diver- cally troubled queen, told
sity alive in a more personal the crowd: “I would like to
way. tell you how much this film
Oh, and of course there meant to me, but I can’t
was the usual Globes cra- think of it.” She also noted
ziness: “Bohemian Rhap- that one of her “favourite”
sody” as best drama? The things about making the
groundbreaking “Black This image released by NBC shows Regina King accepting the award for best supporting actress film was that she “ate con-
Panther” snubbed? And in a motion picture for her role in “If Beale Street Could Talk” during the 76th Annual Golden Globe stantly through the film.”
nothing for Bradley Cooper Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday, Jan. 6, 2019 in Beverly Hills, Calif. Associated Press WHAT WAS THAT, DUDE?
— really? Some notable We’re not really sure what
moments of the night, in no he was saying in his ram-
particular order: for giving me inspiration for ment. On the carpet was is real.” Soon after, Oh her- bling speech accepting
THE POWER OF NICE this role.” He also mused actress Alyssa Milano, who self won best actress in a TV the Cecil B. DeMille Award
Taking the stage for their that he might try to play sent the tweet that made drama for “Killing Eve,” and — especially when he start-
opening monologue, co- Senate Majority Leader #MeToo go viral; she noted thanked her parents, mov- ed talking about ships, and
hosts Oh and Andy Sam- Mitch McConnell next. that in the past year, a “re- ingly, in Korean. saying, “Tag, you’re it!”
berg had an explanation A DECENT NIGHT FOR ‘OLD ally wonderful sisterhood UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL But hey, Jeff Bridges is best
for why they’d been cho- MEN’ has formed.” It was actress When Close won best ac- known as a stoner icon in
sen: they were “the only “Mary Poppins Returns” Regina King of “If Beale tress in a movie drama, she “The Big Lebowski,” so it was
two people left in Holly- may have gone home Street Could Talk,” though, seemed as shocked as ev- sort of apt that he wasn’t so
wood who haven’t got- empty-handed, but who made the most mem- eryone else. But then the easy to follow. It was simply
ten in trouble for saying 93-year-old Dick Van Dyke, orable reference to Time’s 71-year-old actress made fun to experience his joy;
something offensive.” Then who has a wonderfully spry Up, resisting the orchestra’s a heartfelt connection it’s just too bad he wasn’t
they riffed on that by pre- cameo in the film, got a big efforts to play her off, and between her role in “The wearing a bathrobe. Harri-
tending to roast people by ovation when he came out vowing that in the next two Wife,” in which she plays son Ford, coming next, was
actually saying nice things. with Emily Blunt, who plays years, her producing proj- a wife who sublimates her even crustier than usual.
(“Bradley Cooper: You are Mary. And Michael Doug- ects would be staffed by 50 own ambitions to those of “Nobody told me I had to
hot!” ‘’Jeff Bridges, I wish las, winning his Globe for percent women. She chal- her husband in a stunning follow Jeff Bridges,” he said.
you were my Dad!”) The “The Kominsky Method,” lenged those in other indus- way, and her own life. “I am WOW, SHE KNOWS ME?
bit didn’t get uproarious exulted that “alte kakers tries to do the same. thinking of my mom who It was a sweet red car-
laughs but was pleasantly, rule!,” using the Yiddish term OH TURNS EMOTIONAL really sublimated herself to pet moment as Elisabeth
well, pleasant. for “old man.” The 74-year- After an opener with Sam- my father her whole life,” Moss, star of “The Hand-
BUT ... SATAN? old actor also dedicated berg full of zingers, Oh sud- Close said. She added that maid’s Tale,” discovered
Was this the first time Satan his award to his 102-year- denly became emotion- women are expected to that Taylor Swift was a fan.
got a shout-out in an ac- old father, Kirk Douglas. al, explaining that she’d be nurturers, “but we have Ryan Seacrest presented
ceptance speech? If so, A TIME’S UP CHALLENGE agreed to host the show to find personal fulfillment. her with a video from Swift,
we have Christian Bale to A year after the Globes — and overcome the fear We have to follow our gushing about the show.
thank. The Welsh actor was carpet was a sea of shim- — to celebrate the diver- dreams. We have to say, “I can’t believe she even
accepting his award for mering black, worn in soli- sity of the nominated casts. I can do that and I should knows who I am!!” Moss
“Vice,” in which he made darity with #MeToo and “I wanted to be here to be allowed to do that.” The exulted, showing that stars
a stunning transformation Time’s Up, colorful gowns look out on this audience crowd rose to cheer. can sometimes be exactly
into a chubby and bald were back — though some and witness this moment GAGA’S WIN like us.q