Last evening the snarl of traffic started up early in Beverly Hills during rush-hour on the approach to Wilshire & Santa Monica Blvd where the Foreign Press Association is gearing up for their annual splashy soiree.
Delivery trucks, set dressers, and party organizers descended on the ritzy Beverly Hilton Hotel to do their magic for the Golden Globe red carpet ceremonies about to light up Tinseltown tomorrow night on Sunday, January 13th in Beverly Hills.
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are slated to host the 70th Annual event - which should be a hoot - with the winsome twosome at the helm!
Coincidentally, both women of-the-hour are up for a coveted statuette this year (competing against each other, in fact, in the same category). Fey (30 Rock) and Poehler (Parks and Recreation) are both nominated for best actress in a television series (comedy or musical).
There may be some hair-pulling and eye-scratching backstage, don't 'ya think, in true Hollywood-style fashion? Oh, would I like to be a fly on the wall on that soundstage!
Other nominees this year include Steven Speilberg for Best Director (Lincoln) with acting nods going to Daniel Day-Lewis (Best Leading Actor), Tommy Lee Jones (Best Supporting Actor) and Sally Field (Best Supporting Actress) for work on the same celebrated film which nabbed 7 nominations in total.
"Lincoln" led Thursday's Academy Award nominations with 12 nominations, by the way.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association nominated a handful of dramatic films with widespread appeal across the board this year which included Tarentino’s “Django Unchained”; Ben Affleck’s “Argo”; Kathryn Bigelow’s controversial film about the capture and murder of Osama bin Laden “Zero Dark Thirty”; and Ang Lee’s shipwreck adventure “Life Of Pi”.
The best comedy or musical nominees in the film genre include “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel”, “Les Miserables”, “Moonrise Kingdom”, “Salmon Fishing in Yemen”, and “Silver Linings Playbook”.
Of course, the big spotlight will be on the red carpet and the talented, scandal-ridden stars, who trot down it.
A-list celebrities expected to turn out and offer up entertaining (or off-the-wall boring) speeches at the podium include George Clooney (a darling of the foreign press), Meryl Streep (always suffering from an embarrassment of riches), Jennifer Lopez (fat rump, and all), Adele (slated to perform, if I’m not mistaken), Jeremy Irons (a respected actor), Robert Pattinson (still top stud with the teens), Taylor Swift (dressed to-the-nines, I expect), Josh Brolin (in spite of a recent run-in with the law and a night in the slammer drunk as-a-skunk), Bradley Cooper (hunk of the year) to name a few.
In addition to awards being bestowed on Hollywood talent for acting, directing, costumes, set-dressing etc., there will be special presentations during the course of the evening.
For example, The Cecil B. DeMille Award (honoring the lifetime achievements of actors and filmmakers) will be presented to seasoned pro “Jodie Foster”.
Millions of TV viewers from around the globe will be tuning in to catch all the hoopla, glittering outfits, and hear it live first on the old boob tube, when some performer blurts out an unexpected "F" bomb in an unanticpated moment of excitement, or suffers a mishap (wardrobe malfunction?) on stage as the world gazes on in amusement.
See ‘ya there, eh?
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