Golden Globes Ceremony scrapped

[bigworld]

Source: BBC News

This year's Golden Globes ceremony is to be scrapped and replaced with a news conference amid a strike by writers over royalties, organisers say.The winners will now be revealed in an hour-long conference next Sunday that replaces the dinner and ceremony.

Hollywood actors had vowed to boycott the event in support of the writers.Without top actors present, TV networks had threatened not to screen the film and TV awards, regarded as second in prestige only to the Oscars.

Jorge Camara, president of the Golden Globe organisers, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, said: "We are all very disappointed that our traditional awards ceremony will not take place this year and that millions of viewers worldwide will be deprived of seeing many of their favourite stars."

The conference revealing the film and TV award winners will be aired at 1800 local time (0200 GMT) next Sunday in Beverly Hills.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7176095.stm

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. Wow - good for the actors!

That's awesome!

[AndyA]

2. Hmmm...somehow, I suspect we will all survive being deprived of seeing

our favorite stars.

[Mike Daniels]

9. Yep, one less circle jerk of entertainment types slapping themselves on the back

for a job well done.

I love the whole range of the performing arts but I can't think of any "real" reason why the awards can't be announced through a simple press release vs. the orgy of self-congratulation that's shown on TV each year.

And yes, even though ehe Globes are awarded by a reporter/news group affiliated with the entertainment industry vs. industry practioners themselves I don't consider it that much different than any other awards program.

[Hardrada]

17. We won't have to see Jack Nicholson and those fucking

sunglasses up in thr front row grinning the whole time. Thank God!

[katty]

29. yes, no great loss for humanity

[Book Lover]

3. This strike is the best thing to happen to US culture in the past 8 years (nm)

[Chovexani]

20. Except for the myriad of ordinary Joes and Janes working in the industry

But I guess those union members don't matter, do they?

[Book Lover]

26. I said culture, not employment (nm)

[Donnachaidh]

4. Another reason -- (most) actors CANNOT ad lib.

Not wanting to cross the picket lines is just one reason. The more important one is not wanting to have to come up with witty repartee, without a writer involved. Better to look good than open your mouth and look dumb.

[customerserviceguy]

6. I'd venture to guess that you will hear plenty

from at least one actor who wins a long-deserved award, and is denied a moment in the sun to celebrate it publicly. The movies and television shows that have been nominated have been performed long before the strike. Imagine getting your doctorate degree, and not being able to have a graduation ceremony because workers to set up the podium and chairs would not cross a professors' picket line. Some people are going to deal with this situation with less tolerance than others...

[Mike Daniels]

10. They still get their award. They just don't get to accept it in front of a television audience

Again, there's no real reason any of these awards ceremonies couldn't be conducted as a small ceremony with the winners announced via press-release or news conference.

[superconnected]

31. That's what I was thinking. I'm very sad about this.

I'm in the middle on the writer strike. Plus I absolutely don't support some of the things the writers are saying. But then I'm an indie filmmaker who doesn't believe writers should have ownership forever on something, but should be paid for the work they did up front and be done with the project like everyone else. The producers should own the show imo. Other than that, paying writers more is fine in my book.

[tomreedtoon]

7. Much as I support the writers, you're wrong, Donnachaidh.

The actors in every award show I've seen in my life sound terrible with the lines written for them. I think that writing "funny" lines for award shows, to be read by brain-dead people like Britney Spears, is kind of a fraternity hazing that all Hollywood writers must endure before they're really allowed to write.

We've gotten rid of the Golden Globes, perhaps forever...now let's kill the Oscars!

[saigon68]

8. You can catch Britney Spears on the "Insider" every night

At 6:30 PM in my area. She is the "NEW" Anna Nicole-Smith. ( I often wonder who watches this stuff.)

LOL

[ronnykmarshall]

11. Here's a news flash.

A lot of us like the award shows.

[Chovexani]

23. We're mindless infotained sheeple

[superconnected]

32. Alright, I agree, kill the oscars.

[ChazII]

5. This is also a win

for our environment.

[rocktivity]

12. Bad news for the Style and TV Guide Channels

How are they going to did what everyone's wearing?


rocknation

[rocktivity]

25. Oops, I mean how can the Style and TV guide Channels

DISS what everyone is wearing?


rocknation

[Hell Hath No Fury]

13. Snark all you want...

but 1000s of jobs just went bye-bye with the cancellation. An award show of this magnitude brings with it huge $$$ for the community -- from musicians, to camerapersons, to security, drivers, caterers, florists, waitstaff, bartenders, busers, cooks, hair stylists, make-up artists, seamstresses and tailors, moving companies, rental companies -- the list goes on and on.

I sincerely hope the Producers and WGA can come to an agreement soon, for everyone involved.

[allisonthegreat]

18. Oh well someone should have come to an agreement then, no? nt

[Chovexani]

22. How very Republican of you.

Interesting that people don't talk this kind of weak ass Republican anti-union shit when it's machinists or factory workers on strike, but the entertainment industry isn't "real" work to douches who think TV is all stupid infotainment and therefore don't value the people who make it.

Look at the credits of the average TV show, the faces on the screen constitute a small minority of the people who actually make this shit go. And each one of those people has to support themselves and their partners and families.

[allisonthegreat]

30. I am a yellow dog democrat man! n/t

[Chovexani]

21. People around here make me sick on this issue

Everyone working in entertainment doesn't make 100s of thousands per episode. There are countless people that work very hard to put these shows on the air and their families are suffering because of this strike.

DU is disgustingly ignorant sometimes.

[Mike Daniels]

27. Why should we care about a self-congratulatory production?

Seriously, what's stopping the awards from happening on some capacity w/out television coverage. From my perspective, the writers are needed exclusively to make the show palatable for viewing by the television public.

If these people want to award themselves they are more than capable of still doing so. They just won't be seen doing so by the general American public.

[Felix Mala]

14. All in all, I think this is a net gain for culture in our country.

[Javaman]

15. The guys name is Camera????? nt

[LisaM]

16. Why won't the producers bargain?

It's a little hard to get good solid facts on the details of the talks, but I don't think the writers' demands seem that outrageous.

[allisonthegreat]

19. The writer's demands are minimal..they just want what is rightly theirs..n/t

[LisaM]

28. I believe it

I just have not had luck finding a list of specific demands (I know much of it relates to royalties on DVDs).

[bikebloke]

24. That's it, matey!

Just for that, I'm boycotting the Golden Globes this year.




*On a serious note, I don't think I've ever seen it. My everlasting loss for sure.

[mitchum]

33. Poor Rumer Willis...won't someone think of the children???!!!