My night watching the Globes with Carrie and Crystal.

[jlh]

I had it on a time delay (thank you, TIVO!) but caught up just in time for Denzel to give out the best picture-drama. All along, I was chatting away with wordplay and evil_erato. I love the Globes because everyone mingles between awards and gets drunk and they're sitting with their friends at big tables and they don't have a host and TV and movies are all together.

Well, at least they acknowledge what day it is. Thank you, Queen Latifah, who looks great! What a gorgeous color on her.
Why is Debi Mazar there? Does anyone still care enough to show her on screen? I mean, I love her, but I'm old school.
On Clooney: I said he was really good. It was the film that disappointed, not his performance. Even besides that, if you give yourself an injury that causes spinal fluid to come out of your nose, you should get at least a pin.
Aww, Heath winked at Michelle.
Go Rachel Weisz! She's married to an old classmate of mine but given that she's preggers I reckon I won't be seeing them at the reunion this spring.
I have loved Sandra Oh since I saw Double Happiness.
Crystal: This is totally gratuitous, but I can't help but appreciate Drew Berrymore's lack of a bra this evening :D
Jesse L. Martin still is and always will be a big pile of yum.
I love the cheer for Geena Davis, who looks just really amazing.
Kevin Bacon, cut your damn hair.
I want Evangeline Lilly's dress.
Hugh Laurie continues to rule me, and his shout out to Stephen Fry made me think of chinawolf squeeing away. However, I'm unsure why Fry was there; does anyone know what project he was affiliated with?
Dakota Johnson is really beautiful, and with those parents that really could have gone either way.
Okay, William Petersen is just the cutest thing ever, except for Ang Lee. Well, okay, not really cutest, but adorable and yet completely hot. Also, bearded.
Nancy Walls was always my favorite correspondent on The Daily Show, so I love the whole joke acceptance for Steve Carrell.
Tim Robbins, cut your damn hair.
Aww, after I'm sure many years of Matthew Broderick sitting at the Sex and the City table, SJP is sitting at the Producers table.
Hurrah for Reese, and Ryan was so cute and excited for her.
I know anw disagrees with me, but damn Chris Rock continues to be the funniest man on the planet. I just want to quote that entire routine.
Hurrah for Mary-Louise Parker!
Okay, love for Emma Thompson as well.
Given that Jonathan Rhys-Meyers won for Elvis, and was up against Kenneth Branagh playing FDR, I feel we get a couple byes on Amuricans playing Brits.
Cynthia Nixon looks great; being a lesbian must agree with her

Carrie: oh, honey, colin. please shave.
Carrie: he looks dreadful
Carrie: his eyes look all beady. damn.
Crystal: Colin Firth is intro-ing one of the movie clips, and he is delightfully scruffy tonight.
I'm with Crystal. I thought it looked awesome.

I love S. Epatha and her hot flashes and her little brother Jesse L and her telling them not to tell her to stop and she looked gorgeous, hello!
Hurrah for the Brokeback script which was 100% written by the right people and bless Larry McMurtry and his typewriter.
Desperate Housewives, whatever. It's a good show but I'm not on that train.
Okay, it's official: Penelope Cruz is our Sophia Lauren. Sort of. Still, she looked amazing.
Aww, and Matthew Brokerick winked at SJP.
Hurrah for Paradise Now! I actually must see this film, it's got tons of great buzz.
Catherine Deneuve continues to make me look forward to getting older.
I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT FUCKING HACK JOHN WILLIAMS WON OVER THE COMPLETELY LOVELY SCORE FOR BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN AND FOR A MOVIE THAT NO ONE FUCKING SAW AND FOR A SCORE THAT HE PROBABLY REALLY WROTE FOR SOME OTHER MOVIE BACK IN 1984.
Wow, I was right, that Narnia song was Alannis Morrissette.
So I'm glad that "A Love That Will Never Grow Old" won, but I'M STILL PISSED OFF ABOUT THE FUCKING SCORE
Mariah looks great. Sanity must agree with her.
Okay, so I stopped to look at the L'Oreal ad for the High Intensity Pigments (because they look like crap even on Beyonce and Scarlett) and wow, they're using a Badly Drawn Boy song in the Target ads.
Well, Gwyneth is pregnant again and good for her, but that dress is sort of odd, like she's still Emma or something.
Okay, I love how Anthony Hopkins thanked his longtime (and ailing) stand-in. That's class right there.

Crystal: Ok, with each passing year Clint Eastwood looks more and more like Voldemort, with that tight, pulled back skin over his face
Clio: hahaha
Clio: and it's actually that natural weatherbeaten look, not that, I got a lot of work done
Crystal: I know - that's what makes it even better

Aww, Ang Lee is just the cutest thing ever. I mean, ever. I love that his wife is a microbiologist.
Oh, it appears to be one of the years Travolta has decided to look good.
Okay, now, I love me some Pierce Brosnan from way back Remington Steele way, but one of the things I really love about him is that woman of his because she is gorgeous.
I'm so pleased Joaquin Phoenix won because with this crowded actor field I'm not even sure he'll get nominated. Apparently he owes Ryan some cash, and also apparently Ryan is drunk, which is awesome.
Yay Walk the Line!
Aww, Will and Grace. It's the Big Gay Globes!
I am happy for you Lost fans. It's another train I'm not on, but wow, what a big night for ABC.

Carrie: this is a very big night for facial hair
Crystal: Ok, the scrufy look on leonardo dicaprio is not so hot
Clio: Shave, Leo. Shave now.

I'm so glad that Felicity Huffman won. I admit that this is partly because I got to see more William H Macy.
Okay, I would have loved for Heath to win. But I did see Capote, and while PSH can often be mannered and sort of annoying, he was fucking spot on from start to finish in this film, a movie I highly recommend, so if Heath had to lose to someone I'm really pleased it was to PSH.
And we all agree that Denzel can wear whatever kind of beard he wants.
Yay Brokeback!

In local news, I can't believe no one was hurt in that tanker explosion out in Queens.

Comments

[ali-wildgoose.livejournal.com]

re: Queens, OMG YES. My coworkers pointed it out to me, and after reading NY1 I was like....how did that not take out a city block? O_O

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Apparently the guys who would usually be working on that overpass that is under construction were off on their lunch break, so no one was up there. Amazing.

[ali-wildgoose.livejournal.com]

I have never been more greatful for union-mandated lunch breaks ^_-

[evil-erato.livejournal.com]

Glad to see my pervy comments went into LJ history intact. :))

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Dude, it was SO entertaining, esp when you and Carrie IM'd at the same time about Colin Firth.

[zorb]

Oh, it appears to be one of the years Travolta has decided to look good.

*giggles*

And yeah, Ryan was a very merry man.

It's kind of fun to watch these when you don't have much attachment to anything nominated but like most of the people involved.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my heart sort of broke for all you LOTR types during years one and two--I wanted to stand up on a chair and say, "Look, it's the Oscars, and while they are awards they are also rewards that they like to spread around, and it will happen for the third movie, so just hang on."

It's like, you can't cheer too much for this stuff because it's so deeply Hollywood political and relatively predictable if you pay attention.

Ryan ruled me. I wonder if he'll ask for the time off for the Oscars as well. And I read someplace that the amount he got from Joaquin was the money he'd had in his pocket, $220. Good thing he didn't need bus fare home.

[titanic-days.livejournal.com]

I'm on the Desperate Housewives train.

You really should hop on. We have mojitos.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

I started watching it when it started last season, and I watched it for several weeks but somehow never got into it enough that it was a must-see. I saw the final episode last season and thought it was okay. I can't explain this; I usually really like shows like that but it didn't grab me.

[wordplay.livejournal.com]

I've seen part of one episode and it was just... I don't know, sort of silly and not my kind of silly or something, but I just added it to the top of my Netflix queue because, you know, you have to stay in the swim of these things. I absolutely LOVE Weeds and have since the first bit of it I've seen and I often think of the two shows as flip sides of the same coin.

[chinawolf.livejournal.com]

Gah. I wanna see it! Probably should go trawling the torrent sites now...

Thanks for your commentary! It's always interesting to see what you thought of such events, even if it's just titdbits. ♥

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I hope seeing it was/will be worth it.

There will likely be something more thoughtful once the Oscar noms get announced.

[aome.livejournal.com]

We completely cracked up over Geena Davis' speech. "A little girl tugged at my dress and said 'Because of you, I wanna be President someday.' [pause] Okay, that didn't happen. But it COULD have!"

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Geena is awesome. I think everyone was like, what little girl is here? Should I be drunk in front of her?

[dejaspirit.livejournal.com]

I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT FUCKING HACK JOHN WILLIAMS WON OVER THE COMPLETELY LOVELY SCORE FOR BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN AND FOR A MOVIE THAT NO ONE FUCKING SAW AND FOR A SCORE THAT HE PROBABLY REALLY WROTE FOR SOME OTHER MOVIE BACK IN 1984.

Wow. You and Evan must have had this cosmic moment last night, minus the Brokeback comparison. He even alluded to the 'probably wrot eit fifteen years ago' and made mention of a possible deal with the devil. Eerie......

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Well, you know, Evan and I have a whole wavelength thing every once in a while. Cora saw Geisha and said the score was okay mostly because it was played by YoYo Ma, and that all the songs that you were supposed to notice weren't his but random traditional stuff. So, you know, whatever; my anger has gone down a touch but watch for it to flare up if he gets the Oscar.