The Golden Globe nominations were announced this week with their usual amount of fanfare. Actually, I should say their 'unusual' amount of fanfare as I still don't understand why people go nuts over these announcements.
Let's take a look at this.
Everyone says, "Oh this awards ceremony is the precursor to the Oscars."
And why is that exactly?
The Golden Globes are a product of the tiny group known as the Hollywood Foreign Press Avocation.
There are about 95 - 100 members.
A hundred people.
I'll bet you have more than a hundred friends on your personal Facebook page.
So these hundred people pick their nominees and then a winner.
Usually there are five nominees in each category so by my calculations to win you only need slightly more than 20 votes.
20 people. That's it.
Something about that doesn't seem right.
Just as those lavish gift suites at the awards don't seem quite right.
Am I jealous or jaded? I don't think so. It's just that it's pretty hard to watch people who already have so much be given so much more when there are plenty of people who are hungry and can't pay their bills.
Will I watch the awards? I don't know. It depends on if I have something more interesting to do that night.
I might watch just to see host Ricky Gervais cut the event, and the HFPA, down to size as he did last year.
And that's all I have to say about that.
Right now anyway.
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