The Golden Globes: Oh Yeah, 'Little Dorrit'!
It's the only category at awards season that anyone cares about—Best Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made for Television at the Golden Globes! Now, if you feel as I do, you understand entirely that these should be two separate categories, as they are completely different undertakings! (The Emmys understands this.) And while I have a lot of respect for Michael Sucsy's Grey Gardens for HBO, it is so obvious that the hearts and minds of America are all behind the BBC/WGBH Boston co-production of Little Dorrit, the values of which we have noted here previously. I SAID "OBVIOUSLY," so GET IN LINE, PEOPLE. What's his name, the Hot Mr. Darcy, should clinch the winningness. Also there are some other categories at the Golden Globes but we weren't really paying attention. Who cares.
Related! Now seems as good as any moment to mention Time magazine's list of the ten best movies of the year, by the way!
WHAT? The Princess and the WHAT?
Did you say something? Sorry, I missed it – I was staring at the droolicious Matthew MacFadyen photo.
I couldn't read the post through the layer of saliva on my screen.
I LOVE HIM SO MUCH.
Fundraising idea: audio recording of MacFadyen reading Awl stories. Or anything, really.
Even better fundraising idea – video of MacFadyen reading Awl stories in full Mr. Darcy mode. Or just a bathing suit. Whichever.
Or in wet clothes? I thought the pond scene was a most welcome addition to the BBC P&P.
TOM. QUINN.
@garge OMG yes. Please profess your love to me in the rain anytime, MMac. Megaswoon.
OH YES. Spooks-era MacFadyen. So delicious.
that sound you hear is terence davies convulsing. he can live with the cartoons, but a single man!?
I don't get all the love for Up in the Air.
Yeah…. I saw it in the theater, for a second time, to see how real people reacted? I have to admit, they were like, IMMOBILE for the first half. Not a single laugh, not a single reaction? They did get into it as it moved along–and I don't agree with the contention that it has a "third act" problem, because I like the third act? I came away thinking it was a really good movie but not a movie that I loved. And I'm still not sure why, because, damn, those ladies were DELIGHTFUL. WONDERFUL. But.
I guess you have to buy into the concept that no human can be happy if they are not in a committed relationship.
Pissed Tom Courtenay didn't get a nomination, but glad to see Branagh in there for the Wallander series, which KICKED ASS.
Fuck, is this the season where I start to tune out meta-enabling news sites because jesus christ people why do you have any interest in awards shows goddammit. It's like Hulk Hogan's reality TV career: it's not even mildly entertaining in its irrelevance. Take your Oscar de la Brokeback and shove it.
I have Feelings about Things.
I too am a great fan of "Mr. Darcey" and thought Little Dorrit was compellingly rendered- beautiful after a while. But I have a hunch that Grey Gardens will take the award. Both productions deserve as much attention as they can get.
I thought it was both a very very good movie and a movie which I loved.
Fuck it. I don't understand Wordpress's threading. Sorry.
The Jacksons: An American Dream should win this category, always and forever.
I was watching the preview channel the other day and saw that this movie was made in 1992 and had to take a moment.
EXACTLY.
"I hate the way I look." -fake Michael Jackson. Love u, Angela Bassett!
WORRIED ABOUT 'NINE', YOU GUYS.
Ugh, me too.