Looking down the list of who's won what so far tonight at the Golden Globes, the TV categories show a serious love of British actors. Hugh Laurie, Bill Nighy, Helen Mirren, Jeremy Irons and Emily Blunt have all already posted wins tonight (and you've got to think Mirren will win again later in the evening) in television categories. To which I say - hmmm. I love each and every one of those actors, they are all sooooooooo good, and I dearly wish Blunt would get an Oscar nomination for The Devil Wears Prada - but honoring Mirren's acting in Elizabeth I? Actually honoring that miniseries itself? I think that has to be excess adulation that stems entirely from how phenomenally good Mirren was in The Queen. I'll admit to only watching the first half of it, but from what I saw Elizabeth I really wasn't that great and Mirren wasn't too special in it. But hey, she and Irons are usually great, so I don't really begrudge them their honors (they are only Golden Globes after all), and I suppose there are many worse thing than indirectly burnishing the career of the highly appealing (and kind of slutty) Hugh Dancy.
Oh, and I'm pleased that The Queen won the screenplay award. And I find it really hard to get my head around the fact that Best Foreign Language Film was won by a Clint Eastwood movie.
Posted by armand at January 15, 2007 09:42 PM | TrackBack | Posted to CultureUmmm, just b/c during that unusually enlightening games night awhile back Cyn and I were revealed to be the 2 of our set who are pure as Snow White (or something in that direction, relatively speaking)... well, my personal distance from the trait surely shouldn't suggest any personal opposition to the slutty or sluttiness in general. Hardly. And from that report getting slutty with Hugh Dancy sounds quite fun (though dangerous to one's employment status).
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