Golden Globe Party

Monday night was the 64th Golden Globes, and we celebrated. In attendance was Mark, Aaron, Amy, Alison and me! We had such a wonderful time. The awards were ok, a little boring overall, but the company was great. The night included dinner, dessert, a wonder Amy original appetizer, drinks and of course an ballot. The ballot was created and distributed by Mark, who added some wonderful graphics.

There were two distinct highlights of the night. The first being Amy's wonderful Onion dip. It was amazing, so so good! we devoured almost the entire dish! The second was Jennifer Hudson's win and subsequent mention of Florence Ballard in her acceptance speech. Pretty hilarious moment. From what I have heard, Diana Ross is taking her lawyers which her when she sees the movie. What more could one ask for than a great movie with lots of controversy. First, the Jennifer getting more acclaim than Beyonce and now Diana Ross taking her lawyers. Fabulous!

As for the movie part of the awards, they were pretty predictable. Helen Mirren, Forrest Whitaker, Meryl Strep, Jennifer Hudson and Eddie Murphy. This was a fairly easy prediction. In terms of the party ballots, I was glad. It allowed me to recover from a very low score during much of the television awards. My one big comment, how does Helen Mirren get two awards, one for playing Elizabeth I and one for playing Elizabeth II. I think that is a little much. I am also a little tired of people always getting the award because the can imitate a real person. Every year it is all about the person that can do the best impersonation. Maybe that is what the category should be called. Best Lead Female Impersonation, and Best Lead Male Impersonation. Wow, I was just reading that over. I like it ever more, any time you have Female Impersonations, you know you are going to have a great time!

The Ballot was an interesting one. Here are the rules, You get to votes in each category. You get to vote for who you truly thinks deserves to win, and then who you think based on critics and other wins who will win. It is ok to choose the same nomination for both type of win. This is called "doubling up". If you pick the winner based on critic's prediction you earn 1 point. If the winner is the person that you really want to win you get 2 points. If you "doubled up" on the winner you get 3 points.

The winner this year was Alison! Who won bragging rights for the next year (or at least till Oscar night)!

Here was the rankings, out of a total 75 points.

Alison - 34
Aaron - 26
Amy - 23
John - 20
Mark - 19

Interesting enough John and Mark had seen the most movies, with only about 3-4 nominated movies not seen, and Mark is the 4 time reining Oscar Ballot Champion.

That is enough for now. Will discuss Golden Globe Fashion soon!

John