2007/01/15
Hanks Praises Beatty's Golden Globes
I watched the Golden Globes tonight. I love those award shows. The designer clothes, the hair, the jewellry - and that's just the men. They serve booze at the Globes and Tom Hanks was in full anebriation. He gave the paean to Warren Beatty's career, praising his "balls" and kept repeating it over and over, adding, "...and by balls, I mean, his artistic vision." Tom Hanks seemed to be trying to outdo Sasha Baron Cohen's crude humour. But he couldn't hold a candle to Cohen's scatalogical jokes. It all seemed somewhat juvenile to me. In their attempt to distance themselves from political correctness they achieved new lows in humour. I honestly didn't find Cohen's humour funny, but I suspect the old prairie dog would have loved it. And he would have loved Borat, I'm sure. He enjoyed crude humour as well as subtlety.
Warren Beatty, who was first honoured in 1962 as most promising newcomer on TV, was classyand funny in his acceptance speech. I liked the way he thanked his wife, Annette Bening by saying she "... always makes me feel like a promising newcomer." I predicted that Babel would win best picture award and I was proved right. The award for classiest speech would have to be shared by Helen Mirren, Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep. The Departed is about the only major film I haven't seen. I have been avoiding it because I feel uncomfortable with a lot of violence and I think there will be much in that movie.
Strangely, the movie I saw most recently, Curse of the Golden Flower, has an ending just full of over-the-top violence. Yet, I did enjoy it. What is it about Chinese period movies that is so appealing? Color, drama, larger-than-life characters, and a look at an exotic culture, maybe. I find them to be elaborate fairy tales. Asian Shakespearian tragedies, like Hamlet, where everyone dies at the end. I wondered about the costumes of this movie, specifically, did the women of the Tang dynasty really wear those bosom-revealing dresses or were they just tarted up for a Western audience? If anybody out there knows, I'd love to know.
Anyway, tomorrow I sub in the afternoon and in the evening it's back to Hip Hop dance class! Yay, yay, yay!
Keep dancing out there.
Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
George Burns
Hanks Praises Beatty's Golden Globes
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Warren Beatty, who was first honoured in 1962 as most promising newcomer on TV, was classyand funny in his acceptance speech. I liked the way he thanked his wife, Annette Bening by saying she "... always makes me feel like a promising newcomer." I predicted that Babel would win best picture award and I was proved right. The award for classiest speech would have to be shared by Helen Mirren, Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep. The Departed is about the only major film I haven't seen. I have been avoiding it because I feel uncomfortable with a lot of violence and I think there will be much in that movie.
Strangely, the movie I saw most recently, Curse of the Golden Flower, has an ending just full of over-the-top violence. Yet, I did enjoy it. What is it about Chinese period movies that is so appealing? Color, drama, larger-than-life characters, and a look at an exotic culture, maybe. I find them to be elaborate fairy tales. Asian Shakespearian tragedies, like Hamlet, where everyone dies at the end. I wondered about the costumes of this movie, specifically, did the women of the Tang dynasty really wear those bosom-revealing dresses or were they just tarted up for a Western audience? If anybody out there knows, I'd love to know.
Anyway, tomorrow I sub in the afternoon and in the evening it's back to Hip Hop dance class! Yay, yay, yay!
Keep dancing out there.
Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
George Burns
Hanks Praises Beatty's Golden Globes
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