Golden Globes Awards

I do not understand all the fuss about award shows, but the Golden Globes are the worst ("All's Fair in 'Love' and War," by Robert W. Welkos and Susan King, Jan. 25). Millions of dollars are spent presenting, receiving and televising these awards. Then more money is spent advertising the winners. The awards are presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn., an association of 82 members. Eighty-two! Breaking that down to a category with five nominees, an award could be "won" with 17(!

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will host the 70th annual Golden Globe Awards, which are set to take place Sunday at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. For those tuning in on TV, the Hollywood party/awards show will begin at 5 p.m. Pacific ( 8 p.m. Eastern ) on Sunday and will be aired live across the country on NBC. The red carpet officially starts at 2:30 p.m. Pacific ( 5:30 p.m. Eastern) and the pre-show will air on NBC at 4 p.m. Pacific ( 7 p.m. Eastern) . The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn.

There was something about Moet at the Miramax party following last month's Golden Globes awards. Clockwise from top center:

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In a wide open awards year, a quirky, ironic film helmed by a British theater director and written by a newcomer garnered the most nods Monday when the 57th Annual Golden Globe Awards nominations were announced in Beverly Hills. DreamWorks SKG's "American Beauty" got six nominations--the most ever for the studio--including best motion picture (drama), best director, best actress and actor (drama) and best screenplay. Disney's "The Insider" and Paramount/Miramax's "The Talented Mr.

'The 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards' Where: NBC When: 5 p.m. Sunday Rating: Not rated

Drum roll, klieg lights and appropriately melodramatic music, please. Cue announcer: "Live from Beverly Hills, it's the 43rd annual Golden Globes post-game show!" Cue host: Thanks for tuning in. As you may know, for years now the Golden Globes, presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn., have been the ugly ducklings of the annual awards derby that culminates in March with Oscar night.

Los Angeles Police Chief William J. Bratton plans to get tough on medical marijuana dispensaries. So perhaps it was a good thing that the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. changed his seating arrangements at Monday's 64th annual Golden Globe Awards. Bratton had been scheduled to sit with the cast of "Weeds," the Showtime comedy starring Mary-Louise Parker about a pot-selling suburban soccer mom.

Following is a list of the winners of the 52nd Golden Globe awards: Motion Pictures Drama: "Forrest Gump." Musical comedy: "The Lion King." Actress, drama: Jessica Lange, "Blue Sky." Actor, drama: Tom Hanks, "Forrest Gump." Actress, musical-comedy: Jamie Lee Curtis, "True Lies." Actor, musical-comedy: Hugh Grant, "Four Weddings and a Funeral." Foreign language film: "Farinelli." Supporting actress, drama: Dianne Wiest, "Bullets Over Broadway." Supporting actor, drama: Martin Landau, "Ed Wood."

Cher, the dowdy widow who falls in love with the wrong man in "Moonstruck," and Robin Williams, the manic disc jockey in "Good Morning, Vietnam," won Golden Globe awards Saturday night as top stars in a movie musical or comedy. The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. gave its supporting performers awards to Olympia Dukakis, the feisty mother in "Moonstruck," and Sean Connery, the incorruptible policeman in "The Untouchables."

With the two sides at loggerheads, a federal judge now must determine who controls the lucrative television rights to the Golden Globes Awards show. U.S. District Court Judge A. Howard Matz on Friday declared the end of the high-stakes, three-week trial that pitted the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn., which owns the Golden Globes, against Dick Clark Productions, which has produced the annual extravaganza for nearly 30 years. A decision in the case isn't expected for weeks. "It's going to take some time before I can get back to this," Matz told the packed courtroom in downtown Los Angeles.

Testimony in the legal fight between the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. and Dick Clark Productions over which controls the television rights to the Golden Globes awards show wrapped up Tuesday with the judge imploring the two sides to settle. "The framework to a settlement is not difficult to envision," said U.S. District Judge A. Howard Matz, who added that both sides have taken "their best shots" and now it's time for the lawyers to go back to their respective clients and try to reach a peace agreement, ideally before closing arguments Friday.

"The Artist," the charming film about Hollywood's transition from silent movies to talkies, and the family drama "The Descendants" were catapulted to front-runner Oscar status Sunday night with an armful of Golden Globes to their names as the awards season reaches fever pitch. There's no guarantee that a Golden Globe will lead to Oscar gold. But it can't hurt with Academy Award nominations just around the corner. (They'll be announced Jan. 24.) "The Artist" picked up three Golden Globes, for best film, musical or comedy, lead actor in a comedy or musical, and score.

The Golden Globe Awards show must go on — and it will on NBC, at least for another year. The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn., creator and owner of the high-profile event; Dick Clark Productions, which produces the show; and broadcaster NBC said Friday that they had cobbled together a one-year agreement to jointly stage the annual awards fest at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Jan. 15. However, the pact does little to resolve the uncertainty surrounding...

NBC and the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. announced Wednesday that the British actor-writer-comic will make his encore appearance on the Jan. 16 live broadcast. Before Gervais, the Hollywood award show had gone more than a decade without a host. —Associated Press Jessica Seinfeld gets court's nod Jerry Seinfeld's wife did not copy a cookbook author when she released her own techniques for getting children to eat vegetables, a federal appeals court concluded Wednesday.

'The 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards' Where: NBC When: 5 p.m. Sunday Rating: Not rated

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will host the 70th annual Golden Globe Awards, which are set to take place Sunday at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. For those tuning in on TV, the Hollywood party/awards show will begin at 5 p.m. Pacific ( 8 p.m. Eastern ) on Sunday and will be aired live across the country on NBC. The red carpet officially starts at 2:30 p.m. Pacific ( 5:30 p.m. Eastern) and the pre-show will air on NBC at 4 p.m. Pacific ( 7 p.m. Eastern) . The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn.

Los Angeles Police Chief William J. Bratton plans to get tough on medical marijuana dispensaries. So perhaps it was a good thing that the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. changed his seating arrangements at Monday's 64th annual Golden Globe Awards. Bratton had been scheduled to sit with the cast of "Weeds," the Showtime comedy starring Mary-Louise Parker about a pot-selling suburban soccer mom.