Happy MLK Day! Fun, relaxing weekend indeed. Some good NFL games, although darned if I'm not the worst game-predicter. Out of all eight games so far, I've correctly picked two of them. 2. So next Sunday's (tentative) guesses? New England over Baltimore, San Francisco over New York.
How about the Golden Globes last night, too? Here are ten things I think about them:
1) I'm glad Claire Danes, Idris Elba, Meryl Streep, and Christopher Plummer won.
2) I thought Seth Rogen's joke about having an erection standing next to Kate Beckinsale, William H. Macy and wife Felicity Huffman's singsongy introduction, and Madonna's retort to Ricky Gervais's introduction of her, were the funniest bits of the night.
3) And speaking of Madonna? At 53 (! Madonna's 53!), she looks incredible. Her arms are insane! (Or just really creepy, in a Gollum-like way)
4) With Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and Woody Allen all winning, the GG's saluted three of the greatest directors of this - or any - era.
5) Best speech of the night? Claire Danes or Michelle Williams.
6) Speaking of Williams, how exactly is My Week With Marilyn a comedy?
7) Surprisingly, only one win for The Help: Octavia Spencer. This doesn't bode well for its Oscar chances.
8) Ricky Gervais was funny, although he wasn't around much and you could clearly tell he had toned it down from last year - although I thought it was funny when he introduced Colin Firth as a "racist."
9) Nothing for Bridesmaids!
10) Well-deserved lifetime achievement award to the great Morgan Freeman. Although, and it must be said, no montage of his body of work should include The Bucket List or Deep Impact.
And you could make a case - as I'm sure you could for any of the nominees - that Brad Pitt deserved the award just as much as Clooney did for his outstanding performance in Bennett Miller's Moneyball. He's in every scene, and the actor is at his compelling, knotty best. He looks great - a little weathered, some lined, rugged grooves. And he's so charismatic and forceful, unafraid of making his character diffident and stingy, propelled by his own will and stubbornness. A great star turn. The movie is impeccably adapted from Michael's Lewis non-fiction bestseller by top-flight screenwriters Steve Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin (a dream team of scriptwriting talent), with an authentic, lived-in feel, attention to detail. It's funny and sharp, verbose, but it's Pitt's MVP turn that you remember.
Interesting facts about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr (courtesy of socialwayne.com):
- Originally named Michael Luther King Jr;, he changed it to Martin to honor the founder of Lutheranism.
- At the age of 35, he became the youngest man to win the Nobel Peace Prize
- Was the first black American to be awarded Time Magazine's Man of the Year.
- He was arrested more than twenty times, assaulted at least four times.
- He was a big Star Trek fan, claiming that it was the only show he and his wife, Coretta Scott King, let their kids stay up and watch with them.
- He was a vegetarian.
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