How Drunk Was Emma Thompson at the Golden Globes?
Rich Juzwiak · 01/12/14 09:46PMShe certainly wanted you to think she was plastered. Nice martini glass!
She certainly wanted you to think she was plastered. Nice martini glass!
This is how hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler opened the Golden Globes: With ten minutes of perfect jokes. (That Gravity Clooney zinger!)
Legendary actress Jacqueline Bisset just picked up the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Performance in a Series, Miniseries, or Television Film for her work in the BBC/Starz series Dancing on the Edge. It took Bisset almost a minute to get to the stage after her name was announced, and then, once there, she spent several more seconds attempting to form words. Lip-smacking, a censorship fail (she slipped a "shit" through), and a message to the haters ("Go to hell and don't come back") ensued. They attempted to play her off, and she just refused to listen to the music and went right on babbling. What a woman.
[Shia LaBeouf announced his retirement Thursday night alongside the mysterious message "#stopcreating." But LaBeouf's love of writing combined with his love of the sky pulled him back into the artistic fold Friday afternoon. "#stopcreating," opined LaBeouf in the skies over Beverly Hills. So deep, man. So fucking deep.]
Ellen Degeneres, or someone close to Degeneres or The Ellen Degeneres Show, broke the number one rule of screener season: only let screeners be borrowed by close friends, their friends, and then maybe their friends, but whatever you do, don't let them get into the hands of strangers who will upload them to the internet.
Former New York Times Magazine editor Hugo Lindgren has landed a temp job in Los Angeles. The Hollywood Reporter announced Friday that Lindgren, whose named was once mentioned in an episode of Friends, will begin a stint as their acting editor for three months—and three months only!—starting Jan. 27.
Peter Gould is the most important man in television who many people have still never heard of. As executive producer of Breaking Bad, he wrote and directed some of that series' best known episodes. Now Gould is moving to showrunner status as a co-creator—with Breaking Bad lead Vince Gilligan—of the spinoff Better Call Saul, to be centered on Bob Odenkirk's shady attorney character, Saul Goodman.
Discovery Communications announced on Thursday they're changing the name of the Military Channel to the American Heroes Channel because "true heroism isn't reserved solely for the military." By introducing more "narrative-style documentary programming," the network will quickly transition into TLC for men.
[Adam Sandler accepts the Favorite Comedic Movie Actor award from Drew Barrymore onstage at The 40th Annual People's Choice Awards in Los Angeles Wednesday night. This is why people are not often trusted with choices. The complete list of "winners" can be found here. Image by Kevin Winter via Getty.]