Slightly edited/updated form from previous Facebook response/s.
I HAVE already lost interest in these awards bugaboo, anyhow. After watching ALL awards shows each year since I was a little boy, I stopped almost 20 years ago. Golden Globes et al template: Diversify it. Non-whites, non-Americans ,and non-heterosexuals got to win. So the deserving winner loses the kick, somehow. Pump up the diversity. Spread out the wins. "Correct" it.
I mean, for example, Ali Wong (“Beef”) over Juno Temple (“Fargo 5”). Come on... Jennifer Jason Leigh and Sam Spruell weren’t even nominated. Too many whites anymore? My best series of the year, “All the Light We Cannot See,” though nominated, didn’t win it.
“The Bear” is a cool, enjoyable series. But what is so big a deal with Ayo Edebiri’s “acting,” tell me. Jamie Lee Curtis had fewer scenes but she should have been nominated, at least. And yet last year, Ms Curtis’ nonsensical spot in the topsy-turvy nonsense “Everything Everywhere All at Once” won her the Academy’s best supporting actress plum. And that movie won the Best Picture! Why? Because it is Asian? Well, I am Asian yet I feel insulted by both the movie and the awards.
Remember those years when “correctness” wasn’t a word and yet Chris Sarandon’s gay Leon, though a single scene, got a well-deserved supporting actor nod for 1975’s “Dog Day Afternoon.” Cambodian Haing S. Ngor took home the Best Supporting Actor award for 1985’s “The Killing Fields” and no one moped. Other than I thought it should be Best Actor due to the significance and scope of his role as real-life refugee Dith Pran. 🎭🥁📺
I WAS baffled that Filipino-American comedian Jo Koy was hosting the show after several choices said nope. Because he is half Asian? He could be funny in an open mic in Long Beach or Sta Monica Blvd but at Golden Globes?!? Who wrote his wordage and fails? A.I.? Was the pay so good that he didn't suspect that after the show, he'd crash his career? If Travis Kelce emerged from nowhere to bitchslap him right there, then he could have been saved from total shame. LOL!
Seriously though, snides, adlibs and jokes said by a non-white/non-black takes a different trajectory compared to the shaming tone when Chris Rock or Ricky Gervais said them. Such is the contradiction of this correctness idiocy.
Yet a day after the sequined thingy and social media brouhaha, news says 9.4 million viewers sat through the show, the most that the Golden Globe had in years. The end justified the means, I guess? Yup, I am endlessly mystified how network wizards influence the clicks (laptops, cellphones or TV).
Okay, enough. Y’all wait for Jo Koy at “Saturday Night Live.” 🎭🥁📺
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