{"id":7276,"date":"2011-01-17T02:01:28","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T02:01:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-10-15T00:08:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T00:08:38","slug":"glee-and-social-networking-at-the-golden-globes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=7276","title":{"rendered":"Glee and social networking at the Golden Globes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was plenty of Glee in Hollywood where the TV show about a song-filled high school walked away with all the TV comedy awards at the Golden Globes \u2013 the first major awards ceremony of the year.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Catherine Zeta Jones and Michael Douglas get our vote for best dressed couple!  I met her briefly once at a UNICEF Dinner and she is DROP DEAD GORGEOUS (not to mention a fashion icon)!  Michael, you are a lucky man!!<br \/>\n<object width=\"400\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/SBICq2KiSIY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/SBICq2KiSIY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object>-Catherine-Zeta-Joness-pride-Michael-Douglas-beats-cancer.html<br \/>\n<strong><em>Notice how she introduced herself as &#8220;Mrs. Douglas&#8221; Very Classy-that is why I love her!  <strong><em>She is clearly the opposite of a crude feminist!  Notice how Michael is beaming!<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Accepting the Golden Globe for BEST TELEVISION SERIES \u2013 COMEDY OR MUSICAL for \u201cGlee\u201d (FOX) is producer Ryan Murphy,<\/strong> at the 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, CA on Sunday, January 16, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>After a digging his comedic claws into more of Hollywood\u2019s favorites, <strong>the evening launched with Christian Bale taking the Best Supporting Actor trophy for playing the drug-addicted brother of boxing champion Micky Ward in The Fighter.<\/strong>  <strong><em>Congratulations Christian!!! <\/em><\/strong> <strong>The film also picked up the prize for best supporting actress: Melissa Leo played the mother of the pair.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The top acting prizes went to Colin Firth for playing King George VI in the drama, The King\u2019s Speech, Natalie Portman for the ballet drama Black Swan, Paul Giamatti for the comedy Barney\u2019s Version and Annette Bening for the lesbian comedy The Kids Are All Right, which also took the prize for best comedy. Best Drama went to The Social Network, which also took the prizes for best director, for David Fincher. Aaron Sorkin\u2019s screenplay for the same film also won him a Golden Globe.<br \/>\n<strong><em>Wait till my movie comes out&#8211;&#8220;The Asian American Cultural Connection&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>The HFPA\u2019s annual awards ceremony also honors the best achievement in television, where, as in the film categories, the main prizes are handed separately to dramas and comedies. Katey Segal\u2019s performance in Sons of Anarchy earned her the best actress award for drama. <strong>Steve Buscemi took the best acting award for Boardwalk Empire, which also won best TV drama. Glee took the prize for Best Comedy series, as well as best supporting actor in a comedy, for Chris Colfer, and Jane Lynch was the best supporting actress for the same show.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The best actress in a comedy series was Laura Linney, the star of The Big C. And Jim Parsons, from Big Bang Theory, was awarded the Golden Globe for best actor in a TV comedy.<\/p>\n<p>Bridging the gap between television and films are categories for miniseries and TV movies. <strong>Olivier Assayas\u2019 biopic of the terrorist Carlos the Jackal, Carlos, won the main prize in this category, with Al Pacino taking the Golden Globe for best actor in a miniseries or TV movie for playing another real-life character, the euthanasia doctor Jack Kevorkian, in the TV movie You Don\u2019t Know Jack. The best actress in this category went to Claire Danes for her portrayal of another real person, the Autistic Author-scientist Temple Grandin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other awards included Toy Story 3 for Best Animated Feature, the Danish film In A Better World took the Best Foreign Language Film, Cher\u2019s song You Haven\u2019t Seen The Last of Me was the Best Song, for Burlesque, and Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross\u2019s score for The Social Network also earned them a Golden Globe<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Golden Globe Awards ceremony is the biggest and most glamorous event in Hollywood calendar. The awards are considered by the industry as the best indicators for next month\u2019s Oscars.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nIn their speeches, tonight\u2019s winners expressed their gratitude, to their collaborator, but mainly to Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) for recognizing their work and their talent.<\/p>\n<p>The Golden Globe awards are voted for by the 83 HFPA members, who also organize the ceremony and co produce the show with The Dick Clark Productions. More than 19 million viewers tuned in to watch the show last year on NBC, and many expect this number to be even higher this year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Earlier, more than 200 stars from Hollywood and beyond marched along the red carpet, dressed in their finest gowns and dripping with diamond and other jewelery, as they were showered by cameras flashes and their names were shouted by the screaming fans.<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><strong>Right after the ceremony, six parties, held by different studios, kick off in different venues inside the Beverly Hilton hotel, honoring their nominees and tonight\u2019s winners.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The ceremony is over but the party has just started. The Golden Globe event is indeed the best party in town.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was plenty of Glee in Hollywood where the TV show about a song-filled high school walked away with all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":72448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1003],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tv-film"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-highlighted-post":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-small":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x90.jpg","colormag-featured-image":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-default-news":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","colormag-featured-image-large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"Joshua","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/62ee23f8f40307578d1f284ecd823d77f32da8ea35541e7dbdafeb5da1a4e877?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"3","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"There was plenty of Glee in Hollywood where the TV show about a song-filled high school walked away with all","magazineBlocksPostCategories":["TV &amp; Film"],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":176,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":4,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"medium":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg",113,150,true]},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"Joshua","author_link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?author=1213"},"magazine_blocks_comment":3,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/62ee23f8f40307578d1f284ecd823d77f32da8ea35541e7dbdafeb5da1a4e877?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"<a href=\"#\" class=\"category-link category-link-1003\">TV &amp; Film<\/a>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}