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The 62nd Annual Golden Globe Awards

( Click here to see who the winners are (PDF file) )

So. The Aviator won Best Motion Picture (Drama) and Leo DiCaprio won Best Actor (Drama) -- I was rooting for both him and Johnny Depp, and hey, either way is pretty good. Happy for Leo, though, because this is a fairly large award and he doesn't get a lot of those.

Johnny Depp looked like he was having difficulty separating himself from his character, Willy Wonka, in his new movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and dressed accordingly. Gotta love him for that. :)

("What comes into mind at the moment is, like, Mae West, although I probably wouldn't do it, you know. I'm a little too old for that role now. Maybe Carol Channing." - Johnny Depp, when asked if there's any role he's itching to play.)

And just to add to the actors-I-like-all-being-in-the-same-place-at-the-same-time glee, Orlando Bloom introduced the clip for The Aviator. I think everyone should speak with an accent like that. At least for a little while...

It's too bad Eternal Sunshine didn't win anything -- I thought it was a very original movie and based on an intriguing concept. Sunshine lost both Best Motion Picture (Musical/Comedy) and Best Screenplay to Sideways. Has anyone seen Sideways, or at least know what it's even about? I haven't the foggiest. Maybe it really is just that good.

In TVLand, the Desperate Housewives got some recognition, which is good, and Lost didn't win for Best TV Series (Drama), but then it probably shouldn't have won, anyway. I love the show but it just doesn't seem to hold the same amount of -- clout? --- weight? -- as the other nominated shows. Being biased, however, I would of course vote for Lost any day, if my vote were to actually count for something. :)

Getting back to that whole people-I-like-being-all-together vein, I love that aspect of award shows: it's a total mesh of several of my fandoms all at once. It's great. We've got Johnny Depp, and Leo DiCaprio, and Kate Winslet (3 actors who have all worked with each other at some point, no less), we've got Orlando Bloom introducing The Aviator and Claire Danes presenting an award, and we've even got at least one representative from Lost on hand (Evangeline Lilly), though Dom Monaghan wasn't around because he's at the One Ring Celebration ("ORC") in Pasadena all weekend.

Um, anyway, I think that's enough inane babble for one night; don't you?
Ciao for now. :)

ETA: Oop, nope, I was wrong - Dom Monaghan WAS there, if WireImage is to be trusted. Guess ORC finished already this weekend.

Apparently I don't think I've gone on and on (and on) long enough today, and so you're all gonna be subjected to a bit more... Sorry. :)