Before the 2005 Golden Globes get underway, let me take a moment to share with you my traditional pre-award show wish list. For this year's Globes to be deemed a success, one — just one — of the following three things must happen: First, I have to avoid getting head-butted with the fancy new boom mics that are being used in the press room. Second, I have to witness at least one tense moment between archenemies Entertainment Tonight and Access Hollywood. And last but not least, and this kinda goes without saying, Mariska Hargitay needs to win for best actress in a drama series.
8:03 pm/EST Tony Potts and his camera crew from Access Hollywood set up shop right next to me. All we need is a cameo by Mary Hart and my wish list is fulfilled. (I'd still like Mariska to win, though.)
8:05 The first award goes to Clive Owen for Closer. Oooh, I'll have to ask him about those 007
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Right after TV Guide Channel stars Joan and Melissa Rivers, the most enthusiastic Guide staffer on the Golden Globes red carpet was moi, Daniel R. Coleridge. "Look! There's Uma! There's Nicole! There's Topher! There's the Bachelorette! Wait, what's she doin' here?" Here, I proudly present to you the highlights from a star-studded afternoon of celebrity gawking, fawning and downright interrogation.
Swooning SecretsThe red carpet opens two hours before the telecast, but stars don't actually start turning up until an hour before. And the really big stars turn up five minutes before. My first "celebrity" of the evening was The Bachelorette's Jen Schefft. FYI, Jen still insists she didn't dump the fainter for passing out during the first rose ceremony. "I haven't spoken to him [since the show]," she said, "but he's actually from [my hometown of] Chicago and
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Javier Bardem confesses that he spent the first few months of 2004 lying on his couch. The Oscar-nominated actor wasn't goofing off watching Golden Girls repeats, though — he was preparing for his role as a quadriplegic in his latest critically acclaimed film, The Sea Inside.
"I would lie still on the sofa trying to talk to myself and going through different emotional states," Bardem explains. "And then I realized that it wasn't working — I was moving like a maniac. So I would put a camera on myself and say some monologues. I would do that for several hours every day. Then, during the shooting, I had five hours of makeup, plus 10 hours of shooting. So that was 15 hours a day in bed, plus the hour I spent in my bed at home sleeping."
That may sound like more of a vacation than a job, but the mood on the set wasn't particularly lighthearted, due to the story Sea tells. Based on a true story, it follows Ramon Sampedro, a quadri
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When the 2005 Golden Globe nominations were announced last week in L.A., no one was surprised that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association lavished generous kudos on ABC's runaway hit, Desperate Housewives. After all, the shady ladies of Wisteria Lane rock!
Their freshman dramedy racked up a leading five nominations, including best comedy series, best comedy actress for Marcia Cross, Teri Hatcher and Felicity Huffman, and best supporting actress for notorious towel-dropper Nicollette Sheridan. But what about Eva Longoria? Her boy-toy lovin' adulteress, Gabrielle, positively puts the Desperate in Housewives. If we were her, we'd be just a little bitter.
"I really don't like to focus on me not getting a nomination," Longoria insists to TV Guide Online. "I like to focus on how all the other girls got nominated. And the show — we've only been on five or six times. We're really blessed, and I'm really
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