Todd’s Movie Blog

I saw the other day how the Hollywood Screen Actors Guild will be boycotting the Golden Globes.  That’s all well and good, not that I believe a $100 million a film movie star gives two bits for the writers, but hey, it’s good publicity.  My main interest in this whole thing is why does the strike has to mean that the Golden Globes are in trouble?  Conan O’Brien proved you can wing it and still do a show, sure it got pretty lame as it went on but that’s not the point.  Not having a scripted out awards show could be a good thing.  Bring out a presenter, he or she could rattle off the nominees for the category, rip open the envelope and announce the winner, the winner comes up, says thank you, and then gets off the stage.  Why you could probably get the whole thing done in about an hour to an hour and a half.  It could be a ground breaking, revolutionizing broadcast that other award shows would emulate.   Which could benefit both film and  TV, making a for nice, slimmed down package that doesn’t take up five hours of time waiting for the big awards at the end of the show.