Todd’s Movie Blog

Now that the Golden Globes hour long announcement fiasco is over, maybe Hollywood will buckle down and start real negotiations with the writers.  I mean, honestly, did anyone really think that seeing someone announce the nominees and then the winners was going to garner any ratings.  Didn’t they watch the People’s Choice Awards broadcast?  Queen Latifia stood in front of a bank of monitors and ad libbed for an hour.  It was excrutiating.  She may be a great singer and actress, but improv is not her strong suit.  I stopped watching after the third” Woo Woo!”  If the Oscars want to have a telecast they are going to have to come to some kind of agreement with the writers, if for nothing else than to at least get celebs on the show as presenters without having to cross a picket line, like the Critics Choice Awards did.