What
can I tell you about the Golden Globes that
you don’t already know. Who won? Hahaha. That it’s
presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association? That
they’ve been doing it for more than sixty years? That
they started doing it at a time (during World War II) when
much of the foreign audience weren’t getting to see
Hollywood movies?
This year Michael Douglas was recipient of the 2004 Cecil
B. DeMille Award. Mr. Douglas’s movie star father Kirk was
also a recipient back in ’68 when Michael was just a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed
kid who idolized his pa.
Does anybody know who Cecil B. DeMille is, however? I mean, I do, but do you?
Mr. DeMille is the man to whom Gloria Swanson, Glenn Close, Betty Buckley,
Patti LuPone a/k/a Norma Desmond said: “ready
for my close-up C.B.” He also directed my all-time favorite movie when
I was a kid: The Greatest Show On Earth with Betty Hutton and Charlton
Heston, and the Ringling Brothers/Barnum and Bailey Circus.
The picture also won Best Picture (1952), Best Director (Mr. DeMille) and Best
Color Cinematography (George Barnes and Pev Marley).
In those days, the Golden Globes were a pleasant awards ceremony that got a lot
of press but not a lot of media attention. She was the step-sister to the Academy
Awards. The name was Cinderella, obviously, and today she’s a Star.
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