A Not-So Glowing Golden Globes

Hollywood isn't what it use to be. I use to look forward to the Academy Awards, the Golden Globes, The Grammy's. I even took a peek at the Tony Awards once. I enjoyed watching the glamour and a true class act of accepting awards...in the day of Elizabeth Taylor or Sidney Poitier. Now that is class. I liked escaping my own crazy life, to watch a couple of hours of fantasy by people who were awarded for their fantasies. It was a whole 'nother dreamscape.

But something happened to Hollyweird. Something really weird. It's cool to use any kind of foul language these celebrities want to use. They get claps and cheers. Saying #%*! you is the greatest thing. Granted, I'm no angel either. But I'm not on a podium in front of millions of people telling everyone to #*^! off or flip the bone. Seriously, there's a time and a place for that kind of talk. What happened to class? You would think the Golden Globes was a time to shine at your best. To set an example. They certainly aren't considered movie stars anymore. They're just your regular Joe Blow now.
Oh well, times they are-a certainly changin'........for the worse.

Golden Globes glow with language like that &*%$#@ Blagojevich

As our LATimes.com colleagues Rachel Abramovitz and Tom O'Neil note elsewhere on this site and elsewhere here, this year's Golden Globe Awards by the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. had acceptance speeches that were full of words like $%&*(=^ and f!$*&-+. Also, "balls," "suck" and "suck it." So if you were among a majority of Americans who didn't watch it, you might have missed something.

Apparently, some were surprised by the profanity production of the culture crowd.

But clearly the actors have been studying Illinois Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was caught on FBI wiretaps and not quoted publicly by that bleeping federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. This was after Blago's December arrest for, among other things, allegedly auctioning off his "<<&*%$# golden" nomination to fill the vacant Senate seat of President-elect Barack Obama, who'll be inaugurated in just 8 days.

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