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Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine. You’ve got Cary Grant, you’ve got Humphrey Bogart. archived recording 1Īlicia, what’s wrong with you? archived recording 2 This is when Hollywood was becoming Hollywood.
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And when you want to tell the story of the Hollywood Foreign Press, you basically have to go back all the way to the Golden Age of Hollywood, the 1940s. Yeah, I think the important thing to note here, Michael, is that the show is being canceled mostly because of the group behind the show - the very small, mysterious group called the Hollywood Foreign Press. So tell us the story of what led to this moment. And so when NBC took it off the air, effectively canceling the show for the audience, it was a surprise. I’ve watched it since I was, I think, 13 or 14. And here, I’m going to confess, I am a loyal Golden Globes watcher. And this is kind of a crazy humbling for what used to be one of the biggest awards shows on television, something that millions of people would watch - the third-biggest award show behind the Grammys and the Oscars that got the biggest names in Hollywood year after year to its end. The only people who there were the people who voted - this small group of people who vote on the Golden Globes - no stars, no broadcasts, no nothing. It was live tweeted from a room in the Beverly Hilton. This year, instead of having all the big celebrities and getting the big ratings and throwing this fun show that everybody is talking about, it was live tweeted. Well, Michael, it was the saddest awards show you ever did see, or didn’t see, in this case, because it wasn’t broadcast on NBC like it usually is. Kyle, describe last night’s Golden Globes ceremony. I spoke with my colleague Kyle Buchanan about the unlikely rise and abrupt fall of the Golden Globes. Today: For the past eight decades, the Golden Globes and the organization that awards them has played an outsized role in Hollywood and what kinds of stories it tells - until now. Monday, January 10th, 2022 michael barbaroįrom New York Times, I’m Michael Barbaro. Transcript The Rise and Fall of the Golden Globes For eight decades, the awards and the organization behind them played an outsized role in Hollywood.