As Usual, Golden Globes Celebrate Drunks
The Golden Globe nominations have been announced, and the wine-swilling members of the Hollywood Foreign Press have lavished seven nominations on Sideways, Alexander Payne's love poem to the kind of alcoholics who romantically perforate their livers with the fruit of the vine. A fitting choice, really, since the Globes ceremony is more notable for its highly amusing, shitfaced victory speeches than for its efficacy as an Oscar predictor. The red-hott Jamie Foxx was honored with acting nominations for Ray, Collateral, Redemption, and, oddly, a retroactive nod to his overlooked, prophylactic-seeking achievements in Booty Call. Miramax, maintaining an impressive ability to rise to the occasion for awards season, grabbed 15 nominations despite firing its entire staff. Congratulations to all of the nominees, whom we've already celebrated by chugging a bottle of three-dollar merlot.