Seen and Heard and Won Around the Globes

Before I get into how predictable last night’s Golden Globes were, at least in the film categories, can I just say I thought Ricky Gervais killed – and got away with it – as the show’s host.

The guy delivered searing joke after searing joke and eviscerated everyone in the audience right in front of them (ouch, The Tourist), just like mommas everywhere say you shouldn’t. It was fun. And no, he didn’t go too far, considering how much further he could’ve taken it...although I would sleep with one eye open for a bit (you just don’t mess with the Scientologists).

Anyway, when it came to the winners, there were few surprises (The Social Network, Colin, Natalie, Christian, Melissa, and Annette all walked away with a Globe, while Paul Giamatti kinda stunned everyone when he bested Johnny Depp and Jake Gyllenhaal in the Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical category for the little-seen Barney’s Version).

On the TV side, Glee scored Best Comedy (really, over Modern Family!), while Katey Sagal finally earned FX’s Sons of Anarchy some awards lovin’. And The Good Wife walked away empty-handed yet again, although Julianna Margulies gets top marks for looking so frakkin’ beyond in vintage Yves Saint Laurent. And how touching was Chris Colfer’s reaction upon hearing his name when he won Best Supporting Actor for Glee? Only slightly less so than his moving speech I say.

My Twitter feed has my blow-by-blow impressions of the show, so if you’re at all interested, get!

And now, for the fashion.

I thought the best dressed of the evening was Emma Stone, who just dazzled in an elegant and simple peach Calvin Klein Collection dress. Girlfriend was a little too tanned, but she looked beautiful.

Anne Hathaway looked like a million bucks in her Armani Privé, and Olivia Wilde ever the princess in a Marchesa gown.

Sandra Bullock looked pretty, but those new bangs are a bit much, and she looked like she had left her hair brush at Ryan Reynolds’. Oh no, I did! Calm down, even though the two have been spending time together lately, she maintains they are just friends, so there.

As for the men, Chris Hemsworth was the most swoon-worthy, end o’ story.

Photo: EW.com.

TVS (Tender Vampire Sex)

Entertainment Weekly is making Twihards quite happy with its latest issue previewing what’s to come in 2011, particularly because of this exclusive first photo of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1.

Check out Bella and Edward (rumored real-life couple Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattison) sharing a bed as man and wife on their wedding night.

Looks intense and well-lit and oh-so-vampirically romantic, huh. So what was the motivation behind the scene?

“You want to live up to people’s expectations,” said director Bill Condon. “People take [the movie and characters] personally. When you are interpreting something you have a certain vision of how it will be. Sometimes it is a liberal interpretation, but you hope you get to the essence of something.”

Well see what the whole package looks like when the movie opens on Nov. 18.

Photo: EW.com.

Critical Consensus

The Social Network was the best picture of the year that was, per last night’s Critic’s Choice Awards. Its David Fincher took home the Best Director award.

The cast of The Fighter won Best Ensemble, while Colin Firth (The King’s Speech), Natalie Portman (Black Swan), and The Fighter’s Christian Bale and Melissa Leo walked away with acting accolades.

Click here for a complete list of winners.

Photo: Columbia Pictures (The Social Network).

A Role Full of R-E-S-P-E-C-T

What Aretha Frankling wants Halle Berry has got it.

The singer has confirmed that the actress will play her in a long-in-the-works biopic

Could this be Berry’s Ray?

Photo: CelebrityBug.net.

Update: Ooh, hold the phone. Berry told Ryan Seacrest on the red carpet at the Golden Globes that since can’t sing she doesn’t think she could do Franklin justice.

Welcome Back, SMG

It’s what we’ve been waiting for, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: the return of Sarah Michelle Gellar.

The actress, who had a pilot set up at HBO a couple of years that didn’t go anywhere, has been out of limelight since becoming a mother almost two years ago.

Gellar’s ready to make a comeback to TV, though, and will star on a CBS pilot about a troubled young woman on the run who hides out by living her wealthy twin sister’s life, until she realizes her sibling’s life has a bounty on it as well.

In’erestin’....

Photo: Life.com.

In the (Outdoors) Bedroom

Last week, Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine set the Web on fire when a provocative photo of himself and model-gf Anne V’s strategically placed hands surfaced for our enjoyment.

This week, the couple shot a very sexy scene for the band’s next video – for their new single, “Never Gonna Leave This Bed” – out on the voyeuristic streets of L.A.

In bed.

In their sleepwear.

I’d say these two ought to get a room, but then again I am feasting on the images they produce.

Gimme more!

Photo: EW.com.

Where’s the Love

The state of affairs is bleak in Blue Valentine, perhaps, the bestest sad movie I have ever seen.

Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams star as a young couple facing the dissolution of their six-year marriage as we, the audience, are allowed extended peeks at the early days of their once-loving relationship.

That was then and this...this is now.

Director Derek Cianfrance tells his story in non-chronological order, which only heightens the melancholy of his long-gestating project. This is the love story of Dean and Cindy, and theirs is the kind of love that has burnt bright and fast. Meant to last they were not, but meant to mean something...that they were.

Both Gosling and Williams are at the top of their game as two people so disillusioned with each other, with their relationship, there’s no denying it. Each has a longing for the other, but also a disdain that’s unmistakable. He, a house painter who doesn’t want (or need) more out of life, can’t understand why she can’t just be happy with what they have, with their family (they have a 6-year-old cute-as-a-button daughter), while, she, a nurse who still would like more (like, say, becoming the doctor she had set out to be at first), wishes he would get up and finally start living up to his potential.

They’re both flooded by those first few months when the world was their oyster, and on the fateful day we meet them, they are at a crossroads. Neither one knows it, but the events of the ensuing 24 hours or so will define their future. They will try to save their failing marriage, and they will find out some ugly truths along the way, including the fact that, sometimes, you can’t help but hurt the one you love.

Gosling and Williams’ awards-worthy portrait of the end feels, looks, and reads real.

The film was shot in sequence, from happy times to sad ones.

You can see the (d)evolution of the relationship, or help but be engrossed by it, and it’s a heartbreak of the most watchable sort...and that’s quite the incredible feat.

My Rating ****

Photo: The Weinstein Company.