MONDAY MORNING: thoughts on WINDOW DRESSING: TERMINATOR/THE GLOBES – and a Sentimental note….

I did not watch the globes last night – Instead I was
riveted by the first installment of “Terminator: The Sarah Connors Chronicles”
– If I were THE GAP I would get that T-shirt
Lena Headley was wearing into the store window TODAY – I’m sure Trey Laird is
signing up Lena Headey for some ads right now. (some of you may recall Ms.
Headey from high minded films like Possession – I would add “the Brothers Grimm,”
but no one saw that – or more likely, as Queen Gorgo in “the 300.”

            As for the
Globes, although we all know that the Hollywood Foreign Press association is
actually less than 100 journalists – I always bought into the big party idea –
Actors from film and TV in the same room, getting looped on cocktails and
saying things they might not say at other awards show – that is until that was
seized upon by the forces of marketing – a forced/fake ploy ”Watch out – anything can happen!”

            But the
reason for my soft spot for the Globes is that the night my daughter was born,
the waiting area outside the delivery room featured a TV that was playing the
Globes. There was a very disparate group assembled there (there’s a whole other
story there, but I’ll save that for another time) but the Globes provided us
with fodder for conversation – a common ground – to discuss and relate to. Everyone,
including the nurses at the desk, embraced the show as a distraction, as a
celebration at a time of celebration… and so the very notion of The Golden
Globes brings a smile to my face.

            This year,
however, I will miss my favorite part of the Globes – seeing how fast the
fashion worn by the (female) winners makes into the window of ABS,
the clothing store famous for knocking off – I mean creating fashions “inspired
by…..”

 

BY THE WAY – WHY IS IT…. British and Australian actors and actresses
have no trouble ditching their accents to play Americans (the afore-mentioned
Ms. Headey, as well as Hugh Laurie, Rachel Griffiths, Frances O’Connor) but
Americans….can only seem to adopt a British accent as an affectation (Madonna).

 

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