The Golden Globes - I Would Like to Thank...

Apparently winning an award isn't as difficult as knowing what to say after your name has been called.  Everyone who worked on the project seems to need a Thank You that's specific...and public; the latter most assuredly, because it doesn't advance the caterer's or costume director's or agent's career to simply receive a charming, handwritten note atop a beribboned box of truffles.  

If a person assisted the winner but was not thanked at the podium, does he make a whimper?

Obviously it takes busloads of talented people to pull off $25-, $50-, $100-million or more film projects. It's just that the thanking is almost a parody of the Tea party "I Built This" nonsense last year wherein proud entrepreneurs neglected to be grateful for the "collectivist" roads, schools, and postal systems that made their enterprises possible.  

That being said, I would like the Hollywood Foreign Press for Leonardo DiCaprio winning Best a Performance (in a musical or comedy!), even if the equally gutsy  Martin Scorsese was not even nominated for Director.  

I'd like to thank them also for U2 winning in the  Best Song category for Ordinary Love" from the Mandela film.  (Not having seen the film nor fully knowing the song pose no obstacle to my biases.)

I thank the Golden a Globes seating committee for placing SNL's Lorne Michaels at a front, center table to raise an eyebrow should any nominee or presenter get too precious or preening or pretentious.   

I thank the Golden a Globe producers for hiring Tina Fey and Amy Poehler to host.  Tina's LDC introduction, the Clooney joke, Amy getting Bono to massage her neck during her nomination category...good stuff. 

Mainly I'm thankful for being reminded that pop culture isn't all commercialism and coarseness and nonsense, that there's a reason we hold certain directors and musicians in our hearts:  Because when they're creating, they're holding something special in their hearts.  

(As the SNL tables gives me a look.... )