Only minutes after the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) announced its plans to affect more “diversity” in its Golden Globes awards process, activist group Time’s Up went on the attack calling the plans “not enough.” The HFPA announced its new plans Saturday evening, claiming it would implement “transformational change” and the efforts would diversify its…
AP: Golden Globes, Drained of Glamour, Kicks Off Amid Race Controversy
March 1, 2021 by
NEW YORK (AP) — When drained of glamour, what’s left of the Golden Globes? That’s one of the biggest questions heading into the 78th annual awards on Sunday night. The show, postponed two months from its usual early-January perch, will have little of what makes the Globes one of the frothiest and glitziest events of…
Alright, Let’s Talk About President Oprah’s Golden Globes Speech.
January 9, 2018 by
I’m being a little facetious with that headline — but not too facetious, given the social media reaction Leah covered this morning. Let me begin by saying that I did not watch one second of the Golden Globes awards as they aired Sunday night. This wasn’t a deliberate boycott on my part; I just wasn’t […]
Golden Globes TV Ratings Tank – Americans Turned Off by Hollywood Hypocrites.
January 8, 2018 by
The Golden Globes ratings were down again this year. It probably didn’t help that the Hollywood hypocrites announced they would lecture the nation on sexual abuse at the annual festivities. This is how everyone looked at Oprah during her speech at the Golden Globeshttps://t.co/nAM9td1Q7c pic.twitter.com/oKu5UUcJs5 — BuzzFeed (@BuzzFeed) January 8, 2018 Oprah Winfrey led the […]
Pope Francis Urges World to Follow ‘Golden Rule’ in Dealing With Refugee Crisis in Historic Address to Congress
September 24, 2015 by
Pope Francis became the first-ever pontiff to deliver a speech before Congress on Thursday morning, imploring Democrats and Republicans, alike, to follow the “golden rule” in dealing with the ongoing refugee crisis. The pontiff spoke of immigrants, telling the bi-partisan congressional audience to reject a “mindset of hostility” and to see immigrants as individuals, listening […]