Comments on: The Gilded Globes: Legitimacy Amidst Controversy http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2011/01/17/the-gilded-globes-legitimacy-amidst-controversy/ Responses to Media and Culture Fri, 12 Feb 2016 19:35:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.5 By: Tausif Khan http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2011/01/17/the-gilded-globes-legitimacy-amidst-controversy/comment-page-1/#comment-61396 Mon, 17 Jan 2011 19:06:39 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=7946#comment-61396 I appreciate the Golden Globes because they appreciate under represented work. Katey Sagal has had the most varied set of role of any actor on television. While she played matriarchal figures in many of them they are very, very different roles. She has played Peggy Bundy, Turanga Leela, Cate Hennessy, and Gemma Teller-Morrow. For that body of work alone she should be rewarded.

Furthermore, I liked the fact that Halle Berry was nominated for her work in Frankie and Alice a passion project of hers in which she has received very little recognition. Of what little recognition she has received it has been overwhelmingly positive. It is weird to me that an Oscar-winning actress should generate such little buzz about such a successful movie.

]]> By: Ricky the Rabble-Rouser: The 2011 Golden Globe Awards | Cultural Learnings http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2011/01/17/the-gilded-globes-legitimacy-amidst-controversy/comment-page-1/#comment-61246 Mon, 17 Jan 2011 07:58:55 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=7946#comment-61246 […] The Gilded Globes: Legitimacy Amidst Controversy [Antenna] Every year, the Golden Globes give us a large collection of reasons to dismiss them entirely. The Tourist and Burlesque are perhaps the two most prominent examples on the film side this year, and Piper Perabo’s Lead Actress in a Drama Series nomination for USA Network’s Covert Affairs offers a similar bit of lunacy on the television side. While these may lead us to dismiss the awards as a sort of farcical celebration of celebrity excess, the fact remains that the Golden Globes hold considerable power within the industry. […]

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