Dish's Golden Globe Predictions/Wishes:

I cannot wait to hear what Ricky Gervais says! His malice is so refreshing. I won't tarry with my choices:

MOVIES

Best Picture--Drama: The Descendants (my wish is for Moneyball but Clooney is the Golden God)

Best Actress--Drama: Viola Davis for The Help (movie slow but Viola is awesome, understated and shows acting can be good without all the prosthetics)

Best Actor--Drama: George Clooney in The Descending Testicles zzzzzz (my wish is for Brad Pitt in Moneyball)

Best Picture--Comedy: The Artist

Best Actress--Comedy: Michelle Williams for My Week With Marilyn (Give her a bone)

Best Actor--Comedy: Jean Dujardin for The Artist (It must be)

Supporting Actress: Berenice Bejo

Supporting Actor: Viggo Mortensen (playing Freud, though Kenneth Branagh and Jonah Hill were brilliant and I would not choose them b/c Jonah's too young, My Week with Marilyn wasn't amazing)

Best Foreign Film: In the Land of Blood and Honey

Best Animated Feature: Rango (I have no idea)

Best Director: Michel Hazanavicius (He did something DIFFERENT and artful!)

Best Screenplay: The Descendants

Best Original Score: The Artist

Best Song: "Hello, Hello" from Gnomeo & Juliet (I have no idea)

TELEVISION:

Best Series--Drama: Game of Thrones (though my choice is Breaking Bad) though split on American Horror Story and Homeland. Crap! I don't know.

Best Actress--Drama: Mireille Enos in The Killing

Best Actor--Drama: Bryan Cranston in Breaking Bad

Best Series--Comedy: Modern Family

Best Actress--Comedy: Zooey Deschanel of New Girl (I predict an upset)

Best Actor--Comedy: Alec Baldwin of 30 Rock

Best Miniseries: Downtown Abbey (everyone's squealing over this)

Best Actress in a Miniseries: Elizabeth McGovern for Downtown Abbey (because I love her to death since Ordinary People playing Janine Pratt!)

Best Actor in a Miniseries: Hugh Bonneville in Downtown Abbey. He just rocks in general, amazing body of work. Amazing body.

Best Supporting Actor in Miniseries/Series: Sofia Vergara of Modern Family(just for gorgeous boobs alone)

Best Supporting Actress in Miniseries/Series: Peter Dinklage in Game of Thrones (I've never seen this but he's consistently awesome but I'd be delighted with Eric Stonestreet)

Nothing Against Irene...

...but reaction to her has already annoyed me. I know, catastrophes make you reach out to others. Though with 9/11, Facebook hadn't been an issue. You were out of touch, but you called and emailed people. Now it's the FB status updates that are setting off my stereotypical red-headed temper: "Light rain so far..." "Oh...it's looking gloomy." "OMG, so bored." So am I. Maybe it's that everyone has become a broadcaster (including me), maybe it's because even the broadcasters are melodramatic. Maybe it's because I'm in Canada and can't experience the anxiety firsthand. People are vulnerable so one should be compassionate. Right now I'm Irened out and she hasn't really hit NYC. Though...I will admit FB did prove useful with getting married and knowing that I lived through an earthquake that I didn't feel. Never mind my bad mood.

So enough kvetching, Dish, what's new in celebrity land? There's some news that Ricky Gervais might host the Golden Globes again. I say, Halleluliah! He's one of the few hosts who isn't politically correct and kissing an audience's ass. I hope, hope, hope Jane Lynch is the same for the Emmys. But, yes, please bring on Ricky to make stars remember how privileged they are to wear beautiful clothes and be in movies/television and make...um...art.

I had the fortune of seeing the trailer for Fireflies in the Garden where Julia plays a MOTHER to Ryan Reynolds. I can't tell if it's good, but we do know it's another Serious Julia Movie, where in the crux of the turmoil, she will cry beautifully and at some point, flash her brilliant smile: http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=81556.