Why didn’t they create a path to the stage for acceptees? Everyone had a hard time finding their way onstage and it wasted time…

Know when you’re done and it’s time to exit. Meryl Streep had some terrific endings to her speech, but she kept going on which diminished her great lines like “I’ve played so many extraordinary women, that I’m now mistaken for one”. Or, “I want to change my name to T-Bone. T-Bone Streep.” Formulate one idea and stick with it. Then button it up with a strong close and make a gracious exit…

Don’t let your kids watch the Golden Globes unsupervised. They might catch the shot of Mickey Rourke giving Mike Tyson a kiss which could seriously damage them for life.

Helen Mirren stood and waited before delivering a dramatic opening about life. Using the power of the pause she drew the audience to her and owned the stage.

Reading the teleprompter caused undue problems. Presenters squinted to read their lines… Robert DeNiro only came alive when he joked about Martin Scorsese having sex on the Internet. The rest of the time, his prompter reading was embarrassing… Even Tom Hanks, the consummate professional sounded canned and rushed when he read the prompter.

Bad camera pans were distracting, but at least made us realize the show was live. The flip side was watching a retrospective of Martin Scorsese’s film clips. What a master artist, filmmaker and shaper of the Industry.

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