Category: media

“The 70th annual Globes telecast, with hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, attracted 19.7 million viewers, a 17 percent increase from last year.”

“News and political talk shows are quickly losing out to channels that bring Persian-language entertainment, especially Turkish soap operas. New programs include a talent show hosted by one of Iran’s most prominent singers, Googoosh, and Iranian dance competitions taped in Georgia. There are movie channels in Persian, shopping channels, even religious channels.”

“The $60 billion industry is facing intense political pressure from an unlikely alliance of critics who say that violent imagery in video games has contributed to a culture of violence.”

“Female wunderkinds of every age seemed to dominate the night.”

“The prizes were just half the action, as the room was kept spinning by Amy Poehler and Tina Fey, hosts who pulled no punches.”

Self-delusion abounds on the set of The Canyons, a low-budget film that director Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver), writer Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho), and actor Lindsay Lohan (um, Parent Trap & a whole lot more) hope will resuscitate their Hollywood careers.

“It’s rather like the library getting into the book-publishing business because it can tell what people like to read. Great idea, but fraught because the public’s taste is fickle and the public is so easily distracted.”

CBS “specials and music VP Jack Sussman said the current model of airing the show live at 5 p.m. on the East Coast and delayed at 8 p.m. on the West Coast is working perfectly.”

Affleck joked as he took the best director trophy that he’d “like to thank the Academy.”