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The Golden Globes are on last night, and while I have no interest in murdering a perfectly good Sunday night in this particular fashion, millions do watch. This year, the Globes were hosted, as seems they always are, by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. As usual, they took pokes and jabs at some of the bigger stories making the rounds, and as usual they are treated as if what they do is brave.

“… the two also veered into potentially more dangerous waters when they took aim at comedian Bill Cosby,” writes The National Post’s Chris Knight. Yes, that’s right, on the same day millions marched in France to show defiance to Muslim terrorists, stale old Bill Cosby jokes are what Hollywood considers “dangerous.” Hell, Bill Cosby rape jokes are so de rigueur, Bill Cosby made one last week. But Poehler and Fey veer into “dangerous waters,” when they make one.

On the same week as Charlie Hebdo you know what would be dangerous, a Muhammad joke. But that’s the point. In the land of make believe, even the courage is fake.

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All the fluffy news about those nutty celebrities

Reports that Beyonce and her husband Jay-Z booked a floor at New York’s, Lenox Hill Hospital so Beyonce could have a cesarian delivery last weekend, are greatly exaggerated, says the hospital.

Apparently the singer and her rapper husband booked the entire fourth floor and their security prevented other parents of the hospital seeing their newborn, and sometimes sick, children. The hospital, however, doth protest:

The suggestion that the couple paid $1.3 million to rent an entire an entire maternity floor is sim ply not true. The family is housed in an executive suite at the hospital and is being billed the standard rate for those accommodations.

The family does have it’s own security detail on site. However, the hospital has been and continues to be in control of managing all security at the facility.

Is it just me, or did the hospital just get itself named in any lawsuits from disgruntled parents?

The new addition to the Z family is called Blue Ivy Carter, after the title of two of the stars albums.

Remember when Britney Spears was an underage singer from the bible belt and swore that she would remain a virgin until marriage? Next thing you know, she’s stepping out with Paris Hilton in a short dress and no underwear.

Now it’s 17 year old Justin Bieber’s turn to swear that adulthood won’t change the child. He tells V magazine:

I’m not going to try to conform to what people want me to be or go out there and start partying, have people see me with alcohol… I’m never goings to make myself so the parents and kids don’t respect me…

Look out Paris, looks like you have a new drinking buddy.

News in the rock world that Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi has been diagnosed with lymphoma.

The guitarist was working on a new album with his former band mates – including Ozzy Osbourne – and a reunion tour of the original Black Sabbath was planned for 2012.

The band has moved it’s recording and rehearsing from LA to England, and Iommi has been both writing and recording since his diagnosis. HIs illness has, in fact, given the band “a kick up the rump- it’s great to hear him churning out those riffs again.”

The band plans to honour their summer European dates, but no word on any further concerts at this stage.

Here’s wishing Tony Iommi well.

Review in brief – Girl With The Dragon Tattoo: Silence of the Lambs, but dark and edgy.

The Golden Globes were held last Sunday, and all the stars dressed up, drank up and prepared to listen to Ricky Gervais mock them, which he really didn’t.

Unlike the Oscars, the Golden Globes breaks down the movies into categories, but some prognostication of the Oscars can be made based on the Golden Globes. The Golden Globe winners to watch for at the Oscars are: George Clooney, best actor for The Descendants (beating hsi pal, and other oscar favourite, Brad Pitt in Moneyball; Meryl Streep as best actress in The Iron Lady; The Artist for best movie.

The Golden Globe for most honest reaction goes to Elton John’s husband David Furnish. Of news that Elton lost to Madonna for best song, Furnish turned on his twitter app and wrote:

Madonna. Best song???? F**k off!!!…
Madonna winning Best Original Song truly shows how these awards have nothing to do with merit. Her acceptance speech was embarrassing in it’s narcissism. And her critisism ofGaga shows how desperate she really is. (sic)

He later clarified things telling the New York Post:

I think it was a fluke. When this happens you have to question the integrity of the awards. Did Madonna get the Golden Globe because she attended the awards and agreed to be a presenter?

Can you sing Madonna’s song? Can you hum it? It’s a song nobody has heard from a film few have seen. The award should have gone to Mary J. Blige or Elton.

Nice back-peddling David.

For the record, if I had a vote, I’d pick Madonna’s song. And yes, it pains me deeply to write that.

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The Golden Globes were held last weekend in Hollywood and Comedian Ricky Gervais hosted most of the show. After his opening monologue, however, he disappeared for over an hour. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, who’s awards the Golden Globes are, were apparently unhappy with some of his jokes. Hollywood can be cutting and cruel to those they disagree with, but taking a ribbing themselves is over the top. Gervais was, to the whiny, self centred Hollywoodistas, over the top.

Gervais himself says he won’t be back, saying twice (he hosted the show last year, as well) is enough. Which is Cockney for, “my act has worn thin.”

Sigh – enjoy next years Golden Globes, to be hosted by… Mary Hart?

I’m trying to decide what Robert Downey Jr. would say if Sarah Palin was as easily offended as this group of egoists.

Not Mary Hart, you say? OK, how about Regis Philbin.

The debonair heartthrob to Grandmas from Des Moines to Debuke, Philbin told the live audience of his show, Live with Regis and Kelly, that he was retiring at the end of the summer.

Philbin, who is 79, told the audience, “I’m almost 80, let me retire for F&$k Sake.” Or something.

The question is, would the ever likeable, and polite Philbin put down his Mah-Jong tiles to host the Golden Globes next year?

Golden Globe big winners: Anne Hathaway and Olivia Wilde had the nicest dresses of the evening.

Also:

• The Social Network: best Drama
• The Kids are Alright: best Comedy
• Natalie Portman: best actress
• Colin Firth: best actor

The sequel to Batman Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, is in pre-production and they have stepped up big. Anne Hathaway has been slotted in to adorn the skin tight cat suit, performing the role of Cat Woman. Um… meow?

Christian Bale will reprise his Batman role, returning for part II of the “overrated movie of the decade series.”

Congratulations to Owen Wilson and his girlfriend Jade Duell (there’s a sexy name) who had a boy last week. The name: Robert Ford.

One question. Is it that coward Robert Ford? Or that Big Fat Sweaty Mayor Robert Ford?

Don Kirshner (1934 – 2011): 70’s music fans like myself recall Don Kirshner as the guy from “Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert,” the only opportunity rock fans had to see their favourite bands on TV.

To earlier fans, he was a music industry insider, who found artists to sing songs of songwriters like Neil Sedaka or Howard Greenfield. In 1966 he was hired to find music for a new TV show, The Monkees. He later left that show to work on The Archies, saying of the animated band: “I want a band that won’t talk back.”

He began his live TV show career working on ABC’s in concert in 1972. A year later he began Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert which featured almost every significant band of the 1970’s. The Rolling Stones appeared on the 1973 premier.

Kirshner died this week at the age of 76.

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