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	<title>Pink is the New Blog &#124; Everybody&#039;s Business Is My Business &#187; Anna Paquin</title>
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		<title>Anna Paquin &amp; Josh Duhamel Got Hitched . . .</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday we saw a few photos of actor Josh Duhamel, allegedly happily married to Fergie Ferg, joshing around with a few film crew members in between takes on the Long Island, NY set of his new film The Romantics.  Today we get to see a few more pics from the movie set, but this [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yesterday we saw a few photos of actor <strong>Josh Duhamel</strong>, allegedly happily married to <strong>Fergie Ferg</strong>, <a href="http://www.pinkisthenewblog.com/2009/11/josh-duhamel-makes-a-pass-on-the-set-of-the-romantics/" title="Josh Duhamel Makes A Pass On The Set Of ‘The Romantics’">joshing around with a few film crew members in between takes on the Long Island, NY</a> set of his new film <em>The Romantics</em>.  Today we get to see a few more pics from the movie set, but this time <strong>Josh</strong> is engaged in a bit of a different activity with his <em>Romantics</em> leading lady <strong>Anna Paquin</strong>:</p>
<p><img src="http://www.pinkisthenewblog.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/111809_annajoshmoviehitched.jpg" alt="" title="" width="350" height="568" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-43430" /><br />
That&#8217;s right folks, everyone&#8217;s fave fangbanger from <em>True Blood</em> gets hitched to <strong>Joshy Josh</strong> in this new film &#8230; which is entirely unfair &#8230; a man that hot shouldn&#8217;t be married in either real life or fiction.  He makes a hawt groom tho, I&#8217;ll give him that.  After the jump, check out which actor co-stars in <em>The Romantics</em> were on set to bear witness to this fake nuptials &#8230; <span id="more-43428"></span></p>
<p><img src="http://www.pinkisthenewblog.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/111809_katieelijahset.jpg" alt="" title="" width="350" height="350" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-43431" /><br />
It was nice of <a href="http://www.pinkisthenewblog.com/2009/11/a-bedraggled-lookin-katie-holmes-runs-out-for-starbucks/" title="A Bedraggled-Lookin’ Katie Holmes Runs Out For Starbucks"><strong>Katie Holmes</strong> to tidy herself up</a> for this movie scene &#8230; nice to see that <strong>Elijah Wood</strong> also cleaned himself up a bit and <a href="http://www.pinkisthenewblog.com/2009/11/elijah-wood-dons-the-pornstache/" title="Elijah Wood Dons The Porn’stache">shaped up his gnarly porn&#8217;stache</a>.  All in all, it looks like it was a nice day for a white wedding in Long Island &#8230; but we&#8217;re gonna hafta wait quite a while to see these nuptials take place on the big screen.</p>
<p>[Photo credit: <a target="_blank" href="http://infdaily.com">INFdaily</a>]</p>
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		<title>Anna Paquin &amp; Stephen Moyer On The Flying Trapeze</title>
		<link>http://www.pinkisthenewblog.com/2009/08/anna-paquin-stephen-moyer-on-the-flying-trapeze/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[True Blood co-stars and real-life fiancées Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer were spotted enjoying an afternoon trapeze lesson in SoCal this weekend, presumably for an upcoming film project.  It&#8217;s possible that the couple, who brought along Moyer&#8217;s daughter Lilac Moyer with them, were flying around for fun but since Anna is in pre-production on [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>True Blood</em> co-stars and <a href="http://www.pinkisthenewblog.com/2009/08/anna-paquin-stephen-moyer-are-gettin-hitched/" title="Anna Paquin &#038; Stephen Moyer Are Gettin’ Hitched!">real-life fiancées</a> <strong>Anna Paquin</strong> and <strong>Stephen Moyer</strong> were spotted enjoying an afternoon trapeze lesson in SoCal this weekend, presumably for an upcoming film project.  It&#8217;s possible that the couple, who brought along <strong>Moyer</strong>&#8217;s daughter <strong>Lilac Moyer</strong> with them, were flying around for fun but since <strong>Anna</strong> is in pre-production on a film titled <em>Flying Into Love</em> it&#8217;s more likely this day of fun was really more a day of work.  Here are a few photos:</p>
<p><img src="http://www.pinkisthenewblog.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/082409_annastephentrapeze.jpg" alt="" title="" width="350" height="875" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-37260" /><br />
I understand that little <strong>Lilac</strong> also go in on the trapeze fun &#8230; I suppose it&#8217;s also possible that the family is working on a circus act should their television and film careers go kaput.  I think folks would line up to see <strong>The Flying Moyers</strong> in person.  I am happy to report that no one was injured during this daredevil training session and the family went home safe and sound:</p>
<p><img src="http://www.pinkisthenewblog.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/082409_annastephendaughter.jpg" alt="" title="" width="350" height="350" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-37261" /><br />
I bet you thought vampires didn&#8217;t know how to have a good time &#8230; well, in the daylight at least.  How wrong you were ;)</p>
<p>[Photo credit: <a target="_blank" href="http://splashnewsonline.com">Splash News</a>]</p>
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		<title>Anna Paquin Shows Off Her Engagement Bling</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>It's Trent, Bitch!</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday we learned the happy news that on and off-screen lovers Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer (who co-star in HBO&#8217;s True Blood) got themselves engaged to be wed &#8230; and today we get to see pics of Anna proudly showing off her new engagement bling.  Anna took her doggies out for a stroll and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yesterday we learned the happy news that on and off-screen lovers <strong>Anna Paquin</strong> and <strong>Stephen Moyer</strong> (who co-star in <strong>HBO</strong>&#8217;s <em>True Blood</em>) <a href="http://www.pinkisthenewblog.com/2009/08/anna-paquin-stephen-moyer-are-gettin-hitched/" title="Anna Paquin &#038; Stephen Moyer Are Gettin’ Hitched!">got themselves engaged to be wed</a> &#8230; and today we get to see pics of <strong>Anna</strong> proudly showing off her new engagement bling.  <strong>Anna</strong> took her doggies out for a stroll and very blatantly flashed her new engagement bling to the curious paparazzi:</p>
<p><img src="http://www.pinkisthenewblog.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/080709_annabling.jpg" alt="" title="" width="350" height="569" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-36076" /><br />
I mean &#8230; I&#8217;m happy for <strong>Anna</strong> and Stephen and all but &#8230; I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m too impressed with this ring.  It looks like a mood ring that someone would buy at a museum gift shop for about $1.50.  Unless this cloudy stone is some sort of expensive moon rock, I can&#8217;t say that I believe that <strong>Mr. Moyer</strong> spent much of his hard earned <em>True Blood</em> money on <strong>Anna</strong>&#8217;s ring.  BUT, it&#8217;s not the rock that&#8217;s important &#8230; it&#8217;s the sentiment and lurve behind the rock that matters.  Again &#8230; much love and congrats goes out to the happy couple on their upcoming nuptials.  Here&#8217;s hoping <strong>Anna</strong>&#8217;s actual wedding ring is a bit more substantive ;)</p>
<p>[Photo credit: <a target="_blank" href="http://splashnewsonline.com">Splash News</a>]</p>
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		<title>‘True Blood’ Season 2 Premieres In Hollywood</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>It's Trent, Bitch!</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer and other castmembers of HBO&#8217;s hit new vampire drama True Blood made their way to Paramount Studios lot here in Hollywood, CA for the premiere of season 2 of the show.  The second season of True Blood debuts on HBO this Sunday night but the big celebratory party took place [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Anna Paquin</strong>, <strong>Stephen Moyer</strong> and other castmembers of <strong>HBO</strong>&#8217;s hit new vampire drama <a target="_blank" href="http://www.hbo.com/trueblood"><em>True Blood</em></a> made their way to <strong>Paramount Studios</strong> lot here in Hollywood, CA for the premiere of season 2 of the show.  The second season of <em>True Blood</em> debuts on <strong>HBO</strong> this Sunday night but the big celebratory party took place last night &#8230; here are a few photos from last night&#8217;s premiere party:</p>
<p><img src="http://www.pinkisthenewblog.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/061009_trueblood2prem.jpg" alt="" title="" width="350" height="911" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-31534" /><br />
I quite enjoyed the first season of the show when it debuted on <strong>HBO</strong> last Summer so I am very much looking forward to season 2.  I managed to rewatch the last few eps of the first season this week and was reminded how good the story is.  I hear that the drama in the upcoming second season is not to be missed.  I LOVE <strong>Michelle Forbes</strong> who plays the mysterious shapeshifter (?) <strong>Maryann</strong> on the show (I also loved her very much as Ensign <strong>Ro Laren</strong> on <em>Star Trek: The Next Generation</em>, <strong>Lynne Kresge</strong> on <em>24</em>, Admiral <strong>Helena Cain</strong> on <em>Battlestar Galactica</em> and estranged wife <strong>Kate</strong> on <em>In Treatment</em>).  <strong>Forbes</strong> is absolutely one of my favorite character actresses &#8230; she is really fantastic.  I&#8217;m glad she was added to the cast of <em>True Blood</em>.  I&#8217;ve refrained from watching any preview screeners of the show only cuz David and I love watching the eps as they air on a weekly basis.  I must admit, I love that <em>True Blood</em> has more gritty bite than <strong>The <em>Twilight</em> Saga</strong> has &#8230; while the tweens can sink their teeth into <em>Twilight</em>, adults can much more enjoy the fun on <em>True Blood</em>.  I&#8217;ll deffo be tuning in this Sunday night for the season premiere of <em>True Blood</em> &#8230; can&#8217;t wait!!</p>
<p>[Photo credit: <a target="_blank" href="http://splashnewsonline.com">Splash News</a>]</p>
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		<title>‘Vanity Fair’ Magazine Celebrates The Academy Awards</title>
		<link>http://www.pinkisthenewblog.com/2009/02/vanity-fair-magazine-celebrates-the-academy-awards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After all the Oscar trophies were handed out at last night&#8217;s Academy Awards (actually, some folks didn&#8217;t even wait &#8217;til all the awards were handed out &#8230; some showed up at the party before the Oscars were even finished), a who&#8217;s who of Hollywood A-Listers made their way to the Sunset Tower to party the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After all <a target="_blank" href="http://pinkisthenewblog.com/home/2009/02/the-81st-annua…are-handed-outthe-81st-annual-academy-awards-are-handed-out/" title="The 81st Annual Academy Awards Are Handed Out">the <strong>Oscar</strong> trophies were handed out at last night&#8217;s <strong>Academy Awards</strong></a> (actually, some folks didn&#8217;t even wait &#8217;til all the awards were handed out &#8230; some showed up at the party before the Oscars were even finished), a who&#8217;s who of Hollywood A-Listers made their way to the <strong>Sunset Tower</strong> to party the night away at the <strong><em>Vanity Fair</em> Oscar Party</strong> which was hosted by <strong>Graydon Carter</strong>.  Folks this is <em>THE</em> party to go to if you are &#8220;anybody&#8221; in Hollywood.  Here are a few pics from the red carpet arrivals last night:</p>
<p><img src="http://pinkisthenewblog.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/022309_vfoscarparty.jpg" alt="" title="" width="350" height="911" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23263" /><br />
I gotta say &#8230; I was very bummed to see that <strong>Madonna</strong> showed up at the <em>VF</em> party sans her much younger beau <strong>Jesus Luz</strong>.  I was really hoping she and her boytoy would walk the red carpet together and set the gossips afire with her brazen brash &#038; sassiness.  Boo.  On the plus side, tho, <strong>Jennifer Aniston</strong> was happy to cozy up to her beau <strong>John Mayer</strong> for the cameras &#8230; tho, the couple did not make a scene on the red carpet in full view of all of the cameras &#8230; they saved their canoodling for inside the shindig.  While many folks make the rounds on <strong>Oscar</strong> night and hit up as many parties as they can, the folks who get an invite to the <em>Vanity Fair</em> party make sure to make an appearance and some end up staying all night long &#8230; it&#8217;s that good.  I&#8217;m sure a great time was had by all &#8230; now that we&#8217;ve got the <strong>81st Academy Awards</strong> in the can, I&#8217;m sure many folks were rearin&#8217; to get to the celebratin&#8217; (or the drownin&#8217; ones sorrows in free booze &#8230; like <strong>Brangelina</strong>).  See, there really ain&#8217;t no bizznazz like showbiz.</p>
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		<title>The 66th Annual Golden Globes Are Handed Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Hollywood Foreign Press handed out the 66th annual Golden Globe awards last night at the famed Beverly Hilton Hotel and a Who&#8217;s Who of Hollywood&#8217;s elite came out for the grand affair.  As you may recall, the Golden Globe Awards were not held last year because of the Hollywood Writers&#8217; Strike so many [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The <strong>Hollywood Foreign Press</strong> handed out the 66th annual <strong>Golden Globe</strong> awards last night at the famed <strong>Beverly Hilton Hotel</strong> and a <em>Who&#8217;s Who</em> of Hollywood&#8217;s elite came out for the grand affair.  As you may recall, <a target="_blank" href="http://trent.blogspot.com/2008/01/deflated-globes.html" title="The Deflated Globes">the <strong>Golden Globe Awards</strong> were not held last year because of the <strong>Hollywood Writers&#8217; Strike</strong></a> so many celebs were geared up to strut their stuff on the red carpet last night.  Here are a few photos from the red carpet arrivals:</p>
<p><img src="http://pinkisthenewblog.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/011209_ggarrivals.jpg" alt="" title="" width="350" height="911" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18550" /><br />
There were quite a few fashion disasters on the red carpet last night and I&#8217;m convinced that many of the folks who made their way down the red carpet were totally loaded.  I watched <strong>NBC</strong>&#8217;s red carpet coverage and was aghast at how horrible the whole thing was.  Not only did <strong>Nancy O&#8217;Dell</strong> look like she had a mop afixed to her head but she and her interviewer cohorts were simply HORRENDOUS as they interviewed the celebs:</p>
<p><img src="http://pinkisthenewblog.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/011209_ggpredcarpetfail.jpg" alt="" title="" width="350" height="263" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18551" /><br />
If you watched the show, you know exactly what I&#8217;m talking about.  But, once the show got underway and the awards started to get handed out, things leveled off and got sorta interesting.  In the end, the <strong>Hollywood Foreign Press</strong> saw fit to bestow HEAPS of awards on <em>Slumdog Millionaire</em> (in the Film categories) and <em>John Adams</em> (in the Television categories).  Here are a few pics from the press room and <a target="_blank" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090112/wl_uk_afp/entertainmentusfilmawardglobes_newsmlmmd" title="'Slumdog Millionaire' hits Golden Globes jackpot">a rundown of what went down last night</a>:</p>
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<font color=white>The movie &#8220;Slumdog Millionaire&#8221; emerged as the big winner at the 66th Golden Globes late Sunday, scooping four awards to underline its credentials ahead of next month&#8217;s Oscars.  Late Australian actor Heath Ledger earned a posthumous Golden Globe for his performance in Batman blockbuster &#8220;The Dark Knight&#8221; while Kate Winslet won two awards for best drama actress and supporting actress.  But, ironically, on a star-studded night in Beverly Hills, it was &#8220;Slumdog Millionaire&#8221; the rags-to-riches love story about an orphan who fights his way out of Mumbai slums on an Indian television game show.  The film &#8212; featuring a cast of virtual unknowns &#8212; won best drama and also picked up honors for director Danny Boyle, as well as honors for best screenplay and best music.  Sally Hawkins also won the best musical/comedy actress award for her performance in the light-hearted Mike Leigh film &#8220;Happy-Go-Lucky.&#8221;  The 32-year-old actress beat favorite Meryl Streep (&#8221;Mamma Mia!&#8221;), Frances McDormand (&#8221;Burn After Reading) and fellow Britons Rebecca Hall (&#8221;Vicky Cristina Barcelona&#8221;) and Emma Thompson (&#8221;Last Chance Harvey&#8221;).  After a disastrous event last year that was reduced to a celebrity-free zone by the entertainment industry&#8217;s writers strike, this year&#8217;s Globes red carpet read like a who&#8217;s who of the movie industry&#8217;s A-list.  Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Angelina Jolie, Leonardo DiCaprio were just a handful of the A-listers in attendance at the Beverly Hilton.  Unlike the Oscars, the Golden Globes &#8212; which are chosen by around 80 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association &#8212; have separate best picture awards for dramas and musicals.  In the past four years the Globes have failed to accurately predict the best picture winner at the Academy Awards but overall, some 67 percent of Oscars best picture winners had first received a Golden Globe.  As such the Globes are seen as an important staging post ahead of the Academy Awards, offering clues to which films will be successful at the Oscars, which take place at Hollywood&#8217;s Kodak Theater on February 22.  The acting awards on Sunday saw Australian heart-throb Ledger honored as expected for his portrayal of arch-villain the Joker in &#8220;The Dark Knight.&#8221;  Director Christopher Nolan accepted Ledger&#8217;s award, saying the actor&#8217;s death at the age of 28 had &#8220;ripped a hole&#8221; in the future of cinema.  &#8220;All of us who worked with Heath on &#8216;The Dark Knight&#8217; accept this with an awful mixture of sadness but incredible pride,&#8221; Nolan said.  &#8220;For any of us lucky enough to work with him, I think for any of us lucky enough to enjoy his performances, he will be eternally missed, but he will never be forgotten,&#8221; he added.  The victory cements Ledger&#8217;s status as the odds-on favorite to win a best supporting actor Oscar at next month&#8217;s Oscars.  The other big winner in the acting categories was Winslet, who scooped best actress in a drama for her performance in &#8220;Revolutionary Road&#8221; and best supporting actress for &#8220;The Reader.&#8221;  Winslet, 33, who had been overlooked after five previous nominations, was overcome following her double win, apologizing to her rival nominees and thanking &#8220;Revolutionary Road&#8221; co-star DiCaprio.  &#8220;I&#8217;m so sorry, Meryl (Streep), Anne (Hathaway), Kristin (Scott-Thomas), the other one&#8230; Angelina (Jolie)!,&#8221; Winslet gasped.  &#8220;Thank you so much&#8230; thank you soooo much!,&#8221; before adding to longtime friend and fellow &#8220;Titanic&#8221; star DiCaprio: &#8220;I love you with all my heart, I really do!&#8221; It was only the third time in Golden Globes history that an actor or actress had been honored with two awards on the same night.  In the men&#8217;s acting categories there was an emotional victory for Mickey Rourke, who won best actor in a drama for his heart-wrenching portrayal of a washed-up prizefighter in &#8220;The Wrestler.&#8221;  &#8220;This has been a very long road back for me,&#8221; said Rourke, whose career nose-dived through much of the 1990s after an ill-advised spell as a professional boxer. Rourke &#8212; who famously has a pet chihuahua &#8212; also paid tribute to canine friends who had comforted him over the years.  &#8220;I&#8217;d like to thank all of my dogs, the ones that are here and the ones that aren&#8217;t here anymore because sometimes when a man is alone, that&#8217;s all you&#8217;ve got is your dog, and they meant the world to me,&#8221; Rourke said.  Rock star Bruce Springsteen won for best original song for his theme song for &#8220;The Wrestler.&#8221;  But it was a disappointing evening though for Brad Pitt and &#8220;The Curious Case of Benjamin Button&#8221; which had started the night with five nods alongside &#8220;Frost/Nixon&#8221; and &#8220;Doubt&#8221;. All three films came away empty-handed.</font></p>
<p>Poor <strong>Brangelina</strong> &#8230; they walked away from the <strong>Golden Globes</strong> with nothing but a free meal and prolly a very nice giftbag &#8212; that&#8217;s it!  And, to add insult to injury, <strong>Angelina</strong> got called &#8220;the other one&#8221; by <strong>Kate Winslet</strong> (which sounded an awful lot like when <strong>John McCain</strong> referred to <strong>Barack Obama</strong> as &#8220;that one&#8221; during one of the Presidential Debates).  Tsk tsk.  Neither <em>The Curious Case of Benjamin Button</em> nor <em>Changeling</em> have done very well at winning awards thus far, have they?  HMMM.  I am SO thrilled that <em>Slumdog Millionaire</em> cleaned up last night &#8230; truly an underdog film that is worthy of the praise and accolades it continues to win.  If you&#8217;ve not see the movie yet, I urge you to do so before the <strong>Academy Awards</strong> are held next month &#8230; you don&#8217;t want to miss out.  I was happy, too, that <strong>Heath Ledger</strong> won the award for <em>Best Supporting Actor</em> for his work in <em>The Dark Knight</em>.  I really hope he is on track for an <strong>Oscar</strong>, he really deserves the win.  Props to <strong>Kate Winslet</strong> for being the first person to ever win both <em>Best Supporting Actress</em> and <em>Best Actress</em> awards in the same year (I understand that has never happened before).  I&#8217;ve only heard amazing things about <em>The Reader</em> and <em>Vicki Christina Barcelona</em> &#8230; so I am now on a mission to see those films (as well as <em>The Wrestler</em>, which I&#8217;ve been dying to see anyways) as soon as I can.  I really enjoyed this year&#8217;s <strong>Golden Globe Awards</strong> mostly because so many small, relatively unknown films did so well.  It gets kinda boring when the usual suspects (ie. big, blockbuster A-list celeb movies) win all the awards &#8230; it&#8217;s nice to see the talented little guys get their time in the sun.  Next up, <strong>Oscar</strong> noms which come out next week.  How many of last night&#8217;s winners do you think will get tapped for <strong>Academy Award</strong> nominations?  Also, what did you think of last night&#8217;s show &#8230; good, bad, you&#8217;re over it already?</p>
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