The appeal of the Golden Globes and to a lesser extent, the Red Carpet ceremony is to see the big stars behaving as you’re not used to seeing them….like ordinary people. As fantastic an actress as Meryl Streep may be, there’s a hard to define pleasure in seeing her laugh, mingle and behave like the [...]

In the past, DailyHelping has weighed in on the Oscar, but never followed up to crow or eat crow. Today, we’ll stray from the norm…and see how we did. Best Picture went to The Artist. This felt like a foregone conclusion, but the appeal of this movie is confounding. Perhaps the Academy wanted to celebrate [...]

                Best Picture The Artist  (We just don’t understand the appeal. Old story, boringly conveyed. ) The Descendants  (Clooney did better elsewhere) Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Met anyone who liked this? We neither) The Help (Possible surprise winner here) Hugo ( Let Nickelodeon give it an award) [...]

The Academy Award nominations are expected to be released tomorrow (Tuesday the 24th) and so rather than wait for the inevitable disappointments and obvious bit of pandering…DailyHelping brings you it’s anticipated nominees with a few comments about what or who should win. Best Picture “The Artist” (It’s hard to understand why this is so popular!) [...]

“Up in the Air,” starring George Clooney as a man who flies about the country firing  people for a living, nabbed six Golden Globe nominations on Tuesday, including best drama. “Up in the Air” had the most nominations this year,  followed by the musical “Nine,” with five, including top musical or comedy.  The recently released [...]

1. Best Picture: “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” “Frost/Nixon,” “Milk,” “The Reader,” “Slumdog Millionaire.” Will win: Slumdog Millionaire   Should win: Slumdog Millionaire. 2. Actor: Richard Jenkins, “The Visitor”; Frank Langella, “Frost/Nixon”; Sean Penn, “Milk”; Brad Pitt, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”; Mickey Rourke, “The Wrestler.” Will win: Mickey Rourke   Should win: Mickey Rourke

Tonite are the 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association needs no help in promoting their star-studded, network televised event.  The show is pretty glitzy and the blending of television and film stars generally makes this one of the more popular award shows.  Though the judges represent 55 different countries and about 200 foreign entertainment [...]