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Let’s return to Golden period
Sunday. The 83rd Golden Globe Awards. On CBS in the event you can recall that. Or no matter’s in your unwashed palm. Airing stay from the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
America the gorgeous. Sweet land of liberty. Of thee I sing. Land the place our fathers died. Land of the pilgrims satisfaction. Right.
Once the great CBS with the 18-karat great Walter Cronkite. Dan Rather. Edward R. Murrow. We had stockings then. Panties. Even garter belts. And earlier than mayoral toys like de Blasio and his spouse the perhaps cashier. And then there was Eric the hirer of pals and our new Crapdammy. Pre him most of us even spoke English.
Back then: Best image — “Gandhi.” Biggest film — “Star Wars.” Hotshot film names — Dustin Hoffman, Peter O’Toole, Al Pacino, Robert Preston, Meryl Streep. And film theaters like Paramount, Capital, Radio City, Roxy, Loews something. And right now’s biggie movie names like “Avatar,” “Zootopia,” “Sponge Bob.” Goes great with popcorn. Cartoons or it’s stabbing, knifing, killing, exploding, setting afire, decapitating, conflict, Tom Cruise leaping on one other practice high.
Today’s shloompy moviegoer? Jeans, sneakers, T-shirt, backpack, lunch in a paper bag.
And the fashions 83 years in the past? Behinds had been truly tucked behind material. Boobs had been inside clothes. And menfolk had been instructed these things weren’t everlasting locations to relaxation your palms. Also, the balcony was solely to Watch The Movie!
Styles had been custom-made, custom-fitted, loaned for simply that one evening designer shmattas. Each returned identical evening. So tight you couldn’t cough in them: Your final meal had been a week earlier than. Stylists pulled the fabric off you earlier than you can stain it with the crappy freebee hamburger.
Not so, so, so long in the past, it was Halle Berry in Elie Saab, Angela Bassett in Moschino, Jessica Chastain in Gucci, Rihanna in Swarovski, Gwyneth in Fendi, Demi Moore in Armani, neglect Lady Gaga who wore meat — not even kosher. To gown the celebs designers lined up. We’re speaking Givenchy, Gaultier, Thierry Mugler, Joanna Mastroianni, Sonia Rykiel, Missoni, Versace, Chanel, Ralph Lauren, Oscar de la Renta, Halston, Calvin Klein, Vivienne Westwood, Valentino, Nina Ricci, Schiaparelli, Balenciaga, Dior.
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Now guys do plaid jackets. Open collars. Sneakers. Earrings. T-shirts. The previous, infirmed, aged all have all of a sudden fluffy purple black scalps. No hair. Just scalp. The crotch on their pants so low it shines their footwear. And hairpieces? Not becoming precisely so when the speaker strikes — so do these. And they need their present date to go half on the price of the film ticket.
Also: Dinner for 2 beforehand? He expects her to pay for herself. With people dwelling longer it’s usually two females going collectively. Nice. Always comforting earlier than you see a Sponge Bob film to go Dutch on a shrimp salad.
And no matter occurred with main males? Clark Gable? Robert Taylor? Tyrone Power? Once it was Brad Pitt, who started life carrying a sandwich board promoting food, and nearly turned an further after a few rounds with Angelina Jolie on an airplane?
Museum entry now? $30. Brooklyn home back then? $60 a month. Bread, 12 cents. Hermès tie now $350. What of us did on their ceaselessly schlep West who is aware of. I solely know they managed to do it with out whatsisname Chalamet. If, for nothing else, that’s a true mazel tov.
And the MC? Bob Hope’s working elsewhere so this 12 months’s Golden Globes emcee is a repeat shot from comedienne Nikki Glaser who did it final 12 months. Or perhaps it’ll be a trio: Hillary, Comey, Pelousy. Enjoy the Globes.
