So predictable. 8-}
Meryl Streep is the Mozart of acting. She’s always been classy and well-spoken. Her co-stars and directors appear to adore working with her. There was a tweet, you say? 
May we all be so “overrated” at our jobs as this fabulous actress & citizen!
Ditto, @2VU0609 . Overrated? Thats is the pot calling the ketttle black. Someone needs to pull the plug on that twitter account.
High point:Meryl Streep’s speech.
Low point: Interviewers and presenters not bothering to distinguish between Fences and Hidden Figures.
She apologized profusely on the morning show (the Today show) for the flub, @partyof5
I am looking forward to Fashion Police on the Golden Globe dresses tonight.
The plunging necklines-- enough. . Gives the term “golden globes” an alternative meaning, IMO. Many of the wearers were tugging at their tops to be sure they werent revealing anything too much.
A schoolmate of my daughter was sitting at one of the tables most featured as the awards were handed out. It was a bit surreal considering when she as a child I would see her in the car pool line.
Well then why didn’t she make mention of it during her speech? Why single out the PE?
Oh wait, I know why…
I loved all the yellow dresses :). There was an amazing amount of double stick tape on the red carpet last night.
Movie ticket sales are on a steep downward trend. It’s pretty easy to see why.
“Movie ticket sales are on a steep downward trend. It’s pretty easy to see why.”
Not enough movies with Chachi in them.
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Movie ticket sales are on a steep downward trend. It's pretty easy to see why.
Ticket sales in $ static but box office up pretty significantly
http://www.the-numbers.com/market/
Not sure we can conclude that less people are watching movies now. A lot more options are available for watching movies now that aren’t reflected in ticket sales. Those sources of revenue would be reflected in the box office, would they not?
… and in stars’ salaries, certainly. She only had 2 minutes so she couldn’t address all the ills in the world. @jym626 nailed it in #33.
The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson points out that “in 2016, the film industry is on pace to sell the fewest U.S. tickets per person of any year since perhaps before the 1920s and the fewest total tickets in two decades.“ As he explains, “This is an extrapolation based on previous years’ sales progressions, and a strong summer or fall could boost the final figures.“
Quote from Vanity Fair.
It’s just bad business to insult half of the potential audience. The LA Times has a series called “Is Hollywood Out of Touch”. There’s a working class in Hollywood too. And they don’t like it when their jobs go overseas either (when production moves out of the US or even out of California).
“Of course a certain tweeter will say she is “highly overrated,” just like Hamilton.”
You can set your watch by it.
…and as usual, Tom and Lorenzo have fabulous and opinionated comments this morning…
@morrismm, boy you sure called it with that “overrated” comment !!
Let me preface by saying that I love Meryl Streep movies and I don’t think her talent is overrated at all.
But her comments last night smacked of the elitism that turn so many people off. The knock on people who watch football. (I’ve never watched a football game in my life). And proclaiming that Hollywood welcomes ‘foreigners’ when much of Hollywood cries when production goes overseas to save money is hypocritical. Hollywood is a business. And they seem to have forgotten that. Business don’t insult their audiences.
And audiences (as deplorable as they may seem) sitting in their ravaged communities with darkened factories and no job prospects don’t want to be lectured in an entertainment program by someone wearing a dress that likely cost as much as a year of their wages. Someone who lives in a mansion when they live in a trailer.
Calling someone out for making insults while in turn insulting people is clueless.