Sunday's Golden Globes: Seriously? THESE are the champions?
by Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Jan 07, 2019
3 minutes
With big wins for the toothless, well-acted Civil Rights-era heartwarmer "Green Book" and the sexless, well-acted Freddie Mercury Queen biopic "Bohemian Rhapsody," Sunday's Golden Globes stuck to the middle of the road like a motorist determined to drive 15 mph under the cultural speed limit.
Alongside that road, three billboards in steady rotation, like the old Burma Shave signs, sold audiences on notions of common ground, inclusion and equality.
Everything but quality.
Well, that's stretching it a little. The Globes did a few things right. "The Americans" won, proving that some
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