Glenn Whipp: The Golden Globes are more relevant than ever, but maybe not in the way they'd like
by Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times
Dec 09, 2019
4 minutes
The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. and the motion picture academy share exactly one member - 92-year-old Chinese journalist Lisa Lu - but despite that lack of overlap, the two voting groups do share the same blind spots when it comes to their awards.
But first, I should begin with a note of sadness. This year's nominations offered a definitive death knell for that wacky bunch of international journalists who would nominate any movie musical, no matter how shoddy or ridiculous or, in the case of "Burlesque," dull and tawdry. In that now-bygone era, if there was a movie starring Cher, the question on nominations morning
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