Here’s why the Golden Globes happened without a telecast, stars or anyone accepting awards
LOS ANGELES — In Hollywood, the maxim goes, the show must go on. Even, it seems, if there is no show.
So it was that, on Sunday evening, the embattled Hollywood Foreign Press Association — bumped off the air by NBC following months of blistering controversy sparked by a Feb. 2021 Los Angeles Times investigation — handed out its 79th Golden Globe Awards at a glitz-free private event in the ballroom of the Beverly Hilton hotel, with no celebrities, no host and no free-flowing champagne.
As in any year, the night had its big winners. Jane Campion’s brooding Western “Power of the Dog” won the best picture prize in the drama category, and Steven Spielberg’s sweeping new take on “West Side Story” claimed the top prize in the musical or comedy category. The HBO
