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One final reckoning for the Golden Globes
One final reckoning for the Golden Globes
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26 minutes
Released:
May 6, 2021
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Podcast episode
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Stacy Perman and Josh Rottenberg cover the film industry for the L.A. Times. In February, just a week before the annual Golden Globes ceremony, they published a bombshell investigation about the operations of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The findings were ugly: Self dealing. Ethical lapses. No Black members. And the HFPA continued to make a series of missteps. Now, a group of powerful publicists in Hollywood have declared that they’ll keep their clients away from the Globes -- unless the institution announces real reforms. And this week, the HFPA finally did. We’ll hear from Perman, Rottenberg, and Kjersti Flaa, the Norwegian reporter who took the HFPA to court.More reading:Golden Globes leaders propose major reforms after Times investigationGolden Globes organization vowed to change. Then came turmoil. What went wrong?Golden Globes voters in tumult: Members accuse Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. of self-dealing, ethical lapses
Released:
May 6, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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