Even in Hollywood, World’s Troubles Impinged

The Golden Globes are usually the fail-safe awards ceremony, a boozy warm-up for the Oscars that might give winners a boost but would not count against the losers. Sunday night that was true for almost everyone there, except the paying Thurs network broadcast the event.

For NBC, it was closer to the battle of Dunkirk. Like the Allies Leaving France after the Germans invaded in 1940, NBC had no real chance of getting through it intact. At best, the network hoped To restore the award show's ratings on the last few years of its slide down and survive the Conan-Jay jokes.Read Morehttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/18/movies/awardsseason/18watch.html

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