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Golden Globes 2019

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Hello, Everyone!!!  Did you watch the Golden Globe Awards last night?

Don’t you just love awards show season???  I do.  I adore it.  I love the escape into a dress up ball I will never get to go to but will always have a front row seat to every year.  I find out about new TV shows and movies I have not heard about yet like “The Wife” which led to Glenn Close’s win for Best Actress in a Drama.  I have loved her since “The Big Chill” & “The World According To Garp”.  Her acceptance speech was empowering to every woman watching her, wherever they watched her from.

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Glenn Close accepting her Best Actress in a Drama award (Getty Images).  

I also love getting to see some of my favorite people in Hollywood.  Like “The Dude” himself, Jeff Bridges, who won the Cecil B. DeMille Award (and looked unbelievably gorgeous doing so).

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Jeff Bridges accepting the Cecil B. DeMille award (Getty Images)

And Sandra Oh & Andy Samberg who were hilarious as the hosts of the evening.  I always liked her on “Grey’s Anatomy” & he killed me in his regular “Saturday Night Live” skit, In The Cage with Nicholas Cage, where Samberg impersonated-you guessed it-Nicholas Cage.

And two of my favorite funny ladies, Amy Poehler & Maya Rudolph.   They always make me laugh till I ache.

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Amy Poehler & Maya Rudolph sharing an intimate & hilarious moment (Getty Images)

And speaking of funny ladies, how about the Grand Dame of Comedy herself, Carol Burnett???  Not too many people have awards named for them.  But not too many people set the bar as high as she did.  But it was sad when she talked about how her show would never make it to air today.   Sometimes progress isn’t all it is cracked up to be.  What a tragedy it would have been if this woman never got the chance to share her meteoric talent & gifts with all of us!!!

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Carol Burnett accepting the first award named for her (Getty Images)

Then there is the red carpet.  I love to see all the fashion.  Here are some of my favorite looks of the night.  The first two are the ones I loved the most.  Soooo pretty.

 

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Kiki Layne in a dreamy pink custom Dior dress (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images). 

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One of my favorite “Community” alums, Alison Brie, in a beautiful Vera Wang gown with an embellished bralette (Rob Latour/REX/Shutterstock).  

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Keri Russell & Matthew Rhys (Ftazer Harrison/Getty Images).   

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Irina Shayk & Bradley Cooper (Steve Granitz/WireImage).   

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Alaina Meyer & Johnny Galecki (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images).  

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Katherine Ross & her swooon-worthy man, Sam Elliot (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images).  

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Chrishell Stause & Justin Hartley (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images).  

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Another of my “Community” faves, Ken Jeong & his wife Tran Jeong (Steve Granitz/WireImage).   

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Joanna Newsom & Andy Samberg (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP).    

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Susan & Jeff Bridges (Getty Images).  

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Maya Rudolph & Amy Poehler (Getty Images)

I firmly believe Dolly Parton’s song. “The Girl In The Movies” (which she co-wrote with Linda Perry for the Netflix film “Dumplin’ “) should have won the award for Best Original Song In A Motion Picture.  It has a great message of empowerment,  gives hope to those of us who might be thinking our time to shine is over (or worse, might never come) and Parton delivers a vocal with so much passion we know her own rags to riches story is part of where this song originated from.  And it is Dolly freakin’ Parton, for crying out loud!!!

“I want to be the girl in the movies

Wish I had a nickel for each dime I’ve spent
Watching others live their lives with confidence
Here’s a preview of some things to come
It’s not too late for me to be someone
I can’t keep living in their make-believe
Coming attractions will be starring me

Gonna stand up
And I’m gonna matter
‘Cause I’ve had enough of my dreams being shattered
And I’ve had enough of my tears being splattered
I’ve already been that girl

I want to shine (I want to shine)
I want to shine (I’m gonna shine)
It’s my time
And I want to shine
I want to be happy, I want to be free
Just like the girl in the movies”.

I do not own the rights to anything.  I am just sharing some things that I love with you  🙂

Until next time, happy watching & listening!!!

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A Clean Slate

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Hello, Everybody!!!  Happy New Year!!!  Welcome 2019.

Don’t you just love the start of a new year?  It’s like seeing the world as a pristine canvas, similar to the way we see our neighborhood after the first snowfall of the year:  clean, fresh, pretty, still, pure.  And all you want to do is go outside and take in a ginormous cleansing breathe.  Or is that just me???

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Beautiful scene of Vermont in winter from Pinterest (original source unknown).

Of course, there will always be the unresolved problems and issues that carry over, and the baggage we all lug around with us is forever present.  But for a moment the new year feels inspiring, hopeful and exciting.  Our calendars are more empty than cluttered.  There are trips and vacations to plan, new three day weekends to enjoy, birthday celebrations to attend, days to relax all by ourselves, concerts or plays to see, road trips to take, estate sales to go to and vintage decor to swoon over.  These are the things I try to focus on more than setting myself up for failure with a bunch of ineffectual resolutions.  They just discourage me because all I do is picture myself failing again.  On the other hand, music is what has always inspired me.  And 2019 will not be any different.  So to begin this new year, I am giving myself some motivation.  And yes, I am talking about The Boss.  And two songs by him are always better than one…..unless that one song is “Jungleland”, of course.

For my first choice, a picked a song he wrote because of the change in his romantic life.  However, it also extended to the rest of his world and and how he needed to stop waiting for the future to change things but rather put the focus and work in to the now.  Great advice for all of us who forget the present is today and needs our time, our attention and our love.  Read:  me.

“Well my soul checked out missing as I sat listening
To the hours and minutes tickin’ away
Yeah just sittin’ around waitin’ for my life to begin
While it was all just slippin’ away
I’m tired of waitin’ for tomorrow to come
Or that train to come roarin’ round the bend”

“But it’s a sad man my friend who’s livin’ in his own skin
And can’t stand the company
Every fool’s got a reason for feelin’ sorry for himself
And turning his heart to stone”

“These are better days baby
These are better days it true
These are better days
There’s better days shining through”

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Bruce Springsteen:  “Better Days” (1992).

The next song is probably one of his most famous after “Born To Run” and by far his most well known video.  It was his first performance one and featured a woman who went on to become a “friend”.  It is a huge part of his live show-he stills pulls an audience member (or two or three, including some from his own family) on stage to dance with him-while the crowd sings “oh-oh-oh’s” in between the lines of the last verse of the song, and we go home with the chorus stuck in our heads.  I heard it on the radio on New Year’s Eve and it brought me back to the first few times I heard the song and felt incredibly inspired by his lyrics.  And, of course, The Boss is right-everything takes a spark to ignite.  Even ourselves, sometimes.  A point especially good to remember with the clean slate of a new year right in front of us.

“I ain’t nothing but tired
Man I’m just tired and bored with myself
Hey there baby, I could use just a little help
You can’t start a fire
You can’t start a fire without a spark
This gun’s for hire
Even if we’re just dancing in the dark“.
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Bruce Springsteen and his mother, Adele, after dancing together on stage in 2012 (Photo by Kris Noyes/NJ.com).

Bruce Springsteen:  “Dancing In The Dark” (1984).

I do not own the rights to anything.  I am just sharing some things that I love with you  🙂

All the best in 2019, Everyone!!!

Until next time, happy listening!!!