There’s a scene in Peter Weir‘s vastly underrated 1986 adaptation of “The Mosquito Coast” where Allie Fox, played by Harrison Ford, is prattling on about the problems with America. He’s walking with a young aboriginal who doesn’t understand English, but imparts the following knowledge anyway: “There are people in New York who live on pet food and would kill you for a quarter.”
Notice that if you replace “people” with “Taylor Swift fans” the sentence still makes perfect sense.
So the 2014 Golden Globe awards are over, but as per usual, the evening had its share of WTF/holy shit/GIF-able moments because booze. If you missed the show but want to pretend you didn’t, here’s what your friends are probably talking about today.
1. Jennifer Lawrence Videobombed Taylor Swift
Then she joked about pushing her down the stairs, during which Taylor gave a rare shoutout to her haters.
But then we found out JLaw and Taylor are actually pals who text on the regular, and suddenly the whole world made no sense at all.
2. One Network Got a Crash Course in ‘Fun Facts’
During the red carpet show, someone at E! lost their damned minds and flashed this when Michael J. Fox was on camera:
Uhhhh that’s not fun. That’s not fun at all.
The gaffe quickly became a meme — and E! later issued a mea culpa, saying in a statement, “We regret the insensitive classification of Michael J Fox’s Parkinson’s diagnosis during our Eonline live stream. We understand the serious nature of the disease and sincerely apologize.”
(Still no apology for “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” though.)
3. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler Were Great. (Derp.)
Their second of at least three Globes hosting stints proved their brilliance last year wasn’t a fluke. (But really, anyone familiar with either of them shouldn’t be surprised.) Here are their best bits, courtesy of Vulture.
But if you can’t watch that, this joke is the only one you need:
4. Jacqueline Bisset Seemed Like She’d Be Fun to Party With
Jacqueline Bisset‘s win for Best Supporting Actress in a TV Series, Miniseries, or Movie for “Dancing on the Edge” was a stunner, but no one was more shocked than she was.
And after a trek to the stage that required GPS, a zip line and at least four Sherpas (srsly, Golden Globes, how’s about next year we put the nominees up front instead of in a trailer in the parking lot), she gave a loopy, rambling speech that immediately made her a trending topic on Twitter.
5. Emma Thompson Became Everyone’s Lord and Savior
Midway through the show, the typically very regal Emma Thompson took the stage to hand out a Globe. But with a martini glass in one hand and her Louboutins in the other, she gave off the air of someone who’d been forced to take a business call in the middle of a party. The number of effs she did not give was beyond measure.
I love her so.
http://youtu.be/wVOao5qt90U
6. Mia and Ronan Farrow Threw Shade at Woody Allen
None of them were even there, but when Woody Allen got a lifetime achievement award (accepted by Diane Keaton because Woody never shows up for these things), his ex Mia Farrow and her son Ronan (who’s also legally Woody’s son but everyone knows he’s actually Frank Sinatra’s kid) had a little something to say about it on Twitter.
Mia took the high road:
Time to grab some icecream & switch over to #GIRLS
On the Emmys red carpet, both ladies mentioned they’d been asked to host again and were going to meet later that very night to discuss it. We were just hoping for one year, but two? Dude. This is like Christmas and your birthday all rolled into one.
Taylor Swift may be unhappy enough to write a song about it, but the rest of us? Man.
Look, we don’t have to tell you Amy Poehler is a goddess. There’s simply nothing about her that isn’t amazing. You know this.
And while the ‘SNL’ rap she did back in 2008 — when she was nine months pregnant, no less — will always be my favorite “Amy raps” moment, this is pretty great, too.
This week [Amy] appeared on the “Comedy Bang! Bang!” podcast and, as she has two other times, engaged in a good old-fashioned rap battle. The topic was butter, which we all know is a classic rap battle topic.
Just so you know what you’re listening to: First goes host Scott Aukerman, followed by Paul F. Tompkins as Alan Thicke (TV star, TV theme song writer, Robin Thicke‘s dad), then Amy, then Neil Campbell (head writer for the “Comedy Bang! Bang!” TV show). Amy goes on at about 4:45.
