Livin' My Life Like It's Golden . . .

It's official - the 2006 film & tv award season is under way with the announcement of the Golden Globe nominees this morning. I'm happy to say that the awards will not be dominated this year by period pieces. I'm most excited to see Brokeback Mountain and TransAmerica. Also, I still need to see A History Of Violence and Walk The Line. A few unexpected nods went out to Matt Dillon for Crash and Shirley MacLaine for In Her Shoes. Interestingly, 2 of the upcoming holidays biggies - King Kong and Memoirs Of A Geisha didn't do well with nominations at all.

On the tv front, I'm happy to say that the show will not be dominated by the Tommy Schlamme clique of Hollywood. The sad news is that HBO's The Comeback starring Lisa Kudrow as Aunt Sassy, didn't receive any nominations and was even more tragically not renewed for a second season - let's here a big BOOOOOOOOOOO to HBO! The good news is that Showtime's Weeds was nominated for best tv series (musical or comedy). Now let's just hope that Mary Louis Parker beats out all of those Desperate Housewives for best actress! Tune in to NBC on Monday January 16th to find out!