Golden Globes 2011 -Red Carpet Recap

So....Its that time of year again. Yesterday were the Golden Globes and I had a lot of fun watching them LIVE on Fox8 with my sis.

Red Carpet started on E! at 10am. But this year I was out-globed by my mum and sis who were up watching the pre-red carpet stuff before I was even out of bed.

-But I stopped caring about that a long time ago....nothing good happens till people start showing up for the actual red carpet anyways.

I had more time to sleep, eat breaky, and prepare my dvd to record this years festivities.

As usual I watched the E coverage, Ryan and Guiliana do the best interviews...and they never sound stupid (Guiliana gets a little star-crazy sometimes, but that's just entertaining). This year they interviewed quite a few good people. -Although they skipped a few I would have liked to see.

In terms of the fashions...I wasn't THAT fussed about that many of the dresses. But there were some people I thought looked really great.

Olivia Wilde from House. -I don't even like House or care about her, but I really liked her dress. I didn't like her gold shoes though, the colors didn't go together.

Dianna Agron might have to win an award for always looking lovely on the red carpet, I have yet to see her in something I didn't like. I also liked Jenna Ushkowitz's dress. The blue was very pretty.

Carrie Underwood - Nice, classic, and glitzy. Love it.

 Jane Lynch looked lovely in sparkly black.

My least faves went to:

Anne Hathaway - I just didn't like the dress. It was weird, not a great color and I'm not a fan of really high neckline.

Juliana Marguliese - Didn't love the black/baby pink combo on her.

Lea Michele - The dress itself was nice, but I think the color wasn't great, too pale.

Amber Riley's dress was terrible...the tin foil look only works with houses or hats...

January Jones - What is with her red carpet dresses? Last year it was the cone-bra dresss...this years one was just as bad, if not worse.

I thought Emma Stone and Claire Danes both had really boring dresses...and would Emma Stone lose the blonde hair already?! Its freaking me out.

Tilda Swinton -what the heck WAS that?! A weird shirt dress...definitely the worst thing on the carpet.


 -Helena Bonam Carter somehow manages to get away with crazy outfits. I think because she has always dressed like that, that it would be bad if she DIDN'T wear outrageous stuff! She's like a cartoon character. I like it. She is consistently crazy, and therefore is above judgement.


In terms of the guys...they all kinda look the same in their suits, but Chris Colfer did look adorable in his tux.


Well that's my thoughts on the fashion. I'll do an awards recap in the next post.

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Carlie

The Emmys - Part 1

Ok so the Emmys were monday....I had to work so I couldn't watch them till later, and due to a technical mishap, I had to download the awards part. So I watched the abridged version on channel 10.....and am catching up on the bits I missed.

I'll comment on the red carpet and best/worst dressed later, but for now I've got comments on the awards part.

There were SO many people I liked up for the same awards it was hard not to be pretty happy with the result.
-I was happy for Jane Lynch. She ROCKS. But I would have loved for Kristen Wiig to get an emmy....but I have a feeling they are never gonna give out awards for SNL unless for hosting.
-Yay for Edie Falco! I mean....I would have loved Lea Michele or the others to win....but I love Nurse Jackie too.
-I really wanted Elisabeth Moss to win best supporting actress drama....But if someone else had to win, I'm glad I was Archie Panjabi from The Good Wife. -And how IS Rose Burne only a supporting actress for Damages?
-really thought Julianna Margulies would win for The Good Wife....I wasn't so fussed about the rest.
-yay for Mad Men and Modern Family winning! I had this feeling all day that Mad Men would win....I love Glee, but it kinda lost something in those last 9 eps...I hope it finds it again in season 2. (Not that those eps were not awesome).

Lauren Graham and Matthew Perry presenting award together was both SO cute....and also terrible. Bad jokes, bad jokes. But it was nice to see them together again, since they are friendly....

Loved the Modern Family with George Clooney thing! I just love him!

Julianna Margulies and Jimmy Fallon did a really bad fake-slap 1st go....2nd go was spot on.

Overall I thought Jimmy Fallon was a great host. Lots of musical stuff too!
I think its gonna be hard to get "The island it was mystical, but in the end they died....I didn't understand it, but I tried!" out of my head anytime soon!

Oh and it now feels sad to me, that after all the nominations the cast of The West Wing got over the years....that none of them are even anywhere near the emmys anymore....Matt Perry and Connie Britton representing....

Oh and one thing that really annoyed me...was the "coming up in...." warnings across the screen.....we don't need warnings all the time!

More to come.

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Carlie

Slippery Slope that is my TV Obsession!

So....I started my evening with a simple episode of Saturday Night Live from last season. Paul Rudd was hosting, all was nice and simple. Then Beyonce is the musical guest. She does 'Single Ladies' and I spent the whole time looking at the blonde dancer, trying to figure out if it was Heather Morris from Glee (Brittany to those who don't know better).

After confirming that it WAS indeed Heather, I found my way to youtube. I was already there looking up Katie Finneran from Wonderfalls and Promises, Promises. So I was looking to see what other Heather stuff was online - interviews and stuff. This lead me to more clips of the Glee Live shows, and once I had spent over an hour watching those videos. I realised I hadn't done a search on Lea Michele in a while, so typed her in....and found a clip of her on Third Watch, with Bobby Cannavale and Kim Raver - I feel like my obsessions are running SO deep, that they all interconnect at some point now.
-Funny note about the Third Watch Clip, Kim Raver spends half the time being way too doctory - and therefore very Grey's Anatomy, -I know she's a paramedic and all...but they don't spend that much time in the hospital!
-Also Lea was only 14 in the clip, but she had those dramatic acting chops down pat! -She's gonna go a LONG way.

So the moral of this story is......stay off youtube! Because once I get started with one thing or person, it inevitably leads to something else, and another, and another. -I mean now I'm watching other old Lea projects. - Lets not even get started on the fact that I'm watching it going....hey this is pre-wrist tattoo..... DID I MENTION I'M OBSESSED?!

It's times like this I think there should be some kind of 12 step program for me....Hi I'm Carlie, and I'm a TV and YouTube-Oholic!

Glee - The Finale!

Well.....pretty much all I can say is "awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww"!


That was a really sweet episode, adorable in fact. -I never thought Glee would make me cry, but it did!

I must say though, 'Journey' was nothing like I expected. I knew it would involve Regionals, and that Quinn would have her baby. ....But I sort of expected a lot more of it to revolve around the Regionals performance than it did.

While I loved the Journey mash-up, it wasn't quite the same as the sectionals performance....it just didn't hit that same spot. -And a whole ep (2 eps...actually, I don't remember the last time we had one) without a Rachel solo! I must say that dissapointed me a little. As glad as I am that they are spreading around the songs, and letting more of them sing -Still waiting for Brittany's turn though, I kinda hoped we'd go out with a big Lea Michele belt! But who am I kidding, I still really loved the ep.
----Just looked it up, there was no technical solo for Rachel in these whole 9 eps...Gives You Hell was the only one, not that Poker Face and I Dreamed a Dream weren't AWESOME, I just like me some proper Rachel solos from time to time! ------

Finally Emma appeared! I know Jayma Mays has been busy filming The Smurfs movie, but still....I've missed me some Emma! And I'm so glad that they all fought to keep Glee club. Even Sue, who it turns out has a soul after all! -Gotta say though, not loving the Glee version of Olivia Newton-John....she's just painful!

Oh and I can't believe they didn't win! I never thought they'd actually lose! Although, kudos to the writers for not making the Glee-world perfect, so that they always win. I was just always in the belief that they would win Regionals, and then maybe lose Nationals....but it was too sad, I mean, I was CRUSHED! However, not that we saw much of the other teams, but I'm not sure they really tried hard enough to win. I mean all season they go on about their numbers and stuff...and then don't pull out the big guns for the performance - Let Brittany dance, let Rachel and Mercedes SING OUT....etc. -Although I totally loved their outfits! Pretty pretty dresses!


Ok...so I was all for Quinn not keeping her baby, because while I loved Spike back in the day (Degrassi Jnr High/Degrassi High), I don't think it would have worked for Quinn to keep her baby. The whole Shelby adopting the baby shocked me - and yet I feel I should have seen it coming (I did once she showed up and all....but still....I even mentioned the whole Shelby/Rachel similarity to Quinn and her baby recently). But I just hope there will be a chance to bring Idina Menzel back, because she rocks and as previously gushed, I love having her on tv, so I get to see her!

Anyways, back to Quinn...I kinda hope she doesn't move back in with her mum....does that make me a bad person? We'll see. Not that I like the idea of Quinn being the Glee Club lost puppy, passed around from home to home, her mum annoys me. Unless her mum is really changing her ways, it might be better off for Quinn to stick with Merecedes - they have formed a very odd and unexpected bond...but I like it.
-Just let Quinn sing more!

Oh and I didn't really care about Jesse's song....I mean I love Bohemian Rapsody, but meh...SO over Jesse. And having that song playing while Quinn gave birth was a little weird...
Oh and so not caring about Rachel and Finn as a couple - I could take it or leave it really. They were being kinda cute though. -I kinda feel the same way about Emma and Will...I like the idea, but don't really care if it happens or not. It might be more fun to find better more suited characters to bring in!

But moving on...When the kids all sang 'To Sir, With Love' it got me all choked up. It was so sweet, and pretty and I loved it! Might be my fave song of the ep. I also loved Mr Schuester's rendition of 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow'...although I was sorta hoping that Rachel/the Glee Club were gonna sing it....but Matt Morrison with Mark Salling did a great job, and I love that version too! And I love all the interactions between the Glee Club members, showing how far they've come as a group, as friends since the beginning. Quinn more than anyone I guess. But it was very sweet.


I have no idea what I'm gonna do with myself until I get to see next season....which probably won't be until after the US trip...I guess I will just have to rewatch all the eps, and listen to the music till I wear it out! Glee I love you, come back soon! :)

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Carlie

Thank Heavens for Glee!

So I'm listening to the latest Glee soundtrack for the umteenth time....and thinking to myself just how glad I am that Glee came into the world!
It all started last year, when I heard about this new show starting about a glee club....back then I had no idea what a Glee club was. -Then I learned it was a musicial show....and those never had a good track record for staying on air. Mostly I paid attention to news of it because it was announced that Kristin Chenoweth was going to guest star....and I'd watch just about anything for Kristin! Victor Garbor guest starring was also another draw card.
So in March or whenver it was that they aired the pilot, we watched it and thought it was interesting, but were not sure how long we'd want to watch it......boy we were fools!

So then in September the rest of the episodes started airing, and within a few eps I was totally hooked! Obsessed even! I loved Rachel, her voice was amazing, and the others slowly became favourites of mine too. I was iffy on Puck, untill he sung 'Sweet Caroline'....I do like guys who can sing :P Even the characters I hated at the beginning have become faves, like Quinn!

I bought the first soundtrack, then the 2nd....and downloaded the songs I liked that were not on the soundtracks. I watched the episodes over and over....I also passed them onto my sister and my mum who both became hooked....in a lesser degree than myself obviously.

So 13 episodes aired, and then there was a long wait for new eps, Sectionals is one of my Glee faves. Lea Michele continues to blow me away week by week!
Finally new episodes aired, and brought Idina Menzel into the Glee-verse, allowing people all over the world to see the awesomeness that is Idina. The same for Kristin...however Kristin has done more movies and TV than Idina. I have loved Idina since I first saw RENT the movie. But there is very little out there to see or hear of her's. Glee has allowed me to get semi-weekly fixes of Idina. So thank you to Ryan Murphy for getting Idina on!

Now there's only 1 more ep left of season 1 part 2. Can't wait. While these last 8 episodes have had their ups and downs, some fall into my least fave category, others into the all time fave one.....I have been ever as obsessed, and am not sure what I'm gonna do for months without it. -The same thing I did with every other series I love/d I guess.....deal, and rewatch!


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Carlie
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