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Special Golden Globes edition
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Living the dream
Simon Cowell, the curmudgeon on “American Idol,” was not always a big fan of Jennifer Hudson when she competed. But several years later, after winning the Golden Globes’ best supporting actress award for her role in “Dreamgirls,” she was ready to send him a message.
“You like my award, Simon?” Hudson said with an impish grin, posing with the award like a pageant winner just moments after her win Monday night in Los Angeles.
Nonetheless, Hudson — who came in a distant seventh in 2004 on “Idol” and had struggled to make an impression since — came across as truly humbled by the victory, even if it had been considered preordained in recent weeks.
“Just hearing that I would be considered was enough for me,” she said. “This was something I totally didn’t expect.”
Hudson said before “Dreamgirls,” acting wasn’t high on her priority list, but “this just gave me the confidence to carry on. I found a new love for acting.”
And will she be watching “Idol” tonight when it launches its sixth season? “I will be on a plane headed overseas,” she noted. “But my sister is always there to keep me updated and texting me. Or e-mailing me. Roaming [cost] is too high!”
‘House’ call
Hugh Laurie said winning a Globe for the second time for his role as the irresistibly unlikable diagnostician on Fox’s “House” was like taking a parachute jump a second time.
“You can’t be blasé about it,” he said. “It’s still a parachute jump. … It’s undiminished. It was really an exciting thing. It still is.”
But at the same time, “I actually feel positively guilty. I don’t know what I should do,” he said, fingering the trophy. “I should find some charitable purpose for it.”
Asked about his turn on the red carpet earlier, he said it was easy for him because he trailed superstars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. “I surfed the wave. I was like an old plastic bag just bobbing along. I let them tow me along. People were going crazy with pictures of the two of them together, which they seemed reluctant to give.”
Murphy’s law
After a reporter suggested Globe winner Eddie Murphy (best supporting actor for “Dreamgirls”) had been pigeonholed into family films such as “Dr. Dolittle” and “Daddy Day Care,” Murphy bristled.
“I never thought of myself as being pigeonholed,” he harrumphed. “I’ve been making movies 25 years. I’ve been trying to do different things. … I can’t keep doing ‘Beverly Hills Cop.’ If you look at all my movies from ‘48 Hours’ to now, it’s pretty diverse.”
He loosened up a few minutes later when asked if after singing in “Dreamgirls,” he planned to revive his brief, oft-mocked 1980s music career. “That’s pretty much dead,” he said, with a sly grin. “‘Party All the Time 2’ will not be happening.”
Behind the scenes
Toughest media question of the night posed to Meryl Streep, winner of best actress in a musical or comedy for “The Devil Wears Prada”: “You look 25 years old tonight! You look fabulous!” Wait, that wasn’t a question. But she did respond: “You must be way in the back!”
“This show has been such an amazing gift, an unexpected gift, which is the very, very best kind.” — Kyra Sedgwick, TV drama actress winner for TNT’s “The Closer,” in which she plays Atlanta-turned-L.A. cop Brenda Johnson.
“Now I’m a foreign director. I’ve got to learn some languages.” — Clint Eastwood, after his film “Letters from Iwo Jima” won for best foreign language film.
No love lost
Warren Beatty, who received a lifetime achievement award from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, was not in much of a mood to banter about his love life when he met the media, something presenter Tom Hanks spent several minutes doing on stage. Did he mind the focus on his infamous reputation?
His answer? “Um … no.”
Another reporter tried again: “Can you comment on the double standard that men are applauded for being great lovers but women are considered slutty?”
Beatty arched an eyebrow and replied: “I think that changed in the ’60s and ’70s. A lot of men are called slutty. I don’t know if I concur with your definition.”
Celebrity birthdays
Country singer Ronnie Milsap is 64. Country singer Jim Stafford is 63. Talk show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger is 60. Director John Carpenter is 59. Actress-dancer Debbie Allen is 57. Singer Sade is 48. Singer Maxine Jones of En Vogue is 41. Actor David Chokachi (“Baywatch”) is 39. Actor Richard T. Jones (“Judging Amy”) is 35. Supermodel Kate Moss is 33. Guitarist Nick Valensi of the Strokes is 26.
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