GOLDEN GLOBES 2025—FINALLY!

Eddie Redmayne–the only one who looked really good that night! And young! Photo by Karen Salkin, as is the one of Ariana Grande at the top of this page.
I’ve delayed this Golden Globes review a couple of weeks because I didn’t think it would be right to discuss something so basically shallow during the catastrophic fires that have decimated much of Los Angeles, and the hearts of just about all of its residents.
But I realize that life must go on now, and it would not help anyone for me to just keep writing depressing articles all the time. So I’m attempting to get back to normal now, and I hope to entertain as many people as I can with my writings.
And to further clarify, I had thought of just scrapping this review altogether, even though I had already written it, but several people have told me that they keep looking for it in this e-zine. And I hate letting anyone down, so even though this article is a tad late this year, let’s get to it already. What follows is basically just my notes, without being refined too much into more coherent sentences.
OVERALL FEELINGS ON THE 2025 GOLDEN GLOBES
I almost couldn’t write a lot during the Golden Globes arrivals and show itself because I was so confused and disgusted by all the phoniness and plastic surgery.
And I apologize to my Twitter followers for not live-tweeting the Globes this year; that Sunday was also a big sports day, and work day for me, so I was not watching the awards show proceedings entirely live.
Perhaps most important of all to the proceedings, because the show was waaaay too early this year, I had not seen any of those movies at that point. (Or yet, actually.) Mr. X and I had just finished watching all the holiday movies that morning, (because that became our annual tradition seven years ago, and that day was January 3rd, which still falls into “little Christmas,”) and the nominations for the SAG Awards, (which Mr. X and I vote on,) hadn’t come out yet, so I had turned down all my screening invitations until then. And in the TV category, we’ve seen only Abbott Elementary, just because who has all that time to watch television??? Show biz folks who keep telling each other how they loooove each other’s series are big fat liars!!!
The one good thing out of all of it is that I was surprised that most people did not look like idiots in their attire and hair-dos. So there’s that.
But speaking of tresses, I should sue—soooo many women were rocking my perennial very long straight hair! (That is, when they weren’t thinking they were being cool to rock these uber-short cuts, like Emma Stone was. One of those crazy super-short ‘dos is what happened to me by accident when I was doing my TV show back in the day! Not attractive. Back then, Mr. X said I looked like Anybody’s from West Side Story!) Only their long hair is all fake while my luxurious locks are 100% real!!!
Now let’s go in order of the Golden Globes afternoon and evening:
E ARRIVALS
The two female hosts, both of whom I’ve never seen nor heard of before, were sooooo much better than E’s usual one, Laverne Cox.
But, if I hear the stupid term “holding space” one more time…
I had to work hard to find-out who the woman in the red raggy (on purpose) dress was, (it was Ali Wong,) but she appeared to be the most genuine and truly happy one walking in.
What’s up with people like the host of E’s coverage, showing their different-colored-from-the-rest-of-their-hair roots??? I don’t know who told them that that’s a style, but it looks dreadful. If someone told him to jump off the Empire State Building, would they? (You can take the girl out of Brooklyn but you can’t take Brooklyn out of the girl. Yeah, it is true.)
Why is Zoë Saldana pronouncing everyone’s names with a Spanish accent? Even the American ones! Who does she think she is—Hilaria Baldwin???
And she said, “I’m not ashamed to use this phrase…holding space.” Of course.
What are show host Nikki Glaser’s teeth doing?
Abbot Elementary’s principal, Janelle James, is a pretty woman, but she definitely needs long hair!
I love that she said, “I need a tall guy because many of the Hollywood men are tiny, tiny, and I am a statuesque woman so I need someone who can stand beside me.” I love that honesty! (I guess Zendaya did not get that message.)
There were finally actors I love—married couple Adam Brody and Leighton Meester. I love them separately and now together. (So I especially hate that they lost their home in the fires just a few days later.)
How chubby did Amy Adams get??? And why?!
Eddie Redmayne looks so young! Younger than he ever did. Mr. X said he looked like he was his own son!
Pamela Anderson needs to go back to wearing make-up, ASAP!!!
I hate to say it, but Ariana Grande does not look well, at all.
Demi Moore has had soooo much surgery! She now looks like an impersonator of herself!
And then she was talking about that her dog still recognized her when she changed her hair or something. Of course it recognized her no matter what she looked like! They go by smell and feel, not looks!
Maren Morris is too young to have had all that surgery. Let’s face it—she was not a pretty girl to begin with, but now—oyoyoy.
GOLDEN GLOBES TELECAST
Or, as I refer to it, the Ozempic pageant.
As far as that first (and I hope, last,) time host goes, in the only two or three times I’ve ever seen Nikki Glaser before, I’ve found her to be creepy, unfunny, and desperate. But this time, outside of her annoying voice, hanging little boobs, awful make-up which exacerbated her recent facial surgery, and dreadful dirty hair, I think she really did okay. Of course, Mr. X and I, (and I’m pretty sure just about every viewer,) really missed Ricky Gervais, even though he hasn’t hosted it in years. But no other host can hold a candle to him.

Nikki Glaser’s strange face, make-up, and teeth which seemingly have no space between them! Photo by Karen Salkin.
We have never found Adam Sandler to be funny, although I think he’s most likely a really nice guy, (and I love what he said about getting his wife to marry him,) but he really cracked Mr. X up here when he was kind enough to repeat “Chalamet” for the host in his trademark way.
When Zoe Saldana won, she said, “I don’t have much time,” and then made her speech five minutes long!
Jean Smart’s dress was classy. And her speech was what all speeches should be.
The TV announcer said something about “drama and comedy all seated together in one room” like it was a big deal. When are they not???
Why did the producers situate the presenters with their backs to half the audience? Perhaps to feature more audience celebs than usual.
Anthony Ramos and Kathy Bates were the best presenting duo. He was so genuine.
I’ve always loved Jodie Foster, on so many levels. (The day she won her second Oscar, I was getting the go-ahead to drive on the Warner Bros. lot for an audition, while she was there arguing with the guard to let her on for some reason. I had to talk him into it for her!) I loved her outfit at the Globes; she wasn’t trying too hard, as most others were.
And she got even better when she said something about “the joy that comes from doing really hard, meaningful, good work.”
The biggest laugh I had during all those hours of watching the proceedings was from Sofia Vergara being fake-pissed that she lost to Jodie Foster, who always wins.
How is Kerry Washington eight years younger than JLo??? I would have sworn it was the other way around! You go, JLo.
I was thrilled that I didn’t see anyone looking at their phones until the show was over halfway through.
Brady Corbet, the director if The Brutalist gave a speech that got me choked-up. He was also the only one who spared a thought (publicly) for actress Aubrey Plaza, whose husband had just committed earlier that day. And his seven-year journey to get this film made is incredible.
The most grateful winner there was Fernanda Torres, who won Best Actress for the obscure film I’m Still Here. I had never heard one word about it! Nor of her!
Gal Gadot was the most beautiful celeb, by far.
Daniel Craig looked thirty years older than he is!!! We weren’t even sure that’s who he was unless they announced his nomination!
And that’s a wrap for my thoughts on the 2025 Golden Globes! I’ll try to be on time with, and also tweet, the upcoming, (but possibly-postponed in these crazy times,) Grammys, SAG Awards, and Oscars. Knock on wood.
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Not meaning to ambush your posting career, but now is a very good time to reconsider posting on Facebook and especially Twitter or X. You can switch over to Bluesky right away.
That’s a great suggestion, but I understand that Bluesky takes a lot of learning and extra work. And there’s no guarantee that my thousands of Twitter and Facebook Fan Page followers will join me there. Those are my biggest platforms. So until Bluesky and/or Threads really get going, I’m stuck with the ones I have now.
I get it, but sometimes you have to take a stand.
So me it made me laugh!
This is just the laugh I needed today!
I agree–what is up with those short haircuts? Ugh. So I’m glad to hear you still have your beautiful long hair that you had on your show.