Tom Hanks presenting the Cecil B. DeMille award (i.e., life achievement) to Warren Beatty. Hanks is fine, but why didn’t Nicholson present this award? “What balls this man has! What balls has Warren Beatty!” (Will the network bleep out “balls”) Hanks adds, sensing the vibe, “By balls, I mean artistic vision.” The flim clips, of course…Bonnie and Clyde, Splendor in the Grass, Shampoo, Heaven Can Wait, Reds, Bugsy, Dick Tracy, Bulworth. Hanks asks the ladies in the room who’ve succumbed to Warren’s charms to raise their hands. (Moderately funny.) We all want to exude his class, charisma and balls.
Beatty takes the stage: “Truth is, I haven’t made an awful lot of movies. Somebody said about me that every single movie I made from the beginning was a comeback. Something like this is enough to make me want to go out and make another movie. I…I just don’t know what to think. Forget about Hanks…I’ve got bottles of moisturizer older than Hanks.” He chides Eastwood and Nicholson for not taking it easier, for making him feel inactive, insubstantial, etc. “I think what I have to do is say something tonight that will scare the hell out of all of us — of course I’m going to make another movie.
“That first award I got in 1962…that was 45 years ago. He says he wouldn’t mind being named the most promising newcomer…again. Thank you, Hollywood Foreign Press. Annette…thank you for our life together, and thank you for making me feel, always, like the most promising newcomer.”

The Golden Globe for Best Actress in a TV Series, and the winner is Ugly Betty‘s America Ferrera. She’s happily weeping, of course…thanking everyone, etc. Doing a Halle Berry. Fine.

Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore presenting (wait…Grant explains that Pince was stuck in traffic earlier) the Golden Globe for Best Original Score, and the award-winner is Alexandre Desplat for The Painted Veil.

Djimon Honsou and Sharon Stone announcing the Golden Globe for Best Foreign-Language Film, and the winner is Clint Eastwood‘s Letters From Iwo Jima. Fine…if I were king I would have handed it to The Lives of Others but fine — Letters is a very good film. Significant Eastwood remark: “This does amazing things for my confidence.”

Jamie Foxx takes the stage to present the…forget it. He’s just there to introduce the Dreamgirls reel.. “A film that has audiences cheering all across the country…in only 800 theatres,” Foxx says. “Do the math, do the math.” Not true! It expanded last weekend to nearly 2000 theatres.

Golden Globe for Best TV Series Comedy, and the winner is Ugly Betty.

Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Comedy TV Series, and the winner is Alec Baldwin for 30 Rock. Noteworthy remark: “Thanks to the Hollywood Foreign Press for remembering me in the autumn of my career.” Also: “I’d like to than the greatest producer in the history of broadcast television….Marci Klein.” (He means Calvin’s daughter.)

Golden Globe for Best Screenplay…will it be for The Departed or Babel? And the winner is Peter Morgan for The Queen.

Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie: Bill Nighy (!!!)….the great Bill Nighy, who is awesome in The Vertical Hour, inGideon’s Daughter. Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie: Helen Mirren wins for Elizabeth I…Christ, she’s going to win two tonight.

Rachel Weisz presenting Golden Glboe for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture….will it be Murphy? And the Golden Globe goes to Eddie Murphy in Dreamgirls. An omen? Does this mean that Dreamgirls win the Best Musical or Comedy Golden Globe award? Even if it does…hah! Stand-out remark: “Thank you, David Geffen, for convincing me to work for free.”

Salma Hayek strides out on stage to present the Golden Globe for Best Series or TV Movie, and the trophy goes to HBO’s Elizabeth I. ( I called it Elizabeth the First earlier….I was wrong.)