Snarky title? Listen pal, I could have put EACH WORD in quotes.

Still, it’s pretty slim pickins around these parts for non-strike-related stories, so I’m happy to pass along a little press-release goodness to y’all. When the Golden Globes air next January 13, one highlight you can expect is watching Steve Spielberg accept the Cecil B. DeMille Award for his “outstanding contribution to the entertainment field.” About ***king time, Hollywood Foreign Press Association! Finally got up from your junket-booze-induced stupors to put this together, eh?

Spielberg has received six Golden Globes; for Best Director for “Schindler’s List” and “Saving Private Ryan,” for Best Motion Picture (Drama) for “E.T., The Extra-Terrestrial,” “Schindler’s List,” and “Saving Private Ryan”; and for Best Foreign Language Film For “Letters From Iwo Jima.” He received 12 additional Golden Globe nominations; eight as Best Director for “Jaws,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “E.T., The Extra-Terrestrial,” “The Color Purple,” “Amistad,” “A.I.: Artificial Intelligence” and “Munich,” three as a producer on Best Motion Picture (Drama) nominees “The Color Purple,” “Empire of the Sun,” and “Amistad,” and one for his screenplay for “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.”

He’s also gotten some cursory attention from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, who will put on an awards show later that year. Spielberg, who had a hand in THE PRINCE OF EGYPT, is expected to apologize to the ghost of DeMille for making the source material for THE TEN COMMANDMENTS boring.

But here’s the REAL news: Rumer Willis, 19-year-old spawn of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis, has been selected to be “Miss Golden Globes”. A real title, not just a double-entendre!

Traditionally, Miss Golden Globe, who assists in the Golden Globes ceremony, is the daughter of a well-known celebrity.

“Assists in the ceremony.” Which I guess means, what, cleaning up in the green room? Driving back to the nominee’s house at the last minute to fetch a bowtie? Affording an opportunity for us all to evaluate the power of genetic influence?

For what it’s worth, the press release provided a helpful list of previous Miss Golden Globes.

MISS AND/OR MR. GOLDEN GLOBE
1963 Eva Six (movies)
Donna Douglas (television)
1964 Linda Evans
1971 Ann Archer
1972 Pamela Powell
1973 Kelley Miles
1974 Linda Meikle John
1975 Melanie Griffith
1976 Lisa Farringer
1977 Nicole Ericson
1978 Elizabeth Stack
1979 Stephanie Haymes
1980 Kim Karath
1981 Rosanne Katon
1982 Laura Dern
1983 Lori Leonelli & Rhonda Shear
1984 Anita Finch
1985 Lisabeth Shatner
1986 Calista Carradine
1987 Candace Savalas
1988 Gigi Garner
1989 Kyle Aletter
1990 Katharine Kramer
1991 Kaitlin Hopkins
1992 Joely Fisher
1993 Erin Hamilton
1994 Alex Martin
1995 John Clark Gable
1996 Jaime Nicole Dudney & Freddie Prinze Jr.
1997 Kehly Sloane
1998 Clementine Ford
1999 Tori Reid
2000 Liza Huber
2001 Katie Flynn
2002 Haley Giraldo
2003 Dominik Garcia-Lorido & A.J. Lamas
2004 Lily Costner
2005 Kathryn Eastwood
2006 Dakota Johnson
2007 Lorraine Nicholson

Some went on to greater fame; most participated in some degree of rehab. That’s Entertainment!

-daniel k.

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