The beautiful, the powerful and the merely talented of Hollywood gather on Sunday for the Golden Globe Awards, the high-wattage launch to the film industry awards season that culminates in Oscars. While a Golden Globe lacks the prestige of an Academy Award – the industry’s highest honor – the party put on by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association can be a rowdy affair, especially in the hands of third-time hosts Amy Poehler and Tina Fey. Hanging over the room will be the hacking at Sony Pictures , which had the town atwitter after leaked emails revealed embarrassing tidbits about some of Hollywood’s biggest names – likely fodder for the comedic pair to poke fun.
Dave Karger, chief correspondent and awards expert at Fandango said,
“When an entertainment story becomes a national and an international news story, you can’t ignore it and they won’t.”
Sony Pictures Chief Executive Michael Lynton, who will be absent, said in an interview that he is a “a bit of a homebody and my sticking my head above the parapet is not normal for me.”
