Watched "The Golden Globes" last night, and I wanted to take a quick moment to give my thoughts on last night's show.

Sometimes the GG's can be annoying because of how many errors they make. In some shows, for every right choice they made, they made a couple either bad decisions, or decisions that completely came out of nowhere. But I thought they picked mostly all the right people, shows, and movies for the winners.

Television

Okay. Now that "Lost" has won both the Emmy and Golden Globe for Best Dramatic Series, can we go ahead and state the obvious that "Lost" is the best show on television? When they won, you could tell it in their faces that they knew that they were working on something special, because hey had the same looks on their faces that the cast and crew of "The Lord of the Rings" had when they were winning all of their awards. When a show wins awards, becomes a pop-culture phenomenon, gets massive ratings, is a critics favorite, and is written/directed/acted well, you know that there's something special about it. And you could see it in their faces.

Steve Carell was a good choice for "The Office," though you couldn't really make a bad choice when Zach Braff, Larry David, and Jason Lee are nominees. Somehow, someway Charlie Sheen made it onto this list. Hmmmm...yeah...really??? Because I don't think he can hold a candle to the inexplicably snubbed Jason Bateman of "Arrested Development." But yeah, Steve Carell is a good choice, if not specifically for his role in "The Office," then for his work in movies like "The 40 Year Old Virgin" and "Anchorman." But don't doubt it for a second, "The Office" is *that* funny.

Hugh Laurie was an excellent choice for Best Actor in a Dramatic Series. If you've seen his work on "House," you'd agree. Too often we let the truly talented people slip through the award cracks, so it was good to see him pick up some hardware.

I'd like to put forward a vote to have "The Desperate Housewives" disbanded. I don't so much mean the show, but the 4 headed beast that is known as Felicity Huffman/Marcia Cross/Teri Hatcher/Eva Longoria. I don't know what it is, but there's something incredibly annoying about them. Maybe it's the ego. I mean, when Felicity Huffman won her Best Actress Award for "TransAmerica," it almost seemed as if the other three Housewives' heads were going to explode from jealousy. It was also nice to see Mary Louise Parker win for "Weeds." I've never seen "Weeds," but I have seen her in other movies and she's one of the best actresses around right now. She's certainly a better actress than any in the "Desperate Housewives" cast, Felicity Huffman excluding.

Movies

Is "Walk the Line" really a musical or comedy? Sure it has a lot of music in it, but a musical? Really? That being said, Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon were well deserving of their awards. They both completely transformed themselves into two of those most iconic people of the past century. It's funny that people look past their wonderful singing as if singing was something altogether exclusive from acting. Singing in movies is it's own form of acting, and they sure as hell did a good job at bringing John and June back to life through their musical representations of them. But even beyond the singing, Joaquin completely transformed into Johnny Cash. I'm always amazed when an actor changes the way they talk, walk, and carry themselves, so it was nice to see Joaquin recognized for that.

Speaking of actors that totally transformed themselves, Philip Seymour Hoffman is a bad ass. I've been a fan of his work for a while now, and seeing him win for his wonderful role in "Capote" was a treat. It must be weird to be someone like Philip Seymour Hoffman. He must know that 90 percent of what he does is better than anything that would win an Oscar or Golden Globe, yet people like Philip Seymour Hoffman rarely *do* win awards. So it must be a trip to realize that your work is finally being recognized by awards voters.

It's always really surprising when John Williams wins awards. It shouldn't be surprising considering that his work is recognizable to over half the planet, yet he actually hasn't done a lot of winning over the past few years. I'm of course a huge fan of his, so I'm all for his award for Best Score.

George Clooney deserved his Best Supporting Actor award, but I think it's also an award for all the great work he did this past year, with both "Good Night and Good Luck" and "Syriana" coming out a few months apart from one another. Plus, he's one of the good guys, so it's nice to see him recognized.

"Brokeback Mountain" deserves all the awards it's getting. I agree 100% with it winning the Best Picture and Best Director awards, without winning any Acting awards, though I suspect that fortunes may change slightly at the Academy Awards. Oscar voters tend to favor actors like Joaquin Phoenix and Heath Ledger over someone more indie based like Philip Seymour Hoffman. But hopefully, I'm wrong on this. But yeah, this movie definitely deserved to win the Golden Globe for Best Movie and Best Director. I'm pretty certain that the Best Movie and Best Director Oscars will also go to "Brokeback Mountain."

That should do it! Any thoughts?

matt out