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    All About Oscar

    The Butler didn't do it: Golden Globe nominations sort out Oscar favorites

    Joe Leydon
    Dec 12, 2013 | 5:23 pm

    The Golden Globe nominations were announced December 12, and you know what that means, right? Not that snobbish film critics will start making jokes about the taste and intelligence of Hollywood Foreign Press Association members. Rather, it’s time for the pre-season prognostications to end and the dead-serious Academy Award handicapping to begin.

     

    When it comes to selecting the best and brightest of cinematic achievements in any given year, it’s always all about Oscar. Golden Globes doubtless matter a great deal to the folks who actually receive them. But, hey, the awards are nifty door prizes at what I’ve been told is a pretty wild and crazy— and boozy — party.

     

    For film critics, nonaffiliated showbiz journalists and other Oscar handicappers on the outside looking in, the Globes serve primarily as portents to be analyzed during the protracted trudge toward the Academy Awards (which won’t be given out until — gasp! — March 2, 2014).

     

    What follows are a few purely random and utterly subjective observations regarding this year’s Golden Globe nominations, all informed (if that’s the right word) by my years of experience as a semi-respectable film critic and my decades as an unrepentant Golden Globes show viewer.

     

    Speaking of viewing, in addition to honoring cinematic excellence, the HFPA voters also honor achievements in television. But because the Golden Globes have demonstrated little or no influence on Emmy Awards — really, who cares?

     

     Leaders of the pack
     12 Years a Slave dominated the Drama categories with seven nominations, while American Hustle grabbed an equal number of nods in the Comedy or Musical division. I think it’s reasonably safe to say that we now know at least two of the titles that will figure into the Best Picture mix when Academy Award nominations are announced January 16.

     

     Being nominated is an honor all by itself
    Because the major Golden Globes are divided into separate categories for Drama and Musical or Comedy, requiring at least five nominees in each category – well, sometimes it’s easy to spot the filler.

     

    For example: In the Drama division, Rush has been nominated for Best Picture, and co-star Daniel Bruhl received honorable mention as Best Supporting Actor. No, really.

     

     Privileged view
    It’s an open secret in the movie industry that some film critics’ organizations insist on announcing their year-end awards as early as possible, so they can claim bragging rights for influencing the Oscar race — by anointing early front-runners and/or turning dark horses into true contenders — and even “predicting” eventual Oscar winners.

     

    This season, however, there has been great weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth on the part of those reviewers who have had to cast their ballots without seeing The Wolf of Wall Street, which Martin Scorsese reportedly completed too late for Paramount to provide screenings (or DVD screeners) for critics in most major cities.

     

    It’s obvious, however, that members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association got a sneak peek: Both Wolf and lead player Leonard Di Caprio scored Globe nominations in the Comedy or Musical category. Perhaps this might encourage some of those critics’ organizations to consider waiting just a tad longer next year?

     

     The Butler didn’t do it
    Can’t say I was an enormous fan of Lee Daniels’ sincere yet facile historical pageant. But given the critical accolades it received in other quarters — and, yes, given Harvey Weinstein’s reputation for full-court-press, awards-season politicking — I expected at least a few acting nominations.

     

    That The Butler was snubbed in all categories might suggest that members of the Hollywood Foreign Press aren’t terribly interested or sympathetic when it comes to embracing and/or rewarding a tale about the Civil Rights Movement in America. On the other hand, it’s equally plausible that they just didn’t like the movie very much.

     

     Conspicuous by their absences
    The HFPA voters also overlooked such other Oscar-buzzing options as August: Osage County (a no-show as Best Picture, despite acting nods for Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts), Martin Scorsese (absent from the Best Director finalists, even though his late-screening Wolf of Wall Street nabbed a Best Picture, Comedy or Musical nomination), Michael B. Jordan and Octavia Spencer of Fruitvale Station — and Best Actor nominee (for Captain Phillips) Tom Hanks, who couldn’t double-dip by also landing a Supporting Actor nomination for playing Walt Disney in Saving Mr. Banks.

     

     On the other hand
    Robert Redford’s Oscar prospects for All Is Lost, viewed by some as dimming after the Screen Actors Guild shutout earlier this week, appear to have been revived by his Golden Globe nod. Likewise, Bruce Dern’s own Oscar campaign can only be helped by his Golden Globe nomination for Nebraska.

     

    Not so long ago, some “experts” were none-too-subtly suggesting that Dern should narrow his sights and aim for consideration as a Supporting Actor hopeful. Dern rejected those suggestions. Events of recent days — he got a SAG nomination and an L.A. Film Critics Award as well as the Globe honor — indicate Dern took the right path.

     

     Comedy gold
    Tina Fey will be back co-hosting the Golden Globes (along with Amy Poehler) next month. But she was not nominated for her work in the final season of 30 Rock. (A mere TV show, to be sure, but quite a popular one, I understand.) How many jokes about that do you think we’ll hear during the January 12 awards telecast?

    Lee Daniels' The Butler got snubbed by Golden Globe voters.

    Oprah Winfrey and Forest Whitaker star in Lee Daniels' The Butler
      
    Photo by © Anne Marie Fox The Weinstein Co.
    Lee Daniels' The Butler got snubbed by Golden Globe voters.
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    Comedy News

    Comedy chain Punch Line to open at Toyota Music Factory in Irving

    Teresa Gubbins
    Jul 14, 2025 | 5:46 pm
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    A renowned comedy club is coming to Dallas-Fort Worth: Punch Line, a nationwide club chain founded in San Francisco, will open a DFW location at Toyota Music Factory in Irving, at 310 W. Las Colinas Blvd. #130, taking over a prominent storefront that was previously home to a series of Brazilian steakhouses, next door to the TMF box office.

    According to a representative, the venue will open in the fall.

    This will be a fifth location of Punch Line, joining the original in San Francisco, along with Philadelphia, Sacramento, and Houston, which opened in 2024. The Dallas opening is part of a partnership with Live Nation Entertainment.

    Punch Line Comedy Club opened in San Francisco in 1978 and over the years has helped launch the careers of comedy legends such as Robin Williams, Dana Carvey, Ellen DeGeneres, and Drew Carey.

    "For 40-plus years, Punch Line has been home to comedy’s heavyweights — and now we're bringing that knockout energy to DFW, from top-tier national headliners to the rising stars right here in Texas," the club promises.

    The Dallas venue will feature comedy’s biggest names, open mic nights and showcases for DFW talent, a front-row seat to the next big thing in stand-up, plus the "intimate, classic Punch Line vibe."

    The chain offers food and beverage including fancy cocktails like prickly pear margaritas and a Tito's espresso martini. There’s a two-beverage minimum per person.

    The food menu is heavy on shareables like nachos, loaded fries, spinach-artichoke dip, Bavarian pretzel, and flatbreads such as the one with basil pesto, mozzarella, feta, and balsamic glaze.

    Dallas has always had a healthy comedy club scene, with stalwarts like the Improv; homegrown favorites like the Dallas Comedy House in Deep Ellum and TK's in Plano; and newcomers like Mic Drop Comedy in Plano.

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