Golden Globes Ceremony Cancellation - The Reason The Stars Won't Attend

You may have heard that this year's Golden Globe awards have been cancelled due to a strike by Hollywood scriptwriters. This is the first time is the award's history that it has occurred. The scriptwriters, and there are probably enough just from the Jay Leno or David Letterman shows to cause a kerfuffle themselves, were planning to picket the award ceremony. That wouldn't be a good look in the eyes of the world's public, now would it? The strike is over how writers should be paid for work distributed over the Internet. I don't have a problem with them being paid royalties for their work.

They were interviewing celebrities who were towing the line that, "I will respect the picket line, therefore I'm not going to be in attendance." Celebrities not daring to cross a picket line to go to work? Well, it's not exactly work, is it now? It's an after hours function that you don't get paid to attend.

But I think the real reason the actors won't attend is that they couldn't write an acceptance speech between them. Not even to save themselves. It's all about saving face, not wishing to appear unprepared in front of hundreds of millions of adoring fans. Or wanting to employ a "scab" to put together an acceptance speech for them.