The Golden Globes - or any awards show - is not what we need right now. Let's not pretend otherwise.
INSIDER
28/02/2021
kacuna@insider.com (Kirsten Acuna)
Banners across Los Angeles promoting the Golden Globes read, "What the globe needs right now."
It's a tone deaf message as the country is really in need of COVID-19 relief and so much more.
This comes as The Hollywood Foreign Press has come under increased scrutiny for its nominations.
Across the top of the banners is the phrase, "What the globe needs right now."
After spending the last two months back home in New Jersey, listening to a friend who has worked as a COVID-19 nurse in the intesive care unit for the past year, I found the sign immensely offensive - to him and to all the frontline workers who have been putting their lives on the line.