{"id":90985,"date":"2022-12-12T00:37:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T08:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=90985"},"modified":"2022-12-12T00:37:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T08:37:04","slug":"the-whale-vs-the-globes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2022\/12\/12\/the-whale-vs-the-globes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Whale vs. The Globes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Brendan Fraser <\/strong>has received universal acclaim for his portrayal of <strong><em>The Whale<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Although he\u2019s a contender for a <em>Golden Globe<\/em>, he is still angry at how the <strong><em>Hollywood Foreign Press Association <\/em><\/strong>handled an incident in 2003.&nbsp; He claims that <strong>Philip Berk<\/strong>, the organization\u2019s head at the time, got a bit \u201chandsy\u201d with his posterior.&nbsp; \u201cHis left hand reaches around, grabs my ass cheek, and one of his fingers touches me in the taint.&nbsp; And he starts moving it around.\u201d&nbsp; I presume he means moving his finger around, because most taints are stationary.&nbsp; Fraser says, \u201cI felt ill.&nbsp; I felt like a little kid.&nbsp; I felt like there was a ball in my throat.\u201d&nbsp; Wait, did he say he had a ball in his throat?&nbsp; The <em>HFPA <\/em>did an internal investigation and ruled that Berk did indeed \u201cinappropriately touch\u201d Fraser\u2026but it \u201cwas intended to be taken as a joke and not as a sexual advance.\u201d&nbsp; This is why Brendan will not attend the awards.&nbsp; \u201cI have more history with the <em>Hollywood Foreign Press Association <\/em>than I have respect for the <em>Hollywood Foreign Press Association<\/em>.&nbsp; No, I will not participate.&nbsp; It\u2019s because of the history that I have with them.&nbsp; And my mother didn\u2019t raise a hypocrite.&nbsp; You can call me a lot of things, but not that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Globes <\/em>have always had a checkered history in Hollywood.&nbsp; From being a trifle, to being a joke, to being a harbinger of the <em>Oscars<\/em>, to being tossed off network TV.&nbsp; They are currently attempting to rise from the ashes and return to the airwaves.&nbsp; Yes, <em>NBC <\/em>will once again air the event formerly owned by <strong>Dick Clark <\/strong>(oh, the humanity). &nbsp;As if to conclusively prove that the <em>HFPA <\/em>is embracing diversity, the show will be hosted by <strong>Jerrod Carmichael <\/strong>\u2013 who is both black and gay!&nbsp; It\u2019s like a twofer \u2013 a two-for-one!&nbsp; Nominations will be announced later this week.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brendan Fraser has received universal acclaim for his portrayal of The Whale.&nbsp; Although he\u2019s a contender for a Golden Globe, he is still angry at how the Hollywood Foreign Press Association handled an incident in 2003.&nbsp; He claims that Philip Berk, the organization\u2019s head at the time, got a bit \u201chandsy\u201d with his posterior.&nbsp; \u201cHis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90995,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90985\/revisions\/90995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}