Golden Globes promise a party- cnn

The 66th annual Golden Globes, which will air live Sunday, may not not settle much -- already, some of Hollywood's other industry organizations are nominating films, such as "The Dark Knight" and "Milk," that received short shrift from the Globe-presenting Hollywood Foreign Press Association -- but at least this year's program will feature glitz, glamour and all the Tinseltown trimmings.

Last year's "show," you'll recall, was a bare-bones news conference, created because celebrities had announced a boycott because of the writers strike.

So this year, audiences can look forward to finery and perhaps a little fun, since the Globes are essentially a big party with an open bar. As the ads trumpet, "Anything can happen."

"We're back, we're bigger, we're better than ever -- that's the message," Barry Adelman, an executive with Globes producer Dick Clark Productions, told The New York Times.
.... Among the names expected, according to HFPA press releases: Drew Barrymore, Pierce Brosnan, Sandra Bullock, Glenn Close, Sean Combs, Sacha Baron Cohen, Cameron Diaz, Aaron Eckhart, Ricky Gervais, Jake Gyllenhaal, Blake Lively, Hayden Panettiere, Amy Poehler, Seth Rogen and Martin Scorsese.

Steven Spielberg will receive this year's Cecil B. DeMille Award for his "outstanding contribution to the entertainment field."

Though the stars are expected to acknowledge the tough economic times, HFPA president Jorge Camara believes the pleasures of the event will come through.

"The heat and buzz are here," he told the trade paper Variety. "It will be a very glamorous room. ... We really don't want to make anything different from what it is, which is celebrating, in a party atmosphere, the talent in motion pictures and television."

The 66th annual Golden Globes will air from the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California. The show begins at 8 p.m. ET and will air on NBC.