THB #182a: HFPA Won't Stop Thinkin' About Tomorrow

The Proper Level of Respect

I’m not even counting this as its own newsletter. Just this Thursday I asked, “Should The Globes Exist?” Even I am sick of talking about this absurd lesion on the industry’s buttocks.

Now, I’m not suggesting BoehlyCo is responding to little ol’ me. But two pieces of HFPA propaganda have dropped since the publication of my piece last week.

Last Thursday/Friday’s con by HFPA was inviting the hundreds of Fipresci (the International Federation of Film Critics) to vote for The Globes, but not to be members. What does this achieve? It gives HFPA the voting base girth that has been demanded by those still fighting to keep the organization in dry dock, while giving up nothing financially. It also associates HFPA with a much more legitimized organization, Fipresci, whose primary focus is:

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The organizations of professional film critics and film journalists, established in different countries for the promotion and development of film culture and for the safeguar…