THB #384: HFPA Is Dead... Long Live HFPA

What can one say about the a seriously problematic organization which responded to being exposed as such by becoming more problematic as a private organization with no accountability whatsoever, which then, after failing in its chance for redemption, triples down to become nothing but a brand, The Golden Globes, that its new owners, who have no discernable standards for value, honor or legitimacy, will simply try to convert into a profit center, regardless of what this requires?

(shrug)

Can’t really celebrate the end of an organization that stained the industry while its corpse is being reanimated by 2 attention-seeking billionaires as something even less connected to the idea of celebrating cinema.

As you have likely read, the HFPA, which was last year purchased in full by Todd Boehly’s Eldridge Industries (ha) - owner of Dick Clark Productions, The Beverly Hilton Hotel, and investor in A24, MRC, the LA Dodgers, DraftKings, and all the Penske trades - is now being shut down by the Boe…