Once mocked for being the rackety and faintly preposterous creation of Hollywood's grandly titled Foreign Press Association, the Globes is now not
just a curtain - raiser for the Oscars, but an event that visibly luxuriates in being happier and more relaxed than the super-important and career - defining Academy
awards, a ceremony that now tends to look
formal, stressful and anticlimactic in comparison.