6 random things that happened on this day, January 28th, in showbiz history...
1973 The 30th Golden Globes with The Godfather and Cabaret both winning Best Picture setting up their nail-biting historic Oscar night. Also on this night Diana Ross won the "New Star of the Year" award for playing Billie Holliday in Lady Sings the Blues for which she'd also be Oscar-nominated. Will Andra Day be as awards-lucky in the forthcoming United States vs. Billie Holliday?
1978 The 35th Golden Globes with The Turning Point and The Goodbye Girl winning the Best Picture prizes...
The Oscars would later disagree making The Turning Point one of the all time biggest "losers" and giving Best Picture to Annie Hall. Anyway 1977 is a totally fascinating film/Oscar year for numerous reasons.
Danny and Rhea in the 1970s
1982 Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman marry. He was already a sitcom star with Taxi and she was about to become one with Cheers. We always thought they were an adorable made-for-each-couple. Sadly they're no longer together even though they haven't divorced but it's reportedly very amicable.
1984 The 41st Golden Globes with Terms of Endearment and Yentl winning Best Picture. Yentl also won Best Director for Barbra Streisand, the first time a female director had ever won. So, fact: The Globes beat the Oscars to honoring a female director by a remarkable 26 years! Sadly the Oscar voters got kind of snobby and patriarchal about Barbra's historic multi-tasking and denied her all four Oscar nods she was eligible for (Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, and Actress).
1989 In one of the strangest occurences of all time at the Golden Globes (which is saying a lot) there was a three-way tie for Best Actress with Jodie Foster (The Accused), Sigourney Weaver (Gorillas in the Mist), and Shirley Maclaine (Madame Souzatska) all winning at the 46th annual Golden Globes . It shocked both the presenters (a Fatal Attraction reunion) and the winners. Sigourney, who had won Best Supporting Actress that same night for Working Girl beautifully declared it a five way tie honoring the "losers" too Christine Lahti (Running on Empty) and Meryl Streep (A Cry in the Dark). Bizarrely, though perhaps there was an explanation for it at the time, Dangerous Liaisons was entirely snubbed receiving zero nominations! For Best Picture Rain Man
1994 Blink, a creepy thriller involving organ donations and Madeleine Stowe being gobsmackingly beautiful , opens in theaters. Stowe really should have become a much bigger star.
Today's Birthday Suit
Happy 40th birthday today to Frodo himself Elijah Wood, pictured here in... I think... Maniac (2012). Can someone explain why he has doll anatomy?! He sure does make a lot of horror pictures, doesn't he?
Other showbiz birthdays today: Oscar nominee and Emmy winner Alan Alda (MASH, Marriage Story), Will Poulter (MidSommar, The Maze Runner), Oscar nominated director Hiroshi Teshigahara (Woman in the Dunes, Zatoichi), Oscar nominated writer/director Frank Darabont (Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile), Tao Zhao (Ash is Purest White, Mountain May Depart), 70s star/model Barbi Benton (The Love Boat, Fantasy Island), Ariel Winter (Modern Family), Tom Hopper (Black Sales, Terminator: Dark Fate), Mary Boland (The Women, Ruggles of Red Gap), Calum Worthy (The Act, Austin & Ally), Kathryn Morris (Minority Report, Cold Case), director Tarik Saleh (The Nile Hilton Incident, Metropia), Golden Globe nominee Marthe Keller (Marathon Man, Hereafter), Harley Jane Kozak (When Harry Met Sally, Parenthood), Susan Buckner ("Patty" in Grease), Karen Lynn Gorney (Saturday Night Fever), Chance Kelly (Generation Kill, Aquarius), Tyra Ferrell (White Men Can't Jump, Poetic Justice), the late writer/director Richard Glatzer (Grief, Still Alice), writer/actor Mo Rocca, and a lot of singers including Sarah McLachlan, ridiculously sexy Colombian pop star Maluma, and boybanders *Nsync's Joey Fatone and Backstreet Boys Nick Carter.