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Having been sidelined by the WGA strike this year, the Golden Globes are set to return next year on Sunday, Jan. 11.

On Tuesday, the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. announced its key dates for its 66th annual awards. Nominations will be announced at 5 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 11.

Time writer Rebecca Winters Keegan kept a diary of her experience covering the Golden Globes press conference last night, asking, "If an awards show happens in Hollywood but nobody famous attends, does it really happen at all?" Her funny chronicle of what actually did happen includes entries such as, "5:15 p.m.: A lone fat guy is swimming laps in the pool area where HBO normally holds its gala," and, "6:23 p.m.: Presenter Mary Hart thanks her agent and hails Viggo Mortensen's 'scary naked fight scene' in 'Eastern Promises.' This news conference is becoming the best proof of the need for writers the WGA could hope for."

The announcements were televised last night, but no stars actually attended the press conference for this year's sad, stricken Golden Globes. So we were robbed of seeing how they reacted to the news — the winners and the losers. Here, we've cobbled together reports of the various yee-haws and oh-drats ...

Globes winner Samantha Morton tells the BBC News: "I thought the Globes were next month."

By SANDY COHEN

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Not every Golden Globes party was canceled.

Despite the scrapping of Sunday’s ceremony and official studio events, Ernest Borgnine — who, at 90, was the oldest Globes nominee ever — still threw a private bash at his hilltop home.

The evening started with pizza and champagne as an assortment of publicists, photographers and friends joined Borgnine, his wife, Tova, and daughter, Nancy, to watch the awards-presentation press conference in his living room.

The Hollywood writers strike took the glitz, the glamour and roughly two-thirds of the audience from this year’s Golden Globe Awards. NBC’s no-frills, one-hour presentation of the winners Sunday night drew a 4.8 rating and 7 share, according to preliminary estimates from the nation’s 55 largest metered markets by Nielsen Media Research.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Nothing fancy or frilly for the winners and losers of this year's dressed-down Golden Globes — some celebrated tonight barefoot and by cooking their own food.

The writers strike forced cancellation of the usual fashion-drenched soiree in favor of a news conference that winners watched from televisions in living rooms and hotel suites.

By FRAZIER MOORE

The Golden Globes awards telecast is usually a rollicking, star-studded party. This year's was more like a laundry list.

Even so, not all live coverage was the same. Viewers who mistakenly watched NBC were fed a package of clutter and commercials padding out the program to a full hour — a blink of an eye by awards-show standards, but twice its necessary length.

By contrast, viewers tuned to the generic announcements carried by networks including CNN, E! and the TV Guide channel knew all the winners in half the time. And they were spared NBC's blabby co-hosts, Billy Bush and Nancy O'Dell of "Access Hollywood," as well as useless "analysis" by Entertainment Weekly writer Dave Karger. NBC stooped to vamping and artificial suspense, at the expense of giving its viewers what they had come for.