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Damien Chazelle's "La La Land" made history at the 74th Annual Golden Globes winning all 7 nominations including Best Picture Musical/Comedy! The film won Best Actor (Ryan Gosling), Actress (Emma Stone), Director, Screenplay, Score, and Song! Previously, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" was the record-holder for winning 6/6 and both "Doctor Zhivago" and "A Star is Born" 5 for 5.

A big congrats to Chazelle and "La La Land!"

The biggest upset for me? Natalie Portman's "Jackie" performance was overshadowed by Isabelle Huppert in "Elle." I thought Portman, wigs and make-up included, embodied the role of our former First Lady!

In the TV category, "The Night Manager" was the big winner taking home three awards (mostly for performance for Tom Hiddleston, Olivia Colman, and Hugh Laurie), followed by "The People v O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story" and "The Crown" each with two.

Here's a few of my observations of...

British-born film star known for her roles in Great Expectations and Spartacus

Jean Simmons, who has died aged 80, had a bounteous moment, early in her career, when she seemed the likely casting for every exotic or magical female role. It passed, as she got out of her teens, but then for the best part of 15 years, in Britain and America, she was a valued actress whose generally proper, if not patrician, manner had an intriguing way of conflicting with her large, saucy eyes and a mouth that began to turn up at the corners as she imagined mischief – or more than her movies had in their scripts. Even in the age of Vivien Leigh and Elizabeth Taylor, she was an authentic beauty. And there were always hints that the lady might be very sexy. But nothing worked out smoothly, and it is somehow typical of Simmons that her most astonishing...

Anthony Franciosa, who turned in a string of moody, charged performances in a string of movies and TV shows in the late 1950s and 1960s, but whose combative behavior also hampered his career, died Friday of a massive stroke at UCLA Medical Center. He was 77. His wife of 35 years, Rita, and other family members were present, according to his publicist Dick Guttman. Franciosa was nominated for a best actor Oscar in 1958 for his performance as a junkie's beleaguered brother in A Hatful of Rain, a portrayal that previously won him raves on Broadway. Franciosa's movie career began with a sizzle in 1957, when he was cast in major productions for the top directors. He debuted as an introverted nightclub owner in Robert Wise's This Could Be the Night and played a sleazy personal manager in Elia Kazan's A Face in the Crowd. The same year, he re-created his Broadway role for film, starring in Fred Zinnemann's adaptation of A Hatful of Rain, which also starred Eva Marie Saint and Don Murray.