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Diverse winners at the Golden Globes

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For once HFPA Golden Globes were winners that defy the predictable awards that are chosen over and over - and on to the Oscars for more of the same. Best dramatic actor Rami Malik was brilliant as Freddie Mercury in "Bohemian Rhapsody", winner of best dramatic film and dedicated his best actor award to him! Lady Gaga won best song for "Shallow" as she should but no other awards went to the remake of "A Star is Born," leaving Judy Garland and James Mason as the best sublime tragic couple in of this film . Glen Close gave an outstanding speech as best dramatic actress for "The Wife"--it took 10 years to make it, she said, because of the title. Her character follows her husband (Jonathan Pryce ) to the Noble Prize ceremony for his award. In real life her 80 year mother confided she hadn't accomplished anything in her life, and Close proclaimed that like many wives, a lifetime of subordination is a waste and that women must find their...