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After watching the People's Choice Awards...

Mark — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:20:20 EST

After watching the People's Choice Awards clip we posted a little while ago, a commenter points out that Favorite Leading Man honoree Joaquin Phoenix seems to have misspelled his own name—an error that serves to further illustrate the point about how utterly lost actors are without their writers. [Defamer]

Joaquin Phoenix SIlently Accepts The Adulation Of His Awards-Giving Public

Mark — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:30:55 EST

As the emotionally devastating cancellation of the Golden Globes has given us a newfound appreciation for every last awards show moment Hollywood finds a way to give us in this strike-crippled year, we'd like to take a minute to relive the silent acceptance speech Favorite Leading Man Joaquin Phoenix (an honor not to be confused with Favorite Male Movie Star) offered on last night's People's Choice Awards.

However, we suppose we'll have to wait and see if Phoenix and his SAG brethren will be willing to take the next step in supporting the writers' cause, joining WGA members in a planned, E!-televised toppling of the 50-foot Oscar statues outside the Kodak Theatre, an act that will officially bring to a close this historically turbulent awards season.

Reconfigured People's Choice Awards Resembles Public Access TV With A Budget

Seth — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:35:30 EST

According to the helpful countdown clock on their website, the next People's Choice Awards is but 364 days and some-odd hours away, which hopefully will be enough time for them to find their balls again after being castrated behind the awards barn as a sacrifice to the writers strike gods. Still, the ceremony we've not entirely reverentially referred to in the past as Oscar's Chain-Smoking, Lupus-Afflicted Aunt with an Internet Gambling Problem limped its way into American living rooms in an odd, greatly compromised CBS telecast last night, bereft of a studio audience, live star appearances, and awkward acceptance speeches from recently dumped actresses wondering how they can be all of America's favorite if they can't even be Justin Timberlake's.

Instead, we got Queen Latifah introducing an interminable string of pre-taped acceptance speeches and answers to fan questions. The big winners included Favorite Movie Pirates of the Caribbean: The One We Didn't Bother Seeing, Favorite TV Comedy Two and a Half Men (beating out The King of Queens and My Name is Earl), and Favorite New TV Drama Moonlight, beating out a shortlist of every other series to premiere and die within weeks of the fall 2008 TV season. A full list of the winners is here.

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People's Choice Winners List [CBS]