Broken & Desperate

Hollywood's glitter and glamor will never fail to disappoint. Although, the thrill that Hollywood gives you may not be exactly what you were looking for.

The Golden Globe Awards awards is put on by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association each year recognizing the year's best films, television shows and those that make them happen.

This year's list of top picks dawns a new height of controversy. One that leaps and bounds past last year's divisive "Million Dollar Baby," whose plotline directs the viewer to sympathize with euthanasia. "Brokeback Mountain" features homosexuality at a new cinematic level. It was nominated for seven awards and walked away with Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Song, "A Love That Will Never Grow Old," and Best Screenplay.

Morality is not only pushed out of bounds on the big screen. The entertainment line continues to digress with such award winning shows as "Desperate Housewives." The shows executive director said it himself when he thanked creator, Marc Cherry, "thank you for looking into your dark and twisted heart and giving us this show."

One cannot be surprised that such accolades would be awarded to such masterpieces. Afterall, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has in their primary interest to "disseminate information concerning the American culture and traditions as depicted in motion pictures and television through news media in various foreign countries." Our culture and traditions are swaying into new territories. It is exactly through these transmissions on screen that it is happening such as "Brokeback Mountain" director Ang Lee said himself, "ideas can change through movies." He along with all of Hollywood wants to push an ideology of tolerance and indulgence of personal freedom.

What freedom?

Best Actress recipient, Felicity Huffman, starred in "Transamerica." The movie's tagline reads, "Life is more than the sum of its body parts." Another triumph for Hollywood as the main character's odyssey is to truly become whom he desires to be - a she. The snag and plot of the journey is that Huffman's character, Stanley, just found out he(she) is a parent of a 17 year old boy. The movie describes itself as a "funny, touching, completely modern look at the modern American family. . . ." Notice the slight of hand. Hollywood is quick and has a tendency to sneak this line in - COMPLETELY MODERN! Ang Lee's dream of changing the moral culture is coming true.

Huffman did not fail to disappoint either in her pithy description about the meaning of life amoungst her thanksgivings. She explained that actors have to shed their skin. . . . In doing that we just push through and we are who we really are. "Find yourself, and be who you are."

Amen to the sermon at the Hollywood Church.

The truth is that our culture is changing, but Hollywood doesn't know how broken and desperate they are. We have to live the truth and show our neighbors who watch these shows, our coworkers who said it was a good movie, and our a dying world who craves a love that will never grow old that there is something that is truly worthy. Live the truth so you'll be ready to tell the truth.