The Golden Globe Scam

I am watching a doc on the real story behind the golden globes... seems
it's just one big scam that someone dreamed up years ago and it's grown
to the leading pre-Oscars event....

BUT!!

The Hollywood Foreign Press Assoc. has only 96 members and only 1/3 of
them are active journalists! Can you believe it!? back in the 70's it
was only 42 members, mostly old ladies, mostly from Belgium. you don
' have to be a foreigner, nor be a writer but you DO have to live in
Southern California.

Not one of the 96 members would talk to the docu-maker, not even the
publicist would talk to him. He was turned away at the door of the
offices.
Some of the producers interviewed talked about back in the day,deals
being made, you get yer star to the show, and we'll give an award to
yer picture, and some of that still goes on...