Open Your Christmas Presents -- or the Golden Globes Gift Bag

Also, the Jonai are... kind of great?!?

It’s boondoggle season in Hollywood, and accordingly, for the second year in a row — also the second year it’s been run by Penske Media — the Golden Globes is handing out a gift bag worth an alleged $1 million to its winners and presenters. “In this economy?” you ask, correctly. And it is gross in the extreme to be trumpeting this lavish racket, and bragging about the value of the freebies you’re promising people if they’ll just please come to your show, as if it’s any kind of useful achievement. But it’s also a load of horseshit.

Penske does this gift bag in partnership with their luxury publication Robb Report — and in related news, came under fire last month for offering $70,000 tickets to the Globes in a Robb Report gift guide, an offer which mysteriously vanished from the Internet shortly after Page Six noticed it — and I will eat my cheapest, least nutritious hat if these “gifts” aren’t pay-for-play. I have no idea how many pieces of eight crossed palms to rake in these offers an…